Florida Panthers Impress in Stanley Cup Opening Round

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00:00even though we're not fully completed through round number one what has your most impressive

00:03team been so far to you in round number one so far you know this is not shocking but the Florida

00:11Panthers are the most impressive team to me I look at the Eastern Conference and no surprises

00:15you know as much as we joke about the Toronto Maple Leafs I figured they would take care of

00:19the Ottawa Senators and the Capitals and the Hurricanes they won their series in five they

00:24were both heavy favorites certainly the Montreal Canadiens impressed me with their young core they

00:27hung around the Capitals but how can I give you the Canadians as an answer when they won one game

00:32the Oilers beating the Kings again is not really that surprising the Vegas Golden Knights were big

00:39time favorites the a lot of people had the Tampa Bay Lightning is a chalky Stanley Cup squad that

00:44they would go back to the finals this year and I had Florida I actually have Florida going back to

00:50the finals this year for a third straight season so the reason I say that they're the most impressive

00:54because down the stretch of the season people were just counting them out they were looking at the

00:59odds and saying ah they probably shouldn't be that short they haven't looked good down the stretch

01:04they're banged up no Matthew Kachuk no Aaron Ekblad due to a suspension Barkoff doesn't look right

01:09Carter Verhage is you know not scoring like he usually does and they flipped a switch and they look like

01:16the champs and they dominated a really good Tampa Bay Lightning team they took care of them

01:21in five games so that is the most impressive team to me we don't see a lot of three-peats we haven't

01:27seen it in quite some time in the NHL we were talking about it come Super Bowl time never happens

01:31so very impressive you have to respect what we've seen from the Panthers so far

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