Sam Bennett’s early third-period goal stood up as the winner, as the Florida Panthers earned a 8-5 win over the visiting Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Monday at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.<\/p>\n
Seth Jones (2) A.J. Greer, Luke Kunin, Anton Lundell and Brad Marchand also scored for Florida (10-8-1). Sam Reinhart added three assists and Sergei Bobrovsky made just 10 saves but got the goaltending win.<\/p>\n
Elias Pettersson had a pair of goals for the Canucks (9-10-2), with Jake DeBrusk, Drew O’Connor and Filip Hronek adding singles. Captain Quinn Hughes had three assists and Jiri Patera took the loss in goal, allowing seven goals on 40 shots.<\/p>\n
The Canucks didn’t get their first shot until nearly 12 minutes into the first period, but still took the lead at 14:50. Bobrovsky thought he had a puck covered in his crease, but O’Connor poked away at it and jammed it home for his sixth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
DeBrusk upped the lead to 2-0 just 24 seconds later on a power play, converting a nice cross-crease feed from Kiefer Sherwood for his eighth of the season (seventh on the power play).<\/p>\n
The Panthers answered 36 seconds later when the Canucks got mixed up on a line change. Greer took a feed from Carter Verhaege in the deep slot and fired a shot past the blocker of Patera.<\/p>\n
With 7.7 seconds left in the period, Jones tied things up, slipped a shot five-hole past Patera from the bottom of the right offensive faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
Floria held an 11-5 shots-on-goal advantage after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
Early in the second, Kunin ended a 38-game goal-scoring drought, knocking home a loose puck into an empty net as Patera got tangled in front with Pettersson.<\/p>\n
Rodrigues made it 4-2 with a shorthanded marker at 6:10, converitng a nice pass from Reinhart who was followed behind the net by three Canucks.<\/p>\n
Lundell upped the Florida margin to 5-2 67 seconds later, taking a pass from Brad Marchand and firing a perfect shot high to the stick side of Patera. Marchand has points in eight straight games.<\/p>\n
Just 38 seconds after that, Pettersson cut the deficit to 5-3, finishing off a nice three-way passing play with Hughes and Evander Kane.<\/p>\n
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— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) November 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n