FLORIDA PANTHERS NOTES:
BAPTIST HEALTH INJURY REPORT
– D Aaron Ekblad | Games Missed: 8
– D Brandon Montour | Games Missed: 8
– F Jonah Gadjovich | Games Missed: 6
Total Man Games Lost Due to Injury: 29 Games
LAST GAME
Panthers 2, Bruins 3 [OT] – Oct. 30 – TD Garden
FLA Goals: Barkov (2), Reinhart (8)
BOS Goals: Marchand (5), McAvoy (2), Zacha (3-OT)
FLA Goalie: Bobrovsky (L [OT]) – 23 Saves
BOS Goalie: Ullmark (W) – 35 Saves
FLA Shots: 37
BOS Shots: 26
Notes: Aleksander Barkov (1-1-2) and Sam Reinhart (1-1-2) posted multiple points…Niko Mikkola (0-1-1) notched one assist for the second consecutive game and blocked a season-high six shots…Steven Lorentz skated in his 200th NHL game…The Panthers extended their point streak to a season-long three games (2-0-1)…Barkov skated in his 671st NHL game, tying Jonathan Huberdeau for the most games played in franchise history…Barkov’s goal was his 245th, surpassing Esa Tikkanen for fifth on the all-time Finnish NHL goal scoring list, and also represented his 638th point, surpassing Teppo Numminen for sixth-most NHL points by a Finnish native…FLA PP: 0-3, FLA PK: 1-1
PANTHERS vs. RED WINGS
ALL-TIME vs. DET: 36-19-5-6
ALL-TIME ROAD vs. DET: 20-8-3-1
2022-23 vs. DET: 3-0-0
CATS STATS –
Aleksander Barkov has amassed 42 points (14-28-42) over 38 career games against Detroit.
– Matthew Tkachuk has recorded 14 points (5-9-14) in 13 career games vs. the Red Wings.
– Sergei Bobrovsky owns a 24-6-1 career record against Detroit, including a .937 save percentage and 1.87 goals against average.
CATS AND RED WINGS
The Panthers face off against the Red Wings for the first of four matchups in 2023-24. Florida swept their three-game season series against Detroit last season, outscoring the Red Wings 13-5. Matthew Tkachuk led the Cats with six points (2-4-6) over the three matchups, while four different Panthers (Tkachuk, Gustav Forsling, Aaron Ekblad and Carter Verhaeghe) all produced at least two goals in the season series. Sergei Bobrovsky won all three games for Florida against Detroit in 2022-23, posting a combined .932 save percentage and 1.67 goals against average, never surrendering more than two goals against.
DETROIT RED WINGS NOTES:
LAST GAME
RED WINGS 4 at N.Y. ISLANDERS 3 OT (10/30/23)
1ST PERIOD: No scoring
2ND PERIOD: NYI Cizikas (Horvat) 18:39-SH
3RD PERIOD: NYI Nelson (Dobson, Engvall) 1:05-EV;
DET Sprong (Rasmussen, Walman) 7:55-EV;
DET Walman (Seider, Raymond) 9:35-EV;
DET Compher (Seider, Copp) 11:43-EV;
NYI Horvat (Barzal, Dobson) 15:49-PP OT:
DET Raymond (Compher) 1:25-EV
SHOTS: DET 36 (12-15-7-2) / NYI 40 (10-17-12-1)
GOALIES: DET Husso (W, 37-40) / NYI Sorokin (OTL, 32-36) PP: DET 0-2 / NYI 1-2
MAN GAMES LOST (games missed / out since)
Robby Fabbri – lower body (9 / Oct. 12)
Total Man Games Lost: 15 Individual Man Games Lost: Klim Kostin (3), Jeff Petry (3)
RECENT TRANSACTIONS 10/31 –
Activated forward Carter Mazur from injured non-roster and assigned him to Grand Rapids 10/29 – Assigned forward Jonatan Berggren to Grand Rapids
TONIGHT’S GAME DETROIT RED WINGS (6-3-1) vs. FLORIDA PANTHERS (4-3-1)
Thursday, November 2, 2023 / 7:00 P.M. ET / LITTLE CAESARS ARENA / TV: Bally Sports Detroit Extra / RADIO: WXYT 97.1 FM
TONIGHT: 67th all-time meeting, 33rd in Detroit … First of four games this season, first of two at Little Caesars Arena
