The Edmonton Oilers are dragging the Stanley Cup final back to Alberta with 5-3 Game 5 win over the Florida Panthers.
Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers stayed alive with a 5-3 road win over the Florida Panthers Tuesday night.For the second game in a row, the Oilers opened the scoring while shorthanded.
He stole the puck at the Oilers blue line and took off on a breakaway against Sergei Bobrovsky. Brown beat Bobrovsky with a move to the backhand to make it 1-0 Edmonton 5:30 into the game. The Oilers scored on the power play 1:58 into the second when defender Evan Bouchard’s point shot went in off Zach Hyman’s leg. It was the scorer’s 15th goal since the start of the series.Three minutes later, Connor McDavid sifted a bad angle shot through Bobrovsky to make it 3-0 Oilers. The Panthers replies less than two minutes later. After the Oilers failed to clear the puck, Matthew Tkachuk picked the top corner to pull his team within two.
It was McDavid’s 40th point since the start of the playoffs. Only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux have reached this plateau in a single playoff run.The Panthers pulled Bobrovsky for an extra attacker with 2:31 on the clock. Tkachuk dove to keep the puck from sliding into the vacated cage, but he swept the puck to McDavid, who popped in empty netter to put it away with 18.7 seconds left.
The Panthers entered Tuesday night’s game with a 3-1 series lead and are playing for a chance to win a Stanley Cup on home ice for the first time in the franchise’s 30-year history.However Edmonton has dominated play through a good portion of the series, and was finally rewarded with an 8-1 win in Game 4 on Saturday.
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