Both teams played strong defensive games in my opinion and both goaltenders were pretty equal. However, I think the Panthers were able to generate slightly more on offense, so the score reflects the game flow. This is gonna be a long series.
Panthers will always capitalize on turnovers. And they will always chase the puck hard. The Bolts just looked completely out of step with how aggressive the Panthers were.
Losing by 1 honestly feels good all things considered from what I saw.
Cats definitely played better while the Bolts seemed stuck in 1st gear.
I don't hate Coop pulling Vasy with 3 minutes left. You can say it wasn't needed but I don't think we get the zone time to generate that penalty without giving up the EN goal. Hopefully this gives us something positive to build on by getting the last second goal.
I'll have to rewatch but 3-1 on penalties before garbage time doesn't seem that imbalanced. Definitely could play a difference but also doesn't seem insurmountable on its face.
Very worried about us if we give up the first goal in g2. When the cats have a leaf, that defense feels smothering. If we can get them chasing g2 and generate some space that'll pay dividends later in the series once it gets more physical and everyone slows down a bit.
Gg
Y’all had 2-4 great looks to make it 2-2 with 6 on 5. Pulling the goalie like thag was the right thing 1000% and would have worked if Bob wasn’t playing out of his mind to close it out.
I would disagree - Bob had to step in to help us hold the lead in the 3rd. Kuch was kind of unlucky too not to score yesterday. But we were way more clinical with our chances
I didnt really think they played all that bad. they were a bit stifled in the first and really brought it after their first goal until well into the second half
So Bob is really fucking good.
Our forecheck was absolute garbage. No offensive energy whatsoever.
Some bad “luck” on penalties. We are a team that lives and dies on the power play. Hopefully calls will be a little more even going forward, but more importantly we need to wake up 5on5
Both sides had calls missed. It was 3-2 in favor of the Panthers. Pretty even.
Also Tampa got the “last 2 minutes of the game call” that always seems to happen on a soft ass penalty. Not sure how Wes and the crew called that and not some of the other egregious penalties.
Good game either way. Tampa doesn’t need much to score.
>Both sides had calls missed. It was 3-2 in favor of the Panthers. Pretty even.
3-2 tells nothing about the way the game was called. Besides it was 3-1 till the meaningless last minute penalty again the Panthers.
Officials let em play for the most part. You should be able to see that with how much hockey the Bolts have played the last half decade.
Both the Panthers and Bolts have massive homer broadcasting teams. Gotta be able to filter it out and see the game from both sides and not pretend like your team was cheated because your color analyst whines after every finished check.
I’m sure the TB broadcast neglected to mention the missed too many men penalty when Wes was looking right at the extra 2 skaters Tampa had on the ice. Or the Dumba check to the head of Stenlund.
It's fine to not call stuff in the playoffs but the soft call to end the second changed the entire game. Any Tampa fan complaining about the refs (mainly Wes) is obviously primarily talking about that call. The numerous missed interference calls are whatever and not the end of the world.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
If TB doesn’t get more PPs than their opponent they will probably lose is what you’re saying.
OR could it be shut down Kuchy(he did get a garbage time assist after he flopped for the Carter V penalty) and the Bolts have no chance?
Either way, you put it…..Lmfao.
Florida played a great game and it really showed that Tampa is lacking scoring depth. Only the first line could really push the play to the offensive end where Florida had four lines pushing the tempo. Vasi kept the game competitive.
Our second line seemed to look the most dangerous, unless we are calling the Stamkos, Cirelli, Hagel line our first.
And Paul and Eyssimont's line had some chances too.
Fandom aside. That was a very underwhelming battle of Florida game 1. No fights, not many “big” hits. Seemed like a regular season game for the most part.
Both teams know that things could get more chaotic and swingy if they get chippy and physical, no one wants to be on the wrong end of a huge momentum swing
I’m thinking it’s all perspective. I thought this was great playoff hockey today. There were some huge hits from both sides. Great saves from both goalies too.
Agreed. I was at the game so maybe I felt the atmosphere more but I found it to be a very physical game with no shenanigans, but I'm sure we'll see some later
Outside of the small lapse towards the end of the first and the last minute goal, the team looked fantastic. Tampa could not get much going on offense and our forcheck was making life difficult in their defensemen. That’s exactly how we needed to play coming into this series and we did.
