Before we go further, it may be fair to set some basic rules for how to evaluate the Stanley Cup final.
Specifically, what was not Edmonton Oils or Florida Panthers Getting great progress to put the game far -fetched, the result can be determined in the last ten minutes of the organization or whenever the winning goal in the game is scored in additional time (or even additional work).
Yes. Now that we were on the same page, here is a look at how to take Oilers game 1 with a 4-3 The additional work victory Wednesday – What does it mean to both teams who go to Friday 2.
Winning the third period in the way Oilers did it was very important. Not only because it led to additional work, but because it could have been said that its most consistent frame in game 1.
They had shots in the first period but still late. They have struggled to get and generate clips per second, which played a role in the reason for their decline. Get a goal from Mattias Ekholm Early of the third, Oilors gave their different top scorer in this season. They also exceed the leopards 14-2, while they get a 58.3 % stake, providing them with a sense of the control that they were lacking to start.
Although they started additional work in his defense, their continuous ability to pressure the last fifteen minutes Lyon Drissile Sign the game winner off Power Play with 1:06.
They survived from Casperry Kabanin Small separation. They survived the opportunity to empty Trint Friedrich In the circle of confrontation. They survived when Oilers had a sequence 5 on 5 they dealt with him like playing power. They survived from Evan Bouchard An opportunity to register behind the defense of another opportunity Sergey Boubrovsky to stop.
Even the fate, for those familiar, I think the leopards have survived very little.
In the end, they were unable to survive the power late from Oilers, as Draisaitl scored the goal that put the leopards away.
Each game comes with a turning point, especially if the team loses. The cheetah was a few. Will this be the second period, which witnessed a 65.2 % stake while completing the launch of 17 rounds on the goal – only to go out with one goal that is largely due to a large extent largely. Stewart SkinnerStrong game in the network? Will this be the third period, which witnessed them only two shots on the goal? Or is this what they could not benefit from the dominant start in additional time?
The three stars of Arda Okal from game 1
Draisaitl did not have one goal in the 2024 Cup final. On Wednesday, he scored 66 seconds in match 1, then scored the winner in the additional work game. High start for this year’s championship. Draisaitl scored or helped him with five OT six goals over the last two.
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Leon Draisaitl is recorded 66 seconds in game 1 for Oilers
Lyon Drissaite Chen, the first goal of the Stanley Cup final, more than one minute after the Olors game against the Panthers.
The veteran defender scored his first goal of this season in his second match. The twentieth oil that is recorded in these qualifiers, which is equivalent to the second post -season phase in the history of NHL. (Each of 1987 was from the bulletins and 2019 Blues was 21 different scorers.)
Bennett was making a bilateral effort in a losing case. He has 12 goals in this season, and the most in one qualifiers in the history of franchise. Eleven of these goals were on the road, and it is linked to it Mark Chevly (2018) For most of the road goals in the post -season in the history of NHL.
Players to watch in game 2
Remember: This man was on the concessions in November. When Oilers claimed to him, he was seen as an opportunity to add depth to cheap, but he turned into something bigger. His goal, which won the game in the armed series 5, opened the additional victory in the Western Conference Finals, the door for more playing time. He almost did this again in game 1 in additional time as well, but he got help with the game -winning goal.
It was part of the solution to how Oilers made their limits without Zach HemanWho suffered an injury to the Western Conference Finals that would keep him outside the rest of the season. Kabanin, in turn, made three passes, and his five songs allowed the two papers to maintain the physical edge they used as part of their identity to reach a consecutive cup final.
There are two ways to look at what Bennett did in game 1. The first is that his two -point efforts have strengthened what made him a serious candidate to win the Conn Smythe award like MVP. Bennett was the first candidate before the match, with 10 goals after the season. The collection of two others gives it 18 points, and it is linked to the Oilors Center Ryan Nogant Hopkins For fourth place.
The second is that it will happen paid This is outside the season. Earlier Wednesday, and Colorado Avandoch Re -signature Brook Nelson To a three -year deal worth $ 7.5 million annually to avoid losing it in a free agency. What Bennett did to help the cheetahs reach the three consecutive Stanley Cup finals – and to be in a position that allows him to demand at least a second title – he will only increase what he can ask comes on July 1.
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Sam Bennett’s second goal gives Florida 3-1
Sam Bennett delivers his second goal of the game to give 3-1 leopards to Oilors.
Great questions for game 2
Did you give the third period and additional work a defensive road map against the leopards?
The Oilors road was based on the Stanley Cup final on how to make their defensive structure hell Dallas stars and Figas Golden KnightsTwo teams were in the first five goals for each game in the normal season – they were faced with the qualifiers.
The Oilers team faced some challenges in the first period, as Skinner is partially protected on the first two goals before collapsing in the second period that left the goalkeeper on an island.
From there, Oilers abandoned eight shots combined on the final tires, with the largest concentration in the first five minutes of the extra time.
Of course, the leopards found breakthroughs against teams with restricted defensive structures, such as Carolina Hurricanes In the Eastern Conference Finals. Are the leopards about to find another in game 2? Or can Oilers be on something that can see them find more success in their defensive identity?
What is the main progress in ready -made meals: its start or end?
Here is the place that becomes complicated – and returns to the previous statement about the teams that have turning points. In the second period, the leopards were aggressive in a way that almost no one against Oilors. This has led to five chances of registration, along with a general sense of control.
This is what made the only goal-especially in one goal game-something that can ask questions about how to achieve the maximum benefit from those opportunities to move forward.
But at the same time, the idea that they were forced to survive in the extra time that he saw them divided the shot with Oilers, and they have chances of recording high risks but they fail to provide this consistent threat?
This can give more leopards to think in the coming days … or maybe they will not ask about the process, given that they won the last 31 players for them in which they occupied progress in the second period.
