Panthers’ top guns keep struggling against Edmonton Oilers’ defense

EDMONTON, Alberta — Aleksander Barkov had a game worthy talking about in Game 6. He didn’t just help limit Edmonton star Connor McDavid to no points. He scored the lone goal on a move people would still be watching if the Florida Panthers won, drew an Edmonton penalty on another goal-scoring chance and had a goal called back by video replay that ruled teammate Sam Reinhart offside.

It’s what happened around him in the Panthers’ 5-1 loss to even the series that was their continuing trouble.