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SUNRISE, Fla. – There was an unintended help from one of the referees. There was a almost perfect efficiency from a novice goalie making his veryfirst playoff start. And there was no sense of panic.
Toronto is going house – for another videogame, not to start the offseason.
Joseph Woll stopped 24 shots in his veryfirst playoff start, Mitch Marner and William Nylander had the objectives and the Maple Leafs staved off removal by whipping the Florida Panthers 2-1 in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Wednesday night.
“It was a quite remarkable videogame to get put into,” Woll stated.
Another quite remarkable possibility waitsfor Friday, when Game 5 will be on Toronto’s ice.
Sam Reinhart scored for Florida, which got 23 conserves from Sergei Bobrovsky. The Panthers still lead the series 3-1, though their franchise-playoff-record six-game winning streak is now over
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“We lost a videogame today. That occurs in the playoffs,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice stated. “We’re excellent. We’re OK. We get to play the next one. I believe we’re all great with that. It wasn’t so fantastic a win that they’re not going to let us play the next one.”
Nylander was the recipient of an odd bounce for a power-play rating in the 2nd duration, Marner scored midway through the 3rd and Woll did the rest as he took the location of hurt starter Ilya Samsonov.
“We lost a videogame today. That occurs in the playoffs,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice stated. “We’re excellent. We’re OK. We get to play the next one. I believe we’re all excellent with that. It wasn’t so incredible a win that they’re not going to let us play the next one.”
Nylander was the recipient of an odd bounce for a power-play rating in the 2nd duration, Marner scored midway through the 3rd and Woll did the rest as he took the location of hurt starter Ilya Samsonov.
Woll, who turns 25 on July 12, was bidding to endedupbeing the youngest Toronto goalie to have a playoff nothing consideringthat Felix Potvin – then 23 – stopped 42 shots to beat Chicago 3-0 on May 9, 1995.
He was 7: 47 away from pulling it off.
Reinhart – who had the OT winner in Game 3 – took a fast pass from Matthew Tkachuk and discovered a method to simply get the puck through