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The Florida Panthers have evacuated the Carolinas, and are headed home with a commanding lead after controlling Game 2 of the 2025 Eastern Conference finals against the Hurricanes.
The Panthers scored three in the first period, again hearing the home team booed off the ice.
Florida kept up the pressure on Carolina and won 5-0 to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series.
The Panthers have won six straight against the Hurricanes in the ECF dating to 2023 — with Carolina now having lost an NHL-record 14 straight in the ECF since winning the Stanley Cup in 2006.
Florida came out hot from the start, Gus Forsling — who was waived by the Hurricanes in 2021, then claimed by the Panthers — making it 1-0 at 1:17.
The Panthers got a goal from Matthew Tkachuk off the left post at 11:41; Sam Bennett deflected a Carter Verhaeghe power-play shot at 15:50 for the 3-0 lead.
Bennett got his second late in the second — off another Verhaeghe wraparound.
Verhaeghe (three assists) and Bennett (goal, two assists) had three-point nights; Tkachuk and Aaron Ekblad each had two points.
Sergei Bobrovsky only faced three shots in the first, and, aside for a few Grade-As, had a quiet night.
Still, 17 saves or not, it is his third shutout of these playoffs — most in a single postseason since Andrei Vasilevskiy had five in 2021.
Andersen left after the second period down 4-0. After giving up 10 goals in his first nine playoff games, he allowed nine to the Panthers in just two.
Sasha Barkov made it 5-0 on a power-play deflection of a point shot from Ekblad in the third.
Game 3 is on Saturday night in Sunrise.




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