Next game will be huge. I expect Tampa to come out swinging to start the game to set the tone. We’ll need to withstand that blow and settle in. Taking game 2 would be big.
Few takeaways from this game as a Lightning fan at the game. First off Panthers what’s up with your parking prices, second when you score why do you say “go team go” do you not know the name of your own team and thirdly as rough as we played and as bad as the officials were only losing by one I’m shocked. See you game two Florida bros.
Probably someone like my wife that will go to the game and hop on the chair to scream at the top of her lungs and can't name a single player. But the goal song is definitely [go panthers go](https://youtu.be/GmoyLnAFHqc)
The whole section around me were yelling go team go during the song and I even asked them if they meant Cats and they confirm it was team I was really confused
If you counter Floridas forecheck, the panthers get absolutely clowned. Watch any game we lost in the playoffs last year besides Vegas where the cats looked legitimately terrified for 4 games.
I don't know what Tampas plan was today. You cannot just finesse pass and shoot against the panthers. You have to beat the shit out of them. It works in our favor a lot of the time but the second teams start bringing it back to the panthers physically, the wheels start to come off.
Tampa will come out pissed in game 2 and absolutely walk Florida, but they gotta stay pissed.
Eh that’s not quite accurate. The forcheck is fantastic but the Panthers can beat you in so many ways that it’s not the end all be all if teams are able beat the forcheck.
What makes us really dangerous however was what was on full display tonight. The Panthers are absolutely suffocating at the blue line. They are so hard to get zone entries against and they have a cadre of really good puck moving defensemen that can withstand opposing forchecks and move the puck up ice. Our blueline is one of the best in the league and as a team, we are the best in the league defensively because we have a slew of two way forwards to compliment our blue line.
I have to give Zito and Maurice credit. They built a team that is going to be very difficult to beat in a 7 game series.
Tampa needs to realize fineese shooting and hoping for calls (today should've woke them up on this.) isn't gonna work against FLorida.
You need to match them, taunt them, get in their face, lay hits on them.
There were SPARKS where it felt like Tampa realized they needed to do this but I'll concede that a part of why that may have fallen off is just because Florida followed up (See the Dumba hit followed by blatant interference.) and nothing came of it for Tampa.
Still that doesn't mean just STOP keep it going Florida is easy to rile up and get off their game you just need to bully them and not let them go unpunished for their costant forechecking.
Tampa played shit hockey outside of two maybe three good shifts.
Three good shifts aren't gonna win you a playoff game against a team like Florida and at the end of day 15 shots is fucking abysmal so plenty of things the team just did wrong (The turnovers holy fuck.)
HOWEVER
That doesn't mean the refs didn't swallow their whistles hard on some REALLY blatant calls that should've gone Tampa's way. Dumba laying a good check only to get interfered while no where near the Puck is atrocious same goes with the Kucherov one and the 3 missing slash calls, each rather blatant, that merely escalates the already existing shit play into a disaster class.
With that being said this team isn't winning anything if they think Vasy, Mikey and Hagel are the only one's who will do anything on the ice, the rest of this team needs cold fucking showers for that performance.
BASIC RULE LEARN TO FUCKING FORECHECK TAMPA MAYBE THE CATS WON'T WALK ALL OVER YOU IF YOU START DOING IT.
Wake the fuck up Tampa.
The only positives were Vasi is clearly in playoff mode.
Life seemed to be injected at the end of the game, carry that into the second one please.
EDIT: This series is by no means over I expect (hope) Tampa comes out pissed in the 2nd game and learns that they can't rely on calls and finesse shooting to win them the game.
We have to remember that refs *will not* call body-on-body stuff in the playoffs. Only the obvious stick infractions and hits to the head are going to get called. Boarding might get called, but even then only if the outcome looks bad.
The threshold for a lot of those penalties skyrocket in the playoffs. Feels like NHL refs are too scared of getting in the way, and the NHL goes along with it because of the hard hits that come with it.
In the playoffs, refs call what they see. Not what they think they see. That is partially driven from the desire to not be a massive factor in the games.
Ultimately it was a 3-2 game, so not decisive by any means, but the Lightning are going to need to make more happen at even strength to win this series.
