Cats Blank Rangers

Vokoun makes 32 saves in 3-0 shutout of New York

Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves for his fifth shutout of the season and 43rd overall, and David Booth, Chris Higgins and Stephen Weiss scored in the Florida Panthers' 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday.

The Panthers are 4-1-2 in their last seven games.

Martin Biron stopped 32 shots for New York. The Rangers, coming off a 2-1 overtime loss in Tampa Bay on Saturday night, lost for the first time (9-1) in the second half of back-to-back games.

Higgins scored his sixth goal at 8:50 of the third period to give Florida a 2-0 lead.

Higgins poke-checked the puck away from Michael Sauer, skated down the left side, then waited for defenseman Michael Del Zotto to slide by before wristing a shot past Biron to the short side.

Weiss added an empty-net goal with 1:30 left with the Rangers on a power play.

Booth opened the scoring with a power-play goal midway through the second period. With Dale Weise in the penalty box for holding, Booth scored his 10th goal when he slammed home a rebound at 11:32. Biron stopped Mike Santorelli's shot from close-range before Booth fired the rebound between several players around the crease.

Florida's Cory Stillman appeared to have scored at 4:23 of the third period after taking a feed from Mike Reasoner. But replays showed the puck went off Stillman's skate in the crease and the goal was disallowed.

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