SUNRISE, Fla. -- It was certainly a week worthy of some extra recognition.
After accumulating four goals and five assists in four games, Sam Reinhart was named the NHL’s First Star of the Week for the week ending Oct. 20, the league announced on Monday.
The other stars were New York’s Artemi Panarin (second star) and Minnesota’s Filip Gustavsson (third star).
“You just don’t really realize the small parts of the game that he’s good at until you’re actually on the ice with him every day,” said defenseman Nate Schmidt, who’s in his first season with the Florida Panthers. “You know he can score and you can know he can make good plays, but it’s the defensive side of his game. … He plays hard minutes against tough matchups.”
Helping the Panthers to a 3-0-1 record last week, Reinhart was on a roll.
Cracking the scoresheet in all four games, he had three multi-point performances.
After scoring a pair of goals in a 4-3 at Boston to kick off his very productive week, Reinhart racked up three points (one goal, two assists) in a 4-3 win at Columbus on Tuesday.
On Thursday, he dished out an assist in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Canucks.
Closing out the week with a bang, Reinhart produced three points (one goal, two assists) in a 4-3 overtime win over the Golden Knights on Saturday, including assisting on the game-winning goal.
