{"id":484471,"date":"2024-06-22T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484471"},"modified":"2024-06-22T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:35:59","slug":"oilers-defeat-panthers-5-1-to-force-a-game-7","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/oilers-defeat-panthers-5-1-to-force-a-game-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers defeat Panthers 5-1 to force a Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor McDavid finished with a point, so Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers&#8217; other top players stepped up to secure the victory and put the team a 1 match from the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl made his 1<sup>st<\/sup> major impact in the series by setting up Warren Foegele&#8217;s early goal, Adam Henrique and Zach Hyman notched in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period and Edmonton Oilers forced a Game 7 by winning 5-1 against the Florida Panthers at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS SERIES NEEDS 7\u20e3<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Oilers<\/a> defeat the Panthers 5-1 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final to send the series back to Sunrise tied 3-3. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LetsGoOilers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RxILUvRC4i\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RxILUvRC4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/1804347985117220905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing is that each game, we play for the victory, and this is going to be the hardest match for us,\u201d Draisaitl shared. \u201cWe must be at our best level in Game 7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are the 1<sup>st<\/sup> organization to even the final after being down 3-0 in the matchup since the Detroit Red Wings in 1945. Edmonton has the opportunity at the beginning of the week to join the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs as the only NHL franchises to come all the way back from that trail to triumph with the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The job is not done.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Oilers<\/a> become the 10th team in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NHL<\/a> history to rally back from a 3-0 series deficit &amp; force a Game 7 with 5-1 win over Panthers in Game 6 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogersPlace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RogersPlace<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paigymartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paigymartin<\/a> has your recap! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XMe4ZuHc8g\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XMe4ZuHc8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/1804372371593462147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Panthers had just 6 shots midway to the match and finished with 21.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iIVCC5cXa-c?si=YviYF0V64j8h58fn\" 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>Connor McDavid finished with a point, so Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers&#8217; other top players stepped up to secure the victory and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484472,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,16872,17844],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,18134,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Edmonton tied the series after being down 3-0.","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\/484471"}],"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=484471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484473,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484471\/revisions\/484473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484471"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484471"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}