DETROIT – Coming up short in another back-and-forth contest, the Florida Panthers suffered a 4-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday.

Falling to 3-2-0, the Panthers have dropped each of the first two games on their road trip.

“I liked our start tonight better than our last game,” head coach Paul Maurice said. “A little slow sometimes getting the puck off our stick. We had an awful lot blocked in here tonight.”

The first period came and went seemingly the blink of an eye.

With minimal stoppages, it was back-and-forth action with a few quality chances.

Keeping the game tied heading into the first intermission, Sergei Bobrovsky denied Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin with a blocker-save on a 2-on-1 rush late in the period.

“Unbelievable,” forward Luke Kunin

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