SCF: Florida Panthers vs Edmonton Oilers (Series Tied 3-3) Hold onto your butts, Game 7, Monday 8/24 @ 8pm ET !

[Leonardo87]

**Stanley Cup Final**
Florida Panthers vs Edmonton Oilers

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[Just Rude]

You don't know where Edmonton is, are we actually doing this?

Come on, Coff, I think you and I both know I know that isn't true. Do I really need a wink emoji? Or should I say j/k?

Jesus. You guys are sensitive. You made the Cup final. Let loose a little.

 

[Coffey]

Come on, Coff, I think you and I both know I know that isn't true. Do I really need a wink emoji? Or should I say j/k?

Jesus. You guys are sensitive. You made the Cup final. Let loose a little.

Blood pressure still going down from last night.
And you might be saying this in jest, but we've dealt with a lot of actual shoot stupidity in here.
Tough to differentiate. lmao

 

[BTO]

At least the Rangers fans stopped with all of the whining about dirrrrty cats right after being eliminated.

Hey wait till it happens two years in a row!

 

[Chaos2k7]

He is great because of things like last night, and you clearly have some sort of agenda with these ridiculous statements propping Chris Kreider above McDavid.

McDavid was the best player on the ice last night by a wide margin in an elimination game on the biggest stage. He not only created all of the offense for the oilers, but he was excellent all over the ice. Those are the facts, and the stage he did it on makes it a legendary performance.

A natural Hat trick in the 3rd period willing his team back to win the game and series, is a better single game performance for me. Sorry.

McDavid is the best in the league, but that wasn't his best game of that series, let alone for every player in the whole playoffs, nor all time.

Why this offends you, I don't know.

 

[Laus723]

Blindly pointing to an AHLer in the Vancouver series despite him likely playing as good or better than demko could have doesn't make sense. Canucks got dominated in 5/7 games, Skinner just has a mental block against that team, something like 4GA and 850sv% the over the last 8 games.

The stars won the conference and were one point off of the Rangers...so a similarly successful team that beat the reigning cup champs was just two 40 year Olds and petrovic, but the Panthers were elite shutdown on Zib and deserve all the credit? Dallas went 0-19 on the PP in the series and the Oilers have killed off 28 in a row against VAN and DAL. I find it pretty obnoxious when people claim we can't play defense.

Fully appreciate that some oiler fans are borderline meglomaniac but this is either satire or a zero self awareness post.

Nah it’s legit. Congrats on being in the Finals.

Sleep on the Cats, though.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Hey wait till it happens two years in a row!

How can it be two straight years, when you say Boston beat themselves the first time?

Just going off your own posts here

 

[MacMacandBarbie]

A natural Hat trick in the 3rd period willing his team back to win the game and series, is a better single game performance for me. Sorry.

Most people would say the performances in the later rounds get magnified in importance, and those performances are what makes a player's reputation.

McDavid is the best in the league, but that wasn't his best game of the series let alone for every player in the whole playoffs, nor all time.

Nobody said it was the best performance of all time. It was a legendary performance, and one of McDavid's most memorable performances of his career to date.

If you want to rank his 6 assist game in february against Detroit as more legendary be my guest, but most of the casual fans I bump into will be reminiscing about his performance on the biggest stage of his career to date.

 

[Ratsreign]

A natural Hat trick in the 3rd period willing his team back to win the game and series, is a better single game performance for me. Sorry.

McDavid is the best in the league, but that wasn't his best game of that series, let alone for every player in the whole playoffs, nor all time.

Why this offends you, I don't know.

The “Mathews is better” trolls have left a mark, apparently.

 

[Seanaconda]

Cats have done a good job of keeping away from dumb penalties we have to keep them off the PP we win going away if we play smart. GO Cats !

Oilers didn't have a pp goal till like game 6 in the last series lol

 

[Nadal On Clay]

Florida might very well have the better team, but the Oilers have the better top end players.

McDrais in 6.

Also, please stop pretending that Barkov is going to shutdown McDavid, people. That is not happening

 

[Chaos2k7]

The “Mathews is better” trolls have left a mark, apparently.

Blues fan, stop flag waving, lol

 

[HockeyWooot]

Blindly pointing to an AHLer in the Vancouver series despite him likely playing as good or better than demko could have doesn't make sense. Canucks got dominated in 5/7 games, Skinner just has a mental block against that team, something like 4GA and 850sv% the over the last 8 games.

