For the third time in as many games, fans watching the New York Rangers and the Florida Panthers battle on the ice enjoyed a few moments of free hockey as Game 4 went to overtime.
On top of that, one lucky fan attending the game at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise on May 28 went home with an unexpected gift. That was thanks to Rangers forward Chris Kreider and Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk‘s mouthguard.
Right at the start of the third period, less than a minute into it, and with the Panthers leading 2-1, the officials on the ice separated Kreider and Tkachuk before things escalated.
They got so close to each other that Kreider (even wearing a massively padding hockey glove preventing precise actions) found a way to snatch Tkachuk’s mouthguard from the latter’s mouth.
Moreover, Kreider threw it over the glass. The crowd, full of Panthers fans watching their team playing home before the series return to New York on Thursday for Game 5, must have enjoyed getting such a gift for free.
gotten about it perhaps because it happened in a heated moment.
“I don’t remember that,” Kreider said after the Game 4 loss on May 28, via The Athletic’s Peter Baugh.
The Panthers defeated the Rangers in overtime, winning Game 4 3-2. Consequently, Florida brought the series to a 2-2 tie turning them into a best-of-three matchup.
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