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Who played well in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final? Sometimes it’s easy to tell, sometimes it isn’t. NHL.com graded the players in a 5-2 win by the Florida Panthers against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Saturday. Here are the players that stood out the most.
Florida Panthers left wing Brad Marchand scored two goals to lead his team to a 5-2 road win over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday evening. The Panthers now lead the best-of-seven series three games to two.
Once Atlantic Division rivals, the pair of forwards are making NHL history with fantastic play through the first three games of the final.
Marchand, who also scored five goals in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final with the Boston Bruins, joined Mario Lemieux (five goals in 1991 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins) as the only players to score at least five goals in a Cup Final in the NHL expansion era (since 1967-68).
The Panthers will go back to Sunrise for Tuesday’s Game 6 with a chance to clinch a second straight Stanley Cup crown after Marchand scores two more goals in Edmonton.
Panthers forward Sam Bennett is doubling down on the comments from teammate Matthew Tkachuk on the physicality in the series.
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