The Florida Panthers will go into its five-day holiday break on a three-game losing streak and under NHL .500 after being soundly beaten 5-1 by the New York Islanders in front of a sellout crowd at UBS Arena.
Florida won the first period, scoring at 8:09 when Brandon Montour put a shot on net after a Scott Mayfield turnover and Matthew Tkachuk chipped the rebound over Ilya Sorokin with the teams skating 4-on-4. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped all 12 shots to get his team to the dressing room nursing the one-goal lead.
Matthew Tkachuk scoring in front of the net.