Florida Panthers top Dallas Stars 4-2 and sweep 2-game series in Finland

AJ Greer scored his first extremity for Florida early successful nan 3rd period, Aleksander Barkov and Niko Mikkola each had assists successful their homeland and nan Panthers hit nan Dallas Stars 4-2 connected Saturday to decorativeness a two-game expanse successful Finland

TAMPERE, Finland -- AJ Greer scored his first extremity for Florida early successful nan 3rd period, Aleksander Barkov and Niko Mikkola each had assists successful their homeland and nan Panthers hit nan Dallas Stars 4-2 connected Saturday to decorativeness a two-game expanse successful Finland.

Sam Reinhart, Evan Rodrigues and Matthew Tkachuk besides had goals for Florida, which won its 5th straight. Reinhart besides had an assistance for nan Panthers, making him nan 2nd subordinate successful nan NHL to scope 20 points connected nan season, and capped it pinch an empty-netter.

Matt Duchene and Evgenii Dadonov had goals 34 seconds isolated successful nan 2nd play for Dallas, which dropped 2 consecutive for nan first clip this season.

Spencer Knight stopped 23 shots for Florida. Casey DeSmith made 20 saves for Dallas.

Stars: Coach Peter DeBoer remained astatine 619 victories, 1 awkward of matching Bryan Murray for 20th connected nan all-time list. DeBoer sewage 103 of those wins pinch Florida.

Panthers: Reinhart (10-11-21) has much points than immoderate Florida subordinate done 13 games of a season. The erstwhile 13-game precocious was 17 (Reinhart past season, Matthew Tkachuk successful 2022-23 and Jonathan Huberdeau successful 2020-21).

Greer's go-ahead extremity astatine 2:32 of nan 3rd play was assisted by Tomas Nosek — his first constituent for Florida.

The 7 Finnish players — 4 from Florida, 3 from Dallas — mixed for 11 points successful nan series. Panthers skipper Aleksander Barkov had 4 points, Florida's Mikkola and Dallas' Esa Lindell each had two, while Florida's Anton Lundell and Eetu Luostarinen and Dallas' Miro Heiskanen each had one.

Stars: Host Chicago connected Thursday, portion of a agelong during which nan Stars play 3 consecutive games successful 3 different countries (Finland connected Saturday, nan U.S. connected Thursday and successful Canada astatine Winnipeg connected Nov. 9).

Panthers: Open a five-game homestand Thursday against Nashville.

___

AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl