Flyers 4, Panthers 1
Sean Couturier scored the opening goal and set up another first-period tally to spark Philadelphia to its fourth straight home win.
Defenseman Michael Del Zotto notched his first goal of the season while Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Jakub Voracek also scored as the Flyers won for the fifth time in seven games and avenged a 2-1 defeat at Florida on Saturday. Steve Mason turned aside 34 shots to improve to 7-2-0 lifetime against the Panthers.
Nick Bjugstad netted the lone goal for Florida, which had its seven-game point streak (4-0-3) halted. Roberto Luongo made 26 saves as the Panthers yielded more than three goals for only the second time this season.
Philadelphia went ahead just before the four-minute mark, when Matt Read stole the puck along the left-wing boards and fed Brayden Schenn for a shot that Couturier tipped home. Del Zotto doubled the lead just over 2 1/2 minutes later, taking a cross-ice feed and beating Luongo from a sharp angle while using the referee as a screen.
Bellemare's one-timer from the slot at 2:50 of the second period pushed the lead to 3-0 before Bjugstad got Florida on the board exactly nine minutes later, cleaning up a rebound on the power play. The Flyers needed only 39 seconds to respond as Voracek finished off a 2-on-1 rush with captain Claude Giroux.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Voracek, who entered the night one point behind Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby for the league scoring lead, extended his point streak to seven games and has hit the scoresheet in 12 of his 13 contests. ... Panthers C Aleksander Barkov had a rough return to the lineup after a two-game injury absence - he was on the ice for each of Philadelphia's first two goals and was 2-for-13 on faceoffs. ... Philadelphia had killed off its first 19 short-handed situations at home prior to Bjugstad's tally.