O pivô do Florida Panthers, Steven Lorentz (18), acerta o disco em torno do protector do Boston Bruins, Hampus Lindholm (27), durante o primeiro período do jogo 5 da segunda rodada da série Stanley Cup Playoff na terça-feira, 14 de maio de 2024, na Amerant Bank Redondel em Sunrise , Flórida.
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The Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins have a puck drop time and television information for Game 6 of their Stanley Cup playoffs second-round series.
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The NHL announced that game time on Friday at Boston’s TD Garden will be at 7 p.m. The game will be televised on TNT and truTV in addition to being streamed on MAX. It will be the first of two playoff games played that night, with Game 6 of the Dallas Stars-Colorado Avalanche series starting at 10 p.m.
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The Panthers lead the best-of-7 series against the Bruins 3-2 and need just one more win to advance to the Eastern Conference final. Should Boston win on Friday, the winner-take-all Game 7 will take place Sunday at Sunrise’s Amerant Bank Arena.
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Florida beat Boston in seven games last season in the first round of the playoffs on the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.
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This postseason, Boston won the first game of the series 5-1 before Florida won Games 2-4 by respective scores of 6-1, 6-2 and 3-2. The Bruins kept their season alive with a 2-1 win in Game 5 on Tuesday.
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The winner of the Panthers-Bruins series will face the winner of the New York Rangers-Carolina Hurricanes series. The Rangers have a 3-2 lead in the series, with Game 6 taking place on Thursday.
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Recaps from the series so far
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▪ Game 1: The Bruins scored goals on each of their final three shots of the second period and never looked back to beat the Panthers 5-1 at Sunrise’s Amerant Bank Arena.
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Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman made 38 saves, including stopping all 16 Panthers shots that came his way in the third period.
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▪ Game 2: Aleksander Barkov had two goals and two assists, Sam Reinhart had four assists and Brandon Montour had three points as Florida blew out Boston 6-1 in a game that became contentious in the third period with 12 combined game misconducts.
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▪ Game 3: The Panthers scored four times on the power play and held the Bruins to just 17 shots on goal in a 6-2 win at TD Garden to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
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▪ Game 4: The Panthers rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 4 to take a 3-1 lead in the series. Anton Lundell, Sam Bennett and Aleksander Barkov scored for Florida, and Sergei Bobrovsky was perfect in the final two periods after giving up a pair of goals in the first.
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▪ Game 5:The Panthers’ couldn’t finish off the Boston Bruins in the first series-clinching opportunity of their second-round Stanley Cup playoffs series, falling 2-1 in Game 5. Morgan Geekie and Charlie McAvoy scored for Boston, with McAvoy’s goal at 10:25 of the second period serving as the game winner. The Panthers challenged for goaltender interference, but the call was upheld.
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