ECQF: Boston Bruins [ATL1] vs Florida Panthers [WC2] - Panthers Win 4-3

[Kasi]

This is why you don’t immediately dismiss players after they leave the team just to try to pump our teams tires. Sometimes you just have to admit your team screwed the pooch and made bad decisions.

[Engine09]

Little bit worried, I thought the Bruins would have a better chance at bouncing the Leafs. Hopefully the Panther's momentum can carry them through.

[GirlySports]

The lesson here clearly is to never break your league’s record for wins in a season.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Psytic

Chucky and Bennett, those guys are so clutch. Wish we had players like that.

Flames deserve to be where they are right now due to not be able to retain players like them.

Don't know what you got till it's gone.

[TheScorpion]

Bergeron and Krejci won't be retiring after this.

[FanIn80]

I do feel a bit bad for Bergeron and Marchand for sure, buuuuut pretty sure the two one Stanley Cup rings they already have will console them.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Psytic

Chucky and Bennett, those guys are so clutch. Wish we had players like that.

Both guys requesting trades, plus Gaudreau walking is really something the org needs to really think about as they head into this next era.

Also this is why I never really trust teams on a PDO bender going into the playoffs.

Boston was third in shooting percentage (11.8%) and 1st in save percentage .929 and had the highest PDO in league by 2 full percent (104% vs Dallas at 102%).

Tough to replicate that in the playoffs and the save percentage really cratered to .885.

[FormerPresJamesTaylor]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

We had a wizard

[kipperiggy]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I think I feel worse about losing Bennett tbh and really not sure why.

Centre vs winger and the team quit on Benny unlike Tkachuk quitting on the Flames

[N-E-B]

Boston looked awful in OT. That’s a heartbreaking loss. Feel bad for Bergeron.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by savemedrzaius

Woooooooooo!!!!!!!! Best evah!!! First round exit. See you in round 2 Cats!

Two teams that are beginning to overcome historic playoff futility. We'll see who blinks first. Two big beasts in the east were slain in the first round in the Lightning and Bruins. It's wiiiide open now. Let's go!

[nieuwy-89]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Nothing to show for it? Unless you mean Florida is in the playoffs and the Flames aren't this season.

One team just pulled off one of the biggest upsets in history and is moving on to the second round. A team with a future.

The other is in shambles and a complete mess right now.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Your 2nd sentence I'm 100 percent with you. Sucks we lost Chucky and Benny. The rest has yet to bear out.

Huberdeau set an NHL record for largest dropoff between consecutive seasons. It's already borne out and it's #### ugly

[Monahammer]

Backbreaker of a stat line on that last goal.

Flames should have given the keys to Tkachuk early on.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Kasi

This is why you don’t immediately dismiss players after they leave the team just to try to pump our teams tires. Sometimes you just have to admit your team screwed the pooch and made bad decisions.

Tkachuk forced a trade - the team offered him 8 years at $10.5M - its not like they just went and moved him on their own accord and trading him for Hubedeau, Weegar and a 1st means they realized they were giving up the best player in the trade.

In the end the Panthers has one less point than the Flames but got in and made a huge upset.

If anything this is bad for the people that want the Flames to have a different mindset because it's just "Get in and anything can happen!"

[Dion]

Originally Posted by sarge

Why is that? Are you a fan of cheap shots?

I'm a fan of how both players elevated their game during the playoffs. Players who came through in the clutch. Just another reason why we didn't make the playoffs.

[keenan87]

I truly hope that Huberdeau is using some of this as motivation.

[Hockey_Ninja]

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by nieuwy-89

Stunning. Tkachuk was clutch in that series, Bennett was his usual playoff self.

I shouldn’t do this but it really sucks we lost these guys and have nothing to show for it. Huberdeau’s contract makes it doubly bad. Just a horrible time to be a Flames fan.

Flames should have signed Chucky to an 8-year deal and given him the “C”, not some garbage 3 year deal. Bennett should’ve been played as our #2 centre from day-1. When you draft players like that, you build your team around players like that.

Flames coached and managed the team into the dirt.

[Kasi]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Backbreaker of a stat line on that last goal.

Flames should have given the keys to Tkachuk early on.

Nah better to save a few bucks so you can sign some overpriced third liner.