Carter Verhaeghe beat Stuart Skinner on the first shot of the game and the Florida Panthers never trailed to win game one of the Stanley Cup final 3-0 over the Edmonton Oilers.
It was the fourth time in these players that Skinner has allowed a goal on the first shot he’s faced.
The Panthers were able to slide one past the Oilers’ starter just under four minutes into the game as Verhaeghe scored off a cross-ice pass from Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov. Verhaeghe became the first player to score on their team’s first shot in the Stanley Cup Final since Mike Fisher did so for the Ottawa Senators in 2007.
Evan Rodrigues and Eetu Luostarinen had other goals for the Panthers.
Edmonton outshot the Panthers by a two-to-one margin but Sergei Bobrovsky, who has allowed two goals or fewer in 10 of his last 11 games, turned aside all 34 shots for the shutout
The Oilers will look to even the series when Game 2 is played Monday night in Florida at 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT.