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Couple notes, Panthers, better team on special teams in the playoffs, Power Place 28%.

It's great. And their penalty kill is not great, but it's been much better than Vegas.

They're 71% kill, Vegas 63% in the playoffs. Some of that is facing Edmonton in the second round where their power play unit was great.

So especially the teams of slide edge, maybe even more than a slide edge to the Panthers.

Five on five. These teams were separated by less than 1% and expected an actual goal scored.

Talk about an even matchup. Panthers, better at creating offense. Vegas better at suppressing it.

Both teams going to get a ton of boost from their defense, putting shots on that Montournec Blad for Florida, Patrangelo, Theodore, from Vegas.

It's a really even matchup. The way I lean though is the team that plays defense.

It just feels like that's the type of thing that wins these games.

So the more we talk about this, the more I think we're going to be pushed to our corners.

Kenny's going to dig in a little more on the Panthers. I do like Vegas.

I think here's another different one of the things that helps differentiate depth scoring.

Vegas is getting contributions up and down the lineup.

They get a ton from their bottom six outscoring opponents by a 12 goal margin without their top two lines on the ice.

So if you're rolling four lines, blocking shots, playing defense, as long as they don't take a ton of dumb penalties,

they're the better team and they should win the series.

Yeah, that's true. Florida is a little bit more top heavy in terms of scoring talent, specifically.

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