The Florida Panthers, who opened the series with three convincing victories only to lose the next three games, captured their first Stanley Cup in franchise history with a 2-1 Game 7 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night in Sunrise, Florida.
The Panthers' win averted one of the most epic collapses in sports history. Florida had built a 3-0 series lead, but the Oilers roared back with three straight wins, just the third time in NHL history that a team forced a Game 7 after losing the first three games of a Stanley Cup Final.remains intact -- they're still the only team to rally from a 3-0 deficit in the Final to win the Cup, after the Oilers came up short.
Florida captain Aleksander Barkov was awarded the Cup by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, and after his skate with it, he handed if off to Bobrovsky. Florida coach Paul Maurice -- who joined the franchise two seasons ago after stepping down as coach of the Winnipeg Jets, has been to the Final twice in two years -- won for the first time in a lengthy career.
"They say it's the hardest trophy to win in sports, and you can't imagine how hard it is, until you do it," Rodrigues said."Getting to Game 7, it took pressure off of us, and we did it the hard way. But it was a perfect outcome."
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