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Panthers Now 2 Wins From The Stanley Cup, Top Oilers 4-1 For 2-0 Lead In Title Series
SUNRISE, Florida – Leon Draisaitl of Edmonton knocked out Florida’s Aleksander Barkov. The Panthers were sure to reply by landing the greater blow.
And the Stanley Cup Final heated up Monday night.
Evan Rodrigues scored twice in the third period, Niko Mikkola and Aaron Ekblad also scored, and the Panthers used another close finish to defeat the Oilers 4-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup Final.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 18 shots for Florida, which had a 1-8 record in Cup final games prior to this series and is now two wins away from its first championship. The score in the two games was Florida 7, Edmonton 1.
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Panthers Now 2 Wins From The Stanley Cup, Top Oilers 4-1 For 2-0 Lead In Title Series
“A six-man job against the best players in the world,” Ekblad stated.
But the victory came at a cost for Florida, as the Panthers lost captain Barkov after Edmonton forward Draisaitl rushed at him midway through the third period and smacked him in the head. Barkov stayed down for some time, required assistance getting to the bench, and then went down the tunnel to the Florida locker room for additional evaluation.
Florida coach Paul Maurice provided no update on Barkov’s status and was significantly more reserved than he usually is after a win.
“This isn’t The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Maurice commented about the Barkov hit. “My feelings don’t matter.”
Mattias Ekholm scored, and Stuart Skinner made 25 saves for the Oilers, who now must overcome some heavy history.
Edmonton has only once overcome a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series against San Jose in Round 2 of the 2006 playoffs. In 54 previous Stanley Cup Finals, teams that have fallen 2-0 have won only five times.
“I think we believe we came here and played well enough to deserve a split,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. “It doesn’t always happen.”
The series will resume with Game 3 in Edmonton on Thursday night.
“We can certainly do better,” Draisaitl added. “It begins with me… I surely have a lot more to offer. Not my greatest night. Of course, I’m taking responsibility for that.”
Draisaitl received only a minor penalty for roughing on the hit that removed Barkov from the game. Rodrigues scored on a tip-in to make it 3-1, the first power-play goal Edmonton has allowed in its previous 34 man-down situations.
With around 6 minutes remaining, Connor McDavid had a breakaway opportunity to pull Edmonton within one. Bobrovsky stopped him, and he and Matthew Tkachuk tussled a bit along the boards after the play, with the Panthers still upset about the hit on Barkov.
“I have no response or comment on that,” Tkachuk said when asked what he thought of Draisaitl’s hit on Barkov and whether he was concerned that Florida’s captain would miss time.
McDavid said of the hit, “I thought it was part of the game.”
Ekblad added: “We’re hoping he’ll be fine.”
Emotions were intense all night. Edmonton’s Warren Foegele was ejected in the first period for a knee-on-knee hit that briefly took Florida’s Eetu Luostarinen out of the game; that ejection, along with an injury to Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse, left the team with only 11 forwards and five defensemen for much of the game.
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Panthers Now 2 Wins From The Stanley Cup, Top Oilers 4-1 For 2-0 Lead In Title Series
Rodrigues scored early in the third period following a turnover, giving Florida a 2-1 lead and setting the tone for another comeback. The Panthers, who trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes, are now an NHL-best 5-2 when trailing after one period in the playoffs.
With 2:28 remaining, Ekblad sealed the deal with an empty netter.
“It’s intended to be hard. “It’s supposed to be difficult,” McDavid explained. “I’m excited to see what our group’s made of.”
Just as in Game 1, one team capitalized on its first shot. On Saturday, it was Florida, and now it’s Edmonton.
There wasn’t much to it: Ekholm skated nearly the whole length of the ice as the teams played 4-on-4, taking a harmless-looking shot that went between Bobrovsky’s leg pads and into the back of the net. McDavid, playing in the same venue where he was selected in 2015, assisted on the goal, giving him 27 assists this playoffs.
The Panthers tied the game halfway through the second period. Mikkola had two shots in a shift; one was at the wrong net and the other more than made up for that near-miss.
Moments after clumsily wheeling a backhand toward Bobrovsky, who was alert enough to spare his teammate from the shame of an own goal, Mikkola handled an Anton Lundell delivery and blasted it past Skinner to level the game at one.
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Panthers Now 2 Wins From The Stanley Cup, Top Oilers 4-1 For 2-0 Lead In Title Series
“Bob was awake,” Mikkola explained.
Shots were 22-7. After 40 minutes, Florida leads the league in shots on goal, while the Oilers are kept to a season low entering the third. Bobrovsky was put to the test far more in the third period than in the first two, but he rose to the occasion, allowing two goals or fewer for the 12th time in 13 games.
And, for the first time, Florida is two wins away from the Cup.
“It’s special,” Rodrigues stated. “I’m trying to embrace it. Trying to stay present. That’s two significant wins for our team, but I believe we’ve already turned the page and are preparing for Game 3.”
NBC is bringing a version of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels back to the Olympics this summer, but with an unexpected twist: his voice will be powered by artificial intelligence.
On Wednesday, NBC said that it will utilize AI software to reproduce Michaels’ voice to offer daily Summer Games summaries to users of its Peacock streaming platform. This marks a significant milestone in the application of AI by a major media firm.
