{"id":436483,"date":"2023-05-22T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436483"},"modified":"2023-05-22T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T03:35:20","slug":"panthers-top-hurricanes-1-0-for-3-0-lead-in-east-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-top-hurricanes-1-0-for-3-0-lead-in-east-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers top Hurricanes 1-0 for 3-0 lead in East final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Bobrovsky was unbreakable and stopped staggering 32 shots for his first career playoff shutout and Sam Reinhart scored a power-play goal midway through the second period as <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/florida-panthers\/\">Florida Panthers<\/a> moved to one win away from a Stanley Cup Final by blanking the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> 1-0 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett had the assists on the Reinhart goal for Florida, which now leads the Eastern Conference final 3-0. The Panthers are looking at their first Stanley Cup match since 1996, but can clinch a trip to the title round with a win in Game 4 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 205th time that a team has taken a 3-0 series lead in NHL playoff history. Of the first 204, 200 went on to win the series.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a perfect night for Florida, however: Captain Aleksander Barkov left with about 7 minutes left in the first period with a lower-body injury and did not return, even though the team listed him as questionable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sVXMJ15mWY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Bobrovsky was unbreakable and stopped staggering 32 shots for his first career playoff shutout and Sam Reinhart scored a power-play goal midway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436484,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16742,19312],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18391,19556],"acf":{"announce":"Florida are looking at their first final in 27 years","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436483"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436483"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}