{"id":483757,"date":"2024-06-02T02:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483757"},"modified":"2024-06-02T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:32:47","slug":"panthers-eliminate-rangers-to-clinch-stanley-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-eliminate-rangers-to-clinch-stanley-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers eliminate Rangers to clinch Stanley Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales Trophy was presented when the match ended, as the venue filled with Florida Panthers supporters cheered and everyone hurry to take pictures with the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>In the past campaign, Florida defied tradition and touched the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>However, this time, they didn\u2019t. The message was loud \u2013 they only care about the ultimate prize in the postseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FlaPanthers<\/a> became the sixth different franchise in the past 30 years to advance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StanleyCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#StanleyCup<\/a> Final in consecutive seasons, joining the Lightning, Penguins, Red Wings, Devils and Stars.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLStats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NHLStats<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r80dfC9ha2\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/r80dfC9ha2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYNTSL13Aq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RYNTSL13Aq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_NHL\/status\/1797118951895282075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> consecutive season, they have the opportunity to win the title. Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves, Sam Bennett and Vladimir Tarasenko notched, and the Florida Panthers advanced to the Stanley Cup finals again after defeating the NY Rangers 2-1 at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, FL.<\/p>\n<p>Florida, who was stopped by the Golden Knights in the past final, triumphed in the Eastern Conference Final matchup in 6 matches. The Panthers will play against either the Oilers or the Stars in the games for the trophy, and that matchup is set to begin on June 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Artemi Panarin notched almost 2 minutes before the end of the match and Igor Shesterkin made 32 saves for New York, who had a 2-1 advantage in the matchup \u2013 then were defeated in 3 consecutive, costing them their campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE ARE BACK-TO-BACK EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u6EPnSuR3a\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/u6EPnSuR3a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1797098739615637675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was the Rangers\u2019 longest losing streak since mid-January and means that, for the 11<sup>th<\/sup> straight campaign, the organization that finishes with the league\u2019s best regular-campaign record won\u2019t triumph with the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9DNupJ3Dmvw?si=xrMy1LOPq0bafQZ9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince of Wales Trophy was presented when the match ended, as the venue filled with Florida Panthers supporters cheered and everyone hurry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483758,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16872,16716,17844],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18134,17850,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Florida going back to the finals after beating New York 2-1.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483759,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483757\/revisions\/483759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483757"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483757"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}