TAKEAWAYS: Florida Panthers 2, Seattle Kraken 1 (SO)

The Florida Panthers extended their point streak to seven games with a 2-1 shootout win over the Seattle Kraken

The Florida Panthers kicked off their five-game West Coast road trip with a 2-1 shootout win over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.

Florida weathered its cross-country flight to Seattle well, outshooting the Kraken 19-11 before Aleksander Barkov tied the game up with 1:01 to go in the second period. Their lone blemish came on an odd-man rush late in the first period.

Chandler Stephenson burst onto a breakaway via a Yanni Gourde feed and beat Sergei Bobrovsky glove side with 4:21 to go in the first period.

The Panthers kept things tight in the second period, giving up just four shots while pouring on the pressure in the offensive end, but the Kraken were able to thread together rush chances on occasion. And that included one from Gourde late in the frame.

Gourde was in all alone on Bobrovsky before Nate Schmidt tracked him down and snuffed the chance with a stick lift. He then started the rush that allowed Florida to find its footing in the offensive zone and allow Sam Reinhart to hit Barkov with a cross-ice pass to set up a lone-timer. And he wired it home to tie the game.

Florida kept the pressure on in the third period — outshooting Seattle 10-3 — before an anticlimactic overtime led to a shootout.

Barkov and Reinhart scored their goals, Bobrovsky stopped both Seattle shots and the Panthers are now riding a 6-0-1 stretch to take ahold of sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division.

Here are three takeaways from Tuesday night’s Florida Panthers win over the Seattle Kraken: