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The Florida Panthers Can't Afford To Go Down 0-2 To The Washington Capitals

05/05/2022 at 9:59am EDT

from Dave Hyde of the South Florida SunSentinel,

Here’s the lesson: It’s different in playoff hockey. More physical. Less scoring. Cut the cute from your play and keep everything direct and simple in your game in the manner interim coach Andrew Burnette talks.

“We kind of self-destructed,” Burnette said of the Panthers’ rough third period.

No franchise has more at stake these playoffs than the Panthers. It’s not just how they looked in the regular season, scoring at will, entertaining like the Harlem Globetrotters some nights and delivering the best season not just in the league but in their sad-sack history.

It’s also what these playoffs can do for this sagging franchise. It can make them relevant in South Florida. It can give them the kind of bandwagon boost they desperately need.

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