EDMONTON, Alberta — Brad Marchand scored the last two Florida Panthers goals on breakaways in their 5-4 double-overtime victory in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Friday night. He said had only one thing running through his mind on both scoring chances.

“Just don’t forget the puck,” he said. “That’s the main thing. I’ve done that before. It’s not a good feeling.”

The Panthers, the defending Stanley Cup champions, evened their series with the Edmonton Oilers at 1-1 in a thrilling, often chaotic playoff battle.

Marchand became the first player in Stanley Cup Final history to score a shorthanded goal in regulation and then an overtime game-winning goal.

“He just finds a way,” Florida defenseman Nate Schmidt said. “I don’t think the moment ever gets too big for him.”

Marchand’s breakaway shorthanded tally in the second period, coming 3:46 after defenseman Dmitry Kulikov tied the score for Florida at 3-3. Center Anton Lundell’s pass found Marchand behind the Oilers’ defense and he beat goalie Stuart Skinner for his sixth of the playoffs.

The goal came 14 years to the day after he scored a shorthanded goal in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final for the Boston Bruins. The Vancouver Canucks goalie he beat was Roberto Luongo, who is now a hockey operations executive for the Panthers and wrote on social media that Marchand was his “favorite player of all time” after Game 2.

That 4-3 score held until the Oilers’ Corey Perry scored with less than 18 seconds left in regulation to force overtime for the second straight game in the Final, marking just the sixth time in NHL history that the first two games of a Stanley Cup championship series needed overtime.

Rather than panic about another squandered lead and the potential for being down 2-0 in the series, the Panthers were loose in their dressing room.

“We’re coming in here. We’re hooting and hollering. We’re having some fun,” said winger Matthew Tkachuk. “We were picking guys that we thought were going to score. I’m sure a lot of guys had Marchy.”

Marchand’s second breakaway goal ended the game at 8:05 of the second overtime. Again, it was Lundell who found his linemate with a pass. The Oilers caught up to him, but Marchand was able to maintain possession of the puck and have it slide through Skinner.

“I think the timing was thrown off a little bit maybe for the goalie because Bouchard gave me a whack. I don’t really know what happened. But fortunate it went in,” Marchand said.

It was his fifth career playoff OT goal, tied for third-most in Stanley Cup Playoffs history. He now has 63 career playoff goals, fourth-most among active players behind Alex Ovechkin (77), Sidney Crosby (71) and Evgeni Malkin (67).

“His anticipation and his hockey sense is unbelievable,” Tkachuk said. “You see it tonight with two breakaway goals: Just seeing the play and he’s gone. I saw that a ton with him playing in Boston. Way better seeing it now.”

Game 2 started with one of the most chaotic opening periods in Stanley Cup Playoff history. The teams combined for five goals in the first 12:37 of play, the third-fastest to reach five goals to begin a Stanley Cup Final game in NHL history. Only Game 4 between Pittsburgh and Chicago (10:13) in 1992 and Montreal and Chicago in 1973 (12:07) were faster.

“It was nuts,” Schmidt said. “A lot of special teams, a lot of four on four.”

The scoring opened with a Sam Bennett power-play goal at 2:07, set up by Schmidt. The Oilers responded with two goals in 1:40: Evander Kane beating Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky cleanly and then defenseman Evan Bouchard recovering the puck after a blocked shot to fire it past Bobrovsky, his seventh goal of the playoffs at 9:19.

Florida answered on a gorgeous passing play between Schmidt, Eetu Luostarinen and Seth Jones, who converted for his fourth of the playoffs.

Edmonton regained the lead on a controversial goalie interference penalty on Bennett, who stumbled on top of Skinner. Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm pushed Bennett into the crease, and he appeared to trip over the outstretched leg of Skinner. Bennett has a history of losing his footing around the crease, such as in Game 1, when a Carter Verhaeghe shot deflected off Bennett while he was on his knees in front of Skinner. But Bennett said after the game that he disagreed with the call.

“I was pushed and then I think the goalie kicked out my heel,” he said. “So, I didn’t agree with that one, but I’ll move on from that.”

On the ensuing power play, McDavid had another masterful moment, sliding past Aleksander Barkov, badly deking out defenseman Aaron Ekblad and then sending a quick pass to Draisaitl for the lead at 12:37.

Kulikov knotted the score at 3-3 with a shot that deflected off Bouchard behind Skinner at 8:23. The Oilers had a chance to take the lead again on a power play, but Marchand scored shorthanded at 12:09.

It remained 4-3 until 19:43 of the third period, with Skinner pulled, when the Oilers finally found a way to break through against the Panthers and Bobrovsky, who made 17 saves since the first period. Jake Walman’s shot was deflected in front to the slot, where Perry outmuscled Luostarinen and sent a shot that found the back of the net.

“Obviously you’re disappointed they tied it up like that, but the emotion on the bench and in the room after the third, we’ve always had a very calm team,” said Marchand. “I think you draw from your experiences. We do a really good job of focusing on the moment. A lot of guys have been through big moments, and we have a lot of really good leaders on this team, so you just try to draw on that. It didn’t seem like there’s any panic.”

Overtime saw Marchand and forward Sam Reinhart fail to convert on breakaway chances, while Bobrovsky (42 saves) had to stand tall against Edmonton’s offensive attack, making 14 of his saves in the extra sessions.

Coach Paul Maurice said his team maintained the right mindset.

“It never went to despair. It was always ‘stay in the fight,'” he said. “I think experience is wholly overvalued in the world, but I think in kind of playoff hockey it’s great. Nobody’s crushed about it. Nobody’s trying to kill who missed the puck on the last goal. They’re not looking to blame anybody.”

Marchand is among the most experienced players in the series, now in his 16th NHL season and having won the Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011.

“He could play till he’s 47 the way he’s going,” Tkachuk said. “Unreal player, unreal competitor.”

Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final is scheduled for Monday in Sunrise, Florida.