EDMONTON — An uncharacteristic change.

An accidental penalty.

A moment between the sport’s best player and his team’s top scorer.

Just like that, the magic was on the other side from the Florida Panthers this first night of the Stanley Cup Final. Just like that, Game 1 was Edmonton’s to ride with a 4-3 overtime win Wednesday night in an uncorked the Rogers Place crowd.

Just like that, too, the Florida Panthers were left to consider if they’ve awoken Edmonton’s two generational stars, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, as they process what went wrong as they’ve done so well the past few postseasons.

There they were in the minutes afterward, quietly going through a normal postgame by the locker room, some players riding stationary bikes to maintain health or lying on the floor with legs

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