The Florida Panthers can win the Stanley Cup at home. The Edmonton Oilers will try to thwart it

It used to be a running joke in Florida: If you wanted tickets to a Panthers game, just ask. Freebies weren't hard to find.

Those days are long gone. Especially now.

The Panthers, for the first time in their history, are set to play a home game with a chance to win the Stanley Cup.

They take a 3-1 lead over the Edmonton Oilers into Game 5 of the Cup final on Tuesday night with many tickets on the secondary market going for more than $1,000 apiece.

A historic night may await a franchise seeking its first NHL championship since its inaugural season 30 years ago.

"This is why we play," Panthers forward Vladimir Tarasenko said.

The Panthers took a 3-0 series lead into Game 4 at Edmonton on Saturday night and got rolled, the Oilers staying alive with an 8-1 win after Florida netminder Sergei Bobrovsky got the hook in the second period.

A good sign for the Oilers: No team has lost a playoff game by seven or more goals and gone on to win the Cup since Toronto in 1947.

"Momentum just lasts short periods of time, pretty much shift to shift," Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. "Maybe we've got the momentum for the first shift, but I think that's about it. Yeah, that's about it."

The Panthers are 4-1 after losses in these playoffs, outscoring their opponents by a combined 21-10. But the last four periods of this series — going back to Game 3 — have been all Edmonton.

The score over the last 80 minutes of hockey entering Tuesday night: Oilers 10, Panthers 1. Edmonton nearly pulled off a rally in the third period of Game 3, cutting a 4-1 Florida lead to 4-3 but getting no closer, and then had the rout in Game 4 behind four points from Connor McDavid.

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