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🏆 Good morning to everybody, however particularly to …

THE FLORIDA PANTHERS

Thirty years after they entered the NHL, the Florida Panthers are lastly Stanley Cup champions. The Panthers held on for a 2-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Sport 7 to clinch the primary Cup title in franchise historical past.

The Panthers did not make it straightforward on themselves. They grew to become simply the third staff in NHL historical past to give up a 3-0 lead within the Stanley Cup Last, however that is so far as it went. Florida made positive it did not turn out to be simply the second staff to lose a Last after main 3-0.

Carter Verhaeghe picked a superb time to attain his second purpose of the collection, tipping residence an Evan Rodrigues shot with simply 4:27 gone within the first interval. Sam Reinhart scored what would show to be the game-winning purpose, a snapshot previous Stuart Skinner with 4:49 to go within the center body.

Reinhart was a becoming hero for the Panthers contemplating his 57 targets within the common season led the Panthers and had been good for second within the NHL.

From there, Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky shook off his shaky performances in Video games 4, 5 and 6 to slam the door on the Oilers. Bobrovsky allowed only one purpose on the 24 photographs he confronted, and lots of of these stops got here with Edmonton throwing the kitchen sink at him within the third interval.

Bobrovsky did get some assist from defenseman Gustav Forsling, who made the largest play that will not present up within the field rating. With simply over seven minutes left, Forsling tied up the stick of Connor McDavid, who had Bobrovsky lifeless to rights on the prime of the crease.

Regardless of not registering some extent in Video games 6 or 7, McDavid was named the MVP of the playoffs. It was the sixth time a participant on the dropping staff — and solely the second for a non-goalie — acquired the distinction. Not one of the Panthers acquired to carry the Conn Smythe Trophy, however I will assume they’d extra enjoyable lifting the Stanley Cup anyway.

Two individuals who positively loved hoisting the Cup over their heads had been Panthers head coach Paul Maurice and ahead Kyle Okposo. It took Maurice 26 seasons as a head coach to lastly win hockey’s best prize, and Okposo waited 17 seasons earlier than laying his fingers on Lord Stanley.

👍 Honorable mentions

🏒 And never such a superb morning for …

THE EDMONTON OILERS

The Oilers’ locker room was rather less jubilant than that of the Panthers on Monday evening. After climbing all the best way again from 3-0 all the way down to pressure a Sport 7, Edmonton got here up one purpose in need of forcing additional time and two targets in need of its first Stanley Cup since 1990.

Sport 7 appeared so much like the primary three video games of the collection for the Oilers. Edmonton fell behind, and it could not discover the equalizer as Florida went into lockdown mode defensively. The Oilers did have some shut calls, particularly within the third interval, however too a lot of its greatest stars got here up empty in Sport 7 and the remainder of the collection.

• Leon Draisaitl failed to attain a purpose within the collection after scoring 10 within the first three rounds.
• Ryan Nugent-Hopkins registered simply two factors within the Last.
• Connor McDavid was held off the scoresheet in Video games 6 and seven.

Even after a irritating end to the Stanley Cup Last, McDavid was named the Conn Smythe winner after a historic postseason. McDavid’s 34 assists are an NHL file for essentially the most in a single postseason, and his 42 factors are fourth-most for a single playoff run.

Regardless of all of these accolades, it was nonetheless a bittersweet finish to McDavid’s season, as I highlighted in my breakdown of his great postseason.

• Nivison: “After all of the dazzling performances and record-setting level totals, McDavid got here up one recreation in need of hockey immortality. Tomorrow, these numbers will return to zero, and he’ll have to start out once more subsequent season.”

👎 Not so honorable mentions

⚾ Tennessee wins Faculty World Sequence

The school baseball champions are clad in Large Orange. Tennessee defeated Texas A&M, 6-5, in a winner-take-all Sport 3 to declare the primary nationwide title in program historical past.

The Vols acquired the night began in acceptable vogue. Christian Moore, Tennessee’s greatest hitter all season lengthy, launched a leadoff residence run over the left area wall within the backside of the primary inning to open the scoring.

Within the backside of the seventh, the Volunteers had been clinging to a 3-1 lead when left fielder Dylan Dreiling got here to the plate with one man on base. On the 0-1 pitch, Dreiling hit a moonshot that simply scraped over the suitable area wall to increase the result in 5-1.

