The last time Florida and Carolina met in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Panthers swept the 2023 series – but every game was close. After Florida's crushing 5-0 defeat of the Panthers for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals,

After losing the first two games of the Eastern Conference Final at home, the Carolina Hurricanes need to look at the first period of Game 3 on Saturday and start from there. They’re going to go on the road and they’re going to have to play a gritty road game. They can do it. They have the players.

The Florida Panthers were an unstoppable force, and the Carolina Hurricanes were a very movable object. That was the story of Game 2 on Thursday night as the Panthers walloped the Hurricanes, 5-0, to take a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference final.

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Everybody’s scoring for Florida. Nobody’s scoring for Carolina. In simplest terms, that might be the best way to describe the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals between the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Florida Panthers forward Sam Reinhart will not return to Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final because of a lower-body injury he sustained in the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center.