When the Panthers made the playoffs a couple years ago, they tabbed Gudbranson as the go-to defender to try and shut down Tavares. Gudbranson got torched so badly by Tavares int that playoff series that the organization moved him in the off-season because they felt he could never be strong enough defensively to be useful, since he added next to no offense.
I can summarize that series in a couple of observations:
1) Tavares and his line destroyed their matchups in just about every way
2) Barkov and his line were countered pretty effectively by Hamonic and his partner (Boychuk I recall).
3) Greiss out-goalied Luongo....but really it was #1 and #2.
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"You know, that's kinda why I came here, to show that I don't suck that much" ~ Devin Cooley, Professional Goaltender
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