SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — This one surely felt different to the Florida Panthers, for a lot of reasons.
Florida Panthers center Evan Rodrigues celebrates after scoring a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the second period of Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. SUNRISE, Fla. — This one surely felt different to the Florida Panthers , for a lot of reasons.
And they can only hope that a recent trend continues: Game 1 winners of the Stanley Cup Final have won the title in 14 of the last 18 seasons. “It feels good. Always feels good to win,” Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk said. “But we’ve got a lot of things to clean up and to get better at. They played well. We played well enough to win, just really grinded it out.”
Bobrovsky stopped breakaways, stopped point-blank shots, stopped everything, sometimes without a stick. He stoned Oilers star Connor McDavid in the third period to preserve a 2-0 lead, a save so good that all McDavid could do after the whistle was stand in the crease in what probably was disbelief.
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