Matthew Tkachuk scored a power-play goal with 4.9 seconds left, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 36 shots to cap off a brilliant series, and the Florida Panthers earned their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 27 years by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Wednesday night to win the Eastern Conference title in a sweep.

Tkachuk's goal was his second of the night — and maybe the biggest in Panthers' history. The Panthers will play either Vegas or Dallas for the Stanley Cup starting sometime next week; Vegas currently leads the Western Conference title series 3-0.

The Panthers scored 10 goals in the series, and Bobrovsky ensured those were all they needed. Four games, four one-goal wins, three of them coming from Tkachuk in dramatic fashion — two in overtime to end Games 1 and 2, and then this one to cap Florida's stunning rise from No. 8 seed to East champions.

Ryan Lomberg and Anthony Duclair had the other goals for Florida, which swept a series for the first time in franchise history.

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Jordan Staal — his brothers Eric and Marc play for the Panthers — took a tripping penalty with 57 seconds left in regulation, setting up the power-play that Tkachuk finished off.

Jesper Fast seemed like he might have saved the season for Carolina, getting a tying goal with 3:22 left in regulation. Paul Stastny and Teuvo Teravainen had the first two goals of the night for the Hurricanes, while Brady Skjei and Jordan Martinook each had two assists.

But the night, the series, belonged to the Panthers. They were swept by Colorado in the 1996 final.

The tone was set early. Duclair scored 41 seconds into the contest, and not even a minute later Florida's Sam Bennett delivered a hard hit but clean, in the sense that it drew no penalty to Carolina's Jaccob Slavin behind the Hurricanes' net.

Towels waved, strobe lights flashed, and the fans wasted no time letting the Panthers know that they were ready to a clincher.

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Tkachuk made it 2-0 on the power play midway through the first. Carolina a 113-point, division championship winning team in the regular season made it 2-1 later in the first on Stastny's goal, and Teravainen tied it early in the second.

Lomberg's goal midway through the second gave Florida the lead again. It stayed that way until Fast got the equalizer with 3:22 left, and then Tkachuk finished it off getting the Panthers to the title round in his first season.

AROUND THE RINK

Panthers general manager Bill Zito was announced earlier Wednesday as a finalist for NHL GM of the year. Tkachuk’s two goals gave him 21 points in the playoffs extending his Florida single-season postseason record, which was 17 by Dave Lowry in 1996. Slavin was quickly ruled out for the remainder of the game after Bennett's hit, with what the Hurricanes said was "an upper-body injury." Slavin wobbled as he tried to get to his feet. Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, who has also been a regular at Miami Heat games during their playoff run this spring, banged the drum before the game. When done, without a mic to drop, he simply dropped the mallet instead.

TWO-GOAL EDGE

Tkachuk's goal midway through the opening period put Florida up 2-0 and marked the first time, in nearly 14 periods of play to that point, that a team had a two-goal lead in this series. Every bit of action came with the score tied or someone up by one in the first 272 minutes (including all the overtimes) of the series.

Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to blast Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a bizarre post that immediately sparked confusion.

"'Rob,' My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!), yours does not! (per my conversation with Kim Jung Un, of North Korea, soon to become my friend!)," Trump said in the post.

The comment came after DeSantis formally announced his presidential campaign on the Twitter "Spaces" platform. However, the announcement was marred by a series of technical difficulties that caused the event to be delayed by at least 30 minutes.

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"Bonkers," Matthew Brodsky, a political strategist and senior fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, tweeted in response to Trump's post.

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"DeSantis has been talking about detailed and substantive policy issues for the last hour," conservative writer A.G. Hamilton added. "This is what you get from Trump. If people want idiocracy and entertainment, Trump might be the better option. If you want substance on the right, DeSantis is it."

"Nobody thinks this is sane; they’re just afraid to admit it," said David Reaboi, a political commentator and fellow at Claremont Institute.

DeSantis' official campaign launch came after months of speculation about his presidential ambitions. The announcement immediately makes him a top contender to win the Republican nomination next year.

DeSantis on Wednesday used his announcement to, among other things, punch back at the NAACP's travel advisory targeting his state. The left-wing organization announced this week that it would issue a formal travel advisory warning Black Americans against visiting Florida.

DeSantis blasted the travel advisory as a "political stunt" before touting his state's low crime rates and high number of Black-owned businesses. The comments came during a conversation hosted on Twitter's "Spaces" platform Wednesday evening during which he officially announced his presidential campaign.

"Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce," DeSantis remarked. "I mean, are you kidding me? You look at cities around this country, they are awash in crime. In Florida, our crime rate is at a 50-year low. You look at the top 25 cities for crime in America, Florida does not have a single one amongst the top 25."