Leafs eliminated from Stanley Cup playoffs, losing 3-2 to Panthers in Game 5 overtime
The clichés were floating around after Friday’s morning skate like all too many Toronto Maple Leaf forwards through too many games in this series.
The crowd was having none of it though, serenading the officials with a chorus of boos while some threw drinks and white commemorative towels onto the ice until the public announcer asked them to refrain.“We want Florida,” the Maple Leaf Square crowd had chanted after John Tavares’s overtime winner over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the last round.After losing the first three games of the series, the Leafs did well to even force a Game 5.
“It’s all right,” captain Aleksander Barkov said. “We’ll watch some video, we’ll learn. We’ve learned a lot. Every game we learn something new.” Florida’s flurry lasted just about to the five-minute mark, when the Leafs began to find their skates in the game. An offensive barrage followed, but Bobrovsky was equal to their every move, successfully repelling a pair of shorthanded situations.With under four minutes remaining in the period, Florida doubled its advantage, Anthony Duclair feeding Carter Verhaeghe for a one-timer past Woll from a sharp angle for his fifth goal of the postseason.
The win moves the Panthers on to their first conference final since 1996, when they upset the Mario Lemieux-led Pittsburgh Penguins on their way to their lone appearance in a Stanley Cup final, albeit a losing one to the Colorado Avalanche. They will now play the second-seeded Carolina Hurricanes, who wrapped up a 4-1 series win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.
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