from George Richards of Florida Hockey Now,
The Florida Panthers waited until Monday night to bring their very best against the Lightning in their playoff series.
It still was not good enough.
Hard to imagine the Panthers playing any better than they did in Game 4 — only goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy was unbeatable.
He was the difference on Monday — and in the series.
Now, the Panthers’ best season in their history is over.
Tampa Bay, despite getting outshot and outplayed by the Panthers throughout, got a goal from Pat Maroon in front of the net and that was enough to lift the Lightning to a 2-0 win and a four-game sweep of Florida.
“I thought it was the best game we played as a 60-minute game,” coach Andrew Brunette said.
“It looked like us and I’m not sure if our backs were that far against the wall, there was no pressure, but we played like we played all year tonight. That wasn’t always the case in the other nine games. We showed flashes of it, but the 60-minute game at that pace looked like us.”
from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,
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