The Florida Panthers are happy to have two of their top players back. Jonathan Huberdeau scored in his first game of the season and Aleksander Barkov had an assist on that goal to lift the Panthers to a 2-1 victory over the Ducks on Friday night. “When you miss like four months of playing, your first goal, it’s always special, and that’s what it was tonight,” Huberdeau said. “We had our big guys with pucks on their stick in some critical situations,” Ducks Coach Randy Carlyle said. Defenseman Victor Hedman missed last month’s matchup, won by the Ducks, 2-1, on Rickard Rakell’s overtime goal.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 04, 2017 03:33 UTC