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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't know. Bennett always flashed in the playoffs so I'm not surprised about his play. Tkachuk never flashed in the playoffs for the Flames, ever. I kind of feel that it's possible that Tkachuk was suppressed by some of the veteran players on the Flames as we know Gio didn't care for him and maybe Lucic and other vets found him immature. Panthers really don't have that kind of veteran leadership presence so as I said before it looks to me like he's playing with the shackles off in Florida.
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Tkachuk was great in game 1 vs Edmonton.
He was also very good in the play-in round vs Winnipeg during the bubble.
He went missing the rest of times but it was far too soon to make assumptions he'd never be a playoff performer.