CALGARY (CBSMiami/AP) — Don’t look now but the Florida Panthers are sneaking back into the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Indeed, Florida has been on quite a roll since the All-Star break and that continued Saturday night.
Mike Matheson scored twice, Aleksander Barkov had a goal and two assists, and the Panthers beat the Calgary Flames 6-3 for their seventh win in eight games.
“We’ve been doing a lot better job of playing within our systems,” Matheson said. “Early on in the year we were trying to get used to it a little bit. Since having a bit of time off at the All-Star break, I think we’ve been able to come back hard knowing we really can’t afford to be leaving points out there.