And now the Cup final, hockey 🤷‍♂️

more salt for flame nation:
Sam Bennett was traded to the Florida Panthers with a sixth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames for forward prospect Emil Heineman and a second-round pick in 2022...

The first round he scored the OT winner in game 5 when Bob wasn’t at this level yet. Just had one of the most clutch series performances in NHL history . 2 OT winners and the game winner with 4 sec left. It’s close but Tkachuk deserves it.

Hurricanes have been swept in 3 straight ECF (2009, 2019, 2023)

They should take warning

He scores and Zito is on the unemployment line and not GM of the Year line...

Without Tkachuk they wouldn’t have made it out of the 1st rd

To me if they were 100% healthy things might have been more interesting. That said they still got work to do

Sure but without bob they dont make it out of second and third rounds

That man is piggy backing them rn as look at his goals saved above whatever percentage

Hes playing like 2019 Bob who swept Tampa heck one could argue better.

If Bob is league average none of Tkachuks goals mean anything. The only reason these are one goal games is because Bob has been brilliant.

To me Bobs the fav. That man carried them past 2 rounds

Now how will he fair vs playoff eichel

Face it Einstein:
It's all the PENGUINS fault...

Can we go further and say its Burke and Hextall's fault for making a bad team

Is a close sweep an oxymoron?

Bob has been elite, but he was average tonight.

Any team that makes a deep run gets elite goaltending. But Bob isn’t singlehandedly carrying the panthers. Its a narrative used just to call the panthers lucky and imply they don’t deserve to get this far

Playoff Eichel vs. Bob is gonna be interesting

You can make the same argument about Tkachuk.

Boston 1st in the league.
Caroline 2nd in the league.
Toronto 4th in the league.
Vegas 5th on the league.

Florida finished 17th in the league. Behind Calgary.

The Hurricanes all series were missing a game-changing power forward, one that is able to stand up to the semi-legal and illegal physicality of the playoffs, has a scoring touch, speed, skill, and a great shot. A big scoring specialist who could pick corners against Bobrovsky and help the powerplay would also have been nice, and I want to believe that Slavin defends the third Florida goal better than Ghost.

Even with all of that, they lost four incredibly close and exhilarating games that were decided by luck (including officiating, which I mostly consider luck) and Bobrovsky having possibly the best playoff series of a goaltender since... a long time ago.

It hurts right now, but this is further than I expected this Canes team to make it this year, and they didn't throw away a pile of futures chasing the 2023 Cup like the Rangers, Bruins, and Leafs did. They'll be back next year, and they might have to go all-in because of their contract situations.

Injuries were a **** for them. They really could have used Patches of Svechnikov on the PP

But u can also throw blame at management for being to conservative at the TDL (Ghost and JP really)

Couldnt have went and got Vrana or something

Gonna be an interesting offseason for them thats for sure

That was game 5, not 4.

Yes, Shukri knows that now

Tom Wilson ain’t goin to Carolina

Canes would have swept if the panthers had Huberdeau. Guy cared more about the Florida lifestyle than winning

Nah if they had this version of bob nobody is stopping FLA. The guys playing unreal hockey and is keeping his team's Cinderella run alive. Only 2ga since r2 with the exception of tonight. Without Tkachuck they dont get out of R1 will give them that. R2 and 3 almost all bob especially r2

That is just not true. Huberdeau was brutal in the playoffs.

Tkachuk had 3 game winning goals in round 3. To say it would have gone the same with Huberdeau is complete wishful thinking or ignorance