After flirting with a historic collapse, the Cats claimed the first title in franchise history.
After looking lost in the prior three games, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky bounced back along with the Cats' defense in Game 7.saves, holding strong as the Oilers threw everything they could at him in the waning minutes.Panthers center Carter Verhaeghe opened scoring four minutes into the game. The Oilers evened the score quickly, but Florida 's Sam Reinhart fired the decisive goal in the second period.
The final began similarly, with the Cats claiming the first three games, including a hard-fought 4-3 victory in Edmonton on June 13. Then it almost slipped away: Three straight defeats — including two blowouts — nearly put the Panthers on the wrong side of history.Had the Oilers won, they'd have been only the second team to pull off a reverse sweep in Stanley Cup Final history. The Toronto Maple Leafs pulled it off in April 1942, at the height of World War II.
With Monday night's victory, the Panthers avoided joining that year's losing Detroit Red Wings team in hockey infamy.The Panthers were the first team to lose in the final and return the following season since the 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins.This was only the team's third trip to the Stanley Cup Final, including a 1996 defeat against the Colorado Avalanche.
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