Florida Panthers know that it will not be easy to finish from Toronto Maple Leafs.
As a result, Florida went 4-5 in elimination games on the way to win the Stanley Cup last season.
Panthers will receive their first opportunity to knock Maple Leafs when they meet in the 6th game of the Eastern Conference in Sunrise, FLA on Friday.
The panthers won three consecutively, 3-2 ahead in the top seven series, and the last Wednesday night Maple Leafs 6-1 in Toronto blew up.
“I’m not a great believer in my moment,” Florida coach Paul Maurice said. “The series is closer than you think.”
Panthers had 17 different players this season in 1993, as Los Angeles Kings had 17 in 1993.
Maurice, “These (AJ) Greer when you get one fun stories for our room, (Jonah) Gadjovich’in one.” He said. “They are not in front of them because they work hard and do not enter magazines, but when these men get points, they are special on the counter.”
Florida, especially when he comes together to score a goal, especially in the last two games, the goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky makes the best use of.
“Numerous times, again, again, doing these big stops for us.” He said. “At this time of the year, you need this time stops.”
In general, Bobrovsky has an average of 2.46 goals in this spring with an average of 2.46 goals in this spring and the percentage of .899 can be compared with normal season signs.
“I think Sergei is always available to get into a groove, Ma Maurice said. “Preparation does not change; he has no idea about his statistics. I think recently and in the second half of the Tampa (Bay) series (in the first round), the men in front of him are playing a game he understands, this year is the history.”
Bobrovsky succeeded in Stonewall Toronto’s best striker Auston Matthews and held him in the last five games and in the last two.
Matthews wants to maintain all the negativities in the past.
“All we can do is to gather again and reset and go out and keep our season alive,” Matthews said. He said. “Of course, there is confidence in this group. We could go back all year and are not different now.”
Wednesday before Toronto, December 21, 2023 Buffalo Sabres’e 9-3 since the defeat has not been defeated five or more.
Maple Leafs returned from this disaster to overcome the Columbus blue jackets 4-1 two days later, an effort they hoped to repeat on Friday.
“(Game 5) I thought it was the first night we didn’t really answer or play our game.” He said. “When you do this against such a team, they will pay you, and that’s what they do.”
Toronto coach Craig Berube said that the responsibility of the explosion loss in the game 5 was shared by everyone, including himself.
“Errors, there were many mistakes,” he said. “There are mistakes in the games, but this (in the 5th game) is more disappointing than anything else.”
Maple Leaf’s goalkeeper Anthony Stolarz, who continued the upper body injury in the game 1 and missed the last four games, made about 20 minutes skating on Thursday morning, but the team will not accompany Florida.
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