#ekky and bread being moderately chill with each other while matthew is out here about to knot a dude on the ice

[ratatatastic]

i love how we were so proud of our discipline and then BAM scrum tbf though swaggy goes after lafreniére because of the shove he gives him that leads to the goal and matthew goes for trochie presumably because of the follow through of his stick that hit forsy in the mouth which is what also led to the goal in the first place, its not a penalty but what does suck is that there wasnt a stoppage in play to check on forsy and because he was down, trochie was free to tap it in the side of the net that would have been guarded by forsy had he not gotten hit. though matthew has been targetting trochie in game 1 with a couple of pretty hard hits so it doesnt surprise me that he immediately beelines towards him

bob backing away from the chaos until hes out of frame is the peak of the scrum but the slap fight between ekky and panarin also is very good too especially when lundy tries to help out. peep thr refs very quickly seperating swaggy but having to drag lafreniére with them but because apparently two refs can only focus on one guy you can guess what happens

men mounting each on the ice? unheard of im clutching my pearls. but also lundy pinning fox to the goal and then realising lafreniére is on matthew and so he tries to go back to help but in doing so tries to drag fox WITH HIM but fox is clinging onto the pipe like his life is on the line AND THEN lundy manages to make it to matthew but FOX RAGDOLLS HIM BACK???

side note the absolute LENGTHS forsy has to go through to keep gustafsson at bay like thats a tasmanian devil on a leash

the only appropriate metaphor here is that trying to seperate the panthers in a scrum is like herding cats and all of this happening while the crowd sings along to the rangers goal song is so fucking chaotic

florida panthers @ new york rangers game 2 | 5.24.24