Vancouver -- Nathan Horton scored twice and Patrick Lalime made 26 saves as the Florida Panthers took Game 1 of the NsHL Cup Final on Saturday night 4-1 over the Vancouver Canucks .
Ed Jovanovski opened the scoring early in the second period with a quick snapshot past Canucks goalie Rick Dipietro.
Horton then wheeled down the wing and fired a wrist shot through the pads of Dipetro. Vancouver sniper, Milan Hejduk blasted a one-timer past Lalime to make the score 2-1 for the Panthers as they took the second break.
Horton and Mike Sillinger scored late in the third to pad the lead.
"Horton had 11 points heading into the Final," explained Coach Keenan. "With only two goals in the post season he's been finding other ways to help us. Tonight he looked like the great power forward that we all think he can be."
The Canucks were flying in the opening ten minutes of the game. They clearly took control early and Lalime was called upon to make some key saves in the first frame.
"We gave up some chances," said Sillinger. "Patty was strong in the nets. He's been terrific for us."
Once the Panthers got through the first period and the strong start of the Canucks. They settled down and played a great game in the final two periods to earn the victory. The early second period goal was a key and then scoring on a power play soon after was enough to quiet the crowd and take much of the steam out of the Canucks attack.
Game notes: Jovanovski's first period goal was his first of the post-season ..... Jovocop led all skaters with 25 minutes of ice-time ...... both teams rolled over four lines and received some good quality minutes from the third and fourth lines ..... Florida received three goals from their third line and the fourth line scored the only goal for the Canucks ...... Lalime will not skate today as he is battling fatigue ...... he has been listed as a game-time decision for Game 2.
Vancouver
EVEN STRENGTH
CENTER LEFT WING RIGHT WING DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Brendan Morrison Fredrik Modin Milan Hejduk Paul Martin Martin Skoula
2 Doug Weight Brenden Morrow Shane Doan Brad Stuart Fedor Tjutin
3 Jason Arnott Daniel Sedin Kirk Maltby Ron Hainsey Daniel Mcgillis
4 Henrik Sedin Chuck Kobasew Milan Hejduk Brad Stuart Mathieu Dandenault
POWER PLAY
CENTER LEFT WING RIGHT WING DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Brendan Morrison Fredrik Modin Milan Hejduk Paul Martin Brad Stuart
2 Doug Weight Brenden Morrow Shane Doan Martin Skoula Fedor Tjutin
PENALTY KILL
CENTER WINGER DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Jason Arnott Kirk Maltby Martin Skoula Fedor Tjutin
2 Henrik Sedin Chuck Kobasew Paul Martin Daniel Mcgillis
STARTING GOALIE
Rick DiPietro
SCRATCHES
Brooks Orpik (Healthy)
Valtteri Filppula (Healthy)
Trevor Letowski (Healthy)
Florida
EVEN STRENGTH
CENTER LEFT WING RIGHT WING DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Jason Spezza Antti Miettinen Evgeni Malkin Sergei Zubov Ivan Majesky
2 Marc Savard Kyle Calder Juraj Kolnik Ed Jovanovski Paul Ranger
3 Mike Sillinger Justin Williams Nathan Horton Jason York Branislav Mezei
4 Alyn Mccauley Jay Pandolfo Evgeni Malkin Jason Strudwick Ed Jovanovski
POWER PLAY
CENTER LEFT WING RIGHT WING DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Marc Savard Kyle Calder Evgeni Malkin Sergei Zubov Ed Jovanovski
2 Mike Sillinger Justin Williams Nathan Horton Ivan Majesky Paul Ranger
PENALTY KILL
CENTER WINGER DEFENCE DEFENCE
1 Alyn Mccauley Jay Pandolfo Sergei Zubov Ivan Majesky
2 Mike Sillinger Kyle Calder Paul Ranger Ed Jovanovski
STARTING GOALIE
Patrick Lalime
SCRATCHES
Patrick Eaves (Healthy)
Joel Bouchard (Healthy)
Petr Taticek (Healthy)
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