News about Carter Verhaeghe

A bleary-eyed but triumphant Carter Verhaeghe was caught on video making a dash for the bushes after a long night of partying following the Panthers' historic Stanley Cup win.  Video footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com captured the aftermath of the team's stunning victory at Amerant Bank Arena on Monday which culminated into a night of boozy celebrations that stretched into the early hours of Tuesday morning.  And as the star forward who scored one of the decisive goals to defeat the Edmonton Oilers, Verhaeghe, 28, was in full party mode, indulging in perhaps a few too many during the post-game festivities that at one point saw him slumped on the grass outside the venue. 

Both teams split goals at the end of the first period. Carter Verhaeghe gave Florida the 1-0 lead with a tip-in nearly five minutes into the opening stanza. Minutes later, Edmonton's Mattias Janmark hit a wrist shot to tie the game one-all heading into the second. Sam Reinhart would be the lone scorer in the middle period, giving the Panthers the 2-1 lead they would hold to secure their first Stanley Cup title as a franchise.

Bobrovsky made 33 saves to become the fifth goalie in NHL history to record a shutout in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. Eetu Luostarinen, Evan Rodrigues and Carter Verhaeghe all scored in each period of Saturday's game at Amerant Bank Arena in Florida, too. Game 2 will be played on Monday, June 10, in the Miami area.

Whichever way the 2024 Stanley Cup Final ends, a drought will be ended for one of the two teams in it. On one side there's the Florida Panthers - a team who has been this far twice and has fallen both times: once in 1996 to the Colorado Avalanche and last year to the Vegas Golden Knights. Then there's the Edmonton Oilers - who haven't touched the Stanley Cup since 1990. They also carry the burden of Canada upon their shoulders, as the Great White North hasn't hoisted the trophy in 31 years.

In the Stanley Cup Finals, the Golden Knights were on the brink of taking the lead over the Florida Panthers by 3-0, but Matthew Tkachachuk gave him a late equalizer in the waning moments of the third period before handing over the game-winner to Carter Verhaeghe in overtime. Now, the never-say-day Panthers are in Game 4 in Sunrise, Florida, trailing only 2-1 after Thursday's 3-2 overtime victory.

The Vegas Golden Knights made it clear that the Stanley Cup would be a complete whitewash, rather dismantled the Florida Panthers in Ga me 2. With a 7-2 victory on Monday night, the hosts blasted into a 2-0 series, establishing their kingship across the ice. And they were even more active than in Game 1; they couldn't be banned from playing.

Not since Boston and Los Angeles in 2020 has the sports world's attention and curiosity been so concentrated on one area of America as Florida in 2023. The Boston Red Sox were reigning World Series champions, the New England Patriots were Super Bowl champions, and the Boston Bruins had reached the Stanley Cup Finals by the summer of 2019. The following year was devoted to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers snapped a 32-year championship drought ended and the Lakers claimed their first NBA title in the bubble.

Many hockey fans were not expecting a second all-Sun Belt Stanley Cup Final in NHL history. Boston was the best regular season squad in the league's history going into the playoffs. They were knocked out by the worst team that made it in. Canada wished that they would win their first Stanley Cup since 1993. Rather, the Jets were quickly dismissed and the Maple Leafs and Oilers' star power was snuffed out.

The Florida Panthers shocked the Boston Bruins out of the NHL playoffs with a dramatic Game 7 win in overtime, a surprise that 'nobody in the world' may have predicted.' Brandon Montour tied it with 1 minute left in regulation, and Carter Verhaeghe scored the game-winner at 8:35 in overtime. After falling behind 3-1 in the best-of-seven series, the Panthers won three straight. Boston, the Presidents' Trophy winners with NHL records of 65 wins and 135 points, had not lost three in a row all season.

The top-seeded Bruins instead tried to beat Florida players with their fists at the end of their 6-3 loss in Boston on Wednesday night, failing to beat the Panthers in rules. The surprising result ended their first-round series at 1-1, igniting tensions between the Panthers and the heavily favored Bruins, who suffered a third-period defeat on Wednesday while yielding four goals in the frame. As Bruins fans marched away from the exits in the game's waning moments, Boston's Trent Frederic was seen tangling with Florida's Ryan Lomberg in other fights. Brandon Montour broke a 2-2 tie in the third period, Carter Verhaeghe scored another for Florida, and Eetu Luostarinen added an empty netter for second, making it 6-2.