The Florida Panthers opened the postseason with a frustrating 4-2 loss to the Washington Capitals last night at FLA Live Arena.
Up a goal in the third, and seconds after a missed icing call, MacKenzie Weegar inexplicably carried the puck into the path of Alex Ovechkin, who poked it away resulting in a breakaway goal for Evgeny Kuznetsov that tied the game at twos at 8:14.
An off the mark, rink-wide pass (that wasn’t supposed be) and a lack of subsequent proper backcheck by Claude Giroux, led to Washington’s game-winner 2:23 later, as Dmitry Orlov sent the turnover the other way and Niklas Backstrom found T.