Florida Panthers square off against the St. Louis Blues in their one and only season encounter
The final game of Tuesday will be hosted by the Florida Panthers as they will be up against the St. Louis Blues. This is the one and only match between the two teams during the course of this season.
Both these inter-conference teams last time met during the past season. The game saw goal keeper Tomas Vokoun of the Florida Panthers coming up with gem of a performance as he kept the clean sheet intact and made 34 saves during the game. The end result
was Florida Panthers comprehensively winning the match 4-0.
The game holds great importance for the Florida Panthers who are within six points of the Carolina Hurricanes. This is significant due to the fact that Hurricanes are in the eighth and final play-off position. The interesting thing ahead of the game is that
they have a game in hand and things are expected heat up in the Eastern Conference for the last play-off position.
Florida Panthers were trailing the New Jersey Devils this Friday but their hard work and determination saw them coming back to win the match 4-3 in the end. Panther are in good shape ahead of this encounter and with the upcoming five home games things are
looking good after which they will face Tampa Bay Lightning.
Florida Panthers win against the Devils this Friday saw them ending a losing streak. All of the players in the team gave all they had which saw them winning the match. Goal keeper of the Panthers, Vokoun made 28 saves during the game to bag his 18th
win of the season. Rostislav Olesz was the star of the match as he scored in overtime with three minutes remaining in overtime.
Olesz has been in great form recently scoring a total five goals in the season. His recent form has seen him scoring two goals and scoring four points in the last five games.
Florida Panthers has played 52 games in the season out which they have won 23 games in regulation time. Panthers have won another six games in overtime and scored 52 points. Their opposition for the night in St. Louis Blues has played 51 games and has won
23 games in regulation time, 8 games in overtime and has scored 54 points.
St. Louis Blues made a great start to the season during which they were at the top. However, their form disintegrated with the passage of time. Recently, they faced some of the times in the league as they have lost 11 out their 14 games.
Due to the strong performances early on in the season, they are still six points adrift of the final play-off position in the Western Conference. St. Louis Blues in their last match against the Tampa Bay Lightning faced a 4-3 defeat in overtime after being
in the lead.
Though the St. Louis Blues are very strong on the offence are there isn’t any problem in scoring goals but they fail to defend the lead they maintain. The backline of the St. Louis Blue is really weak and they really need to combine and work as one if they
want to finish in a play-off position.
The game is expected to be very tight with both teams having the same incentive to win which is to finish in the play-off position.
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