Crazy 8:1 in the NHL final! McDavid surpassed Gretzky and Edmonton destroyed Florida
Dmitry Storozhev June 16, 2024, 06:13 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Connor and company put together a nightmare night for Sergei Bobrovsky and the Panthers – the final isn’t over yet.
Edmonton’s position before the fourth game of the 2024 Stanley Cup final was, to put it mildly, depressing: the Oilers had lost all three previous meetings with Florida, one of which took place on the home ice of the Canadian team.
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The Oilers had practically no chance of winning, but in order not to lose the latter, today they had to beat the Panthers at all costs, who were more motivated than ever: the first Lord Stanley Trophy in the history of the franchise was incredibly close. , and the guests wanted to get it as soon as possible.
For the first time in the series, Chris Knobloch did not change the lineup, but at the same time significantly changed the attacking units; The only thing he didn’t change was the Janmark-Henrik-Brown combination, which started the game from the first seconds and organized the first shot on goal for Bobrovsky. Needless to say, Paul Maurice fielded the same players as in the previous three games. Well, just in case, we said it.
The beginning of the match turned out to be quite paradoxical: the Panthers very quickly received the right to play extra; Nurse could have gotten a big penalty for colliding with Bennett’s knee, but he got away with just a small one: They checked the frame of Skinner’s goal. twice in one second, and then missed a quick counterattack that ended up naked. Brown was able to get past Bobrovsky and rolled the puck into an empty space, where Barkov had no time to prevent Yanmark from sending a projectile into the net.
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Yanmark soon helped his team double the lead: the Swede fought well in the opponent’s area and crossed to Henrik, who was in goal. The Canadian got ahead of Lundell and put Florida in an extremely unusual position: the Panthers had not trailed by two goals since the third game of the semifinals.
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Within minutes it was reduced to a minimum: Forsling clicked out of nowhere, and Tarasenko turned out to be the fastest in front of Skinner and corrected the puck towards the goal, scoring for the second game in a row.
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But even before the break, the third puck hit Bobrovsky’s goal. Shortly before, Verage, from a lethal position, could not beat Skinner, who had almost come back, but the Canadian managed to make an impressive save. And then Draisaitl scored his first point in the series: the previously silent Oilers forward covered the puck well with his body and shared it with Holloway, and the young forward demonstrated excellent sleight of hand, once again letting the goalie Russian without a job. in the first period.
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For the first time in these playoffs, Bobrovsky conceded three goals in a third of the match, and in the second twenty minutes his nightmare night continued. Today everything flew towards the goal of the best goalkeeper of this Stanley Cup: in five minutes Sergei missed two more times and for the first time in the postseason gave way to Anthony Stolarz.
The first goal of the second half was scored by McDavid: the Oilers captain scored for the first time in the final and started a whole period in his name. He soon assisted Nurse, who sat Bobrovsky on the bench, and then helped the Oilers score on the power play for the first time during the deciding series, participating in Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ goal.
The assist was Connor’s 31st in the Stanley Cup this season, tying the NHL record previously held only by Wayne Gretzky, and also surpassing Evgeni Malkin’s record for most points in a single playoff by an active player. that the Canadian is now 37.
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The third period would have been an absolute formality, but McDavid notched another assist: Gretzky’s seemingly incredible record for assists in a single playoff game officially fell! And two and a half minutes later, MacLeod scored the eighth (!) goal against the Panthers in this game: truly crazy! The score of the series was 3-1, and now Florida, which Edmonton literally destroyed today, will try to solve all the problems on its own site.
