“We’ve got get more in front of him,” Keefe said of how the team will approach Bobrovsky in Game 2. They’ll need to do a better job in front of Bobrovsky, who can be as hot as any goaltender, but can run cold as well.īobrovsky was at his best with the Leafs’ net empty, stopping William Nylander with a pad save, and John Tavares with a glove save, and maybe getting lucky when Auston Matthews ripped a shot off the post, and then stopping Tavares again during a dying-moments Leaf power play. The Leafs did a terrific job getting pucks at Andrei Vasilevskiy to take down Tampa in six. “We give them a breakaway to the one guy we definitely do not want to give a breakaway to. “We’re fine and come back in the game and we’re in a good spot,” said Keefe. The Panthers sprung Verhaeghe on a breakaway and he easily beat Samsonov with just 2:13 to go in the second period.

Brodie - the last man back - tried for a pinch that didn’t go well. They were laying all the big hits: Luke Schenn on Matthew Tkachuk, Morgan Rielly on Eric Staal, Jake McCabe on Anthony Duclair. It was followed quickly by Bunting’s goal that tied the game. Both Knies and Bobrovsky got turned around, but Knies controlled the puck and scored on a backhand into a largely empty net. As he carried the puck through the crease, Bobrovsky tried a poke check that went wrong. And for a while it turned the momentum, coming 11 seconds after Sam Bennett gave Florida a 2-0 lead. Knies became the 10th player in franchise history to score his first NHL career goal in the playoffs.

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