Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice speaks to the media after his team lost Game 2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 in their second-round playoff series on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
The Panthers lost 5-4 to the Maple Leafs in Game 1 and are 0-2 in this series coming back to Sunrise.
Florida has never won a series down 0-2 and have not been in this position since the 2023 Stanley Cup Final.
Game 3 is at Florida on Friday at 7 p.m. (TNT)
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Wednesday, Sasha Barkov gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead midway through the first. Florida led 2-1 early in the second after Brad Marchand tied it.
Anton Lundell made it a 3-3 game in the third — only Mitch Marner scored 17 seconds later for the 4-3 lead and the final score. Sergei Bobrovsky made 16 saves in the loss.
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37 Comments
If he liked game 2 ,they are in a lot of trouble!
Oh come on smile. The leaf's had the same schedule and you knocked there goalie out by a cheap shot. Karma Sucks…They Should be called the Florida Kittens…
Paul sounds rattled. No smart ass comments now eh?
If leaf’s win one more in Florida it’s over
Nice to see all 3 of the Panther's fans in the comments really supporting the team. Let's go Leafs!
YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK YOU SUCK
Go cat's go
Yeah injury key players mfers
Florida's trying SO hard to play dirty and cheat their way through to the next round. 🤣AIN'T HAPPENING!
Woll's a WALL!! Better team won! Anyone else smell a SWEEP!?
GO LEAFS GO!!! 💙🤍
Prison rules Paul….dropped the soap
Maurice it's ok to tell us the truth we seen it for ourselves Chunky was absolutely horrible. 2 of the goals were because he turned over the puck on bad passing from him.
Paul 😂😂😂😂
No jokes paul😅
He seems less condescending!
still a 50/50 series even tho it’s 2-0 right now. Leafs surprisingly handling the storm quite well so far. Had a ton of bounces go their way as well. Playoff hockey.
Come on CJ, going to the room was part of the embellishment, the Panthers aren't fooling anyone anymore
Leafs are winning faceoff battle and shot blocking. Otherwise, Panthers all over Leafs. They win next 2 and even up series.
Paul Maurice regardless of this outcome your a good coach ,, the players respect you and that’s huge, I don’t care if you can’t beat the leafs this year , you are a brilliant coach and I respect you ,,
When is Maurice going to tell his players to take out Woll?
Panthers are going to win all four games. Unfortunately leafs
I gotta disagree with coach about Chucky.. Matthew Tkachuk making horrific passes to the middle of the ice. Not helpful at all.
Can the Panthers at least maintain a tie game score?
At least Bennet had the decency to take himself out of the game tonight as contrition for his hit on Stolarz last game. I appreciate the sportsmanship.
Imagine being a Leaf's fan. Understanding the franchise record they hold and still talking shit lmao
A couple 1 goal games where our goalie hasn’t been himself and the insufferable Leafs fans and media already have dozens of narratives and explanations out of it. Just take the 2-0 lead with abit of class and dignity. Like a pimple faced, scrawny rich virgin who plays the victim, who finally made it to 2nd base and somehow now are cocky and arrogant about it. It’s cringeworthy.
Paul has a strange upsidedown "smile" when his mouth is tightly closed. 🤢
He likes his game here tonight, so do Leaf fans, keep it up Bud
We are still the champions until we aren't, so I still believe in this Panthers team and their ability to dig out of deep holes. Not sure if the Panthers win this series now but we aren't going down without a fight.
Paul Maurice is not a coach.
He's just a fan with the best seat in the house.
I'm a Leafs fan and a Maurice fan – tough place to be this time of year.
He reminds of the master of disguise turtle turtle turtle guy
Where is funny Paul?? 😂
Why would the ref need to explain the embellishment call? Ref was right there.
Nothing wrong here approach, got it
I can’t believe Maurice was happy with Tkachuk’s play, dude was invisible.
I can explain the Rodriguez one, Laughton literally stopped before he hit him then gave him a push from behind then Rodriguez did a cartoon splat on the boards, fell to the ice, and then skated to the dressing room.
He came out 45 seconds later…. Refs know the players and Rodriguez is a rat just like every other player on Florida.
Wow, the hate for Paul? Leafs fans are worse than Islanders fans.
Bob needs to step it up – 9 goals in two games is uncharacteristic .
Maurice in tears he knows its over. 😂