FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- On the next-to-last day of the NHL season, Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky wasn't on the ice for practice.

The Panthers are sure that's a good thing.

Bobrovsky was a serious Conn Smythe Award candidate at one point in this Stanley Cup Final that ends with Game 7 on Monday night, with Florida winning the first three games and the Edmonton Oilers basically rendered silent by the Panthers' goaltender. But in the last three games, Edmonton's offense has exploded and Bobrovsky's numbers look horrific -- a 5.06 goals-against average and a .793 save percentage.

I have a post in the publishing queue set at 7:32 pm tomorrow night where, inter alia, I make my prediction for G7.