SUNRISE, Fla. \u2014 Brad Marchand capped an emotional night by getting what became the winning goal in a shootout, and the Florida Panthers beat the Dallas Stars 4-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Marchand got a tribute score, Sam Reinhart got a milestone one and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 20 shots, six of them in overtime \u2014 and five in the final 61 seconds of the extra period.<\/p>\n
Marchand scored in his first game back after returning to his native Nova Scotia to pay tribute to a friend’s 10-year-old daughter who lost her battle with cancer, and Reinhart got the 300th goal of his career.<\/p>\n
Mikko Rantanen scored with 2:42 left in regulation to tie the game for Dallas, which got three assists from Sam Steel \u2014 who had two points all season entering Saturday, then had the first three-assist game of his career.<\/p>\n
Justin Kyrckowian got his first NHL goal and Wyatt Johnston also scored for Dallas, both of those tallies coming 14 seconds apart during what was to be a 4-minute power play in the second period.<\/p>\n
It was the first time the teams met since playing twice in Finland last season; Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the first of those games, and the second matchup there was a year ago Sunday.<\/p>\n
Dallas hadn’t played at Sunrise since Dec. 6, 2023. Among some of the developments since Dallas’ last visit to Florida:<\/p>\n
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Florida Panthers left wing A.J. Greer (10) jumbos to avoid the puck as Dallas Stars goaltender Casey DeSmith (1) defends the goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. Credit: AP\/Lynne Sladky<\/p>\n
\u2014 The Panthers won two Stanley Cups.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The Stars changed coaches from Peter DeBoer to Glen Gulutzan.<\/p>\n
\u2014 The Arizona Coyotes visited the Panthers. The Coyotes ceased operations in 2024 and last played at Florida on Jan. 24, 2024, seven weeks before Dallas’ most recent appearance before Saturday.<\/p>\n
And of the 40 players who were part of the most recent Dallas-Florida game in Sunrise, only 18 took the ice on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Florida Panthers center Sam Reinhart (13) reacts after scoring a goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Dallas Stars, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. Credit: AP\/Lynne Sladky<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Stars: Host Edmonton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Panthers: Visit Anaheim on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla. \u2014 Brad Marchand capped an emotional night by getting what became the winning goal in a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1320,1323,293,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-349211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-florida-panthers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115477418813975038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}