Follow usMatthew Tkachuk scored a brace and Eetu Luostarinen put Florida ahead to stay with 5:38 left on the clock as Panthers forced a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference first-round series by beating the Boston Bruins 7-5 on Friday night.
Aleksander Barkov, Brandon Montour, Zac Dalpe and Sam Reinhart also scored for the Florida team, who got 30 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky.
Tyler Bertuzzi and David Pastrnak each scored twice for Boston, which got four assists from Brad Marchand and 26 saves from Linus Ullmark.
The team with the best regular-season record in NHL history took one-goal leads on two separate occasions in the third period, but wasn’t able to hold on to either of them. Now, they face a Game 7 on Sunday just to get into the second round against a Florida team that has already staved off elimination twice.
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