Cat Scratch Fever has shifted up the calendar a pair months this time round. Final 12 months, the Florida Panthers spent the primary half of the season searching for sign on their telephone earlier than closing the second half with a flourish to make the playoffs. That carried over into the postseason as they chased down the Boston Bruins, taking seven video games within the first spherical to kneecap the league’s finest regular-season groups (and top-of-the-line regular-season groups ever). That propelled them to a run to the Ultimate after they completely clobbered the Leafs and Canes.