Florida, who lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in five games last season, will face either the Edmonton Oilers or the Dallas Stars. Edmonton leads this best-of-7 series 3-2.
“Last year was the first time we got this far and it was amazing,” Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov said. “You wanted to do everything you could to get back here. We all know it’s not a big thing, it’s not a day. We have to start work in the summer, at training camp. … We all had the same goal: to progress and come back. Here we go again.”
Sam Bennett and Vladimir Tarasenko scored and Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves for the Panthers, the top seed in the Atlantic Division.
Artemi Panarin scored and Igor Shesterkin made 32 saves for the Rangers, the number one seed in the Metropolitan Division and who won the Presidents’ Trophy awarded to the best team in the NHL during the regular season.
“It was difficult to score, to generate the quality that we wanted to generate,” New York coach Peter Laviolette said. “We knew the Florida upstarts were finishing the season and from the first and second rounds. They weren’t. Ultimately, it’s something we’ve managed to do pretty consistently throughout the rest of the season. “year. Look at the scores, the games with a weak goal could make the difference.”
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