FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On the next-to-last day of the NHL season, Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky wasn’t on the ice for apply.
The Panthers are positive that is factor.
Bobrovsky was a severe Conn Smythe Award candidate at one level on this Stanley Cup Closing that ends with Recreation 7 on Monday evening, with Florida successful the primary three video games and the Edmonton Oilers mainly rendered silent by the Panthers’ goaltender. However prior to now three video games, Edmonton’s offense has exploded and Bobrovsky’s numbers look horrific — a 5.06 goals-against common and a .793 save share.
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“It is positively not his fault,” Panthers ahead Matthew Tkachuk stated Sunday. “I feel that is as much as us to tighten up defensively, get off to raised begins. We have been trailing in every of the final three video games, which could open you up a bit bit and value you extra probabilities in opposition to. So, we’ve got to be so much higher in entrance of him. And we’ll tomorrow. It is positively, positively not his fault. Completely not.”
Bobrovsky has a really regimented schedule and will not take the ice daily within the playoffs, whether or not it is Spherical 1 or the final off day earlier than the final sport of Spherical 4.
Panthers coach Paul Maurice stated he thought Bobrovsky seemed strong in Recreation 6, when Florida misplaced 5-1. Two of these Edmonton targets had been empty-netters.
“We had been type to him; we did not give him a short-handed breakaway to begin the sport,” Maurice stated. “I assumed that was good of us. We minimize down on these for him and gave him an opportunity. We’ll strive that once more tomorrow.”