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.
