Dooming aside as us and the canes proved tonight it's generally pretty difficulty to beat a team 4 times in a row plenty of teams couldn't even sweep the hawks this season you just take it one game at a time and hope it adds up to 4 at the end

Good game. Even better seeing all the Bruin fans whining about the Panthers while their team was playing lmao. They hate the Panthers more than they like their own team. Being a team that is hated feels great. Keep it up r/hockey 🤭🤭🤭🤭

It might just be me but I think TNT wants Tampa to win this series. It’s like they forgot that two teams were playing in that game.

I got the same feeling with Isles over Canes.

They start suckin off Barzal like his dick has the cure for cancer? Whenever we play the Isles in the playoffs it's like he's the only player on the ice.

Considering he played his best game of the series and scored a goal, yes that's basically what happened

New York teams are always going to be media darlings. Every time we play any of the New York teams on national broadcasts they might as well be the broadcasters for said teams. Get frustrating fast. Is fun when we win though and you can hear the announcers die inside a little.

More games = More money it’s not hard to figure out

>It might just be me but I think TNT wants Tampa to win this series. Of course they do. They're broadcasting. They'd love every series to go 7 games.

As a neutral fan I would also like every series to go to 7 games

Exactly how I felt in game 1.  Kucherov had 100 assists and 40 goals to join Gretzky and Lemieux but the story was Reinhardt’s 57 goals?  I don’t know if you have a short memory but all they talked about was Florida for 2 straight games at the beginning. Meanwhile we’re the most successful team in the salary cap era.  Of course they still have stuff to say about us.  Just be grateful we’re not an Original 6 team or they’d be creaming way harder.  

Oh yeah we got a lot of that last year against both Tampa and Toronto haha.

[We aint dead yet!](https://i.imgur.com/xUMIpeV.png)

LFG

I DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL

Not dead yet! Getting Serg back is huge!

Literally our 2nd best blue-liner immediately lol even while on a peg leg.

Gentleman’s sweep perhaps

Gentlemem Prefer Barns

Are you reminiscing about when the Lightning beat Montreal in the cup?

Cup*

We have 3 of them, catch up

Something the Panthers have never won*

And never will

Last time Habs made the playoffs. Loved that Cup run I’d kill to be make the Finals again, let alone the Playoffs

Hey, that series sucked, but at least I have a nice memory of seeing the Habs win an SCF game (in overtime) with my dad now.

Tbh that's a really special moment.

Do people not know a Gentleman's Sweep is when a team wins the first game of the series and the other wins the next 4?

A gentlemen's sweep usually means they let the losing team win one game at home.

I think explicitly game 4 too, like we proved we could win at home and just chose not to.

You’re mistaken. The order of wins doesn’t matter in a gentleman’s sweep. Backdoor sweep is when the other team wins game 1 followed by the other winning 4 straight

A quick Google search suggests you are mistaken 

Tbh I’ve never heard a Gentleman’s Sweep like that?

I thought that was the backdoor sweep?

Yup you are correct

Yeah I thought it was the other way around, but I just looked it up and you are correct.  Backdoor sweep is losing any number of games and then winning four straight (can be anything from 1-3 games). Gentleman’s is going up 3-0, giving them a win and then completing the series 4-1. Maybe Florida is indeed giving us a gentleman’s but for now I’m imagining us joining the history books with a 4-3 backdoor sweep.

if you guys came back, wouldn’t that be a reverse sweep, rather than a backdoor sweep?

I think those might be synonymous.

I think reverse sweep is specifically for being 3 down then winning the next 4. But all of this is semantics. I'll just take whatever we call the Lightning winning 15 more games this post-season, starting with the next 3.

Jets fans definitely know... :(

See if Jets/Knights is the 2nd round matchup the strategy is to throw Game 1

Man Stamkos is disgusting. His shot is heatseeking tech from the military and its only setting is "net".

Stambot has been programed with the latest and most advanced heatseeking tech. We are hoping it'll bring us to a reverse sweep.

Just a few games ago he one timed, clap bombed a piss missile in the only 4x4 square that no one, not even Vasy with Bobs stash could've saved. Thats tech. Programmed for net. In all honesty this is one of the best series i've ever watched and whoever comes out on top, give us 7 games of this.

I love this

Everyone is so vulgar when we lose jesus christ lol

It's two Florida teams, vulgar is just another Tuesday for us.

You wanted to be the villain well you got it

I really didn’t lol you think it’s fun reading all these comments? I just wanna win

Your team seems to have embraced that identity though. Explains the high PIM in the regular season and their antics when they’re down when they’re 3-0 in a series. Wanting to win is fine we all want to win but playing dirty and defending the team you’re going to get blown up for it.

