New to the penalty kill this season, Huberdeau said the team was due for some puck luck.
With the goal, Huberdeau surpassed Olli Jokinen for the most power-play points in franchise history with 154. Getting some payback for Atkinson's earlier shorthanded tally, the Panthers got their own goal on the kill when Huberdeau, after having his initial shot stopped, banked a follow-up attempt from behind the net off Hart's pads and in to make it a 3-2 contest at 7:53 of the third period. "I still thought we finished that period well, got a break on a goal and then it was anybody's game." "When you give up a shorty, it can usually turn the complexion of the game," Panthers coach Joel Quenneville said of the team's measured and impressive response to Atkinson's goal. With just 27 seconds left on the clock in the middle frame, MacKenzie Weegar floated a pass toward the net in transition that was tapped by a crashing Owen Tippett past Hart and into the cage for a key goal to pull the Panthers even and make it a 2-2 game going into the final frame. We know what we can do and that we can come back, and that's what we did." "It went from 1-0 to 2-1, but we didn't panic. "We're confident in each other, and it shows," Huberdeau said. Trailing for the first time since Opening Night, the Panthers then fell behind 2-1 when Cam Atkinson slipped a shot through Bobrovsky's five-hole on a shorthanded breakaway at 10:53.Īlways a threat to score on the penalty kill, Atkinson scored four shorthanded goals in 2020-21. Sent to a power play of their own early in the second period, the Flyers evened things up when Claude Giroux blasted a slap shot past Sergei Bobrovsky through traffic to make it 1-1 at 4:23.
On their second opportunity with the man advantage in the opening frame, Huberdeau collected a pass from Aaron Ekblad, skated into the left circle and ripped a pinpoint shot top-shelf and past Carter Hart to break the ice and make it 1-0 with just three minutes remaining in the period. Kicking off a back-and-forth contest in Philadelphia, the Panthers cashed in on the power play. This has been a big test, but I think we've gotten over that hump. "Obviously, having five wins right now is huge for us. "We know how the start is really important," Huberdeau said.
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