***Macwesties * Wed. May 14, 2025 * NHL * Gm #5 * Stanley Cup Playoff Series * Hockey Plays***

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Tonight I like Short & Sweet: woof woof  

I’ll take my chances as a Home dog @ plus money & why not?

It's called gambling but wtf do I know 

Florida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs ML+120 bet365 * 7:00 pm 

Last Meeting ( May 11, 2025 ) Toronto 0, Florida 2

Series is tied 2-2

The Maple Leafs will be looking for more from some of their top players, who have cooled off after strong starts to the postseason.

Captain Auston Matthews remains stuck without a score this series. Mitch Marner has only one shot on goal in the past three games after putting up four in the series opener. John Tavares, who opened the playoffs with five points in the first three games, has just two points -- both goals against Florida in Game 3 -- over the past six.

"Sometimes your top guys, they're looking to get too good of a chance sometimes instead of just putting the puck on net," Toronto coach Craig Berube said. "I think there's times where we could put more pucks on net at angles, bad angles, just firing it in there with people going to the net. You never know, it goes off somebody, rebounds or anything like that."

Joseph Woll will be in goal again with Anthony Stolarz still sidelined with an undisclosed injury sustained in Game 1. Woll was solid in facing 37 shots in the Game 4 loss, with 29 of those coming in the first two periods

The Panthers, meanwhile, are coming off a Game 4 victory that showed the game that helped them reach the Stanley Cup Final each of the past two seasons and dispatch the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games in the previous round.

In shutting down Toronto, Florida was strong defensively and in goal, delivering hard hits and tightening their gaps -- a change from the first three games, in which they allowed 13 goals.

"Such a dynamic team, Toronto, that if you don't do enough work from the goal line to your red line, you put the defensemen in a very, very difficult position," Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. "I thought our forwards allowed the (defense) to play as well as the (defense) did."

BOL  either way Ladies & Gentlemen 

Lets Go Leafs & BOL today Mac!  

Toronto Maple Leafs ML+120  

WTF was that last night same old what a disaster, pathetic Leafs got annihilated 

Congrats Florida & backers you out played the Leafs from the start  

I'm embarrassed to say the least time to move on