The wait is over: After 27 years, the Florida Panthers -- a hockey punchline no more -- are again going to play for the game's grandest prize.
Tkachuk got his second goal of the game with 4.9 seconds left, lifting the Panthers past the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 and into the Stanley Cup final for the first time since 1996.
The Panthers scored 10 goals in the series, and Bobrovsky ensured those were all they needed. They were the No. 8 seed, the last team in, the longest of long shots. NHL Senior Vice President Brian Jennings was the one tasked with presenting the Prince of Wales Trophy. After some photos, Aleksander Barkov -- the captain -- grabbed it, and skated it away. Some teams touch it. Some don't. A few of the Panthers did, but Barkov didn't pass it around.Ryan Lomberg and Anthony Duclair had the other goals for Florida, which swept a series for the first time in franchise history.
But the night -- the series, too -- belonged to the Panthers. They were swept by Colorado in the 1996 final.
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