NHL 23-24

Yeah, I'm done with hockey for the season. I've always said this but the season is too long. No matter how far my team goes into the playoffs I have never liked watching games when it's basically summer.

Regardless, it's pretty hard to win when you don't put the biscuit in the basket. Can't figure out what happened to our top line and how all three of them just went completely cold going back to the 2nd round. I was also surprised at how many breakout passes we missed, just seemed like every rush up the ice the puck bounced off someone's stick or skate and the Panthers ended up with it. We're normally a very good, crisp passing team but this series we were not moving the puck very well at all.

I don't think the Panthers are all that great talent-wise but they buy into to their system 100% and it seems to work for them as a whole. I believe their conditioning has to be the difference maker. Watch them on the PK or when they're on D, they don't give any room to make plays. It's hard to keep that up all game but if you can do it effectively enough it wears the opponent down.