Oilers Tie Stanley Cup Final With Overtime Comeback Victory In Front Of Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce

The Edmonton Oilers tied up nan Stanley Cup Finals astatine 2 games a portion pinch a stunning comeback overtime triumph complete nan Florida Panthers, 5-4, successful Sunrise Thursday. And nan Panthers did it successful beforehand of a personage assemblage pinch Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce highlighting nan crowd.  

Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl scored nan winning extremity successful overtime to headdress disconnected a back-and-forth thriller. It was Draisaitl's 4th overtime extremity of nan Stanley Cup playoffs, breaking nan NHL grounds for astir successful a azygous postseason. Draisaitl besides scored nan winning extremity successful overtime successful Game 1. 

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Florida Panthers halfway Aleksander Barkov (16) defends Edmonton Oilers halfway Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (93) during nan first play of Game 4 of nan NHL lucky Stanley Cup Final Thursday, June 12, 2025, successful Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

The Oilers overcame an early three-goal shortage successful nan astir melodramatic crippled of nan bid truthful far. 

The Panthers took a commanding 3-0 lead successful nan first play connected 2 goals by Matthew Tkachuk and 1 by Anton Lundell.

But nan Oilers took little than a play to necktie it up, pinch 3 goals by Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Vasily Podkolzin and Darnell Nurse successful nan second.

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Edmonton Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner makes a prevention against nan Florida Panthers during nan first play successful Game 4 of nan NHL lucky Stanley Cup Final successful Sunrise, Fla., Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Then nan crippled froze up, pinch nan teams playing astatine a stalemate going into nan 3rd period. That stalemate lasted much than halfway into nan 3rd play until Oilers defenseman Jake Walman yet collapsed nan necktie pinch a extremity pinch conscionable nether 7 minutes to spell successful regulation.

And then, pinch little than 20 seconds to go, nan Panthers tied it backmost up connected a melodramatic extremity by Sam Reinhart, sending nan crippled to overtime.

Neither squad budged for nan first 11 minutes of nan other period, but past Draisaitl collapsed done to crystal nan crippled and moreover up nan bid astatine nan 8:42 mark. 

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Edmonton Oilers' Vasily Podkolzin (92) celebrates aft his extremity pinch Corey Perry (90) and Leon Draisaitl (29) arsenic Florida Panthers' Niko Mikkola (77) looks connected during nan 2nd play successful Game 4 of nan NHL lucky Stanley Cup Final successful Sunrise, Fla., Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

The bid returns to Edmonton pinch Game 5 connected Saturday. 

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