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Panthers See Another Chance At Cup Slip Away, Fall To Oilers 5-3 In Game 5
SUNRISE, Florida – Matthew Tkachuk ran off at full speed from around center ice, chasing a puck over his head and was headed straight for an empty net.
He dived. He stretched out his stick. He swatted and barely knocked the puck away, keeping the Florida Panthers’ chances of forcing extra alive. The problem was that the next player to get to the puck was Connor McDavid, who scored to seal the game.
This was how the Panthers’ Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final played out. Even when they did well, it needed to be better. Another lengthy travel to Alberta awaits, and this title series is quickly looking very tight.
Panthers See Another Chance At Cup Slip Away, Fall To Oilers 5-3 In Game 5
The Panthers allowed two power-play goals and a shorthanded goal, fell behind 3-0 before rallying, and lost 5-3 to the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of the championship series on Tuesday night. It was Florida’s second consecutive loss in a Cup game, following an 8-1 defeat in Edmonton the previous weekend.
Game 6 takes place on Friday night.
“I am not pumping tyres. I’m not stroking backs. “I don’t think we need that at all,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice stated. “Everybody probably feels the same way I do right now. I’m not feeling down. Neither is the hockey squad. They’re not feeling down. “A little grumpy.”
A lot cranky.
“We’re going to turn the page,” said forward Evan Rodrigues. “We’re going to learn from this one.”
Florida’s Rodrigues and Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, while the Panthers’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 19 shots for Florida, extending the franchise’s 30-year wait for its first Stanley Cup triumph by at least three days.
“We get another shot at it on Friday,” Tkachuk explained.
McDavid scored two goals and two assists in the Stanley Cup Final, becoming the first player in NHL history to have back-to-back four-point games, while Edmonton’s Evan Bouchard scored three assists. Connor Brown, Zach Hyman, and Corey Perry scored for the Oilers, while Stuart Skinner stopped 29 shots.
McDavid stated that it was a total team effort. It was, but it was also another heroic effort from McDavid, the game’s top player who is breaking new ground in the series.
McDavid has 42 points in the playoffs, which is the fourth-highest total in NHL history. The only guys ahead of him are the ones everyone expects: Wayne Gretzky scored 47 points in 1985, Mario Lemieux had 44 in 1991, and Gretzky had 43 in 1988.
McDavid will have at least one — and ideally two — games to add to his total. If there is a Game 7, it will take place in Sunrise on Monday night.
“Anytime you’re in the same realm as those two, it’s always a good thing,” McDavid stated.
It was the first time in Panthers history that they played a home game with the opportunity to win the Cup. Another sellout crowd arrived, with some buying more than $1,000 each for tickets on the secondary market – boosting Florida’s total attendance for the season beyond 1 million for the first time.
They arrived to view the trophy.
The Oilers wouldn’t let that happen. When it was finished, Tkachuk was asked if the Panthers felt any pressure.
“No. No. “No,” Tkachuk replied. “This isn’t an elimination game for us. We’re heading up there with a 3-2 series lead; we just need to take care of business like we did in Game 3.”
Panthers See Another Chance At Cup Slip Away, Fall To Oilers 5-3 In Game 5
Edmonton entered the night having scored 10 of the series’ last 11 goals, including a 2-0 third period in Game 3 and an 8-1 rout in Game 4.
And the Oilers continued where they left off, with an amazing masterclass in special-teams play.
Game 5 began in the same way as Game 4, with Edmonton scoring on a shorthanded opportunity. Brown assisted on Saturday night, but he scored unassisted in this one, and the Oilers were on their way. Florida committed a penalty (interference by Niko Mikkola) as time expired in the first, which proved costly.
With two seconds left in the second period’s first power play, Hyman made it 2-0, and McDavid extended Edmonton’s advantage to 3-0 three minutes later from an extremely difficult angle.
For over two decades, the three-goal lead has proved unassailable in the Stanley Cup Final; no team has fallen after leading by three in a title-series game since Edmonton defeated Carolina in 2006. Since then, every squad has gone 39-0 in similar contests.
Panthers See Another Chance At Cup Slip Away, Fall To Oilers 5-3 In Game 5
Make it 40–0. But the Panthers made things interesting.
