With the Florida Panthers in the midst of a three-game losing streak, head coach Joel Quenneville shuffled the deck with his forward lines and it paid off in spades as his club routed the Ottawa Senators 6-1 last night at the BB&T Center.
Noel Acciari, who entered the game with five goals, notched his first career hat-trick and Jonathan Huberdeau racked up four assists to power Florida’s offense, which awoke from a week long slumber that cost the team valuable points on this key homestand.
Aleksander Barkov, Mike Matheson and Dominic Toninato also scored for the Cats, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 of 30 shots in his sixth straight start.