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(SportsDay FILE photo by Nancy DeLander Beecher) By Mike Bonts CHARLESTON (Florida SportsDay) - The South Carolina Stingrays (28-14-4-1) dropped a Saturday night matchup at the North Charleston Coliseum to the Jacksonville Icemen (32-15-2-0) by a final score of 3-2. Craig Martin scored two goals and Brendan Harris finished with three points.  The Icemen remain atop the South Division with the win.  Jacksonville gained the first lead of the night on Martin’s 11th goal of the season. Martin crashed the net and flicked a quick shot past the blocker of Tyler Wall for the 1-0 lead with 2:50 remaining in the second period. Martin doubled the lead on his second goal of the contest 1:41 later with a snapshot off a faceoff win from Harris. Martin lined up on the inside of the left circle and flung a shot over the shoulder of Wall for the 2-0 advantage to close out the middle stanza. Lawton Courtnall cut the lead back to one goal as he buried a shot from the right circle that beat the ...

 LAS VEGAS (www.panthers.com) - -The Florida Panthers saw a third-period lead slip through their fingers in a 4-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday. Sitting at 19-20-4, Florida finished its four-game road trip with a record of 2-2-0. "It hurts right now," Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov said. "I think we played better than the result was. Of course, they have a good team and good players. If you give them chances, they're going to capitalize." Making himself at home in his old barn, Nick Cousins, who suited up for Vegas in 2019-20, opened the scoring when he followed up on an attempt from Aaron Ekblad, crashed the net and sent the puck past Adin Hill to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead just 2:02 into the first period. Given that the Knights' net had come off its moorings just as the goal was scored, officials reviewed the play but eventually upheld it after determining that it was the actions of Vegas defenseman Ben Hutton that ca...