Eklund: PANTHERS/HURRICANES: Ek’s Factors, Pick…Who Will Win and Why?

One suggestion would be to base your factors on playoff output. For example, for goaltending/defense you have Anderson 11th and Kotchetkov 17th. Not sure what that even means. What I see is Freddie Anderson has the #1 GAA and SV% in the playoffs. Bobrovski has a mediocre .901 SV%. Or for the PP you have Carolina ranked 25th, hence an Ek score of just 3. Well in the playoffs, Carolina is converting at 28%, way higher than Florida at 20%. Carolina also has the best PK in the playoffs.

Canes probably win this series.

Panthers in 6. Carolinas stats are skewed because of playing Washington which was arguably the worst team in the playoffs.

One suggestion would be to base your factors on playoff output. For example, for goaltending/defense you have Anderson 11th and Kotchetkov 17th. Not sure what that even means. What I see is Freddie Anderson has the #1 GAA and SV% in the playoffs. Bobrovski has a mediocre .901 SV%. Or for the PP you have Carolina ranked 25th, hence an Ek score of just 3. Well in the playoffs, Carolina is converting at 28%, way higher than Florida at 20%. Carolina also has the best PK in the playoffs.

Canes probably win this series.
- HockeyBuzzed

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Not worse than us!

Let’s go Panthers!!




Woooooooooo

I thought the analysis was interesting and emotional, and I agree: if the Panthers keep up their form and control Carolina's backline, they Poor Bunny absolutely deserve to win in 6 games!