RECAP: Boston Bruins 3, Florida Panthers 2

The Florida Panthers squandered a two-goal third-period lead to snap their winning streak at six games.

The Florida Panthers squandered a two-goal third-period lead, falling to the Boston Bruins 3-2 to snap their six-game winning streak.

Boston scored three goals in a 7:47 span — with the first snapping a Panthers shutout streak which lasted 186:49 — to hand Florida a loss in its first game without Aaron Ekblad after the star defenseman was handed a suspension for using performance enhancing substances.

The Panthers had allowed one goal in their past four games entering Monday night before the dam finally broke in the third period in Boston.

David Pastrnak broke the dam with a power play goal 8:56 into the third period. Mason Lohrei then answered back 4:55 later with a laser of a wrist shot from the top of the slot.

Pavel Zacha scored the game-winning goal with 3:17 to go with a one-timer off of a feed from Pastrnak.

Dmitry Kulikov and Mackie Samoskevich scored the two Panthers goals. Seth Jones picked up his first point as a Panther as an assist on Samoskevich’s goal 4:49 into the third period.

Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 21 of 24 shots in the loss.

The Panthers will head to Toronto for an important Atlantic Division clash with the Maple Leafs on Thursday night. Florida sits two points ahead of Toronto for the top seed in the division.