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

[TropicalFruitGirl26]

1 hour ago, Buffalo Rick said:

Im saying it was more subconscious and once the game was out of reach, they did not cre if it got way out of reach because they know they are up 3-0, and they would prefer to win at home.  No doubt.  And with legal gambling in full swing you dont think there are players  out there on the take?  Maybe not on the level of the 19 White Sox, or black Sox but I am pretty sure some have bitten at offers.  Maybe Bob let a few in?  LOL

Oh, Baby face?  Ha

 

I can buy into the "defeated" mindset after getting whacked with a few goals quickly.

That can happen to any team.
You let in handful of goals in short order, and the winds in their sails go out in a hurry.
And MAYBE, because they have such a huge lead, that 'defeated mindset' was softened a bit into "we will get them next game".

But that is completely different than "yea, we aren't too concerned with winning this game because we want to win at home".

The 'beaten mentally' scenario happens.
The second scenario is just plain stupid.

I don't think Maurice and his boys are stupid...

[NHL HHOF]

 

[FD19372]

No way I'm buying the "Florida wanted to win The Cup at home, so they threw the game" argument, especially when they were outskated and outplayed physically, the way they were in Game 4. I was impressed by the Oilers physical play. I didn't have Bob being chased in Game 4, on my series bingo card, but it happened. Not fair at all, not to give Edmonton credit, for a very well-played game by them. The Oilers played a better, more organized style of game, and executed extremely well. They were a step and a half quicker than the Panthers all night. They weren't trying so many stretch passes to score, and were using a lot of good cross-ice passes to succeed, the entire game. Too many bad things can happen in the next three games for Florida, for them not to have wanted to win it in Edmonton. 

 

The Panthers are going to go after them hard in the opening twenty minutes tomorrow night. I can almost guarantee it. If the Oilers can survive that, and play at the level they did in Game 5, they have a great chance to return to Edmonton for Game 6.

[Buffalo Rick]

11 hours ago, TropicalFruitGirl26 said:

 

I can buy into the "defeated" mindset after getting whacked with a few goals quickly.

That can happen to any team.
You let in handful of goals in short order, and the winds in their sails go out in a hurry.
And MAYBE, because they have such a huge lead, that 'defeated mindset' was softened a bit into "we will get them next game".

But that is completely different than "yea, we aren't too concerned with winning this game because we want to win at home".

The 'beaten mentally' scenario happens.
The second scenario is just plain stupid.

I don't think Maurice and his boys are stupid...

Maurice , this is his finest hour for sure.  A team with fair weather fans in a non hockey market about to win it all.  And they are battle tested so I don’t see Edmonton coming back.  Imagine Okposo and Reinhart hoisting the Cup

Edited June 18 by Buffalo Rick

[SaucyJack]

Canada have the best anthem, hands down.

[SaucyJack]

Cats -166, Oilers +130 at game start.

 

My good friends Edward Mountawn and Florence Riddah are very confident that this series goes at least six games so have urged me to put some $$ on that Game Five +130 underdog offer.

[SaucyJack]

Shortie!!  Go Oil Boys!

[Jimtown guy]

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[SaucyJack]

4 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

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I suppose thus is a news flash as well!

 

I bare-ly knew what she was about until I googled.  I should stay more abreast on current affairs!

[GratefulFlyers]

Forget I said the Oilers will win just 1. Not so much because of the start they had tonight but because McDavid bumped The Great One to #2 in Single Season PO Assists. Took a couple days for that to sink in for me...what a historic feat it is.

 

Coming back down 0-3 has only happened once before in the SCF but it'd be fitting if a McDavid-led team was the next. I can't really imagine them pulling it off but a G6 certainly feels within reach.

 

Edited June 19 by GratefulFlyers

[SaucyJack]

6 minutes ago, GratefulFlyers said:

a G6 certainly feels within reach.

The odds-meisters say so.  Up 2-0 after the Bouchard rocket from the blue line, the worm has turned: Oilers -425, Cats +300.  (Yeah triple your $$ if you think Florida has a comeback in them tonight.)

[SaucyJack]

3-0!  McJesus!  Oilers -1300, Cats +700, yes now septuple your dough on a comeback.

[SaucyJack]

Not sure why Matthew Tkachuk has a mouthpiece.  Just droopin’ off the side of his lip, even when scoring a goal.

[FD19372]

Tkachuk Tkabang...puck in the back of the net. 3-1, Oilers. MUCH better period for the Cats in the second, thus far.

[FD19372]

Nice shift in the offensive zone, after the Panthers goal, by the Oilers. Edmonton PP, not what the Panthers had in mind..after an Okposo hooking call.

[SaucyJack]

(Sigh) tit for tat

[FD19372]

Well, they say Cats have nine lives...but now they're gonna need at least three more goals, if the Cup gets won tonight. Oilers up 4-2, as right after Corey Perry scores..Evan Rodrigues gets one back.

[SaucyJack]

Have the Cats emptied their tank for the night with their furious but nonetheless scoreless efforts since the 4-2 goal?

[FD19372]

2 minutes ago, SaucyJack said:

Have the Cats emptied their tank for the night with their furious but nonetheless scoreless efforts since the 4-2 goal?

No, not in my opinion. They were dominant in the second period, especially in the last ten minutes. The only thing the Panthers have to do a little differently in the third, is stop shooting themselves in the paw, and stay out of the penalty box. They did a good job of really pressuring the Oilers defense that period. If there's any carryover of momentum, I think the Panthers have a great chance to get the next two goals, and tie the game up at the very least.

[SaucyJack]

Despite how Florida impressed in the last eight minutes of the second period, DraftKings still offers 5.5 to 1 odds that they’ll win.  (Seems more likely than that, as just stated above.)

[FD19372]

One goal game. No pressure let up by Florida, nor have they changed their level of offensive zone forecheck.

[SaucyJack]

Oh dear, off the post of the empty net.  Bad sign with a minute left.

 

Not.  Empty-netter from Mick Jesus.

Edited June 19 by SaucyJack

[FD19372]

Note to the Panthers: You have to show up in the first twenty minutes of the hockey game. Credit to the Oilers for not collapsing, after being under siege, for basically the entire second half of the hockey game. They showed a lot of character in a must win road game, 3000 miles or so away. I said Panthers in 6, so we'll see.

[JR Ewing]

What Connor McDavid is doing is the stuff of legends. They're down 3-0 and the best player in the world puts his team on his back and forces game 6 with back-to-back 4 point nights.

 

He's the best hockey player I've ever seen.

 

[JR Ewing]

Forgot to note: he set the assist record and then extended it by 2 tonight... Don't look now, but he's also 5 points back of the all-time record of 47 points in a playoff record held by 99. He's once again on a list where the only two other guys are Wayne and Mario, and they did it in a time of much higher offense.