{"id":484013,"date":"2024-06-09T01:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484013"},"modified":"2024-06-09T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T05:42:10","slug":"panthers-trash-oilers-3-0-in-game-1-of-stanley-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-trash-oilers-3-0-in-game-1-of-stanley-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers trash Oilers 3-0 in Game 1 of Stanley Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers secured a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Saturday at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers forward Carter Verhaeghe kicked off the goals just under four minutes into the game with a backhand pass from captain Aleksander Barkov, marking Verhaeghe\u2019s team-leading 10th goal of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite threats from Connor McDavid and the Oilers, Florida goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, supported by solid defense, managed to keep the Oilers scoreless, closing the first period with a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers widened their lead in the second period with a goal from Evan Rodrigues, making it 2-0. The Oilers outshot the Panthers 32-18, but Florida maintained control and sealed their victory with an empty net goal by Eetu Luostarinen just four seconds before the final buzzer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sergei Bobrovsky posted the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StanleyCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#StanleyCup<\/a> Final shutout in franchise history and helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FlaPanthers<\/a> take a lead in the championship series for the first time.<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\/4fLCGAdT1Z\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/4fLCGAdT1Z<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qCxY2Le80g\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qCxY2Le80g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_NHL\/status\/1799637598597460257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bobrovsky\u2019s 32 saves were pivotal in achieving the Panthers&#8217; first Stanley Cup shutout victory in team history. The 35-year-old Russian goaltender acknowledged the Oilers&#8217; prowess, referring to them as &#8220;elite&#8221; after the game. The Oilers, who have a storied history with five Stanley Cup wins, faced a tough challenge from the Panthers, who lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in last year&#8217;s final\u2014their first in 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is set for Monday at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PyhWA0UqUtE?si=PSA5D-v-wBpBTeWz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers secured a 3-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Saturday at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484014,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,16872],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,18134],"acf":{"announce":"Florida goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was the main man on the ice on Saturday night","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\/484013"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484017,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484013\/revisions\/484017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484013"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484013"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}