Who remembers the 1919 Montreal Canadiens? Anyone?
Because that’s how far back you have to go to find a team that did what the Edmonton Oilers just did on Thursday night in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
The Oilers trailed 3-0, on the road, and came back to beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in overtime on a Leon Draisaitl winner.
Sportsnet shared that the last team to come back from 3-0 down on the road to win a Stanley Cup Finals game was the 1919 Montreal Canadiens, who beat the Seattle Metropolitans in such a scenario back in Game 5 a cool 106 years ago.
Way back on March 29, 1919, Seattle scored twice in the first period and once in the second.
That set up Montreal for three third-period goals, the second and third come from Newsy Lalonde.
In overtime, Jack McDonald scored the winner.
Ironically, that series ended up as a 2-2-1 tie. Game 4 had ended up as a scoreless draw after two overtime periods didn’t get a goal. And then the series was abandoned due to the Spanish Flu.
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This time around, either the Oilers or Panthers will really win it.
It certainly looked like it’d be Florida when it scored the first three goals in dominant fashion on its home ice, already holding a 2-1 series lead.
But then Edmonton stormed back with four in a row.
The Panthers scored a miraculous goal with 19 seconds left to force overtime. It was the second-latest overtime-forcing goal in Stanley Cup Finals history, behind only Corey Perry’s 18-second magic earlier in this series for Edmonton.
In OT, there were great chances both ways before Draisaitl ended it.
For anyone watching Thursday night, don’t worry if you can’t remember the 1919 Canadiens. Because now you’ve got the 2025 Oilers.
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