The whistle blew for a power play with 57 seconds left in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday and Aaron Ekblad, from his place on the Florida Panthers’ bench, thought the same thing Panthers fans — and, probably, NHL fans — across the world certainly were thinking, too.
Matthew Tkachuk was on the ice and, with an extra-man advantage, it was almost hard to imagine the superstar right wing not scoring another game-winning goal.
“If you’re sitting on the bench,” the star defenseman said Wednesday, “you’re about as confident as you could possibly be with that group.”
