Florida Panthers Struggle On Road Trip and Are Really Banged Up, Worried or Gearing Up For Playoffs?

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Tobin and Leroy talk state of the Cats with their losses over the weekend. They have a pile of injuries. Paul Maurice gave some of his key players rest days instead of closing out the road trip. Matthew Tkachuk teases his return.

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00:09Your Florida Panthers been a bumpy road to repeat right now. Oh my goodness

00:18So I

00:20Was preparing for the game because

00:24That was my gonna be like my ride home, right

00:27Turn on the TV turn on the radio put it on my car and then I hear these words

00:36Here's who's out for the Panthers roof. I'm like, holy smokes

00:43Yep, they had a very big graphic for yesterday was a national TV game

00:47And they put on it Matthew could Chuck out with the groin

00:50Matthew could Chuck out with the groin Aaron Eckblad suspended to meet you Kulikov upper body Nico Sturm upper body

00:58Alexander Barkov upper body and then Paul Marie's just basically said to the end of the road trip

01:03You know what Sam Bennett Sam Reinhardt goose for Gustav Forsling. Just sit. We'll play some young guys up from the checkers

01:12Do you feel like they're kind of like, you know what it doesn't matter as long as we get in I will be fine

01:17Well, I think they really need to get healthy. They need to get healthy

01:21I think that they're ending basically with all home games in one Tampa game

01:25I think that they were done with this road trip. I think I had some brutal road trips about and and very rarely

01:32like

01:34You've never heard suppose say this

01:37But very rarely. Do you hear a coach?

01:40Talk about the toll that is putting on his players

01:43With the back-to-backs on the road and then long road trips and stuff like that

01:49He's been kind of saying that all year. Hmm that my guys are giving effort. We're just going down

01:54he said that a number of times so I'm just kind of sitting back and like

02:00You know

02:02Everybody to be healthy

02:03But that you know, it's also they haven't won a game in regulation in

02:08What almost three weeks right, you know like so yes, right hanged up but also have blown some games

02:16You have not been able to close games out in typical Panthers fashion

02:20And and honestly like can't score like that's the other thing is that that some of it

02:27I think is bad luck. Like I think you know, you looked at like Saturday's game and I mean, holy hell

02:32I mean, they they it was a fire. It was a

02:36Firestorm in front of the net none of them will go in Anton Forsberg at a 40 point 40 save shut out against them and

02:43They lose a game Bob

02:46Bob only sees 21 shots. They lose 19 saves

02:49They lose three nothing. So

02:52You know like there is yes, there is a little bit of

02:56They can't seem to bang in pucks right now. Part of it is they're having to mix lines together

03:02They're trying to mix together the power play. They don't have guys in there

03:05You know, I guess the only positive about it is like Sam Miscavige is getting a ton of experience out here

03:10he seems like he's been playing red-hot, but

03:12You know, they really haven't gotten Martian going either

03:16It's been uh, it's been a rough one man. It's been it's been a rough go of it

03:20They got a big one coming up tomorrow against the Leafs

03:23If they're gonna have any late rally, although it seems pretty I think there's six back right now with five to play

03:30Not impossible, but it's uh, it would take a hell of a run to make this happen and Toronto falling off

03:38Marcos what did you put out here?

03:41I'm scared to say anything now because Google but I promise I'm doing my best to look it up if this is correct

03:46Which I believe it is Panthers have traveled the second most miles this season once the season said and done

03:52They should be somewhere around 51,000 miles. Does that include Finland? I

03:56Believe so. Yes, it does include Finland when I saw an article and the only other team to do more is the Dallas Stars

04:04Hmm, and they also went to Finland. It's probably why it's seeing their record

04:1150 and 22 at the moment

04:1322 and 5 and was

04:1644 29 and 4

04:21It's been it's like if

04:23Not to mention you just coming off of a seven game finals

04:30Yep. Yeah, so

04:33Well two trips. I mean they're trying to make their third trip to the to the final like this is you know

04:38but this is the thing with them is

04:41You're gonna give them the benefit of the doubt because they are a champion and they have been far

04:46And I think they deserve that and I think that everybody who's in there, you know, this is gonna be an East

04:50That's gonna be pretty tough pretty tough, but I think also doesn't mean we can't be nervous

04:56Yeah, yeah, I think and I think mostly it's with the you know, the question marks with bringing in, you know

05:06Is everybody gonna just drop out of the sky and be ready to roll like you would like them playing a little bit better

05:11Going into it and you'd feel better about infiltrating kachuk and infiltrating Aaron Eckblad if you were playing a little smoother

05:19One of the things I appreciate about

05:21Paul Maurice

05:23He never confuses playing well or poorly on wins and losses and

05:30so

05:32When I hear him talk

05:35It kind of gives me a better feeling of where the team is

05:39Mm-hmm, right because he'll tell you I didn't like the way we did this. I don't like this and

05:45Or he'll say look we're playing good hockey

05:49We're just you know coming up a little bit short. He'll say that and it'll make me feel better

05:53The good news is this was kind of goosey's. All right, one piece of good news

05:58The Panthers did officially clinch the playoffs. So that's that piece of business is done

06:01Not the surprise, but they did officially do it this weekend. And when they did it, that's when he didn't play everybody

06:08Matthew kachuk posts on Instagram

06:13Soon I was like

06:19You can't play before the playoffs

06:24What is he saying

06:26We know this no, no, no, no, but like people. Hey, was he gonna be back? Is he gonna be under that Matthew kachuk?

06:33Hey, just guess you were wondering. He's just like knock-knock. I was there

06:38We got a new we got a newcomer

06:41under Spartan

06:43Tobin is mac and cheese sandwiches

06:46I

06:59Tell you what damn those little mac and cheese balls because I gotta be honest. Oh, man

07:04You know, this is viral chick-fil-a hack. They tell you to put the mac and cheese on the chicken sandwich

07:08Hmm, thanks too much too much. That's what I feel for your eyes

07:12I'll tell you what. I did find the one with the pimento cheese

07:17Tasty and I don't like pimento cheese at all. But which you know, it pimento cheese is famous for right? Oh

07:24Yes, the Masters the Masters

07:27They have pimento pimento cheese sandwiches for like $2. This is our week. By the way, dude

07:32We got UFC Miami week and we got a Masters week. Yep

07:38What a week what a week but Matthew kachuk posts

07:42soon, I

07:45Don't know if it was in that tone, but that's how I read it

07:49Yeah, but you already know the parameters of his return

07:54So what does that mean? Just get ready because I think if any Panthers fan was worried like oh, he's not gonna be ready

08:01He's that now he's letting you know

08:03soon

08:05Why wouldn't that excite you I mean it does but I always thought that he was going to

08:13return

08:14for the playoffs

08:20The heat-clenched cheeks

08:25We'll take a break

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