You stitch together a playoff run with this and that, with strong fabric and different threads, with Josh Mahura making two under-the-radar plays Saturday night, Aleksander Barkov making what Wayne Gretzky called one of the great playoff moves and the Florida Panthers winning their third straight playoff game in overtime.
It was back-to-back overtime winners for Matthew Tkachuk in this Eastern Conference finals followed by back-to-back similar celebrations.
“Let’s go, let’s go!” Tkachuk immediately said, heading right for the exit after Game 2 and motioning with a gloved hand for his Panthers teammates to follow him off the ice, just like he did after Game 1.