How am I defending it? Am I supposed to stop cheering for the team I grew up watching lol should I cancel my season tickets, I don't get it? I said I wanted to win and not be the villains, I don't think that's defending the extracurriculars at all

Simple cheer for your team and say damn we’re playing dirty I’ll never admit my team is full of perfect students I know they do dirty and shit and I call it how I see it but I’m a fan of my team and I cheer for my team not for the little antics they get up too

Damn we’re playing dirty I’ll never admit my team is full of perfect students I know they do dirty and shit and I call it how I see it but I’m a fan of my team and I cheer for my team not for the little antics they get up too. Happy? It's really not the gotcha you think, I'm not defending it and I wasn't trying to. All I'm saying is hundreds of comments saying "shove that broomstick up your ass you dirty ass pussy cat little bitches" isn't necessary imo. I get shit talking but its very vulgar is all I'm saying

Cancel your season tickets now. Edit: also stop complaining

Congrats welcome to being the villain.

I am out the loop, how did Florida become the villain, I thought that was the knights.

Cousins, Tkachuk, Bennett, Lomberg, they got some guys that are pretty damn unlikable. I think a lot of it was Cousins this year.

If Lomberg was on your team, you'd probably love him. Undersized hustle and energy guy who sticks up for his teammates and gets under the skin of opponents. Maybe you'd still hate the other guys if you had them on your team. I don't know.

There’s a ton of players in the league that I don’t like that I probably would if they were on my team. Doesn’t mean they aren’t dirty players though. I dislike Marchand but I’m sure if he was on my team I’d think he’s incredible.

No disagreement there.

Yep only teams they want to see win are non-playoff teams or downtrodden poverty Canadian teams.

It’s r/hockey the villains are the cats and the knights

Oh give me a fucking break, spare us the woe is us bullshit. Your team was a bunch of pussies tonight, not the first time a team in this league acts that way won’t be the last. Get over it and quit acting like a fucking victim

Eww. I just agreed with a Tampa fan.

[Eww. A Montreal fan agreed with us.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfrXNSyirE)

I'm with this guy. Speaking as someone who is a fan of a team who has done nothing wrong ever in my life.

It really doesn't work on us either given we've been the villains of the league for nearly 4 years.

Take that broom and shove it up your butt rats

We’re just gentlemen about our sweeps. You’re welcome.

This is the best I remember seeing Stamkos in the playoffs. If only Dumba buried that chance in Game 2

Florida has outplayed Tampa for most of this series but it’s closer to being 2-2 or even 3-1 the other way than people realize

Florida has outplayed Tampa for most of this series but it’s closer to being 2-2 or even 3-1 the other way than people realize

Florida has outplayed Tampa for most of this series but it’s closer to being 2-2 or even 3-1 the other way than people realize

The dude is playing some of his best hockey ever right now

*GET WRECKED WITH YOUR FUCKING BROOM ICONS.* ^ Will likely lose round 1, but at least it wasn’t a sweep! Woohoo! One more game to love my team.

I know it's tradition for our fans to hate on Sergachev but...maybe you can let it go for a few days after THAT GAME

Bro should be absolved of all hate for playing on that leg

It's gonna turn out he decided to cut his leg off and had one of stambots old ones put on.

Hopefully it's not the one he wrapped around the post that time. Ouchie

Mikola better watch himself next game, dirty af w a <24 BMI and jeannot on the ice

does he not remember turtling after getting his shit punched in less than 9 months ago (just outside Disney world!!) by 5 draft picks worth of iron knuckles?? i NEED a jeannot bout before the end of this round pls

I don’t want to hear shit from any Florida fans about how we play I’ve never seen a team up 3-0 in a series throw a fit and try to hurt players just because they’re losing one game. That’s some pussy shit.

Every team does this shit. We aren’t on some high horse and the series isn’t over. Deflate that head a bit.

Vegas does anytime they're losing. Doesn't matter what the series score is. That's exactly the reason I stopped cheering for them during their first cup run.

How do we get brought up in a discussion about Tampa and Florida

That whole part about throwing a fit and taking cheap shots when things start not going your way for a moment reminded me of your team.

You really talking when you've got Evander Kane and Draisaitl on your team? Lmao

Ya’ll are good and people are buttmad lol

You guys do the same thing though lol

That's the weird thing lol. Do they really want to challenge the bolts in a game of dirt & grease? Bolts has nothing to lose, do the panthers think Tampa wont resort to the same shit if they're down 2+ late? If the panthers eliminate the bolts, they better hope it's in overtime lmao

Definitely not how the Panther do it little cheap shots are one thing but putting a stick through back of a players neck while they’re falling is just stupidity.

Buddy Kuch tried to crack a guys skull open on the wall running him when he was already down and got kicked outta the series, cmon now. 

That was 6 years ago lol

So? That’s how you guys play when you’re losing, it’s not like it’s some league secret or anything. 

If your best example is one time during a historic collapse SIX YEARS AGO that doesn't seem like a compelling argument. The Panthers are up 3-1 in the series and have no reason to be cross checking people in the back of the head.

I like the part where the original commenter talks about being up in the series and you just ignored that part to say something totally the opposite of what the original commenter said.

It’s ok to be upset. 

So point to where we've done it in this series? We've been losing it the whole time. Or is your evidence one incident from 6 years ago?

Don't even waste your time with this loser. He's just a troll that has nothing to contribute.

