Maple Leafs do everything but win as Panthers take Game 1 and series lead
failed to rise to Tuesday night’s occasion.
“Florida played a great game here today,” Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “But it’s a long series, just like the last one we just played, and we will make some adjustments and our guys will come back in Game 2.” “It’s a quicker pace out there . They’ve got a lot of skill that executes at a high rate of speed. That’s the difference. You could tell they’ve got a lot of confidence and they’re feeling real good about themselves.”
It was followed quickly by Bunting’s goal that tied the game. The Leafs were firmly in control. The crowd was with them. They were laying all the big hits: Luke Schenn on Matthew Tkachuk, Morgan Rielly on Eric Staal, Jake McCabe on Anthony Duclair. But T.J. Brodie — the last man back — tried for a pinch that didn’t go well. The Panthers sprung Verhaeghe on a breakaway and he easily beat Samsonov with just 2:13 to go in the second period.
“We’ve got get more in front of him,” Keefe said of how the team will approach Bobrovsky in Game 2. “One of the big differences in our scoring chances that we had here tonight, whether you look at the power play chances or five-on-five, or six-on-five, we had a lot more tonight in closer to the net than we’ve had maybe in the previous series.
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