New York. Patrick Hornqvist played his 900th NHL game last night — and celebrated with a win and an assist.
Great fun, but above all I’m happy with the way we played in this match. If we keep going like this, we’ll start winning again, Florida’s Swedish Tigers tell Sportbladet after a 5-1 win over Vancouver.
On October 10, 2008, 21-year-old “Bengan” from Sollentuna made his NHL debut – with the Nashville Predators out of St. Louis. Louis.
And 14 years later, the 35-year-old fighter has 899 more fights in the world’s best league under his belt.
“There was a lot of hockey, and yes, I remember most of the games,” he says with a laugh when we catch up with him after our anniversary game in Vancouver.
– Of course, it’s fun to get here and be able to celebrate victory and points. But above all, I am happy with the way we played in this match. If we keep going like this, we’ll start winning again.
Because of this, it’s been surprisingly bad for the Panthers this season. They ran like a train through the regular season last year and even won the President’s Cup, but this fall they weren’t quite the same.
– Maybe that’s what happened, that people think it’s going to be easy because we played so well last year, continues “Pengan”, who during the trip won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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– But it is not easy, the opponents know what he is capable of and meet us with the best defensive match. If we play like we should, we can assert ourselves better and that’s what we did tonight. I hope we can build on this now.
You know, the Canucks also didn’t win during the first quarter of the regular season and this second consecutive home loss of course was pretty bad. But worst of all: goalkeeper Thatcher Demko is injured and forced to abandon the match.
– I don’t know how bad it is with him, coach Bruce Boudreau sighs.
Gustav Forsling scored one of Florida’s goals.