Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad 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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11 Comments
Ekblad BELEAFS!!!!
Swept in 4
This was a pretty important game and they blew the lead twice. E Rod and Verhaege are net minuses at this point. Chucky doesn’t seem like himself or Bob.
Toronto blocked 24 shots, we blocked 8. Why aren’t the D committing to blocking? Toronto is earning it, and we aren’t.
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!!! 💙🤍
Clearly we just need to brain punch this Woll dude and move onto the third stringer. Not why the dude wasn’t vomitting by the end of this one.
Roids
The jon jones of the nhl!! Invisible like jon is when asked about aspinall
Look at those bulging traps!
Wonder if he's still on Steroids?
When is Ekbald going to take out Woll?
Leafs keep cycling and running it up the gut and no one is clogging up the neutral zone ,,, gotta trap them in the neutral zone and hit Marner and matthews non stop 🛑,, stop being fucking nice to them