Matias Ocner

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Matias Ocner

The Florida Panthers are back in the Stanley Cup Final for a third consecutive year and looking to repeat as champions. Florida will play up to three games of the best-of-7 series against the Edmonton Oilers on home ice at Sunrise’s Amerant Bank Arena — Game 3 on Monday, June 9; Game 4 on Thursday, June 12; and Game 6 (if necessary) on Tuesday, June 17. All three games are scheduled for 8 p.m. starts. Want to see their home games in person?

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Matias Ocner

The play won’t make the highlight reels. It wasn’t the difference maker in the Florida Panthers’ 5-0 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday to take a 2-0 series lead in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference final. But you wouldn’t tell by the team’s reaction when Jonah Gadjovich blocked a shot late in the third period with the game firmly in the Panthers’ hands. “The bench lost its mind,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Matias Ocner

Both Gabriel Valdes and Lauren Kettlewell have become excellent tennis players individually around the world. Both, however, were reminded this year how much fun and fulfilling it was to play in a team setting as each finished their seasons as state champions. Valdes, a junior at Miami True North Classical Academy, and Kettlewell, a senior at Divine Savior Academy in Doral, are the Miami Herald’s Miami-Dade County Tennis Players of the Year.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Matias Ocner

Both Gulliver’s Sofia Beltran and Mater Lakes’ Noslen De La Puente know what it’s like to be part of a tight-knit water polo team that grew up playing together in youth ball and middle school. Winning together is even sweeter on such teams. Beltran experienced that this season as she and her Raiders’ teammates finally won their first state championship together and the school’s first since 2013.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Matias Ocner

At least four people were injured after a boat collided with the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday. The four injured adults were airlifted to a hospital in Miami-Dade after the collision Saturday afternoon, according to the sheriff’s office. The Keys Weekly reported the crash victims’ injuries aren’t believed to be life-threatening.