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Game #33 Review: Florida Panthers 4 vs. Toronto Maple Leafs 3 (OT)

Your game in ten:

1. This matchup had all the makings of a trap game for me looking through the underlying numbers beforehand.

On the surface, it’s a Florida team that has lost a bunch in a row and is dead last in the East. Below the surface, it’s a team that was limiting high-danger chances and overall scoring chances pretty effectively by clogging up the neutral zone and forcing teams to dump pucks in (something that can make the Leafs bang their heads against the wall at times through either turning pucks over at the line or rinse-and-repeat dump-ins with low retrieval rates).