Bruins blow four-goal lead in shootout defeat to Panthers - Boston Herald

The TD Garden lights weren’t the only thing to leave the Bruins in the dark on Tuesday.

A four-goal middle frame powered the Bruins to a big lead before the Panthers surged back with a four-spot of their own late in the third period to force overtime. After a scoreless overtime, Florida finished the comeback in a shootout, edging the Bruins 5-4.

For two periods, it looked like the Bruins inconsistency woes of the past week were behind them. Everything changed when the Panthers attacked in the third.

While the Bruins were on the penalty kill early in the second, the lights temporarily went dark. It didn’t have any effect on the play, and the game resumed again moments later, but the ice tilted in the Bruins favor from there — at least in the second. The third period was reminiscent of the past few contests, though, allowing the Panthers to come back.

A mundane first period was still heavily in the Bruins favor as far as possession time, even though it went to the intermission at 0-0.

By the second, after the brief power outage interrupted the Panthers power play, the Bruins found their scoring touch.

Patrice Bergeron stripped the puck on a back check in the defensive end 11:55 into the second, and backhanded it to David Pastrnak. The winger crossed the blue line and briefly looked pass to his right to Brad Marchand, but quickly wristed the shot through Sergei Bobrovsky to put the Bruins ahead 1-0.

Two in a half minutes later, and the Bruins were in control.

Joakim Nordstrom carried the puck down the wall and into the circle, and let go a wrist shot right under the faceoff dot that beat Bobrovsky far-side.

On their first power play of the night, the Bruins struck, but it wasn’t any of the usual suspects.

With 2:44 left in the second and 17 seconds remaining on the power play, David Krejci found Anders Bjork at the right circle, and he aimed short-side for a 3-0 lead and his third goal of the season.

They were already secure heading into the final frame with 28.5 seconds left, and Zdeno Chara put the final nail in.

The Bruins captain buried a rebound from a Krejci shot to go ahead 4-0, his third of the year.

Bobrovsky was pulled right before the third, replaced by Sam Montembeault.

The Panthers responded 50 seconds into the third on an Aaron Ekblad blast that beat Tuukka Rask cleanly to make it 4-1. They struck again with 14:34 left on the power play. Former Bruin Frank Vatrano ripped a shot past Rask from the slot to make it a two-goal contest.

With 10:17 left, it was a hockey game.

On another power play, the Panthers made it a one-goal contest. Mike Hoffman slipped a backhand shot past Rask to make it 4-3, and Keith Yandle knotted the thing up with 1:39 to go, coming all the way back from down by four.

Vincent Trocheck scored the lone goal in the second round of the shootout for Florida, and Coyle tied it in the third round to give the Bruins another round of life. But, Hoffman scored in the fourth round to seal it for the Panthers, with Charlie McAvoy stopped in the final attempt.

The Bruins head to Toronto on Friday night for the first of a back-to-back, as they host the Capitals the next night in Boston.

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