00:00and it is McDavid Perry and Nugent Hopkins and Craig that was the big question going in would
00:09Ryan Nugent Hopkins be available for Game 3. Perry to work, Nugent Hopkins will play it back to the line,
00:17it's Bouchard through traffic and that sticks to Bobrovsky with Perry right where you'd expect him
00:24to be. That is the one pair that stays in place here's McDavid stumbling as he gets
00:30it across, Perry a drive and that's off the blocker of Bobrovsky and out. Boy, that had played quite well
00:37together but we'll see if this one stays together long in this one. Here's Lundell off the face off
00:43in behind the net trying to throw it in front, took a funny hook, Marcanovic scores! He's got another and it's
00:50another early goal in this Stanley Cup Final.
01:00Every single series along the way but here it's just a little miscommunication that
01:05Bryce Seidel can't get back to the front of the net, a bouncing puck that goes two different ways,
01:10look at Stuart Skinner, can't control where it is, Klingbird had Marchand for a second then
01:15loses him and that one, Markov a minus nine in the last four, that's the worst in a four game segment for him in his career.
01:23Here's Berhane in front, big toe scum by Skinner on that rebound.
01:29Some offensive zone time, a deep pitch there by the hash marks but this one pops out in another opportunity on an odd man rush and you know the speed of
01:38force, right through the middle, flips it back to dry settle, now it's McDavid in front, a shot right on, the rebound,
01:46kick back to Bouchard, fires, cheats erected, loosely thrown it, knocked away from the front of the net, just in the nick of time.
01:54Broken stick here for Florida, and it's no second there to stick as it comes in front, McDavid shooting, kicked away and is it, Hopkins missed on the rebound.
02:04Opened by Nikola, McDavid trying to go low side and then this rebound again, look at, there's Luton Hopkins across, gets it back, gets it to Bouchard, looking dangerous and that shot went off, Jones up onto the screen.
02:20Get his glove there and then this last shot, oh, it did get.
02:24Rodriguez, second unit to start for Paul Maurice, that's off Henrique Bennett, gets it back to Verhagee and that shot blocked by Echol, Smith for Bennett, and again in the slot, Rodriguez, Verhagee scores!
02:43The penalty killers running, they've sworn to one side, watch all the order players in the middle of the ice, that opened up the lane, but this is a goal scorer's goal.
03:00From a tough angle coming down that short side, Rodriguez looks like he's going to shoot, Skinner's there in time, but that's about the only place you're going to be.
03:09Now is the time, you've got to bring that intensity, you can get right back into this hockey game with a power play goal here.
03:18And five Oilers with shots of the first period, Devin Bouchard leading the way with five.
03:27And G.S. Eckholm, launched by Marchand, down low, Reissettles, back to Eckholm and Bouchard.
03:34And he'll send that in for scores, Corey Perry has another, and a power play goal gets Edmonton on the board.
03:45In the first period, how many shots from Bouchard? So Bobrovsky's thinking for sure this is coming as a bomb, and then look, a little kick out there by Perry.
03:53A little adjustment as he pulls that, and that is such a well-executed play. Give a different wrinkle, don't just do the normal.
04:01And you can tell the eyes of Bouchard and Perry finding each other there.
04:06And then Perry from Bouchard and Eckholm.
04:12And Klingberg, he runs into the official.
04:15He comes loose and a chance that's good!
04:20Sam Reinhardt gets it back after Francis Scherron got in the way of John Klingberg.
04:30Tries to get out of the way, Klingberg tried to scoop it with his hand, and this one through the crowd.
04:37For Hagee with the quick, and I mentioned about Reinhardt struggling to find the back of the net.
04:43Well, there's Klingberg, he's getting out of the net to knock it away.
04:47Klingberg ahead, Brian settles on the move.
04:50Bob pulls it with him.
04:52We'll drop it off to Klingberg, Bob pulls him, take it down.
04:58Looked down at the line, held in, but now a break.
05:02Histerina puts it ahead.
05:04Sam Bennett scores!
05:13Here, watch, just the miss, just brushes by him, and then follows up through the Klingberg and finishes his check.
05:25Park pulls it after getting up, gives it away, and the rest of Rannon gives it to Bennett, the hottest stick on the floor of the Panthers.
05:33It was just his second game on goal on home ice.
05:37Trying to hold his own as Klingberg, it does.
05:40Adam Henrique looking to center, that goes through.
05:43Here's a kid, Stan Bobrovsky, who got a stick.
05:46Everybody's got a pole on the rope.
05:48This is a great shift to build off of.
05:50Puck pops out to Darnell Nurse, and you're right, the stick of Bobrovsky kind of lost it at the last second,
05:57but he timed his ability to come across.
05:59Gets knocked out of his hand there, sees the puck coming, and just able to grab it and look like on a pass for Jan Lortz.
06:07Here comes Kachuk Ian, kicked away a rebound out of front.
06:11And coming back to break that up, his puck pulls it there, and then Kachuk with the long shot that creates that rebound, and here's the high stick.
06:20That has the Edmonton owners in this situation.
06:22Craig and Chris will start at period one.
06:25After that, on the power play, they will start short-handed to begin period three.
06:30Jean, a minute 16, remaining in the Darnell Nurse penalty.
06:35Now the top unit comes on.
06:38Barkov, Ryan Hurt, Kachuk, Hekblad, and Jones.
06:44Pass for Ryan Hurt, Hekblad scores!
06:48A pretty power play goal by one Panthers.
06:52It's all about body language, and sometimes just the energy getting zapped out of five quick passes all through the lanes.
07:04The most important thing you need in a penalty kill is good active sticks.
07:09There's three passes that go right through, and there's no chance at all for Skinner.
07:13He's barely able to get across back to that one.
07:16The no-look backhand pass by Reinhardt right in the wheelhouse for Hekblad.
07:22And the play halted, Bennett tied up again.
07:26And now the fur really starts to fly.
07:36Everybody pairing off.
07:38It's Frederick who started it getting after Bennett.
07:43He got away with about two or three and then broke his stick on his back.
07:46Now he's in some trouble.
07:49Gets up from the linesman there.
07:51Gagevichu is pretty good in this department up against Darnell Nurse, who's doing just fine.
08:04Not enough bodies there to separate everyone.
08:29You got fights going on in the corner, and everybody paired off still.
08:32And Brown, Gagevich, and Nurse, two big men just pounding each other right now.
08:38Gagevich, one of the more underrated fighters in the league.
08:43Not a full heavyweight at 211, but as handy as just about anybody.
08:51And Nurse hanging in.
08:54On the road of these playoffs, but doing plenty.
08:58And it's a good damage hitter.
08:5942, just very tough enough.
09:01Two minutes for cross-checking and extended at Nasconda.
09:04Time for the penalty is 15-47.
09:06Rodriguez scores!
09:096-1 as Evan Rodriguez heads the stats.
09:19Finally, does knock and cross-checking and extended at Nasconda.
09:23He's trying to get to go to the top, and this is our area.
09:27Just finds its way by Calvin Pickard.
09:33Underneath the blocker, just beat him to the short side.
09:38And Barkov with a shift on McDavid.
09:42In his own Barkov, Kulikov, Pickard to stop.
09:45As the Rats continue to pour down onto the ice,
09:50and the Florida Panthers have taken a 2-1 series lead in the Stanley Cup Final.
