The Florida Panthers brought all the warts with them to Toronto bubble. Sergei Bobrovsky was pretty bad, Mike Matheson might have been worse (in the seemingly unending chicken and egg debate whether its the goaltending or defense that’s the team’s main issue) and the rest of the club put up little fight and displayed a disturbing lack of intensity in a 5-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in its one and only exhibition tune-up before postseason play starts on Saturday.
Florida was pretty decent in the first period, but once Brayden Point sped around Matheson and beat Bobrovsky, who made himself very small and backed into the net, up high with five seconds left for his second goal of the frame, they were in deep trouble.