The Edmonton Oilers became the 211th team to trail 3-0 in a series in NHL history last week – they are now just one win away from becoming the fifth to complete the comeback. The Oilers became the 10th team in NHL history to force a Game 7 after trailing a series three games to none on Friday after beating the Florida Panthers, 5-1.
Edmonton started the second with a bang, with Adam Henrique scoring just 46 seconds into the period on a 2-on-1 following an ice-length pass. Florida’s Aleksander Barkov thought he answered back just 10 seconds later, but Edmonton successfully challenged that the Panthers were offsides, leaving it a 2-0 Oilers lead. With 1:40 left in the period, Zach Hyman lit the lamp to make it 3-0. The Oilers scored twice in the middle frame, despite Florida outshooting them, 11-4.
It’s the first 3-0 comeback in the league since the Los Angeles Kings did so in the first round of the 2014 playoffs – they won that Game 7, and eventually won the Cup, winning two more Game 7s in the process. The last team in the Big 4 leagues to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-0 was last year’s Boston Celtics – they lost to the eighth-seeded Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, but got their revenge earlier this week by winning their first NBA title since 2008.
This series' Game 7 will be back in Sunrise, Fla., where just about everyone will be in full-blown panic, on Monday night. With a win, it’ll be the Oilers’ first Cup since 1990, and Canada’s first since 1993. That would also mark the second year in a row the Panthers would lose in the Final, having fallen to the Vegas Golden Knights last year. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.