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The 2024 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2023–24 season and the culmination of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs.The Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers defeated the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers four games to three in the best-of-seven series, earning their first championship in their thirty year history.
Newsy Lalonde, the first player to score six goals in an NHL game, also had two other five-goal games. Wayne Gretzky, the NHL's all-time leading scorer, had four five-goal games. Mario Lemieux recorded four five-goal games. Sergei Fedorov scored all of the Red Wings' goals in a 5–4 overtime win against the Washington Capitals.
The eight Oilers goals were the most the Panthers have allowed in a regular season or playoff game since Game 5 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Final when they lost the series to the Vegas Golden Knights.
Gretzky's accomplishments helped the Oilers become the first team to score 400 goals in a season, a feat they accomplished for five straight years. [32] However, they were upset by the Los Angeles Kings in five games (Game 3 of this series, the Miracle on Manchester , saw the Oilers take a 5–0 lead into the third period, only to lose 6–5 in ...
None of the Oilers' top five point scorers from the regular season — Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Evan Bouchard and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — have even scored a goal in this series ...
Florida won the first three games of the series by scores of 3-0, 4-1 and 4-3, then lost the next three games — 8-1 in Game 4, 5-3 in Game 5 and 5-1 in Game 6 — to force the winner-take-all ...
Vincent Lecavalier scored 52 goals in 2006–07. Evgeni Malkin scored 50 goals in 2011–12. Leon Draisaitl scored 50 goals in 2018–19 and 2021–22. Key * Player is active in the NHL in 2023–24 ^ Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (#) Denotes the consecutive count, only if more than one, that player achieved a 50-goal season
The Edmonton Oilers once again staved off elimination in the fifth game of Stanley Cup Final Tuesday night, defeating the Florida Panthers 5-3 in Sunrise, Florida, to force a Game 6 in the best-of ...