Ever since Sam Bennett returned to the lineup, he has had an effect on the Boston Bruins. Is he a distraction to the Bruins? You bet he has. It has thrown them completely off their game: Missed assignments, undisciplined penalties, and a lack of sustained offense have hurt them.
Every walk of life or sport has heels and baby faces. As we see in professional wrestling, every good babyface needs a great heel to go up against. With the Stanley Cup Playoffs going on, the NHL is seeing two prominent heels rising in their respective series in Sam Bennett of the Florida Panthers and Nikita Zadorov of the Vancouver Canucks.
Every walk of life or sport has heels and baby faces. As we see in professional wrestling, every good babyface needs a great heel to go up against. With the Stanley Cup Playoffs going on, the NHL is seeing two prominent heels rising in their respective series in Sam Bennett of the Florida Panthers and Nikita Zadorov of the Vancouver Canucks.
Boston Bruins winger Pat Maroon called out the media on Monday and seemed to be stirring up an ‘Us against the world’ mentality for him and his teammates.
Sam Bennett seems to love causing problems for his opponent in the playoffs. He’s only been back for two games in the Florida Panthers second round series against the Boston Bruins, and he’s already making headlines for the wrong reasons in both games.
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice and forward Sam Bennett remained in denial after the Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 4 on Sunday night.
You have to wonder when NHL players are going to start getting paid for the intangibles. Sunday night, the Florida Panthers scored a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins to take a 3-1 series lead in their second round playoff series.
Sam Bennett was lustily booed just about every time he touched the puck Sunday night. There are going to be some sore throats in Boston today. “He had the puck a lot of the game,’’ Matthew Tkachuk told Hockey Night in Canada following Florida’s 3-2 win over the Bruins in Game 4.
The Boston Bruins needed some new life after back-to-back blowouts to the Florida Panthers while the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers looked to take the series lead in Sunday’s Stanley Cup playoff action.
Sam Bennett scored on a disputed goal upheld by review and Aleksander Barkov netted the go-ahead goal as the Panthers beat the Bruins 3-2 to take a 3-1 series lead.
The Florida Panthers stayed relentless in Game 4 on Sunday against a motivated Boston Bruins team playing without injured captain Brad Marchand.
Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett was already a thorn in the side of the Boston Bruins in their second-round playoff series for a controversial play in Game 2 that sidelined Brad Marchand.
The camera angle gives a new view of the controversial play that left Marchand injured.
Boston Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery believes that Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett sucker punched Bruins captain Brad Marchand in Game 3 on Friday night.
BOSTON — When Sam Bennett returned to the Florida Panthers lineup for Game 3 of their second-round series against the Boston Bruins, he wanted to make an impact immediately.
The Boston Bruins did not have fun in Game 3 against the Florida Panthers. Florida was all over Boston on Friday night, and now holds a 2-1 lead in the series.
BOSTON — The Florida Panthers are back at full health for Game 3 against the host Boston Bruins with Sam Bennett returning to the lineup. Coach Paul Maurice said after Friday’s morning skate that, after a nap and pregame warm-ups, if Bennett felt ready to go, he would play.
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice provided an update on Sam Bennett, informing us that the injured center will participate in warmups before Game 3 against the Boston Bruins and will be a game-time decision.
Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett will be a game-time decision against the host Boston Bruins on Friday in Game 3 of their NHL Eastern Conference second-round series.
FORT LAUDERDALE — Sam Bennett was back on the ice with the scratched players of the Florida Panthers on Thursday morning with coach Paul Maurice leaving open the possibility he plays tonight against the Boston Bruins.
After quite a wait, the Panthers finally have their round two opponent, the Boston Bruins. Boston’s opening series went the distance to Game 7 on Saturday, where they pulled out the OT win over the Maple Leafs.
The Florida Panthers are getting some pretty good news ahead of their next playoff series. Panthers center Sam Bennett might be able to play against the Boston Bruins following an injury, per Sports Net Canada.
Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett will be sidelined at least one week with an upper-body injury, coach Paul Maurice said Wednesday. Bennett sustained the injury early in the second period of the Panthers' 3-2 overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference first-round series.
Since coming over to the Panthers organization during the 2020-21 NHL season, there has always been quite a bit of injury concern attached to the center.
Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett left Game 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second period after blocking a shot. Bennett was hit in the hand by teammate Brandon Montour’s slap shot from the right point as he skated through the slot at 4:47 of the second period.
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