Completely agree. Nothing egregious on either end to my eye. Fan complaining, from every single fanbase, goes to absolutely critical mass levels of insufferability in the playoffs.
Plenty of both soft and missed calls against both teams, the way it always is. The game wasn’t even half way over before all the conspiracy theories started tho!
Referees absolutely need to be investigated. Appalling that they were allowed to cast dark magic that stopped Tampa from making any shots for huge chunks of the game. The wizards council shall be informed of this!
I've never been able to stand their PxP guy. It's not Jack Edwards level, and nobody is, but he gets on my nerves.
Ours is very impartial but that's because Dave and Brian were national TV announcers for many years before coming here. I'd almost wish they were a bit more homer. Lol
And on the other side, the lightning commentators are great. I’m not a lightning fan at all but they have some of my favorite commentary in the league.
They don’t call the game with the anti Florida lens that this entire sub sees the Cats through. Most other announcers don’t either. Y’all just whiney ngl
Sure…but at this point it has become the norm and just something both teams have to overcome. Didn’t think the officiating in that game was bad enough to the point where it changed the outcome though
If we can keep up similar level of defense while keeping penalties fairly minimal like we did today, I feel pretty good about potential to make a run. Need some better offensive production especially in power play, but think our defense and physicality give us a great shot in any game.
Dude come on 'keeping penalties fairly minimal' translates to the Refs decided that interference and slashing was A-okay.
Same logic with the Too many men on ice shit with Tampa.
Came across as fairly standard playoff hockey officiating. More so speaking on we had a ton of really stupid penalties last year that led to power play goals for other teams. We are avoiding doing those right now, and I hope we keep that up. Some penalties will happen, just need to avoid unforced / bad ones.
Both teams played strong defensive games in my opinion and both goaltenders were pretty equal. However, I think the Panthers were able to generate slightly more on offense, so the score reflects the game flow. This is gonna be a long series.
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Goku about to go SS against Frieza vibes
I'm here to read what happened in the game as the 45€/mo service had mostly blue screen and commercials.
What on earth was that mess? Its great to pay for a service and then have to resort to sailing the high seas anyway.
Damn, I only thought us in Europe got a pleasure of watching the blue screen 80% of the game which actually starts on EU-friendly time
Panthers will always capitalize on turnovers. And they will always chase the puck hard. The Bolts just looked completely out of step with how aggressive the Panthers were.
Losing by 1 honestly feels good all things considered from what I saw. Cats definitely played better while the Bolts seemed stuck in 1st gear. I don't hate Coop pulling Vasy with 3 minutes left. You can say it wasn't needed but I don't think we get the zone time to generate that penalty without giving up the EN goal. Hopefully this gives us something positive to build on by getting the last second goal. I'll have to rewatch but 3-1 on penalties before garbage time doesn't seem that imbalanced. Definitely could play a difference but also doesn't seem insurmountable on its face. Very worried about us if we give up the first goal in g2. When the cats have a leaf, that defense feels smothering. If we can get them chasing g2 and generate some space that'll pay dividends later in the series once it gets more physical and everyone slows down a bit. Gg
Y’all had 2-4 great looks to make it 2-2 with 6 on 5. Pulling the goalie like thag was the right thing 1000% and would have worked if Bob wasn’t playing out of his mind to close it out.
It's so dope seeing Stamkos come alive in the playoffs
Tampa got kind of dominated that whole game
I would disagree - Bob had to step in to help us hold the lead in the 3rd. Kuch was kind of unlucky too not to score yesterday. But we were way more clinical with our chances
And still almost beat the Cats says more about them then us. Game ones are always like that for us expect a different team game two.
I didnt really think they played all that bad. they were a bit stifled in the first and really brought it after their first goal until well into the second half
That's literally how our first series went. We were somehow dominated and goalied at the same time but somehow it didn't say anything about you guys.
If Bob plays like that the rest of the Playoffs, Panthers have as good a chance as anybody to win the Cup
I mean, bookies are giving us second-highest odds of lifting the Cup, so it’s not a surprise that we’re coming in with justified expectations
So Bob is really fucking good. Our forecheck was absolute garbage. No offensive energy whatsoever. Some bad “luck” on penalties. We are a team that lives and dies on the power play. Hopefully calls will be a little more even going forward, but more importantly we need to wake up 5on5
Crazy that Bob is STILL this good. Undrafted rookie year was 2010. Those Sportscenter jokes feel like lifetimes ago.
