Panthers vs. Maple Leafs Game 1 Free Live -Stream: See NHL -Playoffs online, time, TV channel

The Toronto Maple Leafs organize the Florida Panthers in the first two games of their NHL playoff series of the second round. Game 1 begins on Monday, May 5th at 8 p.m.

As you can see: Fans can watch the game over a trial version free of charge Directv stream. The game can also be streamed on sling (half of the first month).

You need to know the following:

What: NHL Playoffs, round 2

Who: Florida Panthers against Toronto Maple Leafs

When: Monday, May 5, 2025

Where: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario

Time: 8 p.m. et

TV channel: ESPN

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Here is a current NHL history of Associated Press:

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – Brad Marchand is many things. Definitely sarcastic. A pest on the ice, absolutely. Someone who does not do anything is a little bonus body, is a matter of course. His “Little Ball of Hate” spy was even repeated by President Barack Obama.

The Florida Panthers knew all of this when they acquired him.

And then they learned something else. Marchand is … personable?

“Good person and fun to be nearby,” said defender Aaron Ekblad from Panthers. “Great poker player.”

The Toronto Maple Leafs probably believe that. To use the poker term, they were in playoffs against Marchand a few times and have always lost.

One of the best rivalries of the hockey toronto fans vs. Marchand-on Monday evening when the Maple Leafs organize the Panthers in game 1 of a second round in the Eastern Conference. He is tended to touch the puck in Toronto. The fans there remember how their team against Marchand and the Boston Bruins competed four times.

The fans don't like him. Marchand doesn't matter. There are larger priorities. There is a cup to hunt.

“To be honest, I never really took care of it,” said Marchand. “The fans get a very little insight about who we are as humans. They look at the games and they build opinions on the players who are on the ice. Fans with whom I meet and with whom I interact, I think they have a different perception.”

Do not make a mistake, there seems to be a perception of the panthers. The Florida striker, Matthew Tkachuk, is not exactly worshiped in other buildings around the NHL. The same applies to another Florida striker, Sam Bennett. Like Marchand, they are hard, robust and are not afraid of contact. It would probably shock the fans in other markets to find out that Tkachuk – like the rest of his family – supports a number of causes quietly without drawing attention to it. And Bennett's passion is to find protected animals forever at home. With every goal he achieves, he pays the adoption fee to connect another dog or a cat of a new family.

The perception of on -ce is one thing, said Panthers coach Paul Maurice. The actual reality is different.

“These three men are wonderful for support employees, coaches, coaches, all, flight attendants and all the people who help to move our team and not come in front of the camera,” said Maurice. “They are just fantastic to see. They make them a better person who only watches them.”

Marchand could speak a lot on the ice – chirping is one of his favorite hobbies – but he is a gentleman since he joined the Panthers. He has played in 15 games since trade. He made only four smaller penalties during this period. He decided in Florida's third line, was an essential part of the penalty kill and was completely satisfied with doing his job.

The idea of ​​someone who was the Bruins' captain who joined Florida – a playoff rival – could be unlikely a few months ago. But someone who will be 37 on May 11 knows that there may not be too many chances to win another Stanley Cup, so he took the move to Florida.

“The way everyone is different,” said Marchand. “Mine was normally built up by emotions and it was very intense and very competitive, and sometimes when they do, they cross the limit and have to play a certain way that engages me all the time. Sometimes it feels in the wrong direction and it comes in a way how people don't like it. But I play the game for nobody outside of me and my team.”

It was not the simplest transitions for Marchand after the trade who had spent his entire NHL career in Boston. This is not due to personality or past playoff battles; It is because he was injured and recovered. His rehab work was done according to a different schedule than in the rest of the team, and even stopped him from traveling with the club at the beginning. It delayed its full acclimatization.

As soon as he could play again, things quickly fell together with the Panthers.

“I saw a lot of people who came to the teams in which I have been in the past. And there are some people who came wrong, and boys came right,” said Marchand. “I tried to learn from it and just get in the right way and not to step on the toes and to watch and learn how things are done.”

Panthers fan throw toy sculptures on the ice after winning, a nod of the team of the 1995/96 season. As the story says, Scott Mellanby in Florida killed a rat in the changing room with his stick before the opening this season and then scored two goals in this game. “Ratten trick” was the expression that was born from it, and the rats have been part of the Florida tradition since then.

Nowadays, when the rats rain, Panthers' teammates shoot them on Marchand's legs before leaving the ice. It is an honorary badge. Panther's fans, who of course were never enthusiastic about seeing him before the trade, threw them to Marchand. You throw them for him now.

“It means we won,” said Marchand. “It's a good thing.”

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