Ice Hockey
Florida Panthers Beat the Edmonton Oilers to Win Their First Stanley Cup
by privatebet.com - 2024/06/25
The Florida Panthers have spent quite some time waiting for their first Stanley Cup title, and their wait is finally over. They made an epic comeback after facing a 3-0 deficit and gave it their all against the Edmonton Oilers in Game 7 to win their first NHL title. After suffering a defeat in Game 6, the Panthers came into Monday night’s game determined to lift the trophy. Carter Verhaeghe gave them an early lead, but things got tense after the Oilers’ Mattias Janmark equalized the score. Sam Reinhart’s goal eventually broke the tie and led them to a 2-1 win. This victory was a huge deal for the Panthers’ head coach Paul Maurice, whose coaching career spans three decades. It took him almost 2,000 games to win his very first Stanley Cup, and he embraced this triumph with a surprising sense of calm. “It was not like anything I thought it would be. I thought it would be yelling and screaming and losing your mind because you couldn’t believe it happened. But these guys are different,” he said to the reporters after the big game. In addition to winning their first Stanley Cup, the Florida Panthers also made history as only the third NHL team to lift the trophy after a 3-0 deficit.