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11/01 14:05 CDT A treat for fans in Tampere: Panthers, Stars send 7 Finns out
for opening faceoff
A treat for fans in Tampere: Panthers, Stars send 7 Finns out for opening
faceoff
TAMPERE, Finland (AP) --- The Florida Panthers and the Dallas Stars didn't make
the Finnish fans wait long to see their homeland's players take the ice on
Friday.
They started all of them.
Florida had its four Finns --- Tampere native Aleksander Barkov, Eetu
Luostarinen, Niko Mikkola and Anton Lundell --- all on the ice together to
start the game. Dallas did the same, sending out its three Finnish players in
Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz and Esa Lindell for the first shift.
And Barkov got the scoring party started early, with an assist on Evan
Rodrigues' game-opening goal 28 seconds into the contest --- then a goal of his
own later in the opening period. It was Barkov's first NHL goal in Finland; he
played two other games there with the Panthers in 2018.
Lundell scored later in the first period for Florida.
The Panthers have the most Finnish players in the NHL this season. Dallas'
three is tied for second-most in the league.
The teams will play again in Tampere on Saturday. Friday was a "home" game for
Dallas, and Florida will count as the home team on Saturday.
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