EDMONTON -- The long line change in the second period presented problems for the Edmonton Oilers against the Florida Panthers in the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final.
It’s a situation Edmonton will look to remedy after losing 5-4 in overtime to Florida in Game 2 at Rogers Place on Friday. The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1 with Game 3 at Amerant Bank Arena in Florida on Monday (8 p.m. ET; MAX, truTV, TNT, SN, TVAS, CBC).
“It was puck execution, I know our passes weren’t sharp and we gave away a lot of pucks,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. “If you can’t make that first pass, you’re stuck in the defensive zone and you might get it up to the neutral zone, but especially in the second period, if you just get it out to the neutral zone, you can’t change and then you get stuck and