Evan Rodrigues (Boston University) scored a goal in Saturday's 3-0 win over the Edmonton Oilers to lift the Florida Panthers to a one-game lead in the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. He scored twice tonight in the third period in a 4-1 victory that enabled the Panthers to put stranglehold on the series it shifts to Alberta later this week.
A center who hails from Toronto, Rodrigues picked off a clearing pass and wristed home a shot from the left circle early in the final frame on an expiring Florida power play to break a 1-1 tie, and then scored on a deflection less than nine minutes later to make it 3-1. Florida, which is playing in its second straight Stanley Cup Final after falling to Vegas last year, now leads this year's best-of-seven series, two games to none, in pursuing its first NHL championship ever. Game Three will be held on Thursday at Edmonton's Rogers Place.
Rodrigues, 30, who was a member of BU's 2015 NCAA national runner-up squad, tallied 42 goals and 121 points in his four-year college career with the Terriers. He now has six goals and five assists in 19 postseason games so far this spring with the Panthers, and has recorded 10-12-22 points in 35 career Stanley Cup Playoff outings with Pittsburgh, Colorado and Florida.
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