Ekblad goal, Luongo shutout lift Panthers over Canadiens 2-0
MONTREAL — The Florida Panthers are inching closer to a playoff spot.
Roberto Luongo’s 28-save shutout lifted the Panthers to a 2-0 victory over the injury-riddled Montreal Canadiens on Monday night. It left them three points back of New Jersey for the eighth and last Eastern Conference playoff spot with two games in hand on the Devils.
“As a team we have to remember to just stay in the moment,” said Luongo, whose club is 10-2-1 in its last 13 games. “Right now we’ll enjoy tonight but we have another big game (Tuesday night in Ottawa).
“Sometimes you get frustrated when you’re trying to chase teams and they seem to keep winning, so we just want to focus on our job and make sure we put our best game forward on a nightly basis and that stuff will take care of itself in the end.”