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Originally Posted by butterfly
That's the only reason why the Hurricanes weren't in the Finals last year. A brilliant goaltending performance by Bobrovsky. Florida looks a lot better this time around and not constantly depending on goaltending to bail them out, so let's hope it keeps up.
Hiller chose not to play Brandt Clarke; that's on him. Blake gave up some prime age players on beautiful contracts for Dubois of all people, then gave him a Huberdeau contract; that's on him. They are not a bad team.
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Florida was learning still last year under Maurice and had Marc Staal in their top four because of cap issues. They didn't mind giving up perimeter shots at all and that's all that Carolina does, they don't have the personnel to go into the dirty areas. Anyway, comparing this years Panthers to last year is almost irrelevant.