Maple Leafs vs. Panthers Score and Live updates: Florida opens the gate in game 5

The head coach of Florida Panthers, Paul Maurice, offered his attitude to Playoff dynamics after his team won the fourth game 2-0 in Toronto Maple Leaf on Sunday evening.

His view? It just does not exist – and he does not expect that the 55th playoff game of the Panthers will have an end in Toronto on Wednesday 5 on Wednesday.

“We are aware that it is a game,” said Maurice. “I don't believe in dynamics and trends. The puck will fall in the next game and we have to fight hard to return to a pretty well -played game of our team.”

The Panthers have seen everything pretty much and overcome when it comes to two consecutive finals. The Leafs have now mostly experienced a misery of the off -season, including the fact that the franchise has not won a series that was bound by 2-2 since Auston Matthews.

If you want to be positive, the story here is still on the Leafs side. A team that started a best-of-Seven series at home and won the first two games and lost the next two has won the series in 63 percent of the time in the NHL. You also won 72 percent of the time game 5 at home.

Toronto was also the better team in game 1, and game 2 and 3 were basically coin flips. Overall, this series was very tight. The biggest reason why there are those who doubt that the Leafs can do this is that they have not been able to do anything like this in recent times.

Even if, like Maurice, you believe that swing does not matter and, as many of the historical recording, does not matter, it is more difficult to believe that the constant mistakes of the best players in the Leafs will not be a factor here.

We now know that the core group has entered this post on this post on this roster, which has to deliver more than ever before. It is not in round 2 to 2-2? What comes next in a best-of-three will determine whether all these proclamations that “this team is different!” will actually be remembered as a little more than narrative building.

To be different, you have to do something else. You have to win two of the next three games.