Brad Marchand on Friday scored a goal to win overtime to give a roller coaster-ride winning 5–4 on Edmonton Oilrs to give a roller coaster-ride to Florida Panthers and also in the Stanley Cup final.
After surrendering the target of the final -minute olers to force overtime, the panthers thanked Marchand’s Breakaye Tally at 8:05 of the second overtime period, for the second tally of the night.
Seth Jones collected a goal and one aid, while Sam Bennett and Dimitri Kulicov tied the single for the panthers, who tied the best seven series on 1. Nat Schmidt and Anton Lundel a pair of assistance for the defending Stanley Cup Champion.
Goltender Sergei Bobroveski saved 42, a caspy away from a crowd before the biggest winner against Kapanan.
Both sports overturned after the panthers surrendered the third period lead.
The series on Monday Sunrise for Game 3 on Monday.
Ivan Bouchide scored once in a three-point game for oilrs, while Leon Dresital scored a goal and a support and Evander Kane and Corey Perry scored once. Connor McDwid posted three assistance and goalkeeper Stuart Skinner stopped 37 shots.
Like the series opener, both teams stopped and lost a lead. Bennett kicked the Wild First period with his league-high 13th goal of the playoffs with a quick-relief, power-play marker at a 2:07 mark.
Before the midway point of the frame, the olers responded with a pair of 100 seconds. Kane buried a shot from the wing to put the hosts on the board at 7:39, and Bouchide gave Edmonton his first lead, when his second attempt was given to his second attempt from the high slot.
Jones covered the score at 11:37 of the period when he found an open mesh from Etu Luostarinn after a cross-Ice feed. However, Draisaitl made it 3–2 games exactly one minute later with a tap-in power-play goal installed by McDavid.
Kulikov again struggled at 8:23 of the second period, banking shot its point from the body of Burchad, and Marchand’s small-handed breakway goal gave the panthers a 4-3 at 12:09 of the second period.
But with the goalkeeper for the additional attacker, Perry put a loose Pak in the final with 17.8 seconds left in the net, the target of tying the latest in final history.
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