✨🔩2024 Stanley Cup Finals: Edmonton vs Florida: Panthers Stanley Cup Champions 🔩✨ (FLA Wins 4-3)

[FD19372]

The Florida Panthers wins the Stanley Cup...employing the you can't the puck off the boards to do anything with it, defense. One hell of a series comeback by the Edmonton Oilers.  Congrats to Bob and the Panthers!

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

I feel for the Oilers.
They left it all out there.
And their fanbase. Long suffering...will need to wait some more.

Thing is, as long as McDavid is leading that group, seeing the Oilers in this sort of position for the next few seasons may become the norm.
How many he can his squad can actually win will remain to be seen, but this isn't a one n done for Edmonton.

I can see them back here next season.

[RBGordie]

It's a bummer when a team that isn't even close to the best team in the league wins the Cup. They don't even have any great players. Except Bob the goalie.

A sad day for hockey.

 

Edited Tuesday at 03:03 AM by RBGordie

[JR Ewing]

As I said the games into this... The oilers are just too banged-up to win four straight. It's really really hard to do in the finals. Almost impossible.

Edited Tuesday at 03:04 AM by JR Ewing

[ruxpin]

3 minutes ago, RBGordie said:

It's a bummer when a team that isn't even close to the best team in the league wins the Cup. They don't even have any great players.

A sad day for hockey.

 

What in the hell are you talking about?

 

Measured in minutes, how long have you been a hockey fan?

Barkov is probably top 5 in the game. They have a really good team.

Edited Tuesday at 03:06 AM by ruxpin

[RBGordie]

Just now, ruxpin said:

What in the hell are you talking about?

Just what I said. It needs no interpretation.

[GratefulFlyers]

Oh man why are the interviewing Tkachuck? Sheez talk to the guys that have been around the team for more than a hot minute...

 

I give Bobrovsky a lot of credit after G4, 5 and 6 his confidence must've been shaky. That late sequence with McDavid in front, puck on his stick Hyman on his left - that's usually automatic.

 

ugh now the Troll man ... what a creepy guy... I know the owners love him...nobody else...

[ruxpin]

1 minute ago, RBGordie said:

Just what I said. It needs no interpretation.

But it needs sanity. It was utterly stupid 

[FD19372]

McDavid (no surprise whatsoever) wins the Conn Smythe.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

6 minutes ago, RBGordie said:

It's a bummer when a team that isn't even close to the best team in the league wins the Cup. They don't even have any great players. Except Bob the goalie.

A sad day for hockey.

 

 

Well, good theory, except that...

They ARE the best team this season.
Division champion...beat three good East teams to get here...and now, took care of the Oilers.

Oh, and look...they are raising what LOOKS like...the Stanley Cup!  

[Math]

Well, McDavid is addressing a big ╭∩╮(°.°)╭∩╮ to the Conn Smythe.

[RBGordie]

3 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

But it needs sanity. It was utterly stupid 

They have no great players except one. They just came up with a bullying shut down defensive strategy that worked.

And the way the standings are set up, the winner is NOT necessarily the best team, which this has proven. 

And the sad part is they created an utterly boring style of hockey. Game 7 of the finals was one of the most boring games I've seen in a long time.

Edited Tuesday at 03:10 AM by RBGordie

[SaucyJack]

Shout out to Sam Reinhart whose wicked shot in the 2nd period held up as the game-winning goal.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, SaucyJack said:

Shout out to Sam Reinhart whose wicked shot in the 2nd period held up as the game-winning goal.

 

Sam Reinhart.

Buffalo's gotta be kicking themselves letting him go..

[SaucyJack]

8 minutes ago, JR Ewing said:

As I said the games into this... The oilers are just too banged-up to win four straight. It's really really hard to do in the finals. Almost impossible.

Better fortune next year, JR.  I suppose I’m also speaking to all of Canada.

 

I suppose the Oiler’s inability to win their opening home game (Game 3) was the killer, per your analysis.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Kyle Okposo being interviewed.

You know, I get the SC champion is a team. A well operating machine. And it takes them ALL to win.
But Okposo has to be about as decorative to this team as a guy can get.

If the Panthers are a race car, with a bunch of high performance parts, then Okposo is the hood ornament...  

[FD19372]

A really good game by Rodriguez and even moreso, Verhaeghe. He really had great jump, and the puck was finding him early. Bob finally gets his Cup. He's going to the Hockey Hall Of Fame.

[OccamsRazor]

2 hours ago, Jimtown guy said:

McDavid a non factor. Expect that to change 

 

Nope. Nada.

[FD19372]

It really was a game of inches. If that goal saved by the Florida defenseman..(Mikkola?) we could be talking about OT, and a different outcome. Sure enough, Florida comes back and scores down the other end of the ice. Great series.

[Math]

Finally, the Stanley is back to the successful State of Hockey that has such a long and storied tradition of hockey.

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, Math said:

Finally, the Stanley is back to the successful State of Hockey that has such a long and storied tradition of hockey.

 

Well...my home state IS trying to build that reputation apparently! 

I remember when teams toured through Miami and Tampa, it was a cakewalk.
Not so anymore.

And now they have the hardware to back that up.

[GratefulFlyers]

21 minutes ago, JR Ewing said:

As I said the games into this... The oilers are just too banged-up to win four straight. It's really really hard to do in the finals. Almost impossible.

 

You know the team better than me so I'll take your word for it but did they look banged up? Play banged up (besides Draisaitl)? I didn't see a "banged up team" they looked plenty fast to me, great puck control, quick breakouts, no bonehead "out of gas" penalties... a few mistakes on D + Bobrovsky had his A game tonight.

 

Heck the Oilers came THISCLOSE to taking 4 straight off one of the toughest defensive teams...maybe ever - certainly one of the best to make the Final in a long time.

 

So if this is the Oilers "banged up" ... Oilers fans have a lot to look forward to is all I can say!

Edited Tuesday at 03:27 AM by GratefulFlyers

[SaucyJack]

9 minutes ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

Kyle Okposo being interviewed.

 

You’re right.  We don’t care about him.  We want to know how Emily is doing!  

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

Just now, SaucyJack said:

You’re right.  We don’t care about him.  We want to know how Emily is doing!  

 

I do believe Paul Maurice was humoring her earlier in the game....probably hoping she'd just go away already...haha

[OccamsRazor]

5 minutes ago, Math said:

Finally, the Stanley is back to the successful State of Hockey that has such a long and storied tradition of hockey.

 

 

And the Conn Smythe got his point trophy.

 

Everyone is happy!!!