• That was the third straight recreation by which Dreiling hit a seventh-inning homer.
• Dreiling took residence the Faculty World Sequence MVP with 13 hits, three HRs and 11 RBI.

Tennessee starter Zander Sechrist, a senior, went 5 1/3 innings and allowed only one earned run on six hits whereas putting out seven.

Issues did get a little bit furry for the Volunteers because the Aggies clawed again to make it a one-run ballgame, even bringing the tying run to the plate within the prime of the ninth. Nonetheless, that is when reduction pitcher Aaron Combs closed the door and delivered a nationwide title.

Vols head coach Tony Vitello took over this system six years in the past and has steadily constructed it up right into a perennial nationwide title contender. Following this 60-13 marketing campaign, Vitello’s file now stands at 294-112 with some {hardware} to associate with it.

🏈 Mike McCarthy already feeling the warmth in Dallas

The temperature is rising in Large D, and never simply in terms of the climate. We’re nonetheless months away from Week 1 of the NFL season, however the stress between Mike McCarthy and Jerry Jones is already rising.

McCarthy, who’s getting into his fifth 12 months with the Dallas Cowboys, is reportedly “fed up” with Jones’ fixed interference. It is also notable that 2024 is the ultimate 12 months of McCarthy’s present contract, and there are many questions on his future with the staff.

In his first 4 seasons as the top coach, McCarthy has led the Cowboys to a powerful 42-25 file and three playoff berths. The problem is that McCarthy is 1-3 in these postseason appearances.

There is a motive McCarthy is one in all our 12 non-quarterbacks underneath essentially the most stress in 2024. As our personal Cody Benjamin explains, this can be a make-or-break season for the Cowboys’ head coach in additional methods than one.

• Benjamin: “McCarthy has all of the numbers to justify a prime job, with three straight playoff bids underneath his belt. He additionally has only a single postseason victory in his final six seasons as a head man. With Dak Prescott additionally on the new seat as he enters a contract 12 months, McCarthy is underneath stress to lastly make good on proprietor Jerry Jones’ roster, and ship a big-stage win.”

McCarthy is not the one one feeling the warmth this summer season. Different huge names underneath the microscope embrace Calvin Ridley, Stefon Diggs and Nick Sirianni.

🏌 Scottie Scheffler chasing Tiger’s historic 2000 season

Tiger Woods‘ 2000 PGA Tour season is thought to be the very best 12 months within the historical past of the game. Few have even discovered the identical zip code since then, however Scottie Scheffler would possibly simply be giving Woods a run for his cash.

Coming off his win on the Vacationers Championship final weekend, Scheffler is constructing an all-time resume this season, and there is likely to be much more to return. Scheffler already has six wins, together with the Masters and The Gamers Championship.

That places him inside attain of Woods, who can have an edge within the majors class. Woods rattled off three main victories in 2000, and Scheffler can solely max out at two if he had been to seize the Open subsequent month.

As our personal Kyle Porter factors out, Scheffler does have a singular alternative to separate himself from Woods by successful a gold medal on the Paris Olympics later this summer season.

• Porter: “Let’s presume for a second that Scheffler wins out. He stated Sunday he is planning on taking part in the Open, the Olympics and the three FedEx Cup playoff occasions. That will be 11 victories — two greater than Woods had in 2000 — together with a probable edge in scoring common, proportion of cash earned and top-five finishes. Scheffler would fall one main quick (with a PGA asterisk given the issues surrounding his arrest) however have the Gamers and a gold medal to his identify.”

By the top of 2024, the controversy in regards to the best PGA Tour season ever is likely to be nearer than anybody ever imagined.

📺 What we’re watching Tuesday

⚽ Euro 2024 — France at Poland, 12 p.m. on Fox
⚽ Euro 2024 — Netherlands at Austria, 12 p.m. on FS1
⚽ Euro 2024 — Denmark at Serbia, 3 p.m. on FS1
⚽ Euro 2024 — England at Slovenia, 3 p.m. on Fox
⚽ Copa America — Peru at Canada, 6 p.m. on FS1
⚾ Yankees at Mets, 7:10 p.m. on TBS
🏀 Commissioner’s Cup — Lynx at Liberty, 8 p.m. on Prime Video
⚽ Copa America — Chile at Argentina, 9 p.m. on FS1