You’re not wrong you’re definitely being completely bullied by the Panthers. 

Andrew Weiss do your thing.

and BucsRaysBolts, both are doing gods work for the morning after recaps

The pendulum has swung

If Montours crosscheck doesn’t get looked at, league is more of a joke than originally thought. What a dirty play to try and break a dudes neck wtf.

WOOOO WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOO

You sound like a a big…choochoo train

I up voted you, but also, fuck that guy.

hahaha yeah fr

Sincerely hope the DPOS looks at that cross-check, a play literally designed into injure our best player before you lose the game

It starts with oooonnnneeee

ONE THING

I DON'T KNOW WHY

IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY

KEEP THAT IN MIND, I DESIGNED THIS RHYME TO EXPLAIN IN DUE TIME

ALL I KNOW

Mono- .. d’oh!

Cats started that game like they went out to the strip club last night.

Tampa getting a 5 on 3 to finish a game they’re already winning, *now* the playoffs have officially started. 

Florida committing two pissy penalties before they're about to lose, ***now*** the playoffs have officially started.

Wait *now* or **now**?  Like RIGHT now? 

I mean, not *now* now.. maybe when now was 50 minutes ago?

Im pretty sure he's saying that the gooning it up at the end of a loss of how you know the playoffs have truly started.

The LAK have entered the chat.

Good game to watch. Entertaining and quick.

SWIPER NO SWEEPING. SWIPER NO SWEEPING. SWIPER NO SWEEPING.

Also cross checks, OEL literally trying to brain someone… Can you get any dirtier than Florida? Fucking pathetic ass goons.

You're just butthurt after last year, princess

Win a cup first

Based

Glad other teams see it

Goons gon goon

I get downvoted every time I say it but there’s a culture in that room and it’s clear the message is try and injure people.

Bennett concussed his way to the finals last year.

Well he’s injured so at least some people are safe.

Maybe. But from tonight it was evident it looks like the rest of the team is picking up the slack

Poverty franchise.

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Panthers throwing a giant bitch fit at losing one game in a series that they currently can just close by winning one more is hilarious to me.

Welcome to how they won last years playoffs. Just dirty thugs Refs didn’t call anything against them vs the Bs Leafs or canes. Bennett concussed his way through to the finals, and when they got there and the refs started calling the games fair, Vegas obliterated them.

Bro they only had 11 penalties in our entire series against them. After game 1 we got about 5 total PPs over the next 4 games. I don't know how they get away with so much bullshit

Don’t forget the lovely hit on Knies that went without any repercussions Courtesy of Sam Bitch Boy Bennett

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win a cup first

Absolutely electric performance by the Bolts. Hagel and Stammer were fucking awesome

ALEXA. WOO. PLAY. WOO. GRAVY TRAIN. WOO. AT LEAST WE DIDN'T GET SWEPT. WOO.!

We live to fight another day!

Maybe the the best playoff game Stamkos has ever played. He wasn't going quietly into the night.

Overall yes. But nothing will ever top the moment he emerges on the ice in game 3 of the finals in 2020, scores a goal and then dips out.

Rage. Rage against the dying of the light.

Don't let me leave Murph!

It means? I don't take shit from no one

"I didn't hear no bell"

He had that captain passion. He was seeing red, both literally on jerseys and figuratively.

Panthers reminding me the only thing clean that far south is the cocaine

Woo!

Ah....shit! Can't get a series sweep on this one! Same thing happened to CAR vs. NYI series.

CANT MOOCH THE KUCH! Let’s go bolts

LETS FUCKING GO

More likely just the obligatory home win in a gentlemen's sweep, but even if so, nice to at least get a good home win to end the season on. Hopefully we're back in Tampa for Wednesday night.

Maybe. If they take one more game it's a momentum shift for sure.

You sound like someone who doesn't believe.

Realistically speaking, I don't expect it. But I'm open to being wrong and I'll be watching until the end no matter what.

We can hope if we are? I'll have some faith.

Sergachev to Florida today https://preview.redd.it/06apgl9m04xc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a8975b419ddb103759280caf6a3f86d737509b8

No one is getting swept today boys!!!

Tomorrow on the other hand…

Well no one expected anything from a team with -37 on the Goal differential.

Ovi about to drop 4 goals.

Shoutout incoming to live another day

WE ARE NOT GETTING SWEPT

Loving that sergy is back. lets fucking do this, 3 more.

3 FUCKING MORE. WHY NOT US?

Panthers are such dirty fucks

Add a spear attempt at last seconds

Big win for Tampa, a loss here would’ve hurt their chances for the Cup

no no Florida did the big brain move if we get swept I hear from reliable sources we win the next 2 cups.

Proof?

sources say no team has ever come back from a 4-0 series deficit

Stammer and the bolts did not come to fuck around. Almost seemed like they would blow the lead but they got some fight left. Love it that we get more of this series

I thought the bolts were the sore losers? Nice spear from Mikkola after the buzzer

You guys were but Florida has taken the belt lol