By the end of the second period, it was 4-2, with Tkachuk and Rodrigues sandwiching goals around Perry’s first playoff goal, which was set up by a great feed from McDavid. Ekman-Larsson scored early in the third period, but the equalizer never arrived.
“Never want to put yourself behind the 8-ball,” Rodrigues remarked. “We need to win one game.” Simple as that. Go up there and win one game. That is our mindset. That is exactly what we are going to do.
SOURCE – (AP)
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Conor McGregor Vows to Appeal Civil Rape Case
Conor McGregor, an Irish mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, has announced that he will appeal a £206,000 judgment after a woman accusing him of rape won a legal action against him for damages.
McGregor had already faced a criminal inquiry in his home nation of Ireland concerning the claims, but he was not charged.
In a post on X on Friday evening, McGregor said he would appeal against the verdict and thanked “all my support worldwide”.
“I am with my family now, focused on my future,” he added.
Speaking outside the court on Friday, Nikita Hand expressed her hope that the verdict will encourage victims of sexual assault to “speak up.”
The jury at the High Court in Dublin deliberated for a day before concluding that McGregor assaulted Ms Hand.
She also filed a complaint against James Lawrence, 35, of Rafter’s Road, Drimnagh, Dublin. She said he abused her by having sex with her without her consent at the Beacon Hotel.
Both men refuted the 35-year-old hair colorist’s charges, saying they had consensual intercourse with Ms Hand at the hotel nearly six years ago.
After eight days of testimony and three days of listening to closing arguments and the judge’s comments, the jury of eight women and four men deliberated for six hours and ten minutes before concluding.
McGregor shook his head as the jury announced that Ms Hand had won her case against him.
His partner, Dee Devlin, his parents, his sister, and his brother-in-law were all with him. He sat in the rear row of the court, between his girlfriend and his mother, Margaret.
McGregor, who also testified during the two-week trial, repeatedly denied the charges of assault.
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The Utah Hockey Club’s Net Scores The Opening Goal.
(VOR News) – The Utah Hockey Club did not begin the season in the manner that they had planned to, despite the fact that they were playing their first game of the preseason on the ice.
The first goal that they scored at the beginning of the season was not the way that they had anticipated the season to begin.
Des Moines, Iowa, which is located in the state of Iowa, was the location of the first game played by the organisation that was once known as the Arizona Coyotes.
Specifically, the game will take place in the state of Iowa. Specifically, the game was developed in the state of Iowa, which was also the location where it was manufactured. The St. Louis Blues, who were the team that was competing for the championship.
We represented Utah in this particular game.
The penalty call was delayed, which resulted in Utah being required to remove their custodian in order to make room for an additional attacker. This was done in order to provide space for the additional attacker.
It was necessary to do this step in order to clear space for the attacker to move about a bit. Because of this, St. Louis was able to take the lead in the game with a score of 1-0 at the beginning of the second quarter.
This allowed them to gain control of the game. As the puck made its way down the ice and into the empty net of the opposition, the winger for Utah, Dylan Guenther, was unable to gain hold of it at the point, and he was also unable to catch up to it in time while it was falling. The disaster took place at this particular instant in time, which was the ideal time for it to take place that it did.
A defenseman with the Blues named Anton Malmstrom was given official credit for scoring the goal, and St. Louis “congratulated” Utah on scoring its first goal in the history of the team.
Malmstrom was given credit for Utah Scoring the goal.
The individual who was identified as the player who scored the goal was Malmstrom. It has been determined that Malmstrom is the individual who was responsible for scoring the goal. At the conclusion of the official investigation, it was determined that Malmstrom was the individual who was responsible for scoring the goal.
On the flip side, it would appear that yet another case of trolling was directed at the Blues. After the actual opening goal for Utah, which was scored by Michael Carcone a little more than six minutes later, Kevin Connauton added another goal later in the quarter to bring the score to a draw.
This brought the score to a tie. As a consequence of this, the score stayed tied. As a consequence of this turn of events, the score ended up being something like 2-2.
