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The Florida Panthers have secured an Atlantic Division title and the favorite from the Eastern Conference for the Stanley Cup Playoffs starting one week from now.

They simply have to get to the postseason in one piece.

The Panthers are booked to visit the Ottawa Senators on Thursday in their second-to-last round of the ordinary season.

Florida (57-17-6, 120 focuses) saw two central participants withdraw from the get-go in a 4-2 misfortune at the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, their subsequent straight loss following a 13-game series of wins.

Radko Gudas (lower-body injury) and Anton Lundell (chest area) both missed the third period. Pumas break lead trainer Andrew Brunette said Wednesday both will miss the last two normal season games with an objective of returning for the beginning of the end of the season games.

Gudas has been a regular defenseman for the Panthers, playing in 77 games this season. Lundell has been a solid new kid on the block place, adding up to 18 objectives and 26 aids 64 games.

"We're clearly attempting to be shrewd and on top of things a tad here," Brunette said after Tuesday's down.

Brunette previously was being cautious with his regulars.

Brunette leaned Mason Marchment against the Bruins, while veterans Joe Thornton and Carter Verhaeghe returned against Boston in the wake of passing on late games.

It was obvious from the Boston seat that the Panthers were working at a lower gear.

"They didn't focus on me like they had their standard leap (Tuesday) night, for reasons unknown," Bruins mentor Bruce Cassidy said.

Before the furthest down the line wounds to Gudas and Lundell, the Panthers were at that point expected to add players from their AHL partner in Charlotte, which has finished its season.

Florida ought to likewise have left wing Ryan Lomberg back against the Senators. He was suspended against Boston for affecting a battle with Erik Cernak of the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday.

Ottawa enters the game riding a season-best four-game series of wins.

Drake Batherson scored his second objective of the game in extra time to lift the Senators to a 5-4 win against the meeting New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.

Tim Stutzle, the third generally pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, scored under-staffed and on a show of dominance to give him 22 objectives on the season.

Batherson got off to a hot beginning this season with seven objectives and nine aids the initial 14 games, yet was then sidelined for 2 1/fourteen days while in the NHL's COVID-19 convention.

He scored one more 18 focuses in 17 games in December and January before a high lower leg sprain took him out until late March.

His two-objective result against the Devils multiplied his objective complete in the 14 games since his return from injury.