SUNRISE — A putrid power play and porous goaltending basically got former Panthers coach Kevin Dineen fired earlier this month. Well, on Saturday night at a packed BB&T Center interim coach Peter Horachek saw plenty of the same in a 5-1 loss to the star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins. Despite Horachek's tinkering with the 30th-ranked power play by adding a fourth forward in Tomas Fleischmann at the point, the Panthers not only went 0-for-3 with a man advantage in the first period but actually lost momentum during the first two. Just 35 seconds after the Panthers' powerless play elapsed,...
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