Connor McDavid Dominates as Panthers Struggle to Close Out Series

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00:00Connor McDavid has been playing like he's from another planet and maybe he is two goals and two

00:05assists in a closeout game yesterday to extend that series here i'm excited to see what we get

00:10in game number six but if you are the florida panthers how do we go about slowing down connor

00:14mcdavid he has been sensational here the past couple nights yeah you don't ever want to see

00:19a guy be able to move the puck through three sweaters extremely easily but that's always been

00:24connor mcdavid uh we're seeing david or mcjesus magic just come to life um i've said it from the

00:30beginning though i don't think that connor mcdavid is going to be able to just continue to carry this

00:34team and with that said i don't think the panthers are going to go into how do we contain connor

00:39mcdavid they have to get back to their game plan it worked for them to try to mirror the game that

00:44they had to go against but you're kind of seeing a little fatigue on the panthers you're seeing them

00:48look a little out of their element so they need to get back to whatever their foundation tends

00:52to be we started to see that in the third period yesterday so there's a glimmer of hope for this

00:56team um as i mentioned there's probably going to be some significant line changes we did see

01:01lombard come in for lorenz that might switch up again because lombard has been scored on more on

01:06that fourth line than lorenz has but he has more of a consistent physicality and time on ice so

01:12um there's options for this florida panthers team and palmares obviously knows the team in and out

01:17another big thing is they're not really clicking on special teams they've gone

01:21one in 13 i think uh when it comes to executing on the power play you can't do that versus one of

01:27the best penalty kills out there and that's something that the oilers don't get enough

01:30credit for uh 43 for 44 but the last 15 games sitting at a 97 on the penalty kill and they're

01:37picking up three shorthanded goals that is majestic for a team that relies on special teams to be their

01:43momentum swing so the panthers have to get back to being so dominant on five on five defensive

01:48structure has to step up they were really good at uh picking up turnovers and forcing the puck

01:53away from the oilers and they just kind of kept losing the puck last night their passing lanes

01:57were sloppy so they just have minor adjustments to make and part of that i kind of chalk up to

02:02fatigue and them getting out of their element