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After a series of fist and game conditions in Game 3 in the Stanley Cup final, a further penalty has been handed over.
Edmonton Oilers Defender Jake Walman was a total of $ 10,000 a total of both matthew Tkachuk from Florida Panthers in the face and spraying water on the Florida bench.
Tkachuk was held down by John Klinberg while Walman cried for him.
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Edmonton Oilers defender Jake Walman skates with the puck against Buffalo Sabres at the Keybank Center. (Timothy T. Ludwig-IMAGN PICTURES)
Tkachuk is no stranger to getting into bouts on the biggest stage. As a member of Team USA, he fell the gloves at the opening of Faceoff of the 4 Nations game against Canada (his brother, Brady, fought for his own Panthers teammate, Sam Bennett).
So when things were Chippy during the Panthers’ blowout of Oilers, Tkachuk was prepared.
“We talked about it in the third. If you have to take a blow to your face, take a blow to your face. If you need to take a cross check, take a cross check. Spear, slash on the face, no matter what’s the case, you have to take it,” Tkachuk said after the competition.
There were 140 penalties in the competition, the fourth most in the Stanley Cup last story. Walman’s fine was the only distributed.
The game was already 5-1 in favor of Florida as things became more aggressive on the ice. It reached another level when Edmonton Frem Trent Frederic started choosing Bennett to the point where he crossed him down to the ice. Bennett retreated with some strokes when he got on top of Frederic.
Edmonton Oilers Right Wing Kasperi Kapanen leads to the penalty area after a match during the 2025 Stanley Cup final against Florida Panthers in the American Bank Arena. (Jim Rassol-Preferred Pictures)
Panthers’ Matthew Tkachuk’s Talks Game 3 Chaos: ‘If you need to take a blow to the face, take it’
The initial match led each player on the ice to find a partner to duel, and the judges simply let the fight themselves. Oilers ‘Darnell nurse and Panthers’ Jonah Gadjovich grabbed each other’s jerseys and threw Haymakers, while Florida’s aj Greer dueled with Edmonton’s Mattias Ekholm.
After the matches Fizzled out, nurse, Godjovich, Bennett, Frederic, Greer and Ekholm all called for gaming conditions and sent the ice for the rest of the game.
But with almost half of the third period still playing, the tension between these two teams fighting for Lord Stanley’s cup didn’t stop. It came mainly from Oilers when Evander Kane was sent from the ice at night after cutting Carter Verhaeghe on his face while he was down on the ice.
Several sanctions would be as the clock continued to cross down, and at that time both teams just hoped that no one would be hurt with much of this series left to play. Even at the last buzzer, Oilers Star Corey Perry began to puzzle with multiple Panthers players as fans threw garbage on the ice.
Edmonton Oilers ‘Darnell Nurse and Florida Panthers’ Jonah Gadjovich -match during the Stanley Cup final in Sunrise, Florida, Monday, June 9, 2025. (Nathan Denette/the Canadian press via AP)
The final continues on Thursday, with Florida, the reigning Champs hosting Game 4 and holding the whole momentum. After Edmonton won Game 1 in overtime, Brad Marchand found the back of the net in double overtime in Game 2 to even up the series.
