“The first few special teams put us in a good position,” said Reinhart. The Senators challenged Reinhart’s second goal for being offside, but it remained in place after a lengthy review and Bennett made it 3-0 on the ensuing power play. He got his first one just 1:28 into the game, and then made it 2-0 with his 15th of the season 5:59 into the second. Reinhart helped Florida get off to a fast start with two power-play goals.
Luostarinen rounded out the scoring with 3:28 remaining. With just under seven minutes to play everyone on the ice got in a scrum and it resulted with all 10 players being assessed 10-minute misconduct penalties. “I think, when this group plays with emotion we’re a tough team to beat and I think we rely on our emotion and it shows that we care, shows that we care about what we’re doing here and about the guy next to us.”īrady Tkachuk also got in the middle of things and was in the penalty box for cross-checking when Verhaeghe made it 4-0 at 11:59. “I mean, I don’t think it’s bad to play with emotion,” said Brady Tkachuk. Jake Sanderson dropped the gloves against Matthew Tkachuk as well. Zack MacEwen jumped Matthew Tkachuk and took a five-minute match penalty. Matthew Tkachuk clearly got under the skin of his younger brother Brady Tkachuk’s teammates.