NHL 2022-23 Playoffs RD 1: Boston (A1) vs. Florida (WC2) - (Florida wins series 4-3)

[SaucyJack]

“Walt” Tkachuk!  Good Kitty!!

 

Let’s head back south.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Panthers stave off elimination.
Congrats to them.

I hope the Bolts took notes...

[SaucyJack]

2 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

hope the Bolts took notes

Is it good or bad for Tampa Bay that the Isles and Panthers survived elimination in the past 24 hours?

 

good?  Omen for their survival tomorrow

 

bad? Now they are on the schneid for possibly being the first eliminee this year

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 minute ago, SaucyJack said:

Is it good or bad for Tampa Bay that the Isles and Panthers survived elimination in the past 24 hours?

 

good?  Omen for their survival tomorrow

 

bad? Now they are on the schneid for possibly being the first eliminee this year

 

Well, if they ARE the first elimination, it wouldn't surprise me...like I've said many times before....when the Lightning do things, they go big.
Come back big, win big.....and fail big too.

No wishy washy candy ass in-between crap for those guys.  

[Math]

Thanks Ullmark for your brain cramp. Because of you, the Wild-Stars game #6 is now scheduled at 8:30 CT. Damnit!

[Jimtown guy]

41 minutes ago, Math said:

Thanks Ullmark for your brain cramp. Because of you, the Wild-Stars game #6 is now scheduled at 8:30 CT. Damnit!

My exact sentiments 

[Brewin Flames]

Panthers beat Bruins 4-3 in Game 5 OT to avoid elimination

 

 

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Matthew Tkachuk scores in OT to send series back to Florida

Matthew Tkachuk's overtime goal sends the series back to Florida for Game 6.

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ByAP

Updated: 6 hours ago

BOSTON -- — The Florida Panthers watched Bruins forward Brad Marchand skate in alone on goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, with the seconds ticking away in the third period of a 3-3 game.

If Marchand scores, Florida's season is over.

 

“I knew it wasn’t going in,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said, before admitting that he was lying. "You can't know that it wasn't going in, so I'm full of (it) when I just said that to you.

 

“But I don’t feel like we’ve had a whole lot of advantage in this series, in the karma of the game,” Maurice said after Bobrovsky's save with 1 second left sent the game into overtime, where Matthew Tkachuk won it. “I just felt that we had stored enough karma that that shot wouldn’t go in.”

 

Tkachuk scored six minutes into overtime, and Bobrovsky stopped 44 shots to help the Panthers beat the Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night and force their first-round playoff series back to Florida for a sixth game.

 

One game after Bruins goalie Linus Ullmark tried to fight Tkachuk, the Panthers forward took advantage of Ullmark’s sloppy puck play behind the net to cut Boston's lead in the best-of-seven series to 3-2.

 

“A little bit of pinball and it somehow got right on my stick. I made sure to put it home,” Tkachuk said. “Bob made a hell of a save, otherwise our season's over. ... Things happen fast in playoffs.”

 

Anthony Duclair, Sam Bennett and Sam Reinhart also scored — each one giving the Panthers a lead. Tkachuk also drew a penalty and then assisted on the power-play goal that gave Florida a 3-2 lead five minutes into the third period.

 

After Boston tied it — and Bobrovsky preserved the lead — Marchand's pass to Pavel Zacha at the point in the Florida zone skidded all the way down the ice and behind the Boston net. Ullmark carelessly played it right to Carter Verhaeghe in the corner; he shot it off Ullmark's leg, and it bounced to Tkachuk in the slot.

 

He flipped it over to his backhand and beat the badly out of position goalie.

 

“That guy is a — and then you put a long string of profanity — gamer,” Maurice said. “He’s just a gamer. Use your own words.”

 

Game 6 is Friday night in Sunrise, Florida, where Boston won twice already this series to push the Panthers to the brink of elimination. The Presidents' Trophy winners had not lost back-to-back home games all season.

 

“We’re supposed to get swept in the series, right? Everyone’s saying? So I don’t think anybody really gave us a chance after losing two games in a row and at home and coming here,” Tkachuk said. “It just seemed like the series was over before that game even started. ... It comes down to: We don't want our season to end.”

 

Patrice Bergeron scored in his return from an injury, and Ullmark stopped 21 shots for the Bruins. Marchand and Taylor Hall had the other goals for Boston, which rallied from 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 deficits to force overtime.

 

The Bruins' loss came one night after the Celtics lost a Game 5 in the same building, blowing a chance to advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs.

 

“It's always hard to close it out,” Ullmark said. "A team's going to play for their lives and their season. We've got to be better for the next one. Including me. I'm guilty of that as well."

 

It was 2-1 Florida when Bergeron tied it five seconds into a Boston power play, tipping Marchand’s shot into the net. Seconds later, Tkachuk drew a hooking penalty on Jakub Lauko, and Reinhart quickly put the Panthers back in front.

 

With about 10 minutes left in regulation, though, Hall fought for a puck in the slot, turned and wristed it into the net to tie the game 3-3. The Panthers earned a faceoff in the Boston zone with 8 seconds left. Marchand poked the puck free and chased it down, breaking free down the ice.

Bobrovsky, who did not play in the series until Alex Lyon fell behind 3-0 in Game 3, turned Marchand aside with 1 second left on the clock.

 

“I felt that the pressure needed to be on Sergei to play this game,” Maurice said. “The leaders carry the weight of your team. He needed to carry that weight, and he was brilliant.”

