Posted on 06/24/2024 8:59:11 PM PDT by FLNittany
The Florida Panthers made history Monday night in front of more than 19,000 fans at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida, beating the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 to win their first Stanley Cup.
As expected, Game 7 was a hard-fought contest with both teams going toe to toe throughout the game.
Panthers' Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe scored goals, Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves.
This time, they were on the right side of history — after avoiding what would have been a historic collapse. The Panthers won the first three games of the series, then lost the next three and needed a win on Monday to avoid joining the 1942 Detroit Red Wings as the only teams to lose the final after taking a 3-0 lead in the title round.
It wasn't easy. Not even close. But it's done. It took until the very end for the Panthers to deny Connor McDavid his first title, and Edmonton what would have been its first Cup since 2006.
Congratulations from a decades-long Lightning fan. It couldn’t have happened to a better team, except for Tampa Bay of course 😉
Stanley likes the state of Florida.
“Florida team with Man wins Stanley Cup.”
Awesome comeback by the Oil falls short. Congrats to the Panthers. 🏒
Also congrats to the Tennessee Volunteers for winning the College World Series.
And then you have the Toronto Maple Leafs that last won it in 1967. A little under a 60-year wait.
If you look at the box score that game couldn’t have been closer.
Tenn: 6-13-1
A&M: 5-13-1
Hell of a series and I am an A&M fan.
Congrats to the real UT.
Strange series. Bobrovsky became ordinary for the 3 games Edmonton won, though that was partly on his teammates for hanging him out to dry. Then he was suddenly elite again. Meanwhile McDavid played like the greatest player in the world for a couple of games, then was a non-factor in the last two.
Just a heads up-
so has 90% of industry/institution yet only us sport’s fans are the ones reminded.
Plenty of us are sport’s fans.
Congratulations, Florida panthers 🐆.
How do these people get jobs reporting anything? They always get something wrong.
The last time the Oilers won the Cup was in 1990 (with Messier and others following the 1988 Gretzky trade).
The longest droughts in the NHL are:
1967-Toronto Maple Leafs (last Cup before modern expansion)
1970-Buffalo Sabres (finals series appearances in 1975 & 1999)
1970-Vancouver Canucks (finals series appearances in 1982,
1994, and 2011).
1975-Philadelphia Flyers (also appeared in 1976, 1980, 1985,
1987, 1997, & 2010 finals).
1979-Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes/Utah Hockey Club (has not appeared beyond 2nd round of NHL playoffs).
NBA—1951-Rochester/Cincinnati Royals/Kansas City/Sacramento Kings
1958-St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks
1968-Phoenix Suns (has never won a championship)
1970-Buffalo Braves/San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers (has never won a championship)_
Us Floridians like having the Cup, between the Lightning and Panthers, we're good!
There’s something wrong about a city that never has winters winning the Stanley Cup.....
A Florida team wins a championship played on ice. Now they can hold a dog sled race in Miami.
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