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Quickly, let's talk about some X factors in this series
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I'll stay with you, Jacob. What's an X factor for you, a player or a situation here
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I'm gonna say it's special teams. The Panthers power play has been
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it looks like it can be lethal, but then at times it's just completely flat
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and their penalty kill has a lot of potential on both ways that they can just shut down
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anything you can possibly throw at them. And then they can transition to actually score
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off of their penalty kill because they have a lot of weapons that they put out there at the same time
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So using their transition abilities on their penalty kill as well as actually capitalizing on their power play
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is gonna be huge in this type of a series where chances I think are gonna be fairly limited
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with how good the goaltending is probably going to be. I'm not sure how good Bobrovsky
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is going to be in a series like this. It is really gonna be dependent on the defense
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to help him out. But overall, I think the power play and the penalty kill
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are going to be huge factors for the Panthers in the series
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Yeah, special teams always an X factor. I think defending team for sure
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Hannah, I believe Jake DeBrusque was your X factor in the last set
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I can't remember. I know he was mentioned. And he was, he was a pretty big factor
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So what do you got for this series? I did, I guess I said something right last time
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So that was definitely a fun thing for games one and two to see him doing so well
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I also think special teams would be a big thing for the Bruins. They've had an excellent penalty kill all year
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The power play is streaky at best. So if they can continue to be excellent penalty killers
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that will really be a good boost and take some pressure off of their goaltending
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But I think another X factor is that Bruins third line, Trent Frederick, James Van Riemstein, Justin Brazzo
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They were three of the best players, I think on the ice in game seven
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Trent Frederick, I think he's probably an argument for the best, you know, Jeremy Swainman
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is definitely the MVP of the whole team. If you're looking at just, you know, skaters
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Trent Frederick would have to be a candidate for that. So I'd love to see him continue to be that player
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in round two. He's also, you know, a guy that, he hasn't always had a lot of success in the playoffs
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This was the first, this past series was the first time he'd ever scored a playoff goal
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and he ended up with three. So, but he is the type of guy that feels like
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he should be belt for the playoffs because he is never one to shy away from some fight
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and aggression, but can also turn around and then score goals now, which was a part of his game
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that's really developed in the last two seasons. So he is a guy that should be belt for the playoffs
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and it showed in round one and it would be great to see that continue in round two
