{"id":482289,"date":"2024-04-23T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482289"},"modified":"2024-04-23T23:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T03:57:45","slug":"verhaeghe-scores-in-ot-for-panthers-to-beat-lightning-3-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verhaeghe-scores-in-ot-for-panthers-to-beat-lightning-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Verhaeghe scores in OT for Panthers to beat Lightning 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Verhaeghe lifted a backhander just under the crossbar almost 3 minutes into overtime, and the Florida Panthers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL, for a 2-0 lead in their 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CARTER VERHAEGHE CALLS GAME IN OT TO GIVE THE PANTHERS A 2-0 SERIES LEAD \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Florida has won 11 straight OT playoff games! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oZRrBQqquX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oZRrBQqquX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1782964984315543700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was the 5<sup>th<\/sup> overtime winner in Carter\u2019s career, coming on a play where Matthew Tkachuk got the puck to Anton Lundell, who assisted the goalscorer. Verhaeghe waited for the Bolts goaltender to commit, then put the puck over him for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bennett, who left with a problem in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period when he suffered friendly fire from \u00a0Brandon Montour&#8217;s slap shot, and Vladimir Tarasenko notched the other goals for the Panthers. Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Braden Point and Steven Stamkos notched for the Lightning, which got 2 assists from Victor Hedman. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 34 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers goaltender had 2 wild saves in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period \u2013 1 of his mask and the other a no-look dive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JAW IS ON THE FLOOR! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VbT2R1jKR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5VbT2R1jKR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1782942471737004360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Game 3 is on Thursday, as Lightning will host the next 2 matches from the series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SsWq_LtYvDU?si=H5CpX9ksOm3tDw9A\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Verhaeghe lifted a backhander just under the crossbar almost 3 minutes into overtime, and the Florida Panthers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482290,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16872,17844,17164],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18134,18408,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Carter notched the winning goal in extra time for Florida.","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\/482289"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482298,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482289\/revisions\/482298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482289"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482289"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}