Stanley Cup Final: Panthers hold off Oilers comeback to take 3-0 serie…
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The Florida Panthers are one win from their first Stanley Cup title, but the Edmonton Oilers can at least say they at least made this loss too close for comfort.
In the span of a little more than six minutes, the Panthers ripped off three straight goals to turn a tie game into a laugher in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. However, that laugher turned back into a game in the final minutes, when the Oilers scored twice to cut the deficit to one.
That was all they got, though, and the Panthers finished the game with a 4-3 win and a 3-0 series lead.
Only four teams have ever come back from down 3-0 in an NHL series, the most recent being the 2013-14 Los Angeles Kings. It has happened only once in the Stanley Cup Final, when the Toronto Maple Leafs stunned the Detroit Wings in 1942.
Game 4 is scheduled for Saturday at 8 p.m. ET in Edmonton (ABC).
The Panthers drew first blood in the first period when a scrum led to matching minor penalties for roughing and a 4-on-4, in which Sam Reinhart scored via assists from Gustav Forsling and Aleksander Barkov. The Oilers equalized early in the second with a breakaway goal by Warren Foegele, but that would be the end of optimism in Edmonton.
First, Eetu Luostarinen intercepted a lazy puck from Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner and caught him out of position with a pass to Vladimir Tarasenko, who took advantage of the wide-open net.
The Oilers defense started to decay from there, and the Panthers punished them for it. Next came Sam Bennett:
Then Barkov:
The Oilers got two back from Philip Broberg and Ryan McLeod, but needed one more to avoid needing an even bigger comeback for the series.
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