Guenther also made atonement for his prior transgressions by scoring a power-play marker that put Utah in the lead by a score of 3-2. This was a significant accomplishment for Guenther. As a consequence for his earlier misdeeds, Guenther was given this sentence.
Due to the fact that this achievement was achieved, Utah is currently in the position of being in the lead. It was on Friday that a signing took place, which ultimately led to the extension of Guenther’s contract for an additional eight years into the future. We have completed this extension.
Carcone scored his second goal of the game into an empty net, this time into the Blues’ net, during the final minute of the game. This would be his second goal of the game. Ultimately, this goal was the deciding factor in Utah’s victory, which was officially recorded as a 5-3 score.
It was generally agreed that Carcone’s goal was the one that clinched the victory. The final goal of the contest was scored by Carcone, who scored the game’s decisive goal. Utah was able to win the game and take home the victory as a result of Carcone’s goal, which was the goal that ultimately decided the outcome of the game.
However, despite the fact that the situation had already beyond the point of no return, the social administrator for the Blues was still able to successfully extract the last laugh from it. His efforts were successful.
SOURCE: SN
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No Panic for Patrick Mahomes and The Chiefs After Another Quiet Travis Kelce game.
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No Panic for Patrick Mahomes and The Chiefs After Another Quiet Travis Kelce game.
(VOR News) – Nine times in the passing game was Travis Kelce, a tight end with the Kansas City Chiefs, targeted when he debuted in the 2023 season.
He did, however, only finish with four receptions for 26 yards and a touchdown overall. He responded the next week with seven receptions for 69 yards, the Chiefs adding another score to his record and thus allaying some of the worries of some who were on the sidelines looking in.
Kelce’s third consecutive week of poor performance marked the end of his third game of the 2024–25 season.
Two days before the year ended, this Chiefs event occurred.
Although his four receptions and thirty yards are all season highs, if they had been attained concurrently they would have been among his worst efforts from the previous season.
Once more on Sunday’s triumph over the Atlanta Falcons, a sluggish effort from the offense was evident; Kelce was not an exception to this rule. While this is the case, quarterback for Chiefs Patrick Mahomes thinks the most important symbol of respect is Kelce’s receiving less than a month away from his 35th birthday.
“I mean it’s crazy since teams are still… the respect factor Travis has is just unreal,” Mahomes said to reporters. “It is well-deserved, but we are calling a lot of plays for Travis, and it seems like just two or three people are going to him,” the spokesman added. He understands this clearly.
His desire to win at the end of the day is, in my view, the most admirable trait about him; he is not simply interested in having an impact on the game. I shall give it top attention in the future to keep giving him the ball whenever he is there and on the pitch.
At the conclusion of Week 3, Kelce ranked second only to Rashee Rice in terms of targets, receptions, and yards by the pass among all Chiefs pass catchers. This shows Kelce has made notable advancements on the right path. The other man merely had 12 receptions and 14 targets; Rice had 14 targets and 12 receptions for 110 yards.
Their differences were quite considerable. As of right now this season, three games have been played; Kelce has not yet found the end zone. He had two outstanding catches in the second half.
One was a third-quarter 17-yard gain that put the Chiefs in red zone.
The head coach and Mahomes both expressed hope that Kelce would finally reach his big-time goals after the weekend’s victory. Although this is the new normal for one of the league’s best tight ends, nobody seemed to be worried about it.
This is still the case after a week; yet, the longer Chiefs games pass without a vintage Kelce effort – or anything that even loosely resembles one – the more attention will be paid to his specific stats.
Though he has lost a lot of agility compared to his prime, Kelce is still able to get open. Besides, his head is still clear, hence he is obviously capable of writing correctly.
For a different set of factors, he is not getting targets or catches inside the rhythm of the offensive, though. Maybe we could have opened that window if our sample size had been larger.
Mahomes believes that everything else will take care of itself if other guys start (or, in Rice’s case, keep going) and Kelce keeps on going.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated, “The more plays Rashee makes, the more effectively we can run the football, which allows us to involve (Xavier) Worthy, thereby increasing Travis’s opportunities to be open.” “Individuals are genuinely concerned about attempting to remove him, which is facilitating opportunities for other players.”
SOUREC: SI
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