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NBC To Use AI Version Of Announcer Al Michaels’ Voice For Olympics Recaps
The employment of an artificial intelligence voice for the Olympics comes at a time when technology has advanced dramatically, particularly in its ability to generate images, sounds, and text. This has sparked concerns in creative industries, such as journalism, regarding how artificial intelligence may—or should—be utilized.
A new tool, “Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock,” will allow subscribers to create 10-minute highlights packages incorporating event updates, athlete back stories, and other related content based on their preferences.
The company stated that the highlights could be packaged in approximately 7 million distinct ways, based on 5,000 hours of live coverage in Paris, thereby making AI (artificial intelligence, not the guy) a far more efficient way to give individualized summaries.
“When I was approached about this, I was skeptical but obviously curious,” Michaels stated in a press statement. “Then I saw a demonstration of what they had in mind. I replied, ‘I’m in.'”
An NBC representative told CNN that Michaels is being rewarded for his participation.
A veteran broadcaster, Michaels is now the play-by-play sportscaster for Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. He is well noted for his work on earlier Olympic Games broadcasts for NBC and ABC and for announcing the Miracle on Ice Game at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
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NBC To Use AI Version Of Announcer Al Michaels’ Voice For Olympics Recaps
NBC stated that the AI system was trained using previous NBC broadcast audio from Michaels.
The business stated that a team of NBC Sports editors will evaluate all of the content, including audio and footage, to ensure that it is factually correct and that names are pronounced correctly.
Beginning July 27, the highlights tool will be available on Peacock in web browsers and iOS and iPad apps.
SOURCE – CNN
Jamie Foxx has yet to publicly divulge the reason for his hospitalization last year, although he did share further facts during a videotaped encounter.
The Oscar-winning actor was hospitalized in April 2023 due to a health problem while filming the Netflix film “Back in Action” in Atlanta.
In a TikTok video posted this week, Foxx informs an unidentified group of people that he has a “bad headache” on April 11, 2023. He remembers asking his friend for an Advil, and then “I was gone for 20 days.”
Jamie Foxx Shares New Details About Health Crisis That Left Him ‘Gone For 20 Days’
“I don’t remember anything,” he claimed in a video shot on June 29 in Phoenix.
Foxx went on to say in the video that he was told his sister and daughter took him to the doctor, who him a cortisone shot. Another doctor told him something was “going on up there,” as Foxx pointed to his head.
“I won’t say it on camera,” he remarked throughout the video.
The singer is known to be discreet about his personal life, and he disappeared from the spotlight at the time due to what his daughter Corinne Foxx described as a “medical complication” on social media.
In July 2023, the “Ray” star revealed that he chose not to reveal more information because he did not want the public “to see me like that.”
“I want you to see me laughing, having fun, partying, cracking jokes, or performing in a movie or television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes coming out of me and wondering if I was going to make it,” he said in a video posted on Instagram at the time, adding that he felt like he had gone “to hell and back.”
Foxx provided another health update on his verified social media accounts in August 2023.
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Jamie Foxx Shares New Details About Health Crisis That Left Him ‘Gone For 20 Days’
“You are looking at a thankful man…” “I’m finally starting to feel like myself,” he wrote at the time. “The journey has been unexpectedly dark…” “But I can see the light.”
He added that he was “thankful to everyone who reached out and sent well wishes and prayers.”
According to IMDB, “Back in Action” is now in post-production.
SOURCE – CNN
NEW YORK — Hunter Biden filed a complaint accusing Fox News of illegally distributing sexual photographs of him as part of a streaming series.
The president’s son filed the complaint on Sunday in state court in Manhattan over photos from “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” which will premiere on Fox Nation in 2022. According to the lawsuit, the series included a “mock trial” of Hunter Biden on crimes he has not faced, as well as photos of Biden naked and engaging in sex acts.
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Hunter Biden Sues Fox News Over Explicit Images Featured In A Streaming Series
The lawsuit argues that the distribution of intimate photographs without his consent violated New York’s so-called revenge porn legislation.
“Fox published and disseminated these Intimate Images to its vast audience of millions as part of an entertainment program in order to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr. Biden and to tarnish his reputation,” the lawsuit states.
In an emailed statement, a Fox News representative termed it an “entirely politically motivated lawsuit” that was “devoid of merit.” According to the statement, Biden’s attorneys filed a letter demanding its removal from streaming sites in April 2024.
“The program was removed within days of the letter, out of prudence, because Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been investigated several times and is now a convicted felon. According to the emailed statement, Fox News has faithfully covered Mr. Biden’s newsworthy events by the First Amendment, and we look forward to defending our rights in court.
Hunter Biden was convicted last month of three felony charges stemming from the purchase of a revolver in 2018. Prosecutors claimed the president’s son lied on a mandated gun-buy form by claiming he was not unlawfully using or addicted to narcotics.
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Hunter Biden Sues Fox News Over Explicit Images Featured In A Streaming Series
According to the lawsuit, the series’ simulated trial included bribery claims and inappropriate financial relationships with foreign governments, which Hunter Biden has not faced.
The lawsuit says Fox did not completely remove promotional materials and that the program is still available on some third-party streaming sites.
SOURCE – (AP)
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