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For the second straight season, the Boston Bruins’ season ended with a loss to the Florida Panthers at TD Backyard.
Gustav Forsling scored with lower than two minutes left in regulation to guide the Panthers to a series-clinching 2-1 victory in Friday night time’s Sport 6.
B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce
FORSLING GIVES THE PANTHERS THE LEAD WITH 1.5 MINUTES LEFT 😱 pic.twitter.com/Xls57uXOHm
The Panthers additionally eradicated the Bruins from the 2023 postseason by profitable in Sport 7 additional time.
This time Forsling ended the collection in six video games. He completed the sport with 5 pictures, the final of which was sufficient to get rid of the Bruins.
Mike Bartner @MikeBartner
Onerous to not root for a man like Forsling, from waivers in 2021 to a $40+ mill deal and scoring huge objectives.
The Panthers will now advance to face the New York Rangers within the Japanese Convention Closing.
The Rangers could have house ice benefit after rallying again from a two-goal third-period deficit Thursday to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes in six video games.
Sonny D @SonnyDoney97
Panthers/Rangers is gonna be the collection to look at irrespective of who wins within the second spherical of the west. lol.
your favourite sandwich @PodStreetHoags
Rangers and Panthers will likely be an entertaining Japanese Convention Finals.
After making 22 stops in opposition to the Bruins in Sport 6, goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will now face off in opposition to Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin within the subsequent spherical.
tOSU State of Thoughts @bucks3317
Igor Olegovich Shesterkin vs Sergei Andreyevich Bobrovsky with a visit to the cup on the road wheww 🍿
Buck Foston @otto_maddux
To get to the Cup, the Panthers must beat
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jeremy Swayman
Igor ShesterkinMadness.
In the meantime Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman, who was a key cause Boston superior previous the Toronto Maple Leafs within the first spherical, completed the loss having turned apart 26 pictures.
The Bruins’ focus will now flip towards negotiating a brand new cope with Swayman, who’s now a restricted free agent.
FF Sprint @Dxshinn
The gang chanting Swayman rightfully so he was lights out #NHLBruins
grace (sport mode) @GRobs_Boston
the one actual bruins lack of this season can be not signing jeremy swayman to a lifetime contract for no matter amount of cash he needs
The Panthers have the weekend off to rejoice earlier than starting the battle to return to their second consecutive Stanley Cup Closing.
In the meantime the Rangers are looking for their first Closing journey since 2014 as they welcome the Panthers to New York for Wednesday’s Sport 1. Puck drop is about for 8 p.m. ET at Madison Sq. Backyard.
