For the sixth straight year, the Stanley Cup will run through Florida after the Panthers' 5-3 Game 5 win over the Hurricanes on Wednesday.

The Florida Panthers missed on their first chance to eliminate the Carolina Hurricanes and return to the Stanley Cup Final for the third straight year.Closing out a playoff series isn't easy, even for the reigning Cup champions.

It was Carolina’s first playoff win beyond the second round since June 2006, the same year the Hurricanes won the franchise’s first, and so far only Stanley Cup. Now, they return home, where they lost the first two games of the series to Florida in convincing fashion, getting outscored 10-2.

The Carolina Hurricanes, after years of missing the Stanley Cup playoffs, have become a perennial playoff team, but the question now is what it takes to win the Cup.

Brad Marchand wanted no part of the conversation. He and the Florida Panthers lead the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 in the Eastern Conference finals.

Logan Stankoven 's shot that went in over Sergei Bobrovsky 's blocker at 10:45 of the second period stood up as the game-winner in a 3-0 victory against the Florida Panthers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final at Amerant Bank Arena.