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Originally Posted by Jacks
Meh, no one left from 2004 to hate. I'm okay with Tampa advancing.
Not sure why there is/was so much love for the Panthers.
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They had a lot of potential but some things ( lack of bottom six scoring (vatrano had an ENG, Wennberg had a PP goal, Lomberg had a goal), blueline issues (yandle and nutivaara were awful, Ekblad was injured, Weegar was pretty exposed in a top pair role), atrocious penalty killing, and goaltending) definitely hurt them. They've got a lot of young talent still on the way (Knight as a full timer, their 2020 first round pick Lundell, Denisenko, Heponiemi) plus the return of Ekblad.
The biggest question is what they do with Bobrovsky and Yandle... that's a lot of dead salary.