EDMONTON, Alberta — Carter Verhaeghe scored the tiebreaking objective within the third interval and the defending champion Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-5 on Monday within the rematch of the Stanley Cup Last.
Niko Mikkola, Sam Reinhart, Jesper Boqvist, Matthew Tkachuk and Gustav Forsling additionally scored for the Panthers. Florida received regardless of star ahead Aleksander Barkov lacking his second consecutive recreation with an sickness. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 photographs.
Zach Hyman scored twice, Leon Draisaitl had a objective and an help, and Kasperi Kapanen and Connor Brown additionally scored for the Oilers, who snapped a five-game profitable streak. Connor McDavid had three assists and Stuart Skinner completed with 22 saves.
Hyman went to the dressing room pouring blood after taking a puck to the face after Bouchard’s power-play blast deflected off of a Panthers participant within the second interval. He returned for the third interval sporting a full face defend.
Takeaways
Panthers: Florida obtained an enormous short-handed objective simply 2:42 into the primary interval as Boqvist stole a puck from a stumbling Evan Bouchard and went in on the breakaway earlier than sending his fifth of the season by Skinner’s legs. It was Florida’s second objective in 214 minutes, together with shutouts within the two earlier video games. Florida leads the NHL with eight short-handed targets.
Oilers: Draisaitl had his sixth straight multi-point recreation, with 15 factors in that stretch. He has 17 multi-point video games this season and leads the league in targets (23), even-strength targets (18), and game-winning targets (seven).
Key second
Verhaeghe obtained a centering cross from Bennett from the left nook, obtained Skinner to go down and fired a shot over the goalie’s shoulder into the highest left nook to present the Panthers a 6-5 lead with 6:55 to go.
Key stat
Hyman’s objective within the second interval was his two hundredth with McDavid getting an help. Hyman now has seven targets in his final six video games after getting back from harm and has 10 on the season.
Up Subsequent
Panthers go to Minnesota on Wednesday to complete a five-game journey.