{"id":484569,"date":"2024-06-25T01:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484569"},"modified":"2024-06-25T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:38:36","slug":"panthers-stop-the-freefall-and-lift-stanley-cup-in-game-7","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-stop-the-freefall-and-lift-stanley-cup-in-game-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers stop the freefall and lift Stanley Cup in Game 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling conclusion to the Stanley Cup Final, the Florida Panthers emerged victorious, securing their first-ever Stanley Cup title with a 2-1 Game 7 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Despite facing intense pressure after losing three consecutive games, the Panthers clinched the championship in Sunrise, Florida, ending a hard-fought series that had initially seen them take a commanding 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE MOMENT WE BECAME STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MKxn62sJXx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MKxn62sJXx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1805441497547829315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carter Verhaeghe played a crucial role in the decisive game, scoring one goal and assisting on Sam Reinhart&#8217;s second-period tally, which proved to be the Cup-winning goal. Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky delivered a stellar performance with 23 saves, including a crucial diving stop on Zach Hyman during a late-game scramble.<\/p>\n<p>Mattias Janmark scored the lone goal for the Oilers, while goalie Stuart Skinner made 19 saves. Despite being held without a point in the last two games, Edmonton&#8217;s captain Connor McDavid was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP, having amassed an impressive 42 points throughout the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers were attempting to become only the second team in NHL history to overcome a 3-0 deficit in the Stanley Cup Final, a feat last achieved by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1942. This marks the second time in recent history that the Oilers have fallen short in a Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, the previous instance being in 2006 against the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton&#8217;s loss also extends the drought for Canadian teams, who have not won the Stanley Cup since the Montreal Canadiens&#8217; victory in 1993, making it 31 years since the trophy last went to a team from Canada.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewATIXEdUMU?si=uNaCckcg4LvWy51Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling conclusion to the Stanley Cup Final, the Florida Panthers emerged victorious, securing their first-ever Stanley Cup title with a 2-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484570,"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 won 2-1 in Sunrise to escape historic humiliation, being 3-0 up in the final series ","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\/484569"}],"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=484569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484572,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484569\/revisions\/484572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484569"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484569"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}