[Buffalo Rick]

Maybe Boston is being softened up by Florida for the Leafs to beat them?  To me the East will come down to Boston vs Toronto.

[Brewin Flames]

And we are going to game # 7

 

 

[Buffalo Rick]

OMG!   Now Boston must win game 7!  I still pick the Leafs to beat Tampa and now a big shot to get to finals.  Boston did not want this.  I am surprised.  I do not think Florida is that good 

 

[flyercanuck]

3 hours ago, Hockey Junkie said:

 Boston did not want this. 

 

 

 

[Buffalo Rick]

5 hours ago, Brewin Flames said:

And we are going to game # 7

 

 

Just bewildered by this.  

[pilldoc]

16 minutes ago, Hockey Junkie said:

Just bewildered by this.  

Sometimes the Bear gets you and sometimes you get the Bear 

[Buffalo Rick]

1 minute ago, pilldoc said:

Sometimes the Bear gets you and sometimes you get the Bear 

I think the Bear gets them in game 7.  

[pilldoc]

20 minutes ago, Hockey Junkie said:

I think the Bear gets them in game 7.  

 

we shall see ...should be an interesting game 7....

 

Does the President's Cup curse continue?  Inquiring minds want to know ...

[Brewin Flames]

1 hour ago, pilldoc said:

 

we shall see ...should be an interesting game 7....

 

Does the President's Cup curse continue?  Inquiring minds want to know ...

 

 

Ullmark has been less than Ullmark, and KT is killing them....

 

 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

8 minutes ago, Brewin Flames said:

 

 

Ullmark has been less than Ullmark, and KT is killing them....

 

 

 

When you've really let your team down, send them a card....say you are sorry...say it...with an Ullmark...  

 

[Brewin Flames]

1 hour ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

When you've really let your team down, send them a card....say you are sorry...say it...with an Ullmark...  

 

 

 

That is awesome, funny, but not.

 

Last night, i stared at the TV in silence, while my wife slammed the remote on the floor and let out a string of foul mouthed words a mile long, turned off all the lights and went to bed, leaving me alone in the dark.

 

Damn Bruins....

[pilldoc]

1 hour ago, Brewin Flames said:

 

 

Ullmark has been less than Ullmark, and KT is killing them....

 

 

goes back to whatI posted at the beginning of the thread…..

 

However .... Ullmark’s only playoff experience was last season when he played poorly against Carolina and lost the net for the rest of the series after Game 2.

[pilldoc]

1 hour ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

When you've really let your team down, send them a card....say you are sorry...say it...with an Ullmark...  

 

Oh my…. That is too funny!!!!

 

Well done!!! LOL

[pilldoc]

3 minutes ago, Brewin Flames said:

 

 

That is awesome, funny, but not.

 

Last night, i stared at the TV in silence, while my wife slammed the remote on the floor and let out a string of foul mouthed words a mile long, turned off all the lights and went to bed, leaving me alone in the dark.

 

Damn Bruins....

been there!

[Brewin Flames]

5 minutes ago, pilldoc said:

been there!

 

 

Not sure what shocked me more...the fact that they had a late lead a blew it, or the f-bomb laced rant that came out of the Mrs. usually calm, collected Mrs.

 

Sent the cat haulling ass down the hall with her outburst, while i meandered down a dark hallway to the bedroom. When i got there and crawled into bed, she sternly informed me that she would not watch game # 7.

 

It sucks to get emotionally involved with hockey, you go to bed crushed.

[pilldoc]

1 hour ago, Brewin Flames said:

 

 

Not sure what shocked me more...the fact that they had a late lead a blew it, or the f-bomb laced rant that came out of the Mrs. usually calm, collected Mrs.

 

Sent the cat haulling ass down the hall with her outburst, while i meandered down a dark hallway to the bedroom. When i got there and crawled into bed, she sternly informed me that she would not watch game # 7.

 

It sucks to get emotionally involved with hockey, you go to bed crushed.

 

The LOL reaction is not that the Bruins lost but rather your household scene.  Years ago my wife went to bed when I was throwing soft objects at our TV when the Flyers lost to the Hawks and Leaky Leighton let in that horrible goal.  Fast forward years later as I now chuckle when I see her get upset when the Dolphins lose. (she likes the NFL Miami Dolphins).

 

And like your wife .... Mrs. pilldoc is pretty calm herself but man does she hate the Patriots ...LOL

 

So yes...I totally get .....

 

PS ... I am very lucky my wife loves baseball / football / and hockey...

 

 

 

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

@Brewin Flames

Well, since I honestly don't care for either the Bruins or the Panthers, whichever gets disappointed more won't phase me either way.
In that way, I think I know how Flyers fans feel about the Devils- NY Rangers series.
And yea, I know the "crushed feeling" you describe. Felt it with the Wild yesterday.....will see what happens with the Lightning a bit later on.

But, since SOMEONE in the FLA-BOS series HAS to win, here is me congratulating the winner  

[Brewin Flames]

10 hours ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

@Brewin Flames

Well, since I honestly don't care for either the Bruins or the Panthers, whichever gets disappointed more won't phase me either way.
In that way, I think I know how Flyers fans feel about the Devils- NY Rangers series.
And yea, I know the "crushed feeling" you describe. Felt it with the Wild yesterday.....will see what happens with the Lightning a bit later on.

But, since SOMEONE in the FLA-BOS series HAS to win, here is me congratulating the winner  

 

 

So you went to bed "double crushed"