Sergei Bobrovsky shuts out Maple Leafs as Panthers even up series

Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald on May 11, 2025

Published in Hockey

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MIAMI — Sergei Bobrovsky recorded his second shutout of the postseason, stopping all 21 shots he faced from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday as the Florida Panthers won 2-0 in Game 4 of their second-round series at Amerant Bank Arena.

With the win, Florida has evened the best-of-seven series at 2-2 after dropping the first two games of the set. Game 5 is at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday, with puck drop scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.

This is Bobrovsky’s second consecutive playoffs with multiple shutouts, and he now has at least one shutout in round of the playoffs in his career. He is now the seventh active goaltender with at least five career playoff shutouts, joining Marc-Andre Fleury (16), Jonathan Quick (10), Andrei Vasilevskiy (seven), Cam Talbot (six), Matt Murray (six) and Petr Mrazek (five).

Carter Verhaeghe gave Bobrovsky all the support he would need with a first-period power-play goal on assists from Matthew Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov with 4:15 left in the opening period.

Verhaeghe now has 30 career postseason goals. He is one of 36 active players to have at least that many. Since the 2021 playoffs, when Verhaeghe joined the Panthers, he is one of just five active players with 30 playoff goals. Leon Draisaitl, Nathan MacKinnon, Zach Hyman and Connor McDavid are the others.

Florida, which dominated possession throughout the game, had multiple opportunities to extend the lead, but Toronto goaltender Joseph Woll was dominant in his own right.

The insurance goal finally came with 7:50 left to play when Sam Bennett won a race for a loose puck, dangled the puck on his stick, deked Woll in front of the net and fired a shot into the net.

The Panthers played most of the third period down a forward after Evan Rodrigues took a high hit from Maple Leafs defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson about five minutes into the final frame. Rodrigues did not return to the game, and coach Paul Maurice primarily used Tomas Nosek, who had been centering the fourth line, in that spot to keep the rest of the forward lines intact.

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