The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Florida Panthers 8-1 to assert Recreation 4 of the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Ultimate and stay alive after dropping the collection’ first three video games.
Mattias Janmark opened the scoring for the Oilers within the first interval with a shorthanded purpose. He scored the quickest shorthanded opening purpose in a Stanley Cup Ultimate sport in additional than 40 years. It was the third-fastest tally within the Ultimate since shorthanded objectives have been formally tracked in 1933-34, behind Marcel Pronovost (2:15 in 1955) and Lorne Henning (2:38 in 1980).
Janmark had clutch moments when his workforce confronted elimination earlier than; he scored a hat trick in Recreation 7 of the 2021 first spherical. On the time, he turned simply the eighth participant in Stanley Cup Playoff historical past to document a hat trick in a Recreation 7. Till that time, he had but to attain one within the common season.
The Oilers additionally acquired objectives from Adam Henrique, Dylan Holloway, Darnell Nurse, Connor McDavid, and an influence play purpose from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
Additionally, McDavid recorded his thirty second help of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, beating the all-time document for many assists in a single playoff 12 months. Wayne Gretzky beforehand held the document of 31 assists, which he set within the 1987-88 season.
Holloway additionally scored within the third interval, and the Oilers acquired a purpose from Ryan McLeod to complete the scoring within the rout.
For Henrique, it was his first purpose within the Stanley Cup Ultimate since 2012 (Recreation 6 with the New Jersey Devils) – 12 years and three days in the past. He’s the seventh participant in NHL historical past to go not less than a dozen years between objectives within the Stanley Cup Ultimate, following Eric Staal (16 years, 354 days; 2006-2023), Mark Recchi (15 years, 15 days; 1991-2006), Dino Ciccarelli (14 years, 31 days; 1981-1995), Corey Perry (13 years, 111 days; 2007-2020), Darren Helm (13 years, 14 days; 2009-2022) and Marcel Pronovost (12 years, 24 days; 1955-1967).
Sergei Bobrovsky was pulled after he allowed 5 objectives on 16 pictures. He was pulled after Nurse scored his first purpose of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at 4:59 of the second interval. The Oilers led 5-1 on the time.
Bobrovsky was changed by Anthony Stolarz, who made his first look in an NHL playoff sport and his first sport motion since he made 26 saves in a 5-2 win in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs on April 16.
Bobrovsky got here into Recreation 4 with a 15-5 document, a 2.07 goals-against common, a .916 save share, and two shutouts in 20 postseason video games. He had allowed 4 objectives within the first three video games of the Stanley Cup Ultimate, and Recreation 1 was a 32-save shutout.
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Edmonton got here into the sport with a three-game dropping streak for the primary time since a three-game stretch from Feb. 21-24. The Oilers adopted up that dropping skid by stringing collectively 5 straight wins from Feb. 26 to March 5. The final time Edmonton dropped three consecutive video games in regulation was from Dec. 14-19 (together with a 5-1 loss to Florida), from which they bounced again with a 16-game successful streak, which is tied for the second longest in NHL historical past.
Edmonton’s eight objectives have been the second most in a Ultimate sport when going through elimination in the course of the Enlargement Period behind solely the Chicago Black Hawks in Recreation 5 of the 1973 Ultimate (8-7 W).
Recreation 5 can be at Amerant Financial institution Enviornment on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET; ABC, ESPN+, SN, TVAS, CBC).