The Oilers had been doing a little bit of message-sending because the Panthers trounced them, 6-1, in Recreation 3 of the Stanley Cup Remaining, as the 2 sides discovered themselves entangled in some fisticuffs as the ultimate horn sounded.
Corey Perry took a whack at Niko Mikkola simply as time expired, and after participating with a number of Panthers gamers, he finally discovered himself in a short combat with Tomas Nosek earlier than the refs began to revive order.
Because the chaos was ensuing on the ice, followers at Amerant Financial institution Enviornment started throwing plastic rats onto the ice, a convention in South Florida that dates again to the Panthers’ 1996 Stanley Cup Remaining run.
The sunshine fisticuffs punctuated a really bodily third interval and a sport that noticed a mixed 138 penalty minutes.
Issues exploded within the third when a line brawl was ignited after Oilers ahead Trent Frederic acquired into it with Sam Bennett.
The road brawl despatched Frederic, Bennett, Mattias Ekholm, Jonah Gadjovich and Darnell Nurse to the locker rooms early.
The Panthers led for the complete night time, scoring their first purpose 56 seconds into the primary interval and scored 5 extra instances by the remainder of the sport with Brad Marchand, Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Reinhart, Bennett Aaron Ekblad and Evan Rodrigues all discovering the again of the online.
Perry scored the Oilers’ solely purpose of the night time, which got here within the second interval.
Marchand’s purpose lower than a minute into the sport made him the oldest participant to attain in every of the primary three video games of a Cup Remaining, and Bennett’s purpose was his playoff-leading 14th.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 32 stops for the Panthers within the Recreation 3 win.
The Panthers lead the sequence 2-1, and Recreation 4 is scheduled for Thursday in Dawn.
