Florida Panthers Ease (6-1) In #3, Lead The NHL Final, (2-1)

After two overtime games, the second of which went into a second, #3 was a Florida rout win, (6-1) at home vs the Edmonton Oilers, giving the defending champion Panthers, who 7’d Edmonton to be that, a (2-1) final round lead.

The great Brad Marchand, who “closed” #2, opened #3 just 56 (ode to Lawrence Taylor) seconds “in,” while “The “Sams,” Bennett (his final round leading 4th and ‘offs leading 13th, while the great, but at least a tad over rated, “Edm” duo of McDavid and Draisaitl had a rare no points ‘offs tilt) and Reinhart, he of the missed breakaway in #2, however, the Stanley Cup winning goal also on a Monday night (EDM is what, (0-6) in Monday final rd tilts, for whatever that means) had goals, while another great, Sergei Bobrovsky had an easy night in goal for the Panthers.

Florida is now (7-12) in final round tilts while “Edm” is (27-20), however, “Fla” is now over a 2 to 1 “fave” to repeat as Cup winners and in turn, hand the Oilers a third straight final round loss.

Sam Bennett, pictured above.