Road to a Repeat! The Florida Panthers are back on the ice tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs! We get some insight from our resident polar bear Niko Mikkola and Paul Maurice on Matthew Tkachuk.
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00:14panthers game five tonight seven o'clock is your puck drop panthers getting after we will see if
00:26there is any chicanery after what happened at the end or maybe good that a couple of days have gone
00:31by cooler heads may prevail we will see we will see what uh what goes down tonight as this critical
00:37game five a swing game in the series some may say so far every home team has won well the series hasn't
00:44started yet correct the series has not started yet leroy the series although it felt very much like
00:49it started in overtime game three because that oh that was terrifying you always have those one
00:56or two games where you either lose them or you get out of it and you just take a deep breath and go
01:03and that was one of those games niko mikola he spoke to the media yesterday and we will hear what the
01:15finnish mauler had to say on uh the whole game situation what did he have to say yesterday marcos
01:22wow scary ferocious
01:34well he's a polar bear yes i mean he is a polar bear on skates that's what i thought is there any way
01:43we can figure because i'd like to know what he said that that felt a little i don't i don't speak
01:49polar bear so i don't know what that i don't know what the hell just happened there uh that's fair i
01:53do have a software i just installed into the computer to see if i just run
01:57all right it's ready okay so what did that what did niko mikola say in english yeah i think we're a good
02:12road team and uh we need to steal one from their building that's that's the name of the game and
02:19yeah just do our thing and play our game so i think we don't have to change too much
02:26wow wow wow insight from a polar bear he's right they do have to steal one
02:33thank god for well said all right what else did he have to say uh yesterday at the uh the press
02:38conference yeah
02:39my fault those teeth are terrifying it sounds at first it's like oh is this a lion and then
02:49afterwards it gets a little is he eating a fish right there on the podium seems a little weird
02:54perfect uh yeah we've been talking about it like their dynamic team with a lot of skill and speed
03:10that we need to have a good caps and uh it's starting from the fourth second how we put the
03:17box deep and uh i think we managed to do that pretty well last game so yeah happy with that
03:24definitely a game they look the most like the panthers in the last game but my god somebody
03:30get him a fish and get him off that podium he's hungry he's hungry
03:35i feel bad for any any maple leaf that has to go against that terrifying polar bear listen
03:48niko mikola there's a guy with a target on his back you know who we're looking for
03:54we're probably taking a uh gloves off as soon as the soon as a whistle blows i mean we see
04:00schmithan says mikola should skate around holding a giant glass of coca-cola
04:05oh no niko mikola in the bounty box he's just sitting there
04:12what do you think the polar bear is more known for coca-cola or the icy
04:17i'm gonna go coca-cola it seems like a bigger drink though i do because where do you get the
04:23icy anymore like the movies is that the only place that has it yeah i think like the official
04:27icy because you know the official icy i feel like is that a uh is that is that a movie theater and no
04:32place else but that's the thing though it's always been the polar bear remember they used to have them
04:36in the stores and you collect the little tabs to get a free one no i don't remember for icies or
04:42or coca-cola icies really yeah yeah he's from the daiquiri place though you can't trust him
04:48what a lot of icy drinks over there daiquiri daiquiri there's a daiquiri shop named down every
04:54corner in new orleans i miss a daiquiri bar man yeah oh remember the one in uh hard rock yeah they
05:00had a wet willies at the improv right there at the corner amy a point does the dania one have a
05:06wet willies yeah it has that well 14 north they kind of changed the name oh it's not what willies
05:10anymore is wet willies still on south beach no i kind of feel like or is wet willies gone wet
05:15willies is on the way out dude anything that you like hooters on the way out wet willies cc's pizza
05:21there's so many things that are like on the way by the way i went to cc's pizza years ago yeah it's
05:28garbage yeah well it's gone now so you're right is cc's pizza done i think there's like one in four
05:34i saw yesterday there was an article about all the subways closing oh that hurts my heart
05:38where am i gonna get my chicken teriyaki i don't know oh e sims says polar bears sound like death
05:43and i use the chicken part loosely
05:45yeah you know when i quit going to subway
05:54when somebody before me got tuna he sims also says what about the klondike bar
06:00very strong that's a bowler bear right there that's yeah so we needed to calm nico mikola down
06:07do you think we go klondike bar yeah coca-cola in a glass bottle icy or an actual fish or tranquilizer
06:16gun i think you go first you start with the salmon that seems to be their comfort food no way do you
06:26think like all the fins go out for for a dinner out on la solace and mr la solace of course anton
06:31lundell as he's referred to by matthew kachuk that's right you think he says well get my friend
06:36here oh salmon and like they try and bring him the filet and he's like you have to give him the actual
06:42whole fish
06:43that is scary
06:48good luck austin matthews good luck dude uh we also got some news from paul maurice on matthew
06:57kachuk this is what he had to say on how kachuk is feeling i think his game last game was his best
07:03i think his last three games that he's played have been the best that he's played in the playoffs
07:09i think he has an incredible ability to adapt his game and i think he was doing that in the tampa
07:15series almost straight through the tampa series uh but he is back i i thought last night i didn't
07:22look i didn't see him adapting his game last night it'd be glimpses from the bench real move
07:28differently or release a puck earlier or do something or give himself another foot of ice just
07:35to cover off a change in direction something like that and then i didn't see any of that
07:40last night so i think he's back and right there you go well good news some people were concerned
07:46about kachuk and now he was looking early in the series but uh paul maurice says no he's he's he's
07:53all the way back and he did look good the last game and also was talking a lot of bleep on the end of
07:57the bench like oh my goodness this feels like a kachuk chicanery night love it a lot of smiling
08:03while people are piling up on him with the mouth guard and he goes gotcha major penalty for you guys
08:09idiots that's just like they play this game for jokes right like they're like messing with kachuk
08:20and and the thing is the other guy's yelling and he's serious and kachuk smiling yep like
08:26rent free buddy rent free
08:31rent free