Two months after Florida Panthers acquired an injured Brad Marchand from Boston Breens, it is Toronto Maple Leafs that has begun to feel pain.
Florida will face Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday on Sunday, Sunrise, Eastern Conference of a second round in Playoff Series in Fla.
On Friday, Marchand continued to show that he is now feeling fine, as scoring in overtime, Florida defeated Toronto 5–4 and defeated the panthers deficit 2–1 in the best chain.
Marchand was humble when asked about his sportsman.
“This is a spot,” he said. “It is a second of a game. It can be anyone. It all happens so soon, and you are tired at that point.”
Whether tired or not, team partner Carter Verheghe said that Marchand brings energy to the panthers.
“He scored big goals in big moments,” said Verheghe.
In a decorated career, Marchand has scored 14 games winning playoff goals, the highest among any active NHL player.
Panthers are also grateful to another 36 -year -old man on their roster in goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovski who saved two large -scale in overtime. He preserved the opportunity for Marchand’s heroes when he stopped Breakways by William Nilander and Matthew Nuns.
This was Bobrovesky’s 51st career playoff win.
After winning the Stanley Cup last season, the panthers have already shown a lot of grit, and were performed more in game 3 for 43 to 62 hits for maple leafs.
Since game 3 in the first round of the 2021 playoffs, the panthers are 13–2 in overtime playoff games.
Florida also abolished Toronto from the 2023 playoffs, the last time teams met in the posts, and the panthers won their 2024–25 season series 3–1 against Maple Leafs.
And yet, Maple Leafs threatened to move forward in the finals of the conference and the panthers to draw some plays at home, nothing did nothing to do, so far both teams have won their domestic games in the series so far.
Each game in the series is fixed with one goal.
On Friday, in four balls of Toronto, two of them bounced a florida player, and one took the crossbar to an easy rebound.
Of the five goals of Florida, two of them bounced either the body or Morgan Reeli’s stick of Toronto.
“This is how the Paks are running right now,” Rielly said, “and it’s not just in this series.”
Leafs coach Craig Berub said that his team needs to keep heat on panthers.
“We (the third period of Friday) returned to play our game,” said Barub. “We were pressurizing them, cooking behind them and going to work. We need to keep doing so.”
Toronto obtained two of his four goals by John Thawres in Game 3, when Panthers surpassed Mackie Samoskevich, Nico Starm and Jesspaper Bovist in favor of Tomas Nosec, Jona Gadzovich and AJ Greer.
The move served as the fourth goal of Florida.
Panthers coach Paul Maurice said, “It seemed that we need a style change.” “(Those three players) work so hard every day.”
Added Verheghe: “They changed the tide for our team.”
Thawres is looking for something more to play leafs in Toronto.
“They are a good team,” said Thares. “They worked hard. We need to execute the same in the past.”
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