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FORT LAUDERDALE — Both the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers will try and get a leg up on this Stanley Cup Final tonight when they meet in Game 3 at Amerant Bank Arena.
Florida got a much-needed split in Edmonton by winning Game 2 in double-overtime on Brad Marchand’s third goal of the series.
Tonight, the Oilers try and get the upper hand back.
“It’s the Stanley Cup Finals. You’re not going to walk through a Stanley Cup Final,’’ Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse said.
“You’re not going to walk through a team at this point of the year. It’s a team we’re playing, this is their third Final, and they’re here for a reason. For us, we know that we are very capable of when we’re playing at the top of our game, of being being a dominant team on the ice. but with that said, they’re going to have their pushes and it’s the way that we’re able to weather those, and take the momentum, and maybe grab the momentum, a little bit earlier and swing it back in our way.”
The Panthers have not been as good at home as they have been on the road in these playoffs, with coach Paul Maurice saying the numbers are a bit askew with the smaller sample size.
One he pointed to was Florida’s success — and failure — on the power play.
On the road, the Panthers are cruising at a 41.2 percent success rate with the man advantage; at home, it’s a measly 3.6 percent.
“There are no more than five games left, and that could be the deciding factor,’’ Maurice said. “I think the number is like 3.9 percent at home, and 40 on the road. I would suggest, though, that we’re not either. No team is. We’ve never run a 40 percent power play, home or road; we don’t run a 4 percent power play home or road.
“I think I have no idea why those numbers are so skewed. We’ve talked about it, and once we couldn’t figure it out, we just left it alone.’’
23 Carter Verhaeghe // 16 Sasha Barkov // 13 Sam Reinhart
17 Evan Rodrigues // 9 Sam Bennett // 19 Matthew Tkachuk
27 Eetu Luostarinen // 15 Anton Lundell // 63 Brad Marchand
10 AJ Greer // 92 Tomas Nosek // 12 Jonah Gadjovich
42 Gus Forsling // 5 Aaron Ekblad
77 Niko Mikkola // 3 Seth Jones
88 Nate Schmidt // 7 Dmitry Kulikov
72 Sergei Bobrovsky
41 Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Mackie Samoskevich, Jesper Boqvist, Uvis Balinskis, Nico Sturm, Jaycob Megna, Evan Cormier
93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins // 97 Connor McDavid // 90 Corey Perry
91 Evander Kane // 29 Leon Draisaitl // 42 Kasperi Kapanen
21 Trent Frederic // 19 Adam Henrique // 28 Connor Brown
92 Vasily Podkolzin // 13 Mattias Janmark // 33 Viktor Arvidsson
25 Darnell Nurse // 2 Evan Bouchard
14 Mattias Ekholm // 36 John Klingberg
96 Jake Walman // 27 Brett Kulak
74 Stuart Skinner
30 Calvin Pickard
Scratched: Joshua Brown, Cam Dineen, Ty Emberson, Max Jones, Derek Ryan, Jeff Skinner, Troy Stecher
Injured: Zach Hyman (dislocated wrist)
Edmonton Oilers Lines Courtesy NHL.com
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