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Hockey is supposed to be Canada’s game. Yet the last two Canadian-based NHL teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers, have been eliminated from the tournament. This lengthens the three-decade drought since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.

The whistle blew for a power play with 57 seconds left in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday and Aaron Ekblad, from his place on the Florida Panthers’ bench, thought the same thing Panthers fans — and, probably, NHL fans — across the world certainly were thinking, too.

Matthew Tkachuk scored a power-play goal with 4.9 seconds left, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 36 shots to cap off a brilliant series, and the Florida Panthers earned their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 27 years by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 to win the Eastern Conference title in…

Mike McDaniel got HYPED to rally the Florida Panthers crowd with a drum.

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers’ first home game in the Eastern Conference finals since 1996 started with a montage of everyone on the roster.

You stitch together a playoff run with this and that, with strong fabric and different threads, with Josh Mahura making two under-the-radar plays Saturday night, Aleksander Barkov making what Wayne Gretzky called one of the great playoff moves and the Florida Panthers winning their third straight playoff game in overtime.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes didn’t leave PNC Arena until close to 3 a.m. on Friday, and finally, after skipping practices later in the day and holding optional morning skates Saturday, they returned to the scene of the sixth longest game in NHL history all of…