The playoffs in any sport always seem to bring out crazy pregame occurrences. The Florida Panthers added the latest edition before taking on the Boston Bruins in Game 6 of their second-round series.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, an unexpected fire alarm went off at Florida’s team hotel, likely interrupting a few naps hours before the playoff elimination game. For Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, such an occurrence is never a true surprise given the circumstances of the season, especially in the heat of a playoff series.
“(There’s) superstitions, right?” Maurice shared with reporters at TD Garden. “… The alarm is going off at 2:00 in the afternoon. I didn’t think I was sleeping today. Right around five minutes to two, it almost happened. At five after, man, that place was rocking.”
The Panthers did not run a major evacuation upon the alarm sounding, nor did they let the mid-day inconvenience affect the task at hand. Florida sealed the series with a 2-1 win in the final minutes of Game 6 to eliminate the Bruins at TD Garden for the second consecutive year.
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Florida prepares to battle the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference finals while the Bruins’ season comes to an end.
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