Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers will do See you In the Stanley Cup playoffs, now there are many familiar faces in New Jersey with Home-Ice Advantage.
Advanced after Toronto 4-2 series win Above Ottawa Senators, while panthers finished Tampa Bay LightningFive gamesGame 1 is set on ET at 8 pm on Monday night in Toronto.
Leafs Head Coach Craig Berubub accepted The further challenge as his team is set to face the defending champion.
“They are clearly Stanley Cup Champs, so they are a very good team,” said Barub. “They have found a lot of good pieces, they are difficult to play. You know, I can move forward further, but it’s not yet time.”
Florida Panthers Center Sam Bennett (9) fights with Toronto Maple Leafs Center Max Domi (11) during a game at Scotiabank Arena.
Paul Maurice, the head coach of the panthers, who once did leafs coaching 2006 to 2008Praise during Toronto’s high-end talentA radio interviewOn Friday on “The Joe Rose Show”.
“They have found four or five of these world class people [their] The hands are not like anyone else, “Mauris said.” So there is a skill level that these people have that they are dangerous all the time. ,
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Although he praised his opponent, Maurice also broadly talked about the rest of the competition level in the playoffs, making it clear that there was no easy rival left in the dispute.
“You are going down to the top eight teams at NHL,” said Maurice. “I don’t think there is a cinderella story left here. These are all elite teams. They have met all the people who can score, skate, fight.
“So it will be a very, very hard, tight chain.”
Florida won Three of four regular-season meetings This campaign between panthers and leafs, and defeated Leafs in five matches during his 2023 second-round matchup.
Panthers have won five straight playoff series and have moved forward in the Stanley Cup final. Each of the last two yearsWinning it last season.
Toronto, meanwhile, only advanced for the first round Second timeThe conference in 2004 in 20 years after the semi -final visit.
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