EDMONTON — It’s 2011 yet again for Brad Marchand, who at 37 is exhibiting indicators he’s truly getting higher with age in inching the Florida Panthers inside a victory of their second straight Stanley Cup title.
Marchand scored twice, together with being credited together with his second successful aim of the Cup Finals, in a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday evening. In bouncing again from squandering a 3-0 lead in Recreation 4 on Thursday, the Panthers return residence with a 3-2 sequence lead for Recreation 6 on Tuesday.
“Yeah, we’ve been pretty good at bouncing back all playoffs,” Marchand stated. “We learned a pretty good lesson last game.”
Of his 10 playoff targets, six have come within the Cup last sequence, making Marchand the 18th participant to take action within the last and first since Edmonton’s Esa Tikkanen scored that many in 1988. And Marchand, who scored 5 occasions in Boston’s 2011 Cup-winning last sequence over Vancouver, joined Mario Lemieux in changing into simply the second participant over the previous 50 years to attain 5 or extra occasions in a number of Cup finals.
He additionally turned the oldest participant to do it.
Acquired by Florida on the NHL commerce deadline in March, the previous Boston captain opened the scoring Saturday evening halfway by means of the primary interval. After which primarily sealed the victory by placing Florida up 3-0 on the 5:12 mark of the third.
Each targets had been scored in related trend, with Marchand leaping on a free puck, placing his head down and driving to the web.
