Call it story book, call it a Cinderella story, a dream run, whatever it may be. The Florida Panthers are heading to the Eastern Conference Final. Eliminating the Toronto Maple Leafs in 5 games.
The Florida Panthers, after taking down the No. 1 seed Boston Bruins in 7 games, have found another switch as they are playing extremely well.
In a messy and controversial Game 5, the Panthers beat the Leafs in overtime. The win wouldn't have been possible with our 3 key former Philadelphia Flyers.
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First off, Sergei Bobrovsky, after a rough Playoffs last year has turned it around completely. He made 50+ saves only allowing 2 goals in almost 4 periods of play. He was stellar all series long, keeping the Leafs top players off the board for basically the whole series. One of his biggest saves came in OT, as he made a huge toe save through traffic that he barely saw. This would continue play and result in the Panthers scoring a minute later.
The Panthers gave up a 3-on-2, which looked to maybe be a great chance for the Leafs to end it, but thanks to the hard back check from Radko Gudas, who spoiled the Leafs play forcing them to turn it over. Resulting in the puck going the other way, as Nick Cousins tucked the game winner five-hole.
Nick Cousins, scored the first and last goal of the series between the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs. Nick, has 2 goals with 4 assists in the Playoffs so far this season.
This Panthers team , is unfortunately shaping up to be like their 1996 team. A team that spoiled Eric Lindros and the Flyers run - Beating them in the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals 4-2.