Panthers stay red-hot, roll past Predators 6-2 for 6th consecutive victory

Carter Verhaeghe had 2 goals and an assist, Aleksander Barkov had 3 assists for nan 2nd clip successful little than a week and nan Florida Panthers hit nan Nashville Predators 6-2 connected Thursday nighttime for their sixth consecutive victory

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Carter Verhaeghe had 2 goals and an assist, Aleksander Barkov had 3 assists for nan 2nd clip successful little than a week and nan Florida Panthers hit nan Nashville Predators 6-2 connected Thursday nighttime for their sixth consecutive victory.

Sam Reinhart sewage his 11th of nan play and pushed his goals streak to 5 games for nan Panthers, who sewage a extremity and an assistance from Matthew Tkachuk and 2 assists from Uvis Balinskis. Tomas Nosek besides scored for Florida.

Sergei Bobrovsky sewage profession triumph No. 403 to necktie Grant Fuhr for 12th connected nan profession list.

Steven Stamkos and Juuso Parssinen scored for Nashville. It was nan 83rd charismatic time, including playoffs, that Stamkos played against nan Panthers — nan first pinch him wearing thing different than a Tampa Bay sweater.

The Predators (4-9-1) person 9 points, nan fewest done 14 games successful franchise history. They had 10 points done 14 games 3 erstwhile times, astir precocious past season.

Predators: Including playoffs, Stamkos has 52 goals against nan Panthers. That's nan astir by immoderate Florida opponent; Alex Ovechkin has 45 goals against Florida. In regular-season games only against Florida, Ovechkin leads Stamkos 44-42.

Panthers: This is Florida's 4th regular-season winning streak of astatine slightest six games since nan commencement of past season. Before that, nan Panthers had 10 specified streaks — successful their first 29 seasons combined.

Reinhart and Tkachuk scored 1:41 isolated successful nan first period, staking Florida to a 2-0 lead conscionable 5:14 into nan contest.

Florida (10-3-1) has 10 wins done 14 games for nan 4th clip successful nine history. It besides happened successful 1995-96 (10-4-0), 2020-21 (10-2-2) and 2021-22 (10-2-2).

Predators: Host Utah connected Saturday night, earlier going backmost connected nan roadworthy for a five-game trip.

Panthers: Host Philadelphia connected Saturday night, nan 2nd of 5 consecutive successful Sunrise.

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