The Bruins are coming off the best regular season in NHL history, but the Panthers aren’t one to mess with.
The Panthers have been flying high for a few weeks now, winning key matchups and pulling sneaky points out along the way. They’re 6-3-1 over the past 10 games, and the losses weren’t particularly poor performances, either. When teams get desparate, you’ll do whatever it takes to win. They’re not your typical Wildcard team with the high scoring offense they posesss. It’s not a team most would enjoy facing in the first round.
Florida’s scoring was more top heavy, and they still managed to finish sixth with 3.51 goals per game. Matthew Tkachuk scored 100 points for the second consecutive season – and second team – while Aleksander Barkov and Carter Verhaeghe both had more than 70 points. Sam Reinhart fell just short but was one of three 30-plus-goal scorers for a team that had to outscore opponents a bit too often.
Florida, on the other hand, had a bit more difficulty keeping pucks out of the net. They allowed the 21st most at 3.32 per game, while averaging 31.7 shots a night. They only allowed 78 high-danger goals againstLosing MacKenzie Weegar left a sizeable hole on the back end, but Brandon Montour’s emergence was something they couldn’t have expected.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen so many unheralded goaltenders come out of nowhere and steal the show. Connor Ingram and Kochetkov snatched he spotlight a year ago. You don’t know what you don’t know, and for goaltenders – where so much of the game is mental – you just have to go out there and do what you do best. Lyon told reporters in Toronto last week he had nothing to lose at this point, and that’s exactly the mentality he needs going forward.
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