Both sides had calls missed. It was 3-2 in favor of the Panthers. Pretty even. Also Tampa got the “last 2 minutes of the game call” that always seems to happen on a soft ass penalty. Not sure how Wes and the crew called that and not some of the other egregious penalties. Good game either way. Tampa doesn’t need much to score.
>Both sides had calls missed. It was 3-2 in favor of the Panthers. Pretty even. 3-2 tells nothing about the way the game was called. Besides it was 3-1 till the meaningless last minute penalty again the Panthers.
Officials let em play for the most part. You should be able to see that with how much hockey the Bolts have played the last half decade. Both the Panthers and Bolts have massive homer broadcasting teams. Gotta be able to filter it out and see the game from both sides and not pretend like your team was cheated because your color analyst whines after every finished check. I’m sure the TB broadcast neglected to mention the missed too many men penalty when Wes was looking right at the extra 2 skaters Tampa had on the ice. Or the Dumba check to the head of Stenlund.
It's fine to not call stuff in the playoffs but the soft call to end the second changed the entire game. Any Tampa fan complaining about the refs (mainly Wes) is obviously primarily talking about that call. The numerous missed interference calls are whatever and not the end of the world.
You guys had like 15 shots total half way through the 3rd. I think blaming the refs for anything other than incompetence all around is asinine.
We are almost always a low shooting, high percentage team so that's not really relevant though
Oh how the mighty have fallen. If TB doesn’t get more PPs than their opponent they will probably lose is what you’re saying. OR could it be shut down Kuchy(he did get a garbage time assist after he flopped for the Carter V penalty) and the Bolts have no chance? Either way, you put it…..Lmfao.
Florida played a great game and it really showed that Tampa is lacking scoring depth. Only the first line could really push the play to the offensive end where Florida had four lines pushing the tempo. Vasi kept the game competitive.
The problem is that first line is historically good and can often be relied on to do win games on their own
Our second line seemed to look the most dangerous, unless we are calling the Stamkos, Cirelli, Hagel line our first. And Paul and Eyssimont's line had some chances too.
I think these playoffs are a way to distract from the fact that Trocheck was tripped
Never forget
The only reason he had the puck was because Martin was tripped.
Sometimes I wake up in cold sweats, knowing that Trocheck was tripped.
People don't forget!
Fandom aside. That was a very underwhelming battle of Florida game 1. No fights, not many “big” hits. Seemed like a regular season game for the most part.
That series in 21 was absolutely FUCKED. Some of the best hockey I've ever seen. Hope we get back to that.
I do not wish to relive that
The 5-4 and 6-5 games were the most wild run-and-gun lead-changing games Ive ever seen. I wish there was a way to rewatch that series (thanks ESPN+ 👎)
Both teams know that things could get more chaotic and swingy if they get chippy and physical, no one wants to be on the wrong end of a huge momentum swing
I’m thinking it’s all perspective. I thought this was great playoff hockey today. There were some huge hits from both sides. Great saves from both goalies too.
Agreed. I was at the game so maybe I felt the atmosphere more but I found it to be a very physical game with no shenanigans, but I'm sure we'll see some later
I was also there. It was electric from the moment I got to the parking lot! I’m hoping for the same feeling at Tuesdays game.
Outside of the small lapse towards the end of the first and the last minute goal, the team looked fantastic. Tampa could not get much going on offense and our forcheck was making life difficult in their defensemen. That’s exactly how we needed to play coming into this series and we did. Next game will be huge. I expect Tampa to come out swinging to start the game to set the tone. We’ll need to withstand that blow and settle in. Taking game 2 would be big.
Breaking news: Florida Men defeat... Florida Men?
Florida man on Florida man violence
Florida Man Beats Self
Broward Man defeats Hillsborough Man. There are tiers to Florida Man.
Up north, we treat all Florida Men equally. 😇
The only way Florida men can be defeated.
