Jeremy Swayman stopped 38 shots, Brandon Carlo scored a goal just a few hours after his wife gave birth to their son and the Boston Bruins topped the Florida Panthers 5-1 in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series Monday night.
had a pair of assists for the Bruins, who scored three times in the final 7:08 of the second period to erase a 1-0 deficit and seize control.had the goal for Florida, which has rallied from a 1-0 deficit to win an NHL playoff series only twice in nine previous opportunities — one of those was last year against Boston in Round 1.
It was the first one-sided game of the five this season between the clubs who finished 1-2 — Florida first with 110 points, Boston second with 109 points — in the Atlantic Division. Boston won them all in the regular season, three by one goal and the other by two, but Florida was either tied or ahead in those games 78% of the time.
Swayman gave up the game's first goal to Tkachuk, the Florida star's fourth of the postseason, midway through the second after he and Bobrovsky were in a goalie's duel for the first 31 minutes. He didn't deal with the deficit for long.
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