SUNRISE, Fla. — Leon Draisaitl scored in extra time for the fourth time this playoffs, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in Recreation 4 of the Stanley Cup Ultimate on Thursday night time to tie the collection, erasing a three-goal deficit and bouncing again after permitting the late tying purpose.
Ex-San Jose Sharks defenseman Jake Walman gave the Oilers their first lead with 6:24 left within the third interval, earlier than Sam Reinhart scored with 19.5 seconds left to ship it to extra time. Three of the primary 4 video games of this ultimate have wanted further time to be settled, the primary time that has occurred since 2013 and the fifth time in NHL historical past.
Draisaitl’s purpose 11:18 into OT — the fourth session of additional hockey between these groups — despatched the collection again to Western Canada all even. Recreation 5 of what’s turning right into a basic back-and-forth collection between two hockey heavyweights is Saturday night time in Edmonton.
The Oilers grew to become the primary street staff to rally from a three-goal deficit to win a sport within the ultimate because the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Seattle Metropolitans in 1919. Solely six groups have come again from down three within the ultimate in NHL historical past, the final time in 2006.
The Oilers fell behind 3-0 within the first interval on a pair of objectives by Matthew Tkachuk and one other with 41.7 seconds left from Anton Lundell, which may have been a back-breaker.
Coach Kris Knoblauch pulled Stuart Skinner after his starter allowed these three objectives on 17 photographs within the first, when the ice was tilted towards him and his teammates didn’t have a lot of a pushback. In went Calvin Pickard, the journeyman backup who received all six of his begins this playoffs earlier than getting injured.
Pickard made some acrobatic saves, stopping the primary 18 photographs he confronted and paving the best way for a once-in-a-century comeback. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored on Edmonton’s first energy play, Darnell Nurse beat Sergei Bobrovsky with one other shot up excessive, and Vasily Podkolzin made it 3-all with lower than 5 minutes left within the second.
Pop celebrity Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce have been among the many celebrities who flocked to Amerant Financial institution Area on Thursday to observe Recreation 4 of the ultimate.
Kelce, a Tremendous Bowl-winning tight finish for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, is a identified hockey fan, as is his brother, Jason Kelce. And ever since Swift and Kelce started their high-profile romance in 2023, the 14-time Grammy Award-winning singer has been identified to soak up sporting occasions — together with the final two Tremendous Bowls — and trigger an excited frenzy for followers.
There have been rumblings forward of Thursday’s sport that the couple may attend the ultimate.
A helicopter landed close to Amerant Financial institution Area in Dawn, Florida, forward of the sport. The VIP entrance to the world was additionally closed off, and the media elevator was unavailable to be used throughout a interval earlier than pregame warmups started.
The pair was proven on the tv broadcast in the course of the first interval of the sport.
Swift just lately introduced that she regained management over her whole physique of labor. In a prolonged word posted to her official web site, Swift mentioned that each one the music she’s ever made now belongs to her after she has bought her catalog of recordings — launched initially via Large Machine Information — from their most up-to-date proprietor, the non-public fairness agency Shamrock Capital.
Over the previous couple of years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her early albums in an try and regain management of her music.
Different celebs in attendance included former Miami Dolphins star defensive finish Jason Taylor, who banged the drum earlier than the sport, and hockey nice Jaromir Jagr. Miami Warmth captain Bam Adebayo was joined by former Warmth captain Udonis Haslem on the drum on Monday.
Initially Revealed: June 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM PDT