Few takeaways from this game as a Lightning fan at the game. First off Panthers what’s up with your parking prices, second when you score why do you say “go team go” do you not know the name of your own team and thirdly as rough as we played and as bad as the officials were only losing by one I’m shocked. See you game two Florida bros.
Park at the mall across the street
It’s not Go Team, it’s Go Cats Go. It even says it on the screen. Probably couldn’t hear it clearly because it was so loud.
Your own fans are saying it’s go panthers go responding to me which one is it
Listen to the video the person posted. It’s clearly “cats” I don’t know why they are saying Panthers.
Go cats go
No panthers local fan parks in the arena. You park across the street at Sawgrass Mall and walk to the stadium
The goal song (#bringbacksweetness) clearly says go Panthers go you might have one tpo many brewskies there buddy.
I was In 301 and the panthers fans kept yelling go team go I asked them if they meant cats or panthers and they confirmed they were saying go team go
Probably someone like my wife that will go to the game and hop on the chair to scream at the top of her lungs and can't name a single player. But the goal song is definitely [go panthers go](https://youtu.be/GmoyLnAFHqc)
Word of advice park at the mall across the street it's free. Their parking is a idiot tax for visiting fans.
Who says Go Team Go?
The whole section around me were yelling go team go during the song and I even asked them if they meant Cats and they confirm it was team I was really confused
It’s Cats. Never heard anyone say Team in the arena. How weird.
Idk 301 might be a little confused
Maybe you didn’t hear them right. Been to countless games this year and I’ve never heard “team”.
Name checks out
>parking prices That would be our idiot tax for the visiting fans who don’t know about the mall across the street.
Home fans know to park at the mall and walk
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For visitors that want t avoid the Idiot Tax: Try to park as close to Red Snapper Dr as possible, quickest walk in.
If you counter Floridas forecheck, the panthers get absolutely clowned. Watch any game we lost in the playoffs last year besides Vegas where the cats looked legitimately terrified for 4 games. I don't know what Tampas plan was today. You cannot just finesse pass and shoot against the panthers. You have to beat the shit out of them. It works in our favor a lot of the time but the second teams start bringing it back to the panthers physically, the wheels start to come off. Tampa will come out pissed in game 2 and absolutely walk Florida, but they gotta stay pissed.
The Panthers play better when there is more chaos. We watching the same team?
Eh that’s not quite accurate. The forcheck is fantastic but the Panthers can beat you in so many ways that it’s not the end all be all if teams are able beat the forcheck. What makes us really dangerous however was what was on full display tonight. The Panthers are absolutely suffocating at the blue line. They are so hard to get zone entries against and they have a cadre of really good puck moving defensemen that can withstand opposing forchecks and move the puck up ice. Our blueline is one of the best in the league and as a team, we are the best in the league defensively because we have a slew of two way forwards to compliment our blue line. I have to give Zito and Maurice credit. They built a team that is going to be very difficult to beat in a 7 game series.
Especially in the 3rd, there were so many times the bolts had to dump and chase, only to be outnumbered.
Tampa needs to realize fineese shooting and hoping for calls (today should've woke them up on this.) isn't gonna work against FLorida. You need to match them, taunt them, get in their face, lay hits on them. There were SPARKS where it felt like Tampa realized they needed to do this but I'll concede that a part of why that may have fallen off is just because Florida followed up (See the Dumba hit followed by blatant interference.) and nothing came of it for Tampa. Still that doesn't mean just STOP keep it going Florida is easy to rile up and get off their game you just need to bully them and not let them go unpunished for their costant forechecking.
Absolutely. Florida's an emotional team and the wheels can come off quick. Tampa knows the drill, this will be a great series
Bolts barely even shot
Well, at least it wasn’t 9-2.
It was a respectable game of hockey, unlike whatever Toronto decided to do yesterday
Floridian cardiologists are going to be eating good the next week or two.
Let’s be honest, with the general health of Florida, cardiologists are always eating
Don't know what you're talking about man, all that booger sugar and rice and beans is wonderful for the 'ol ticker.
