
By Michael Russo, Daniel Nugent-Bowman and Chris Johnston
SUNRISE, Fla. – Brad Marchand and Sam Bennett, once bitter rivals, continued their tremendous postseason runs as new teammates by each scoring goals in the Florida Panthers’ completely convincing 6-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night at Amerant Bank Arena.
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Marchand, in the midst of a scintillating series, scored for a third straight game and became the first player in NHL history to follow an overtime goal with a goal inside the first minute of the next game.
Bennett, the NHL’s leading goal scorer with 14, then followed suit by scoring for the third straight game in the series as the Panthers took a 2-1 series lead with Game 4 set for Thursday night.
Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart scored a goal and assist each, Aaron Ekblad and Evan Rodrigrues scored two of the Panthers’ three power-play goals on 11 opportunities and Nate Schmidt picked up his fifth assist in the series to become just the eighth defenseman since the 1967-68 expansion era to open a Final with a three-game assist streak.
Eetu Luostarinen also had two assists and Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves for his 30th win in the past two postseasons.
The Panthers are the sixth team in NHL history to score five or more goals 11 times. This was the eighth time in the past 11 games.
Corey Perry scored the lone goal for the Oilers, who saw Stuart Skinner allow five goals on 23 shots before being chased for Calvin Pickard after Ekblad’s goal 3:27 into the third period.
Things boiled over late when Trent Frederic went after Bennett.
Everything stemmed from Trent Frederic breaking his stick with cross-checks on Sam Bennett 😳 pic.twitter.com/DDuNQe2M3g
— Gino Hard (@GinoHard_) June 10, 2025
When a best-of-seven Stanley Cup Final is tied 1-1, the winner of Game 3 holds an all-time series record of 23-7 (.767). Overall in the playoffs, the winner of Game 3 in a 1-1 series go on to claim the series 66.3 percent of the time (244-124).
This story will be updated.
(Photo of Sam Bennett: Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
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