The Edmonton Oilers turned the 211th workforce to path 3-0 in a playoff sequence in NHL historical past final week. Now, they’re only one win away from turning into the fifth to ever full the comeback.
The Oilers on Friday turned the tenth workforce in NHL historical past to power a Game 7 after trailing a sequence three video games to none after beating the Florida Panthers, 5-1.
Shortly after almost 20,000 followers belted the Canadian nationwide anthem on the high of their lungs, Warren Foegele by some means received them to scream even louder, discovering the again of the online and giving the Oilers a 1-0 lead.
As for Florida, they’d simply two photographs on aim within the first interval, certainly one of which got here from 170 ft away. It was the fewest photographs they’d in a interval all 12 months.
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Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) celebrates his aim with teammates in opposition to the Florida Panthers in the course of the second interval in recreation six of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place. (Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports)
Edmonton began the second body with Adam Henrique scoring simply 46 seconds into the interval on a 2-on-1 following an ice-length go. Florida’s Aleksander Barkov thought he’d answered again simply 10 seconds later, however Edmonton efficiently challenged that the Panthers had been offside, leaving it a 2–0 Oilers lead.
With 1:40 remaining within the second interval, Zach Hyman lit the lamp to make it 3-0. The Oilers scored twice within the center body, regardless of Florida outshooting them, 11-4.
Florida received on the board early within the third with a Barkov aim, nevertheless it was too little too late, and the Oilers scored not one, however two empty-netters for good measure.
Afterward, the gang chanted, very loudly, “We Want the Cup.”
Edmonton has outscored Florida, 18-5, within the final three video games — within the first three, they’d solely scored 4 to Florida’s 11.
This is simply the third time that the Stanley Cup will see a seventh recreation after a workforce owned a 3-0 lead, and the primary since 1945 – the Toronto Maple Leafs gained each of these cases, finishing the comeback in 1942, after which saving themselves from embarrassment three years later.
Edmonton Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (18) celebrates his aim with teammates in opposition to the Florida Panthers in the course of the second interval in recreation six of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place. (Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports)
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It’s the primary 3-0 comeback within the league for the reason that Los Angeles Kings did so within the first spherical of the 2014 playoffs – they gained that Game 7, and ultimately gained the Cup, profitable two extra Game 7s within the course of.
The final workforce within the Big 4 leagues to power a Game 7 after trailing 3-0 was final 12 months’s Boston Celtics – they misplaced to the eighth-seeded Miami Heat within the Eastern Conference Finals, however received their revenge earlier this week by profitable their first NBA title since 2008. They had been the fourth NBA workforce to tie the sequence, however none have gained it after going through a three-game deficit.
Only the 2004 Boston Red Sox have accomplished the comeback in Major League Baseball – the 2020 Houston Astros virtually joined them, however misplaced Game 7 of the ALCS to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Edmonton Oilers middle Adam Henrique (19) celebrates his aim with teammates in opposition to the Florida Panthers in the course of the second interval in recreation six of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Place. (Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports)
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This sequence’ Game 7 can be again in Sunrise, Fla., the place nearly everybody can be in full-blown panic on Monday night time.
With a win, it’ll be the Oilers’ first Cup since 1990, and Canada’s first since 1993.
That would additionally mark the second 12 months in a row the Panthers would lose within the Final, having fallen to the Vegas Golden Knights final 12 months.
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