Sergei Bobrovsky hits two major milestones in Florida Panthers' OT win vs Wild
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Jonathan Ouimet
Jan 25, 2026 (12:48)
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Photo credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images
Sergei Bobrovsky turns a Florida Panthers overtime night in Minnesota into another climb up the NHL leaderboard.
Florida edged the Minnesota Wild 4-3 in overtime on Saturday, and Bobrovsky kept the game close when the Wild pushed.
The milestones are fun, but the context is what makes Sergei Bobrovsky feel unreal right now.
In 332 games with the Florida Panthers, he's already sitting on a 194-104-21 record with a 2.79 goals-against average, a .904 save percentage, and 19 shutouts.
That's not a hot streak. That's a body of work.
Sergei Bobrovsky keeps the Florida Panthers steady
Now layer Saturday in Minnesota on top of it.
Bobrovsky stopped 18 shots and locked down his 20th win of the season, putting him among just seven goalies to reach 20 wins this year as of Saturday.
And it wasn't just another notch, it was one of those nights where Florida stays calm because the guy in the crease doesn't blink.
The bigger flex is the road number.
That win was Bobrovsky's 207th career road win, which pushed him past Ed Belfour into third all-time on the NHL list.
Only Marc-Andre Fleury (246) and Martin Brodeur (310) are still ahead, which is a wild sentence to type in 2026.
Even better for Panthers fans, 83 of those 207 road wins have come wearing Florida colors.
It also speaks to his consistency.
Bobrovsky is now just the eighth goalie in NHL history to post 20 wins in a season for the 13th time.
Since signing that seven-year contract on July 1, 2019, he's hit 20 wins in six of seven seasons, with the only miss coming in the COVID-shortened 2020-21 year.
He's in the final year of that deal, too, which makes every new puck they hand him feel like a page in the franchise scrapbook.
And he's not done. At 37, Bobrovsky sits five wins from tying Curtis Joseph (454) for seventh all-time, with Henrik Lundqvist (459) in sixth sitting right there within reach.
The scary part for the rest of the league is that this doesn't feel like a farewell tour.
It feels like Florida's backbone, still adding chapters.
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