The Anaheim Ducks and the host Florida Panthers, who are set to meet on Saturday in Sunrise, Fla., both lost on Thursday.

BOTTOM LINE: The Florida Panthers take on the Anaheim Ducks in a non-conference matchup. Florida is 26-17-3 overall and 12-9-2 at home. The Panthers have allowed 142 goals while scoring 146 for a +4 scoring differential.

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With the Panthers getting into penalty trouble in the second period, the Red Wings made them pay a second time when Dylan Larkin went to the crease and re-directed a tape-to-tape centering feed from Patrick Kane through traffic into the cage to make it 2-1 at 7:52.

The Panthers acquired Tarasenko from the Ottawa Senators at the trade deadline last season to add depth to their forward group as well as a veteran presence who had already been where the Panthers were trying to go. Tarasenko already had one Stanley Cup win under his belt, winning it all with the St. Louis Blues in 2019.

Detroit scored four goals — including three times on the power play — before Bobrovsky was pulled late in the second period of the Panthers’ 5-2 loss to the Red Wings on Thursday to begin a quick two-game homestand at Amerant Bank Arena.

Fresh off an emphatic 6-0 win against the Anaheim Ducks, the Philadelphia Flyers face a much steeper challenge as they welcome the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers to the Wells Fargo Center.

After trailing 2-0 after the first period, the Flyers scored all four goals in the second and third period to clinch their eighth third period comeback win of the season, the most in the NHL.

On Thursday night, the Detroit Red Wings beat the Florida Panthers in regulation for the first time since 2021. The Red Wings, who had gone 13 games without beating the Panthers in 60 minutes of play,