Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad knocked Brandon Hagel out of Game 4 with an unpenalized high hit in the Tampa Bay Lightning forward's return from a one-game suspension, Then Ekblad played ...

He did it again. Finding the back of the net to break a 3-3 tie late in the third period of Game 5, Carter Verhaeghe lifted the Florida Panthers to their third straight Eastern Conference title and St ...

Since 2022, Verhaeghe has 12 game-winning goals in the playoffs and five this year, each astounding numbers. He has three career series-clinching goals, behind only Max Pacioretty and Artturi Lehkonen ...

On Wednesday night, the Carolina Hurricanes showcased plenty of resilience in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final, but the ...

Verhaeghe scored the game-winner, his sixth goal of the playoffs and his 12th career playoff game-winning goal, after Aleksander Barkov muscled through Carolina defenseman Dmitry Orlov on the boards ...

Tampa Bay's Gage Goncalves got that at 2:31 but the lead didn't last long with Carter Verhaeghe and Anton Lundell putting Florida ahead by the midway point of the period. Every time the Lightning ...

Sam Bennett scored one of his two goals in Florida’s three-goal first period, Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves and the Panthers ...

The Panthers were coming off a 6-1 win on Sunday in Game 7 of the second-round series against the Maple Leafs. That set up a ...

Panthers pull their goalie with about three minutes left. Carter Verhaeghe hits the side of the net on a good opportunity. Brandon Carlo is called for hooking. Panthers 0-for-3 so far. Now 0-for-4 ...