Ice hockey | Another rude defeat for Florida – the Finns were left with no points

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Florida-Edmonton 3–5 (0–1, 2–3, 1–1), wins 3–2

Champagnes stayed on ice and the Stanley Cup was put back in the box when the Edmonton Oilers won Game 5 of the Finals against the Florida Panthers.

With their second consecutive win, the Oilers narrowed the finals series to 2-3 and the finals caravan moves back to the other side of the border, almost 4,100 kilometers away to Edmonton.

The sixth final will be played the night before Saturday at 3:20 at Rogers Place.

The Finnish captain of the Panthers Alexander Barkov missed points and took -1 in the power statistic.

The fifth the first half of the match was a shock treatment for the home team and Panthers fans.

The Oilers struck first as the Panthers’ number one advantage fumbled. The Panthers were able to play the upper hand, but the defender was in the middle of the rotation Brandon Montour fell into a big mistake.

Montour was first and tried to pass Barkov with a line, but he has not been in a strong attack for the last few games Connor Brown intercepted the pass and ran through. Brown nailed the 1-0 goal with an elegant deflection Sergei Bobrovsky. The Oilers scored one underpowered goal in the last match as well.

The Panthers have now conceded five goals in the playoffs while playing with superiority. The amount is the second most during a single playoff spring in the 2000s.

The opening set was difficult for Barkov, because in the middle of the set, the Tampere center still took the offensive end from the cross stick. However, Panthers’ Alivoima did a quality job by killing the ice and forcing the Oilers to take the ice.

At the end of the opening set, the credit defender was on the ice shelf Niko Mikkola. Jäähy backfired when the Oilers’ star defenseman Evan Bouchard scored a 2–0 goal to his heart’s content just two seconds before Mikkola was freed from the ice hybos.

The Oilers took a 3–0 lead even before the middle of the second period when Bobrovski fumbled Connor McDavid’s a stroke from a small angle. McDavid enjoyed 2+2 performances in the winning match. The Canadian star has scored 3+5 in the last two matches.

McDavid leads the playoff scoring market with 8+34.

Bobrovski has conceded nine goals in less than two matches. The Russian keeper was pulled off the goal at the beginning of the second period of the previous final.

Matthew Tkachuk opened the Panthers’ goal taps with a 1–3 reduction in 26:53, but the Oilers’ striker Corey Perry hit back with a 4-2 goal advantage from McDavid’s dazzling preliminary work.

It brought more hope to the Panthers Evan Rodrigueswho made a 2–4 ​​reduction in 32.08.

The home team got success for the first strike of the third period, when the Swedish defender by Oliver Ekman-Larsson rose from the line in front of the goal and loaded the 3–4 reduction in time 44.04.

The goal raised the energy to the ceiling in Amerant Bank Arena, where the atmosphere in the first half of the match was downright unbelievable. After the third goal, the Panthers took over the match even more strongly and were able to create fierce pressure on the Oilers end.

With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had great chances to take the away team to a two-goal lead again, but Bobrovski made a big save just over 13 minutes before the buzzer.

The Panthers’ coaching took Bobrovski off the goal just over two and a half minutes before the end and the Panthers sought an equalizer with six field players.

Oilers forward Mattias Janmark was inches away from the final decision, but the puck hit the empty Panthers goal post just over a minute before the buzzer. McDavid hit the final readings.