Too big for their typically modest britches?
The Florida Panthers were humbled Wednesday in Calgary as their 13-game point streak was snapped as a result of a 6-0 whooping in their second-to-last stop of a six-game road trip.
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It was obviously a letdown, having tasted a fruitless defeat for the first time in a month, but it was an important reminder.
"There was a little bit of arrogance to our game towards the end of that streak. We got our butts handed to us tonight. It was well deserved," defenseman Erik Gudbranson told FOX Sports.
"At the end of the day, it's a good thing. I don't think anybody's felt really good about our game over the past 4-5 games.
"We needed a good spanking like that."
It might be an overstatement to call it complacency, but it wouldn't have been too difficult to follow the trajectory and successfully predict the wheels coming off when they did. Florida (outshot in seven straight games) mustered 14 shots in an emotional, but hardly stellar outing in Edmonton to make it 12 straight wins before having the franchise-best streak snapped in an overtime loss to the Canucks.
The Panthers are back in Florida and will pick up their road stretch with a short trip to Tampa Bay on Sunday.
