Blame it on Braden Holtby and Alex Ovechkin being out of the lineup if you’d like, but the bottom line is that the Florida Panthers are silencing the Washington Capitals and their crowd so far on Tuesday.
As of this writing, the Panthers are up 3-0.
Al Montoya’s a big reason why so far, yet there are also flourishes of brilliant offense, especially seen in this 5-on-3 goal where Nick Bjugstad sends a sweet pass to Aleksander Barkov for a goal.
Watch it in the video above.
It’s the sort of thing that reminds you that the best may be yet to come for the Panthers.
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