MOSCOW, June 25 Florida Panthers hockey players beat » Edmonton Oilers» in the seventh game of the final series of the Stanley Cup — 2024, the club for the first time in its history became the champion of the National Hockey League (NHL) season.
National Hockey League (NHL)25 June 2024 • starts at 03:00Finished
FloridaUSA2 : 1
EdmontonCanada
04:27 • Carter Verhaeg (Evan Rodriguez, Anton Lundell)
35:11 • Sam Rinehart (Carter Verhaeg, Dmitry Kulikov)
06:44 • Matthias Janmark-Nylen (Cody Ceci)
The meeting, which took place in Sunrise, ended in victory for the hosts with a score of 2:1 (1:1, 1:0, 0:0). Carter Verhaeghe (5th minute) and Sam Rinehart (36th minute) scored goals for the Panthers. Matthias Janmark scored a goal for Edmoton (7).
Florida's Russian goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 of 24 shots. Panthers forward Vladimir Tarasenko made two shots on target and made one power move. Panthers defender Dmitry Kulikov scored an assist.
The score in the best-of-four series was 4-3 in favor of Florida. The Panthers won the Stanley Cup for the first time in their history. The Sunrise franchise made its NHL debut in the 1993/94 season. Since then, Florida has reached the tournament final three times (1995/96, -2022/23 and -2023/24 seasons), once winning the decisive series.