Panthers lost magic touch when it was needed most

Florida has struggled to contain the Golden Knights' offense in the Stanley Cup Final, while the Panthers have also lost the scoring touch that fuelled their run through the playoffs.

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JULIAN MCKENZIE: Friends, let's just jump into the Cup Final talk here. Is it going to be over tonight? Are the Panthers, are they going to find a way to come back and win game six? Let's get some quick predictions off before we delve a little bit more into this series. I'll start with you, Aves, because sometimes you like to hang out in Vegas. You like to be the madman out in Vegas sometimes. So how do you--

ARUN SRINIVASAN: That is true.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: --how do you see. That's true. Give us your takes off this series so far.

ARUN SRINIVASAN: I think right now Florida have had a hard time stopping the offensive attack of, a hard time stopping the forecheck. And in their own end of the ice, it really hasn't been a good look.

We've seen Jonny Marchessault having a great series so far. We've seen scoring from Mark Stone. They're having a hard time on the ice, and we've seen Bobrovsky at times turn into a pumpkin at the wrong times in there from Vegas Golden Knights.

JULIAN MCKENZIE: He's been a pumpkin for most of this series.

ARUN SRINIVASAN: Yeah. And then defensively, they've just been getting great play from guys like Adin Hill, and he's having great series. We're seeing Vegas capitalize on chances that Florida cannot do. And I'm honestly thinking that yeah, tonight is going to be-- I think Vegas wraps this series up in game five.

OMAR: Yeah, definitely Vegas. I think the weird thing about the Panthers is that just they haven't had that same timely scoring that we've seen in the playoffs before. Usually we used to see like a lot of those last-minute period goals and stuff. And I think they've only had one from Anthony Duclair in game one.

But besides that, either they are struggling to score, or they can't get those out of nowhere goals that allow them to carry the momentum into the next period or into overtime.

So I think if Vegas plays the same way they've been playing and Adin Hill is literally causing more and more mayhem and discussion around teams that need a goaltender, which I think is funny to me. Oh, every team should trade for Connor Hellebuyck. Yeah, even though we're watching Adin Hill came out of fricking nowhere. So yeah, so that's a long way of saying that my pick is Vegas.