ALL-TIME vs. FLA: 25-24-5-12 /
HOME: 9-11-3-9 /
LAST 10: 1-7-2 /
IN 2022-23: 0-3-0 /
THIS SEASON: 0-0-0 DET top scorers vs. FLA: Dylan Larkin (10-14-24 in 32 GP), Alex DeBrincat (6-7-13 in 19 GP), J.T. Compher (2-7-9 in 10 GP), Shayne Gostisbehere (4-5-9 in 16 GP) FLA top scorers vs. DET: Aleksander Barkov (14-28-42 in 38 GP), Sam Reinhart (9-11-20 in 27 GP), Matthew Tkachuk (5-9-14 in 13 GP), Oliver Ekman-Larsson (3-11-14 in 27 GP), Carter Verhaeghe (6-5-11 in 15 GP), Sam Bennett (4-7-11 in 17 GP), Evan Rodrigues (4-5-9 in 15 GP), Mike Reilly (1-6-7 in 13 GP), Anton Lundell (4-0-4 in 5 GP), Niko Mikkola (0-2-2 in 3 GP)
LAST TIME OUT
Oct. 30 at N.Y. Islanders – 4-3 W Detroit captured a 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders to improve to 6-3-1 overall and 3-2-0 on the road … The Red Wings (6-3-1, 13 points) have recorded their most points through the first 10 games of a season since 2014-15 (6-2-2, 14 points) … Detroit is 3-1-0 against Metropolitan Division opponents to begin the 2023-24 season … The Red Wings earned their first multi-goal comeback win of the season … Detroit had four multi-goal comeback wins in 2022-23, doing so on Nov. 6, 2022 at the New York Rangers, Dec. 28, 2022 at Pittsburgh, Dec. 31, 2022 vs. Ottawa and March 8 vs. Chicago … Detroit continues to pace the NHL with 40 goals through 10 games to begin the 2023-24 season … The Red Wings have scored at least four goals in seven of their last 10 games … Detroit has netted 17 third-period goals this season, which is the most of any NHL franchise … Lucas Raymond scored the game-winning goal 1:25 into the extra session … It marked Raymond’s third career overtime goal … Raymond scored a pair of overtime goals during his rookie season on Nov. 27, 2021 vs. Buffalo and March 1, 2022 vs. Carolina … Raymond finished with a goal and an assist for his second multi-point game of the season … Raymond has eight points (3-5-8) in 10 games to begin the 2023-24 season … J.T. Compher also recorded a goal and an assist for his second multi-point game of the season … Compher has six points (2-4-6) in 10 games to begin his Red Wings tenure … Compher picked up his 200th career NHL point with the lone assist on Raymond’s overtime goal … Compher finished 13-for-20 (65.0 percent) at the faceoff circle … Jake Walman finished with a goal and an assist for his first career multi-point game … Walman has five points (2-3-5) in 10 games to open the 2023-24 season … Moritz Seider dished out a pair of assists for his fourth multi-point game of the season … Seider leads all Red Wings defensemen in assists (9) and points (10) through 10 games to begin the 2023-24 season … Daniel Sprong put Detroit on the board with his third goal of the season … Sprong has five points (1-4-5) in six games since Oct. 21 at Ottawa … In all, Sprong has seven points (3-4-7), a plus-six rating and eight penalty minutes in 10 games to begin his Red Wings tenure … Andrew Copp tallied an assist on Compher’s goal, giving him five points (3-2- 5) in 10 games to open the 2023-24 season … Ville Husso made a season-high 37 saves to improve to improve to 4-2-1 in seven starts to begin the 2023-24 season … Husso is 13-1-3 when making 32-or-more saves since joining the Red Wings.
