Bruins-Panthers getting set for Game 2. Canucks-Oilers ready to open their series

Dawn, Fla. (AP) — The season for the Florida Pumas can't end on Wednesday night. It's anything but an end game, the Boston Bruins can't finish them off and regardless of what occurs there's a trip to Massachusetts on Thursday and one more game there on Friday.

In this way, it's anything but a must-win.

The Pumas could feel in any case.

Game 2 of Pumas Bruins is Wednesday night, with Boston hoping to go up 2-0 in the NHL second-round season finisher series. Florida has followed a season finisher matchup 2-0 on five events in its set of experiences and hasn't mobilized to win any of them — the Pumas were cleared by Colorado in the 1996 Stanley Cup Last, cleared by New Jersey in the primary round in 2000, lost in six games to Tampa Narrows in the 2021 first round, got cleared by the Lightning in the second round in 2022 and lost last year's Last to Vegas in five games.

"No one's gone 16-0 apparently," Jaguars mentor Paul Maurice said Tuesday. "Along these lines, everyone will endure … you bounce back and you gain from it."

Florida-Boston is the first of two NHL season finisher games on Wednesday's timetable. It'll be trailed by Game 1 of Vancouver-Edmonton in a Western Gathering second-round series, with the Canucks having home-ice advantage in that matchup.

Vancouver cleared Edmonton in each of the four customary season gatherings, however three of those games were during the Oilers' horrendous 3-9-1 beginning that prompted the terminating of mentor Jay Woodcroft.

"We're going into Cycle 2 of the Stanley Cup end of the season games," Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl said. "We couldn't care less about what occurred in the customary season. What's more, I bet you that they don't either, however much you think. We're an alternate group now. It will tight-check, with two great groups grinding away. The group that plays better hockey will win."

The Oilers trust their standard season fortunes change.

The Pumas frantically need something similar to occur.

Boston is currently 5-0-0 against the Jaguars this season, the latest — and generally decided — of those wins dropping by a 5-1 include in Game 1 on Monday night behind 38 recoveries from Jeremy Swayman. Just two groups have gone 6-0-0 in their initial six matchups of a season against Florida, those clubs being the 2006-07 Atlanta Thrashers and the 2009-10 Washington Capitals.

"I thought our work was great," Bruins mentor Jim Montgomery said. "I thought we were physical. I don't think our execution was near where it should be."

Perhaps in this way, yet Swayman being in the zone takes care of a ton of issues.

In the event that he begins Game 2, it'll be his seventh back to back begin — which would be the longest by any Bruins goaltender since Tuukka Rask began the last 11 rounds of the 2020-21 season. Swayman has a 1.42 GAA in seven season finisher games this season.

"You must give him credit," Pumas forward Sam Reinhart said. "You know, there's consistently regions where you can attempt to make it really testing on a goalie. Also, that is unquestionably the thing we will attempt to do pushing ahead."

EDMONTON AT VANCOUVER, Game 1, 10 p.m. (ESPN)

The Oilers face the Canucks in the main season finisher series between two Canadian groups beginning around 2022, when Edmonton beat archrival Calgary in five games to progress toward the Western Gathering last. Edmonton is inclined toward, as indicated by BetMGM Sportsbook, to beat Vancouver this time, as well.

That is logical on account of how predominant Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl's group searched in dispatching Los Angeles in five games in the primary round. McDavid drives all season finisher scorers with 12 places, Draisaitl has 10 and Edmonton went 5 for 12 on the show of dominance and 10 for 10 on the punishment kill.

Yet, the Canucks, trained by Jack Adams Grant finalist Rick Tocchet, are an expert, by the same token. They defeated losing Vezina Prize finalist goaltender Thatcher Demko and reinforcement Casey DeSmith to injury in beating Nashville, with youngster Arturs Silovs stepping in and halting 75 of the 80 shots he confronted.