The Florida Panthers Win The Stanley Cup

The Florida Panthers, in their thirtieth completed season, won their first ever Stanley Cup, winning (2-1) in #7, at home vs the Edmonton Oilers and avoided dissipating a (3-0) final round lead and losing the crown.

Thus the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, also the only team to trail going into the third period of #7/final and win, remain the only team in major North American sports leagues to win a final round, after trailing 3 games to none.

After Carter Verhaeghe (his, just after Edmonton “killed” yet another opposition power play and with an assist from Evan Rodrigues, who was a “Fla” star in these ‘offs, especially the two Monday wins that yielded the Panthers their first crown) and Mattias Janmark exchanged first period goals, Janmark’s just 2:17 after Verhaeghe’s), it was Sam Reinhart, another “Fla” stellar performer in these ‘offs,(“FLA” went (16-8, the Celtics were (16-3), but with a far easier road, to “title”) that scored the eventual title winning goal at 15:26 of the second period.

Hail Florida goaltender, Sergei Bobrovsky, criticized/pulled and not good in games (4-6), however, great in the 4 wins, including the big late save in #3. Certainly, he was superb in these ‘offs.

Miami,Florida Miami/Florida is unofficially the 9th different city/area with at least one title in all 4 major North American sports leagues.

The baseball Marlins, though year after year vast underwhelming, never the less are (2-0) in World Series play, the NFL Dolphins sans a title since 1973 stand (2-3) in Super Bowls, the NBA Heat are (3-2) in NBA final rounds and the Panthers, just (5-11) in individual games rose to (1-2) in NHL final round play and surely avoided ignominy, some of which would have been deserved, by winning game 7.

Edmonton, a la the current NFL runner up team, the Niners once won 5 straight final round entities but have fallen to (5-3) in such.

Much more in the way of notes, surely esoteric, in the long days to follow.

Sergei Bobrovsky, pictured above.