The puck went into the corner, to the left of Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, with 14 seconds left in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.
It never came out of that corner. And the Panthers will never forget what that meant.
How Florida finished last season - how it ran the final seconds off the clock in its 2-1, title-clinching win over Edmonton - is how the Panthers started this season. Training camp for the Stanley Cup champions opened Thursday and one of the drills on Day 1 very much resembled those frantic final moments of Game 7, with the puck in the corner and players being put to the test.
"It was an unbelievable feeling," Panthers forward Eetu Luostarinen said. "I think every player lived for that moment and we're here to work for it."
Edmonton was as desperate as could be in those final 14 seconds, trying anything and everything to get a shot off and potentially tie the game. The puck never got out of that corner. Luostarinen was on the ice for those moments a few feet away from the play, waiting to pounce just in case the Oilers somehow knocked it free. The four other Panthers skaters formed a human logjam, and when it was over the title was won.
