{"id":435440,"date":"2023-05-13T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435440"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:16:46","slug":"panthers-beat-maple-leafs-3-2-to-book-place-in-playoff-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-beat-maple-leafs-3-2-to-book-place-in-playoff-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers beat Maple Leafs 3-2 to book place in playoff finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/florida-panthers\/\">Florida Panthers<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> 3-2 for a 4-1 win overall on Friday night and is through to the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YOUR FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE GOING TO THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QcqpYJ1XOk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QcqpYJ1XOk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1657218202475147265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAaron Eakblad and Carter Verhaege both scored to give Florida a solid 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Rielly&#8217;s and William Nylander&#8217;s strikes drew the score level, before overtime goal from Nick Cousins, scored at 15:32 sealed the deal for the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 50 shots, while rookie goaltender for Maple Leafs Joseph Woll made an impressive 41 saves.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers achieve their first conference finals since 1996 and will face <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>They defeated Toronto in all three of their away games to improve to 6-1 in their visits in the playoffs after also upsetting the record-setting <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/boston-bruins\/\">Boston Bruins <\/a>in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers defeated Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 for a 4-1 win overall on Friday night and is through to the Eastern Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":435442,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18269,19312,18297,16734,17115],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18134,17890],"acf":{"announce":"The Florida team was the better side all round and deservedly goes through","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435440"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435440"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}