The Panthers have won the two series in their history (2023 second round, 1996 conference quarterfinals) when leading 2-0 the lowest seed in the East this season is two wins from reaching the Stanley Cup Final for the second time (1996). Teams that have taken a 2-0 lead in a best-of-7 series in the round before the Stanley Cup Final go on to win it 90.7 percent of the time (78-8).
"We've been in this rink a lot and I think we're just pretty happy to be up two and get out of here." "We walk into the rink tonight and it feels like we never left," Florida coach Paul Maurice said after Game 2. The Panthers have taken an early stranglehold on the best-of-7 series ahead of Game 3 at FLA Live Arena on Monday (8 p.m. "It has been a lot of hockey the past two games." His thought process behind the celebrations? Understandably, it lacked some of the gusto of the Game 2 exit after almost 80 minutes of extra hockey. He performed a similar one when he scored with 13 seconds left in the fourth overtime of a 3-2 win in Game 1 on Thursday. "The old bus in 10 (minutes) celebration," Tkachuk said when asked to explain.
Tkachuk was halfway down the hallway before his teammates left the ice. Immediately after Tkachuk shot the puck past the outstretched glove of Carolina goalie Antti Raanta 12 seconds into a penalty against Jesperi Kotkaniemi, he made a beeline for the door to the dressing room, pointing at it, flicking his shoulders there and seemingly mouthing the words "Let's go!" In Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, Tkachuk scored a power-play goal at 1:51 of overtime to give the Panthers a 2-1 victory. 1 in a third city during the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs? Should anything less be expected from the Florida Panthers forward, who has cemented his status as Public Enemy No.
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