SUNRISE, Fla. – The Florida Panthers will try to get the Eastern Conference Final back to even when they host the New York Rangers for Game 4 at Amerant Bank Arena on Tuesday.

Trailing 2-1 in the series, it’s a chance to clean the slate before heading back to the Big Apple.

“It’s a big game,” Panthers forward Sam Bennett said. “It’s crucial. We know how important this game is. We’re going to be prepared for it. In the playoffs, every game feels like a must-win game. We’re going to just treat it the same as we’ve treated all the other games.”

After shutting out the Rangers 3-0 in Game 1, the Panthers have lost each of the last two games in overtime, including a gut-punch defeat in Game 3 after an inspired comeback.

Entering the third period trailing 4-2, Panthers responded with two massive goals from Aleksander Barkov and Gustav Forsling to make it 4-4 and put the Rangers on their heels.

From there, they continued to pepper Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin, but couldn’t find the extra goal they needed before overtime. Arguably their most-dominant stretch of the playoffs, the Panthers led 21-4 in scoring chances in the third period.

Despite carrying that momentum into overtime, the Panthers unfortunately couldn’t finish the job and secure the win they clearly deserved. At 5:35 of the extra frame, Alex Wennberg got to the net and deflected in a shot from Ryan Lindgren to give the Rangers the 5-4 victory.

Overall, the Panthers finished with a staggering 108-43 advantage in shot attempts.

But even without getting the end result, they found reasons to be confident in defeat.

“It’s playoffs,” Bennett said. “There’s going to be big swings, just from one play, one goal. That’s what playoffs is like. You’ve just got to be able to control your emotions and work on the parts of the game we need to work on. We went over it [on Monday]. Take the good stuff. We did a lot of good things [last game]. You’ve just got to go through it day by day.”

Part of that “good stuff” has to be special teams.

Over the last two games, the Panthers have scored three power-play goals – including a pair of them from Sam Reinhart in Game 3 – and gone a perfect 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.