SUNRISE — The Florida Panthers’ three-game winning streak came to an end Monday night at Amerant Bank Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings handed them a 5-3 defeat that exposed persistent puck-movement problems and left the Panthers at 8-5-2 on the season.

“I think that was a really strong game by Detroit,” head coach Paul Maurice said. “I wasn’t in love with ours.”

Detroit rookie Carter Mazur opened the scoring at 5:26 of the first period, burying a quick snipe from the left circle for the first goal of his NHL career. Sam Reinhart answered at 14:19 with a wrist shot from the slot to tie it 1-1 — extending his scoring streak to three straight games and his overall point streak to four games.

Alex DeBrincat put the Red Wings back in front at 1:26 of the second period on an odd-man rush for his seventh goal of the campaign, making it 2-1. The Panthers responded on the penalty kill when Aaron Ekblad banked a shot off goaltender Daniil Tarasov’s skate at 15:25 to even the score at 2-2 — the third shorthanded goal of Ekblad’s career. Returning goaltender Jacob Markstrom, back from an upper-body injury that had sidelined him since Oct. 17, made six saves on the penalty kill in the middle frame and finished with 24 stops.

“I feel like when you don’t play for a bit, it’s a little tougher, but you can’t just pick up wherever you left off if you miss eleven days, twelve days or whatever it was,” Markstrom said. “But, you know, body feels good and it was fun to get back there. I wish the result was a little different.”

Detroit broke the game open in the first 53 seconds of the third period. Justin Faulk blasted a power-play slap shot past a screened Markstrom at 2:08 to make it 3-2, and Michael Brandsegg-Nygård lit the lamp at 2:53 to push the lead to 4-2. Sam Bennett cut the deficit to 4-3 at 16:40, finishing a slick pass from Matthew Tkachuk after the Panthers pulled Markstrom for a 6-on-5 advantage, but Emmitt Finnie sealed it with an empty-net goal for the final 5-3 margin.

Despite the loss, Florida led 43-23 in scoring chances and 4.58-3.96 in expected goals per NaturalStatTrick.com. Maurice pointed to the power play and sluggish puck movement as the difference. “There’s not easy puck movement for us right now,” he said. “We’re just slow with some things. I thought in the first thirty minutes, they were fairly opportunistic in what we gave them. The power plays for both teams were the best opportunities to score.”

Maurice also acknowledged the difficulty of the Atlantic Division. “It just shows how good this division is. We’ve talked about it. We’re going to get everybody’s best. All the teams in the Atlantic are good teams. When you get their best, you have to match it.”

Markstrom echoed that assessment. “I feel like every team in the NHL, they’ve got players and have good teams. If you look at the standings, it’s tight. We know we need to get some divisional wins to pull away here.”

Notably, Matthew Tkachuk now has at least one point in 12 of his last 14 games, and Lars Eller has recorded a point in three of his last four contests.

The Panthers host the Chicago Blackhawks in a nationally televised matchup at Amerant Bank Arena on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ET.