Ducks are shut out by Panthers as winless streak reaches six games

Jonathan Huberdeau scored twice to go Olli Jokinen for second place in franchise historical past, Spencer Knight made 17 saves for his first profession shutout, and the Florida Panthers defeated the Geese 3-0 on Friday night time at Honda Middle.

Joe Thornton had a objective as Florida (42-14-6), in first place within the Atlantic Division, bounced again after its seven-game level streak ended towards Vegas on Thursday, however the Panthers misplaced defenseman Aaron Ekblad to a lower-body damage within the first interval.

Ekblad couldn’t put any weight on his proper leg after Aleksander Barkov misplaced an edge and slid into his teammate alongside the boards as Ekblad was delivering successful to Geese ahead Max Comtois simply 1:05 into the sport. Ekblad leads Panthers defensemen in objectives (15) and assists (42) and is fourth on the workforce in factors.

John Gibson gave up three objectives on 42 photographs, and the Geese (27-26-11) dropped to 0-4-2 of their final six video games.

Huberdeau scored with 6.9 seconds left within the first interval for his 189th objective with the Panthers to go Jokinen, who had 188 in 567 video games with Florida. It was Huberdeau’s second multigoal recreation this season and the twenty fifth of his profession.

Huberdeau opened the scoring with 6:06 left within the first, burying a one-timer from the left circle arrange by Sam Reinhart on the ability play. He turned the sixth Florida participant with at the very least 20 objectives this season.

Thornton made it 3-0 at 3:44 of the second, getting his 430th profession objective.

The Geese limped to a different defeat with defenseman Hampus Lindholm held out as a wholesome scratch with a watch towards Monday’s commerce deadline. Lindholm has performed his complete nine-year profession with the Geese, however the pending unrestricted free agent is prone to be traded with out an settlement on a contract extension.

Geese heart Derek Grant (38) shoots towards Panthers defenseman MacKenzie Weegar (52) within the second interval.

(Ashley Landis / Related Press)

Notes

Panthers ahead Patric Hornqvist didn’t play due to an undisclosed damage. With Hornqvist out, Florida began the sport with 11 forwards and 7 defensemen. … Geese ahead Sam Metal returned after lacking three video games. He was hit within the face by a puck towards Nashville and performed with a full face protect.

Up subsequent

Panthers: At Montreal on Thursday night time.

Geese: Host Nashville on Monday night time.