Stanley Cup Final: Panthers hold off Oilers comeback to take 3-0 series lead

jack baerStaff writerFri, Jun 14, 2024, 12:11 AM·4 min readThe Florida Panthers are one win from their first Stanley Cup title, but the Edmonton Oilers can at least say they at least made this loss too close for comfort.In the span of a little more than six minutes, the Panthers ripped off three straight goals to turn a tie game into a laugher in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. However, that laugher turned back into a game in the final minutes, when the Oilers scored twice to cut the deficit to one.That was all they got, though, and the Panthers finished the game with a 4-3 win and a 3-0 series lead.Only four teams have ever come back from down 3-0 in an NHL series, the most recent being the 2013-14 Los Angeles Kings. It has happened only once in the Stanley Cup Final, when the Toronto Maple Leafs stunned the Detroit Wings in 1942.Game 4 is scheduled for Saturday at 8 p.m. ET in Edmonton (ABC). A Florida win would mean the first Stanley Cup Final sweep since 1998 (Detroit Red Wings ov...