Marchand nets 2OT winner as Florida evens Final

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Brad Marchand scored connected a breakaway successful treble overtime and the defending champion Florida Panthers punched backmost against the Edmonton Oilers successful Game 2 of their Stanley Cup Final rematch, winning 5-4 connected Friday nighttime to adjacent the series.

Marchand's 2nd extremity of the nighttime 8:04 into the 2nd OT allowed Florida to flight with a divided aft Corey Perry scored to necktie it with 17.8 seconds near successful the 3rd play and Stuart Skinner pulled for an other attacker. Each of the archetypal 2 games this last has gone to overtime for the archetypal clip since 2014 and conscionable the sixth successful NHL history.

Much similar past twelvemonth and the playoff tally to this point, Sergei Bobrovsky was dialed successful erstwhile helium was needed the most, making immoderate unreal saves portion stopping 42 of the 46 shots helium faced. His teammates provided the indispensable extremity support.

Along with Marchand, Sam Bennett scored his postseason-leading 13th extremity and NHL grounds 12th connected the road. Seth Jones scored into a wide-open nett aft immoderate spectacular tic-tac-toe passing, and chap defenseman Dmitry Kulikov tied it with a changeable done postulation that Stuart Skinner astir surely did not see.

Kulikov's extremity came aft Florida controlled play for respective minutes successful the second, hemming Edmonton successful its portion displacement aft displacement and piling up a 34-13 vantage successful changeable attempts during the period. Marchand's OT extremity was his 10th vocation extremity successful the last to pb each progressive players.

Game 3 is Monday nighttime arsenic the teams traverse the continent and play shifts to Sunrise.

The Panthers wrested home-ice vantage distant from the Oilers by splitting the archetypal two, rebounding from a Game 1 overtime nonaccomplishment and asserting they won't spell softly against Draisaitl and Connor McDavid looking similar they'll bash everything successful their powerfulness to hoist the Cup for the archetypal time.

Of course, those stars had their moments. They assisted connected Evan Bouchard's extremity erstwhile manager Kris Knoblauch enactment them connected the crystal together, and McDavid stickhandled done aggregate defenders successful highlight-reel manner to acceptable up Draisaitl scoring connected the powerfulness play.

There were a batch of those -- 10 successful full -- aft officials whistled 14 penalties, including 3 successful the archetypal 4 minutes. Each squad had a fewer calls it was not blessed with, though astir of that evened retired implicit the people of the game.