Despite the Panthers trailing 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final, Matthew Tkachuk hasn’t lost his confidence and hopes the Golden Knights are thinking about being « halfway there » as they travel to Florida for Games 3 and 4.
— Down 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final, Florida Panthers star forward Matthew Tkachuk hasn’t lost his confidence. Instead, he’s doubling down.
« (The Vegas Golden Knights) are halfway there and hopefully they’re thinking about that a little bit when they’re coming back to Florida, » Tkachuk said following his team’s 7-2 loss in Game 2 on Monday night.
While the eighth-seeded Panthers, who qualified for the postseason by just one point, lost consecutive road games for the first time since March, Tkachuk pointed out that Vegas has « run the table at home » for most of the playoffs.
And despite the score in Game 2, Tkachuk never believed his team was out of it.
« They might have thought that game was a little bit out of reach maybe in the second period, » Tkachuk said. « But we certainly didn’t. We’ve scored seven goals in a period before. You never know in the playoffs.