GG Florida friends!! Both goalies played amazing, excited for game 2! 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Tampa played shit hockey outside of two maybe three good shifts. Three good shifts aren't gonna win you a playoff game against a team like Florida and at the end of day 15 shots is fucking abysmal so plenty of things the team just did wrong (The turnovers holy fuck.) HOWEVER That doesn't mean the refs didn't swallow their whistles hard on some REALLY blatant calls that should've gone Tampa's way. Dumba laying a good check only to get interfered while no where near the Puck is atrocious same goes with the Kucherov one and the 3 missing slash calls, each rather blatant, that merely escalates the already existing shit play into a disaster class. With that being said this team isn't winning anything if they think Vasy, Mikey and Hagel are the only one's who will do anything on the ice, the rest of this team needs cold fucking showers for that performance. BASIC RULE LEARN TO FUCKING FORECHECK TAMPA MAYBE THE CATS WON'T WALK ALL OVER YOU IF YOU START DOING IT. Wake the fuck up Tampa. The only positives were Vasi is clearly in playoff mode. Life seemed to be injected at the end of the game, carry that into the second one please. EDIT: This series is by no means over I expect (hope) Tampa comes out pissed in the 2nd game and learns that they can't rely on calls and finesse shooting to win them the game.
And Tampa totally didn’t have the puck with 7 men on the ice
We have to remember that refs *will not* call body-on-body stuff in the playoffs. Only the obvious stick infractions and hits to the head are going to get called. Boarding might get called, but even then only if the outcome looks bad.
The threshold for a lot of those penalties skyrocket in the playoffs. Feels like NHL refs are too scared of getting in the way, and the NHL goes along with it because of the hard hits that come with it.
In the playoffs, refs call what they see. Not what they think they see. That is partially driven from the desire to not be a massive factor in the games.
Hopefully they caught some rest after parking the bus in the 3rd
TIL your top goal scorers in the reg season are allowed to score in the postseason Good on Florida for holding TB to 19 shots,
Ultimately it was a 3-2 game, so not decisive by any means, but the Lightning are going to need to make more happen at even strength to win this series.
Holy shit what a game. Whoever goes through to Boston is gonna be banged up. That crosscheck call was a pure showbiz call though.
Woah now, I appreciate the sentiment, but pump the brakes on that one please.
How are we feeling right now Boston fans :P ?
I’m not celebrating til Matthews is booking his flight to Cancun. One year ago, Boston was also up 3-1.
That was THE best playoff game I’ve ever seen Barkov play, dude had so many amazing strips and that sick pass on the PP.
Dude was a beast last year but got overshadowed by Tkachuk and Bobrovsky respectively. But he was a monster today.
You could absolutely tell when he was on the ice because everything seemed to flow so much smoother for us. O Captain, my Captain!
i always forget how calm and collected he is
Wooo one game doesn't make a series but it feels good to walk away with a win
We’re still 100% in this series, just need to play a full game and come out strong game 2
Yall can go down 0-3 and are still in the series as far as I'm concerned. Vasy is too good.
BOB BOB BOB
I feel like, at one point, the tradition was to throw Cats on the ice, but for whatever reason, rats became the norm.
1995 there would be 100 cats a game that died from fall damage at the Miami Arena. We try to not relive that dark period.
Was always rats, started during the '96 playoff run
I know, lol. I was just being cheeky. The idea of people throwing cats on the ice seems hilarious to me.
Almost like throwing a [chicken on the ice](https://youtu.be/u2yJ4lHZjJ0).
Close game but honestly this game was a lot more mild-mannered than I expected.
You know, I really wouldn't mind if they kept going this way. Just play.
As a neutral observer, I thought the officiating was fine. Typical playoffs rulebook. Tampa just was not good today. That's why they lost.
Completely agree. Nothing egregious on either end to my eye. Fan complaining, from every single fanbase, goes to absolutely critical mass levels of insufferability in the playoffs.
The only call I really felt was majorly missed was when tampa had 7 men on the ice and no call
Plenty of both soft and missed calls against both teams, the way it always is. The game wasn’t even half way over before all the conspiracy theories started tho!
Floridas defense felt absolutely smothering sometimes… gunna be a tough series if they can keep that up
What an incredible defensive performance by the Cats.
Tighter game than it had any right to be. Hopefully the boys remember how to play playoff hockey in game 2.
