After a heavy Florida start and a game-opening goal from Matthew Tkachuk resulting from a turnover, you could be forgiven for thinking “here we go again.”
However, the Bruins turned the tables on the Panthers after that goal, using an aggressive forecheck to force turnovers and put pressure on the Panthers, who bent and broke.
The B’s scored three times in just under seven minutes after Tkachuk’s goal before adding two more in the third to skate out of Amerant Bank Arena with a 5-1 win.
While the score implies a comfortable result, Jeremy Swayman (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) deserves a ton of credit, making 38 saves in the win.