SUNRISE, Fla. — Brad Marchand and Sam Bennett scored once more, Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe every received their first aim within the Stanley Cup Last and the defending champion Florida Panthers capitalized on the Edmonton Oilers’ worst efficiency in weeks to win Recreation 3 in a 6-1 rout Monday evening and take a 2-1 sequence lead.
Marchand grew to become the oldest participant to attain in every of the primary three video games of a ultimate and the primary to open the scoring the subsequent trip after notching an time beyond regulation winner. His 11 objectives within the ultimate are probably the most amongst energetic gamers, yet one more than equally ageless Corey Perry.
Bennett added his NHL playoff-leading 14th aim, simply the second at residence, after making an enormous hit on Edmonton’s Vasily Podkolzin that contributed to the turnover to spring him on a breakaway. Marchand and Bennett have mixed to attain eight of Florida’s 13 objectives within the sequence.
However it was not simply them this time. Verhaeghe buried an ideal shot into the web below the cross bar on the facility play, Reinhart made up for lacking the web on an earlier try, Aaron Ekblad scored to chase Stuart Skinner on the fifth aim on 23 photographs and Evan Rodrigues added the exclamation level within the waning minutes.
On the different finish of the ice, Sergei Bobrovsky earned the “Bobby! Bobby!” chants from a fired up South Florida crowd. The 2-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender often known as “Bob” was on his sport for the only a few high quality possibilities the discombobulated Oilers mustered, making 32 saves.
Perry — at 40 the oldest participant within the sequence — beat Bobrovsky with some silky palms for a power-play aim, maintaining this ultimate being a showcase of cagey veterans together with Marchand.
Connor McDavid couldn’t get his group on monitor, and Edmonton took 15 minors — led by Evander Kane’s three plus a misconduct so as to add as much as 85 penalty minutes — together with a brawl that ensued with lower than 10 minutes left. Trent Frederic and Darnell Nurse, who fought Jonah Gadjovich, received misconducts that knocked them out of a sport with an end result decided lengthy earlier than.
After the ultimate seemed as evenly matched as may be with Video games 1 and a couple of every needing further time, time beyond regulation after which double OT, Recreation 3 was a lopsided mismatch. The Oilers got here unglued to the purpose Jake Walman resorted to squirting water on Panthers gamers on their bench from his spot on the visiting facet.
The groups have some further day without work earlier than Recreation 4 on Thursday evening, when the Panthers have the prospect to take a 3-1 lead and transfer to the verge of going again to again.
