Boston Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman is experiencing the unforgiving reversal of fortunes that are part and parcel of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Swayman was on the business end of 33 shots in Friday night’s 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers in Game 3 of their best-of-seven second-round series at the TD Garden.

Swayman was on the ice for five of the six goals, four of which were on the power play, and he has given up nine in the last two games. The Panthers took a 2-1 lead in the series and the two antagonists will resume hostilities on Sunday night (6:30) at the Garden.

“I am looking forward to evening the series in our next game,” said Swayman. “We don’t like losing, especially at home and I think what we are looking forward to now is an opportunity to even the series.

“I think that we can take positives of this game regardless of how we played and the belief in this room is unwavered. We have so many guys that are going to step up in big times and do the right things and the little things in this game. We know what we need to do to win and the formula we have and the belief in this room.”

Swayman had been statistically untouchable through eight playoff games before getting roughed up by the Panthers over two-plus periods in Game 2 at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.

Montgomery replaced Swayman with Linus Ullmark after the Panthers’ fourth goal at 1:28 of the third period. There was speculation that Ullmark would start Game 3, but Montgomery stayed with Swayman, who suffered his fourth loss of the playoffs.

“A win is a win and a loss is a loss in the playoffs no matter what the score is or how it’s done,” said Swayman. “We are really are lucky and fortunate to have the chance to even the series in the next game.”

While the Bruins may have cornered the market on players from Boston University, it was a former Terrier that put the Panthers up 1-0 at 8:04 of the first. Panthers right wing Evan Rodrigues, who played at BU from 2011-15, was positioned in Swayman crease when defenseman Gustav Forsling lofted a floater at the Bruins goal from the left point.

Bruins’ defenseman Brandon Carlo inadvertently tipped the puck above the crossbar and it was swatted home by Rodrigues for his second of the playoffs.

Bruins fans voiced disapproval at the referees from all sections of the building, convinced in the belief that Rodrigues scored using a high stick. But there was no challenge from the Boston bench.

“I thought so but we didn’t challenge it so it wasn’t a high stick,” said Swayman. “It was a broken play.”

Swayman made his biggest save of the game and gained a measure of revenge when he stoned Rodrigues on a point-blank shot from the low slot at 1:11 of the second. But the walls caved in on Swayman when defenseman Mason Lohrei took a four-minute penalty for high-sticking Steven Lorentz at 14:37.

The Panthers went up 2-0 when left wing Vladimir Tarasenko fired a wrist shot from the left circle for his second of the playoffs at 16:14. Exactly one minute later, right wing Carter Verhaeghe finished a tic-tac-toe play to take a 3-0 lead.

Aleksander Barkov was up top when he slipped the puck to Matthew Tkachuk on the right side of the cage. Tkachuk fed the puck through the crease that Verhaeghe redirected inside the far post for his sixth of the playoffs.

“You have to tip your cap to their power play, they have a lot of talented players,” said Swayman. “They get pucks to the net and we have to go to the drawing board and see what we can do better.

“We know they like to funnel pucks and use the bumper and we can do a better job of everything and making sure I’m seeing pucks and we are blocking shots. I’m looking forward to that and making sure our penalty kill is locked up as it usually is.”

The Panthers made it 4-0 on their third power-play goal at 16:51. Defenseman Brandon Montour’s slap shot from the blue line sailed through traffic for his third of the playoffs. Sam Reinhart scored an empty netter to make it 5-2, but Swayman was back between the pipes when Rodrigues scored his second at 19:09.