Sam Bennett Echoes Matthew Tkachuk's Comments After Game 3 Blowout Win originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final felt more like a gauntlet than a hockey game, with the Florida Panthers crushing the Edmonton Oilers 6–1 on the scoreboard.

Panthers forward Sam Bennett is doubling down on the comments from teammate Matthew Tkachuk on the physicality in the series.

Bennett had the kind of shift in Game 3’s victory on Monday that tells the larger Panthers’ story. It’s as much the moment of this series as Panthers forward Brad Marchand’s breakaway goal to win Game 2, defenseman Aaron Ekblad’s hit that sent Connor McDavid spinning to the ice or McDavid’s brilliant “walk-on-water toe tap,’’ as Ekblad called it.

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