The last thing a team wants to do in a playoff series is give their opponent hope. Any doors slightly ajar need to be shut immediately.
The Florida Panthers have had two opportunities to close out the Edmonton Oilers and win their first-ever Stanley Cup title. But Sergei Bobrovsky has been off his game (.769 save percentage) and Connor McDavid used Games 4 and 5 to show everyone that his team is not going down without a fight and that he can carry them all the way back in this series with consecutive four-point nights.