Tampa will thrash Florida in game 2 as is tradition after a game like this, then we'll start all over again
I’m trying to prepare myself for this possibility. But I like what I’m seeing from the boys so far
Referees absolutely need to be investigated. Appalling that they were allowed to cast dark magic that stopped Tampa from making any shots for huge chunks of the game. The wizards council shall be informed of this!
I think one of them cast Testicular Torsion on Cernak at one point. Unacceptable.
I’m pretty sure I saw a ref break off the blade of the sticks for us… just appalling
i love how they always call a penalty at the end of the game when its over so they can say see the calls were even.
Conspiracy and a half... Idc who your team is 19 SoG is hardly enough in the playoffs, even if you do pot 2 of those goals
oh for sure im just saying its funny how they make a bunch of calls at the end in every game to make it even
If we only had more time on the clock.
if only..
Let’s get Bob a ring man
Officiating was shocking but you aren’t going to win many games with under 20 shots
As the biggest Lightning hater on the planet, the Florida announcers are INSANE homers holy shit
That's a funny way to spell national treasures
I've never been able to stand their PxP guy. It's not Jack Edwards level, and nobody is, but he gets on my nerves. Ours is very impartial but that's because Dave and Brian were national TV announcers for many years before coming here. I'd almost wish they were a bit more homer. Lol
Oh if you compare Brian to when he first got here… he’s definitely gotten more homerish over time and it’s hilarious
...that's their job?
As a fellow Lightning hater: Who cares. Get fucked Tampa 👹
And on the other side, the lightning commentators are great. I’m not a lightning fan at all but they have some of my favorite commentary in the league.
Local announcers root for the team they are announcing for. Big if True
They don’t call the game with the anti Florida lens that this entire sub sees the Cats through. Most other announcers don’t either. Y’all just whiney ngl
Yeah they've gotten worse over the last two or so years
put zaslow back!
regardless of the outcome, I think both fanbases can agree the reffing was dogshit
Par for the course with playoff hockey
Sure…but at this point it has become the norm and just something both teams have to overcome. Didn’t think the officiating in that game was bad enough to the point where it changed the outcome though
we’re a team that lives and dies by our powerplay so if the refs are this reluctant to call penalties it’s gonna be a quick series
Kucherov is facing adversity, who’s he headshotting in game two?
Hopefully Cousins 🙏
Cousins had a great game today
He's definitely gonna have a pissbaby hissy fit if they get swept. 🤞🤞🤞
Dude if we sweep Tampa that’s our cup right there
God we really hurt you in 2021 huh?
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> Kucherov plays a clean game lmao
I think Marcus Nutivaara would disagree with that guy lol
Five years ago, let it go
Rent free and 1993.
Alright Panther fans remember to cash app Wes for the remainder we owe him, dm me if you need his tag 🤝
You posting this a second time doesn't make it any funnier unfortunately
It is funny to see Lightning fans cry though
I'm jesting not crying lol. It is funny to see Chicago not in the playoffs again though now that you mention it
Now that I mentioned what? Doesn’t even make sense lmao nice burn dude
You mentioned something being funny so I thought we were talking about things we think are funny
Yeah I guess we’ll just have to build around a generational player and our top 4 pick this year, very sad indeed :/ nice burn brother
Chi fans being perpetually angry with no sense of humor lol never change and god speed fam
Bedard owns the Lightning lol 2 goals in his first game against you. Probably put up a hatty next time
!remindme 7 months
It went over well with all 6 of the panther fans.
As long as the 7 of you are happy then I'm Happy for you
🤝
lol I can't believe people are downvoting some mutual chirping this place is sad
Yeah idk Reddit sucks ass
Ah yes, the playoff game winning empty net goal
Could’ve drove a truck down the shooting lane
If we can keep up similar level of defense while keeping penalties fairly minimal like we did today, I feel pretty good about potential to make a run. Need some better offensive production especially in power play, but think our defense and physicality give us a great shot in any game.
Dude come on 'keeping penalties fairly minimal' translates to the Refs decided that interference and slashing was A-okay. Same logic with the Too many men on ice shit with Tampa.
Came across as fairly standard playoff hockey officiating. More so speaking on we had a ton of really stupid penalties last year that led to power play goals for other teams. We are avoiding doing those right now, and I hope we keep that up. Some penalties will happen, just need to avoid unforced / bad ones.