Matthew Tkachuk’s 3-point night leads Panthers earlier sharks

Matthew Tkachuk once made a three-point outing while Aaron Ekblad gathered a goal and one helped to return to the lineup to take the visiting Florida Panthers to a 7-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.

Aj Greer also noted a goal and an assist, while Nate Schmidt, Sam Bennett, Jesper Boqvist and Sam Reinhart added singles for Florida, who have won four of six matches.

Goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 rescues.

Cody Ceci and Will Smith accounted for for the last places, which rides on a six-game skid and have lost nine out of 10. Start painter Alexandar Georgiev handed four goals on 15 shots before drawing early in the second period. Yaroslav Askarov made 14 rescues in relief.

San Jose has handed over 34 goals in his six-game skid.

Panthers deleted a deficit on a goal thanks to six unanswered goals.

After Schmidt opened the point with a rocket of a shot from the point at the brand 5:47, the sharks stacked a lead thanks to goals 32 seconds apart by Ceci and Smith.

Ceci put the hosts on the board with a deflection while parked in front of the net on the 6:50 brand, and Smith made it a 2-1 game by turning on a loose puck for his eighth goal in his rookie season.

But Panthers took over shortly after. Bennett banded the collision at 14:27 when he converted a second chance during a movement of action. Ekblad, which missed seven matches due to an upper body injury, found the brand with a point shot at 17:08.

Greer’s goal at 3:01 in the second period, a break, Georgiev sent to the bench in favor of Askarov, but the goalkeeper’s change did a bit to slow down Panthers.

Tkachuk added a Power-play goal at 5:35 with a nice deflection to make it a 5-2 game, then Boqvist extended the edge by ending a cross feed from Anton Lundell at 13:07.

Reinhart’s rebound goal three minutes later, a four-goal finished second period for Panthers and rounded the score.

-Field level media