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The archetypal crippled of the Stanley Cup Final rematch belongs to the Edmonton Oilers, arsenic Leon Draisaitl’s 2nd extremity of the crippled was the overtime victor against the Florida Panthers connected Wednesday night.
The 4-3 triumph was a come-from-behind triumph for Edmonton, arsenic they were down 3-1 astatine 1 constituent successful this game, but scored 3 unanswered goals for a connection triumph connected their location ice.
After tying the crippled successful the 3rd play astatine 3 apiece, an overtime play was needed to find the victor of Game 1, and it astir looked similar different was indispensable arsenic some team’s chances couldn’t beryllium seen successful the net.
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Edmonton Oilers close helping Connor Brown (28) skates past Florida Panthers halfway Sam Bennett (9) successful the 2nd play successful crippled 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final astatine Rogers Place. (Perry Nelson-Imagn Images)
However, a costly mistake by Panthers forward Tomas Nosek saw him flip the puck implicit the solid successful his ain antiaircraft zone, which is an contiguous hold of crippled penalty.
Now, with a antheral advantage, the Oilers capitalized, and it had to beryllium Connor McDavid making the nifty saucer walk to his trusty teammate Draisaitl, who came flying successful beforehand of the nett to hammer the puck past Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky.
The goal, which came with 31 seconds near to play successful the period, was besides assisted by Corey Perry.
Draisaitl started the scoring conscionable arsenic helium finished it successful Game 1, helium recovered the backmost of the nett with conscionable implicit a infinitesimal into the archetypal period. He was successful the close spot astatine the close time, arsenic a changeable from Kasperi Kapanen deflected disconnected Bobrovsky and landed close onto Draisaitl’s stick, who slapped it into the nett to instrumentality the one-goal advantage.
But aboriginal successful the archetypal period, a arguable extremity by Florida’s Sam Bennett tied the crippled astatine 1 apiece.
Bennett was contiguous successful beforehand of the nett with 2 Oilers defenders astir him erstwhile Carter Verhaeghe took a changeable that deed disconnected Bennett and got past goaltender Stuart Skinner. The Panthers, though, judge Bennett had goalie interference.
Upon further review, it appears Bennett was tripped by Brett Kulak arsenic the puck was being shot, starring to him falling into Skinner. The extremity stood and the crippled was tied.
Just minutes later, Brad Marchand, the Boston Bruins fable who the Panthers traded for astatine the deadline, took a cross-ice walk during a powerfulness play and made the cleanable changeable past Skinner to instrumentality a 2-1 lead.
Florida Panthers halfway Sam Bennett (9) reacts aft scoring a extremity against Edmonton Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner (74) during the archetypal play successful crippled 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final astatine Rogers Place. (Walter Tychnowicz-Imagn Images)
The Panthers had momentum going into the 2nd period, and erstwhile again, it was Bennett getting 1 past Skinner to instrumentality a coagulated 3-1 lead. Bennett was skating successful modulation erstwhile Nate Schmidt placed a cleanable walk connected his stick, and helium did the remainder for his 2nd extremity of the game.
As we learned from past year’s final, the Oilers volition not spell down easy, and that appears to beryllium the aforesaid taxable arsenic they came backmost with their ain timely goals.
Viktor Arvidsson took a slap changeable erstwhile the Oilers entered the violative zone, and Bobrovsky was excessively precocious to respond arsenic it whizzed past his near broadside and stayed existent into the net.
Edmonton Oilers halfway Leon Draisaitl (29) reacts aft scoring a extremity against the Florida Panthers during the archetypal play successful crippled 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Final astatine Rogers Place. (Walter Tychnowicz-Imagn Images)
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With a 3-2 shortage going into the 3rd period, Edmonton knew they had to get connected the committee archetypal to enactment unit connected Florida. That’s precisely what happened arsenic Mattias Ekholm scored his archetypal Stanley Cup Playoffs extremity aft Connor McDavid dished a back-handed walk to the beforehand of the portion and it recovered his stick. Bobrovsky was wholly retired of presumption with bodies successful beforehand of him arsenic Ekholm changeable the puck into the net.
Through 2 periods, it was the Panthers' dominating play connected the ice, but the Oilers turned it up a notch successful the 3rd play and ne'er looked back. They outshot the Panthers 46-32 connected the night, portion Skinner made 29 saves successful the triumph arsenic well.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
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