Oilers visit Panthers for Game 3 with Stanley Cup finals tied

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The Florida Panthers volition instrumentality to location crystal against the Edmonton Oilers connected Monday arsenic the Stanley Cup last goes south for Game 3, with the bid tied 1-1.

Edmonton and Florida volition conflict for the bid pb aft 2 overtime games

Kevin Maimann · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 09, 2025 5:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

The Florida Panthers volition instrumentality to location crystal against the Edmonton Oilers contiguous arsenic the Stanley Cup last goes south for Game 3, with the bid tied 1-1.

Coverage starts astatine 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT from Amerant Bank Arena successful Sunrise, Fla.

The 2 teams person been evenly matched truthful acold successful the action-packed cupful rematch, with the Oilers taking Game 1 successful a 4-3 overtime victory, and the Panthers taking Game 2 by a people of 5-4 successful treble overtime.

The Oilers person much shots aft 2 games, 92 to 74, portion the Panthers person led for implicit 67 minutes compared to trailing for astir 28 minutes.The Oilers person tended to commencement and decorativeness strong, but lag successful the 2nd period.

The large guns person been turning up, with Oilers skipper Connor McDavid starring each scorers with 5 points, and Edmonton's Leon Draisatl tied with Florida's Sam Bennett and Brand Marchand astatine 3 goals apiece.

Game 2 got disconnected to a chaotic commencement Friday, with 5 goals scored and 11 penalties called successful the archetypal 20 minutes. Oilers winger Corey Perry scored with conscionable 17 seconds near successful regularisation clip to nonstop the crippled to OT, lone for Marchand to find the backmost of the nett astatine 8:04 successful the 2nd OT.

WATCH | Edmonton fans' Game 3 expectations:

What bash Oilers fans expect from Game 3?

After a double-overtime nonaccomplishment to the Florida Panthers connected Friday night, fans were down, but surely not out. Sarah Reid caught up with immoderate Oilers faithful extracurricular Rogers Place to stock their predictions connected Game 3.

The Oilers could be down a prima guardant for Game 3, aft Ryan Nugent-Hopkins missed Sunday's signifier with an undisclosed injury. That could sting the team, which is already playing without winger Zach Hyman, who was injured successful the Western Conference finals against the Dallas Stars.

Veteran winger Jeff Skinner looks acceptable to return if Nugent-Hopkins, who has 5 goals and 13 assists successful 18 games successful these playoffs, is incapable to go.

For the Panthers, winger A.J. Greer volition instrumentality from wounded successful spot of Jesper Boqvist aft missing the archetypal 2 games of the final.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Maimann is simply a elder writer for CBC News based successful Edmonton. He has covered a wide scope of topics for publications including VICE, the Toronto Star, Xtra Magazine and the Edmonton Journal. You tin scope Kevin by email astatine [email protected].

With files from The Associated Press

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