MIAMI _ Watch out, NHL.
The Florida Panthers are continuing to heat up.
The Panthers' offense, despite being held to just 26 shots on goal, was on full display once again in their 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday at the BB&T Center, their fourth win in their past five games.
Colton Sceviour, Brett Connolly, Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mike Hoffman scored for the Panthers (11-5-5), while Sergei Bobrovsky saved 35 of 37 shots on goal against him.
Tuesday marked the 13th time in 21 games that Florida has tallied at least four goals.
And their first four against the Flyers (10-7-4) came in a 20-minute stretch spanning the middle of the first period and the first half of the second period after the Panthers found themselves in an early 1-0 hole.
_ Mike Matheson jumped up in the neutral zone and took a pass from Brett Connolly all the way around in the offensive zone. He waited for Sceviour and fed him in stride. Sceviour then ripped a long slap shot from the left side through traffic and past Flyers goaltender Carter Hart. 1-1 with 9:22 left in the first period.
_ Less than two minutes later, Connolly took a pass from Vincent Trocheck to the right of the net. His shot from behind the red line ricocheted off Hart's mask and into the net. 2-1 Panthers with 7:30 left in the first period. It was Connolly's eighth goal of the season.
_ With 13:14 left in the second period, top-line center Barkov rebounded a long Evgenii Dadonov shot in front of the net and flicked it in for the 3-1 advantage. It was career goal No. 142 for Barkov, tying Nathan Horton for the fifth-most in Panthers history. Stephen Weiss, with 145, is fourth.
_ Huberdeau made it 4-1 on a wrist shot to Hart's short side with 9:37 left in the second period.
Hoffman added an empty-net goal with 2:32 left in regulation to close scoring.
Travis Sanheim and Morgan Frost scored for the Flyers. Hart was pulled from the net for Brian Elliott after giving up the goal to Huberdeau.
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