The Panthers stormed back from a 2-0 deficit in the first period and overwhelmed the Carolina Hurricanes yet again, winning 5-3 and winning the Eastern Conference Finals in five games. The Panthers are now awaiting the winner of the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars. Edmonton holds a 3-1 advantage in the Western Conference Finals.

The Florida Panthers are the first team to advance to the fourth round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, doing so by way of a 5-3, come-from-behind victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the third round on Wednesday evening.

The Florida Panthers were happy, sure. They had accomplished the task at hand, the erasure of the Carolina Hurricanes from the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 5-3 win in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final.

Logan Stankoven's game winner Monday night was his fifth goal of the playoffs, tying him with Warren Foegele (five goals in 2019) for the second most by a Hurricanes/Whalers rookie in a single postseason.

It was Carolina’s first playoff win beyond the second round since June 2006, the same year the Hurricanes won the franchise’s first, and so far only Stanley Cup. Now, they return home, where they lost the first two games of the series to Florida in convincing fashion, getting outscored 10-2.

It’s time to admit what many Toronto Maple Leafs fans have been feeling in their bones: the window is closing. Not slammed shut yet—but it’s creaking, and the air coming through is cold.

Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving says to expect changes in the offseason after another early exit in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

EDMONTON -- Zach Hyman is likely out for the rest of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with an upper-body injury sustained in the Edmonton Oilers' 4-1 win against the Dallas Stars in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final at Rogers Place on Tuesday, coach Kris Knoblauch said. The forward will have surgery Wednesday.