Written by Graeme & Scott on Monday, Might fifth, 2025
Holy crap how are you going to not love playoff hockey?
No different American sport can come near that type of end that we noticed within the third interval of the Jets vs Blues sport final evening. An unimaginable comeback by the Jets, and regardless of extra defensive and goaltending struggles, they transfer onto the following spherical.
What a banger.
We’ve bought the Leafs vs Panthers playoffs beginning tonight. Listed here are our ideas:
Panthers vs Leafs Collection Betting Ideas:
Scott: The Panthers gained the season sequence 3-1.
The Panthers bought by the Florida rivals in 5 video games. They had been led within the first spherical by Tkachuk, Bennett, Verhaeghe, Reinhart, Barkov and Marchand.
What makes them scary is that they produce other gamers who haven’t but bought going and they’re defending final seasons Stanley Cup win.
Properly the Leafs have handled one Tkachuk so may as nicely deliver on the opposite one. It took them 6 video games to get by the Senators. They’re led by Marner, Matthews, Nylander, Tavares, Reilly and Knies.
The Leafs had bother with the Sens however I ponder how a lot of it was it being the Battle of Ontario and likewise the troubles the Leafs appear to at all times have within the 1st spherical
I would like the Leafs to get via this spherical not solely as a result of they’re a Canadian staff however as a result of they and their followers deserve it. I simply assume that this Panthers staff seems to be nice and are going to be a tricky out for any staff. But when Matthews or Tavares can catch hearth then they’ve nearly as good as shot as any staff to do it.
Leafs win the sequence
Graeme: On paper – I’d say this one is all Panthers. Granted that’s earlier than I have a look at the metrics. However I imply – they cleaned the clock of Tampa. In the meantime, the Leafs struggled in opposition to the Sens. Even within the video games they gained, their metrics had been disappointing.
Trying on the metrics to date this sequence – Panthers higher CF & FF%. Extra photographs, altho a bit extra SA/60. A lot better GF/60 though the Leafs goaltending was a giant issue for them with a 1.49 GA/60 – and truly their defensive work was very good at 2.16 xGA/60.
Panthers had been near that although at 2.24 xGA/60 and higher xGF. An excellent quantity extra excessive hazard possibilities by the Panthers, which they simply capitalized on extra.
Superior metrics in common season matchups between the groups had been fairly shut. Panthers additionally gained when it actually mattered pre-April.
Panthers offense simply seems to be that a lot better and are so good at creating. Their protection regarded so tight in opposition to Tampa.
So I hate this. As I needed to come back into this and again the Leafs purely attributable to Berubes shithousery – and if they’d swept the Sens, I might have possible made that guess. However to lose two in a row, and now going in opposition to an, on paper, a lot better Panthers staff?
I feel I gotta go together with Florida right here.
I’m going with Panthers -1.5 because of the odds. However I cannot be shocked even remotely if the Leafs handle to discover a approach to get outplayed, however nonetheless progress.
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