Panthers beat Oilers to claim first Stanley Cup

The Florida Panthers hit nan Edmonton Oilers to triumph nan Stanley Cup for nan first clip successful their franchise history.

Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart scored for nan Panthers, either broadside of Mattias Janmark's effort, to seal a 2-1 triumph and 4-3 bid win.

The Oilers had trailed 3-0 successful nan bid but fought backmost to unit a deciding game.

"I've been chasing that for a agelong time," said Florida coach Paul Maurice.

"It was cleanable Florida Panther manner - nothing's easy. Nothing's easy for us."

The Oilers were hoping to go conscionable nan 2nd squad successful NHL history to overturn a 3-0 shortage to triumph nan Stanley Cup.

Florida had location advantage for nan seventh and last crippled successful nan bid and it took only 4 minutes and 27 seconds for Verhaeghe to score.

The Canadian guardant met Evan Rodrigues' changeable to extremity beyond Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner.

Janmark equalised for nan visitors erstwhile collecting Cody Ceci's walk earlier coolly finishing.

Reinhart popped up pinch nan victor successful nan 2nd period, conscionable moments aft nan Oilers saw an effort shovelled disconnected nan extremity line.

"They opportunity this is nan hardest trophy to triumph successful sports, and you can't ideate really difficult it is, until you do it," Rodrigues said.

"But getting to crippled seven, it took unit disconnected of us, and we did it nan difficult way. But it was a cleanable outcome."