Panthers defeat Bruins 3-2

Boston Bruins Game 80: Boston Bruins @ Florida Panthers game recap video, on April 5, 2018.

On Thursday night, the Bruins were defeated by the Florida Panthers 3-2.

Quick game summary
In the first period, at 7:42, Panthers Aleksander Barkov scored, giving the Panthers a 1-0 lead. At 9:34, Panthers Frank Vatrano scored, giving the Panthers a 2-0 lead. At 15:19, Bruins Ryan Donato scored his 5th goal of the season, a power-play goal, cutting the Panthers lead to 2-1.

In the second period, at 2:11, Bruins Danton Heinen scored his 15th goal of the season, tying the game 2-2.

In the third period, at 14:23, Panthers Jared McCann scored, giving the Panthers a 3-2 lead.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net and made 32 saves on 35 shots. Rask is now 34-13-5 with a 2.33 GAA and a .919 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game in blocked shots 17-9. The Panthers led the game with a 51% faceoff percentage, in shots 35-28 and hits 25-21. The Bruins went 1-for-1 on the power-play while the Panthers went 0-for-2.

Brad Marchand, Torey Krug and Adam McQuaid led the Bruins with 4 shots each. David Backes led the Bruins with 4 hits. Kevan Miller led the Bruins with 5 blocked shots.

Sean Kuraly, Rick Nash, Riley Nash, Tommy Wingels, Brandon Carlo and Nick Holden were scratched for the Bruins.

Three stars of the game
1) Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo
2) Panthers forward Jared McCann
3) Panthers forward Aleksander Barkov

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 49-19-12 with 110 points this season and are in 2nd place in the Atlantic division. The Bruins are 4-2-4 in their last ten games and their road record is now 22-12-7 this season. The next game for the Bruins is on Saturday, when they host the Ottawa Senators, at 7pm ET.