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The first 25 years of the existence of Florida’s panthers were anything but synonymous with hockey success. The panthers only made the NHL qualifying series only five times and progressed after the second round only once, while cycling at 10 coaches.
Now they are the most dominant franchise in hockey – again.
Tuesday, Florida won its second consecutive title of the Stanley Cup by surviving Edmonton in a rehearsal of last year’s final, winning 5-1 in match 6 to continue its transformation almost overnight in one of the most successful franchises in hockey. It was the third consecutive season that Florida had played for a title, a race that coincides with the hiring of coach Paul Maurice.
Edmonton won the opening of the series in overtime, only so that Florida rebounds with victories in match 2, in double extension and match 3. When Edmonton equalized the series with a prolongation victory in match 4, Florida took an advance in the 3-2 series by winning match 5.
The panthers then closed a series full of tight matches with an eruption that started with the unattached goal of Sam Reinhart in the first period. A goal by Matthew Tkachuk pushed the advance at 2-0, and Reinhart scored the following three goals to transform the closing opportunity into a 5-0 rout. Edmonton scored his only goal in the last minutes, long after the panthers have already put the match on the match by the EDMONTON SCURT Skinner goalkeeper and two other empty goals three times.
Florida Carter Verhaeghe finished with three assists.
With the victory of the Florida 4-2 series, it is the 10th franchise to win consecutive championships and the first since Tampa Bay in 2020-2021. The championship extended the Panthers race, continued the southern quarter of the League and CThe Canada Championship has on drought at 32, with Montreal the last Canadian champion in 1993.
Since 2004, when Tampa Bay has won the Stanley Cup, 10 of the last 21 champions came from Sun Belt, extending from Los Angeles to Florida. The four titles of the Stanley Cup won by Florida in the past five years are all cuts that Canada has produced in the last 37.
To win its second Stanley Cup, Florida had to overcome a regular regular season during which it finished with only the highest fifth total point in the Eastern Conference and the fifth best goal differential. A repeated meeting of last year’s finalists was hardly a conclusion, because Edmonton endured his own inconsistency while finishing with the sixth points of the West Conference.
Once they have reached the playoffs, Florida and Edmonton have crossed offenses that ranked first and third. Florida has also owned the best average of the eliminatory series, with only 2.5.
In the playoffs, the panthers then had to overcome their weakness of the potential opportunities of the potential series. They had only 10-8 in such scenarios since 2023. And the end of the series also meant stopping the best offensive weapon of hockey in Connor McDavid, the 28-year-old star whose long list of individual distinctions for 10 years in Edmonton had not yet translated a team championship.
McDavid’s individual brightness has still not done so, Florida refused the Oilers a Stanley Cup for a second consecutive season.
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