Matthew Tkachuk's confidence not waning with Panthers down 2-0

LAS VEGAS -- Down 2-0 in the Stanley Cup Final, Florida Panthers star forward Matthew Tkachuk hasn't lost his confidence. Instead, he's doubling down.

"(The Vegas Golden Knights) are halfway there and hopefully they're thinking about that a little bit when they're coming back to Florida," Tkachuk said following his team's 7-2 loss in Game 2 on Monday night.

While the eighth-seeded Panthers, who qualified for the postseason by just one point, lost consecutive road games for the first time since March, Tkachuk pointed out that Vegas has "run the table at home" for most of the playoffs.

And despite the score in Game 2, Tkachuk never believed his team was out of it.

"They might have thought that…