Florida Panthers Dominate at Home with Strong Defense and Goals
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00:03Florida, the series favorite,
00:05favorite in both of the two games in sunrise.
00:08They win on home ice.
00:09Maybe we expected that,
00:11but three goal margins in both.
00:13How surprised were you, Casey?
00:16I wasn't entirely too surprised.
00:18I know that a lot of people worry about swinging
00:20with the favorites too quick out the gate,
00:22but again, the Florida Panthers,
00:24stronger defense, stronger goaltending,
00:26and then they just showed that actually they can score
00:29heading into this series matchup.
00:31They only had about a tenth of a goal less
00:33than the Oilers in this high octane offense
00:36that everyone has talked about.
00:37I think the bigger narrative was,
00:39what is Conor McDavid going to do in this situation?
00:41And while he's trying to throw his team on his back,
00:43we have seen the Florida Panthers minimize the role
00:46of X-Factors from the Lightning to the Bruins
00:49to the Rangers and the top scoring line in the NHL.
00:52So I think I was expecting them to rise to the occasion
00:55and they've done just that.
00:56And they showed that game one was not a karmic fluke.
00:58As Conor McDavid kind of tried to point out
01:00from how they ended up closing out
01:02their Western Conference Series
01:04to how the Florida Panthers took game one.