The stars won the conference and were one point off of the Rangers...so a similarly successful team that beat the reigning cup champs was just two 40 year Olds and petrovic, but the Panthers were elite shutdown on Zib and deserve all the credit? Dallas went 0-19 on the PP in the series and the Oilers have killed off 28 in a row against VAN and DAL. I find it pretty obnoxious when people claim we can't play defense.

Fully appreciate that some oiler fans are borderline meglomaniac but this is either satire or a zero self awareness post.

Silovs was amazing considering the position he was put in, rose to the challenge and played better than anyone could rightly expect.

However that’s not the same as saying he performed like Demko would have, an elite player in the NHL among best in a key position generally can cover in interim temporarily but cannot be replaced.

You could take Draisaitl out as 2C for the playoffs and put move RNH, a bottom 6er or let alone callup from the AHL to cover and see what happens. Players and the team will of course step up and cover (see Nashville Predators SCF run) but ultimately the team will have a ceiling on the level they can perform at.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Those shots by Dallas were ass, mostly predictable perimeter shots, and the dangerous shots missed their mark. Some people actually don't watch the games.

Skinner had a great game, one of his best, but yeah, all he was doing was to set himself square to the puck, the shots where mostly harmless.

Watch the highlight of the game and not a single Skinner save isent him dropping butterfly and getting hit. The less he moves around and the better he perform.

The only goal the Stars generated, was Skinner throwing his weight outside of the crease on a miss shot where he wasn't able to regain position.

 

[McSpecial DraiBlend]

Yes, it's 5 hours. But still, it's not like these guys are flying economy...

I thought direct it would have been more. Still a long ass flight.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Most people would say the performances in the later rounds get magnified in importance, and those performances are what makes a player's reputation.

Nobody said it was the best performance of all time. It was a legendary performance, and one of McDavid's most memorable performances of his career to date.

If you want to rank his 6 assist game in february against Detroit as more legendary be my guest, but most of the casual fans I bump into will be reminiscing about his performance on the biggest stage of his career to date.

Again, I didn't mention any other McDavid games but if you want to know what I think instead of making up an example, for me he was better in both Games 1 and 4 of that Dallas series.

That double OT winner will be talked about for a lot longer than his game 6.

The prettiest plays don't equate to the best performances, hands down.

This is maybe the best goal of the playoffs last year:



Same thing, far from the most impactful performance of our run or Barkys best game. Gretzky said it might have been the best goal he ever saw scored in the playoffs, lol

 

[ultrathrash]

remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

 

[theanomaly]

picked oil in 6 but I really feel it's a toss up.

as a neutral, you can't lose here. you see mcjesus get his or a franchise get their first. either one is cool with me. I just hope it's a show.

 

[MacMacandBarbie]

Again, I didn't mention any other McDavid games but if you want to know what I think instead of making up an example, for me he was better in both Games 1 and 4 of that Dallas series.

That double OT winner will be talked about for a lot longer than his game 6.

Guess we will see. McDavid doesn't absolutely put the team on his back last night and the oilers could likely lose the series. In a game where Draisaitl can't muster a single shot on goal, McDavid shines and single handedly sends the oilers to the SCF.

His goal in game 6 is one of the prettiest of his career too, its being shown everywhere right now. I am not the only one calling it a legendary performance, either. To each their own though. Cheers.

 

[RockTheRedDC]

For whatever reason, Oilers is the only Canadian team that I do not dislike.

I wish they play 7 games, and 5 OTs every game, but go with Cats win in 5.

Cats have too much firepower, great goaltending and defense.

 

[Two4Fighting]

Have to wonder if FLA dials back some of its rough stuff in fear of putting EDM on the PP. Playing on the edge is a big part of their game. How the refs call the series could have a pretty big influence on things. A tightly called series will favor EDM for sure.

Have you been watching the Panthers? Go an count all the penalties on every team the Panthers played in the playoffs and compare it against them, and then comeback here a let us know.

 

[BTO]

How can it be two straight years, when you say Boston beat themselves the first time?

Just going off your own posts here

You win. Again.

 

[ijuka]

He is great because of things like last night, and you clearly have some sort of agenda with these ridiculous statements propping Chris Kreider above McDavid.

McDavid was the best player on the ice last night by a wide margin in an elimination game on the biggest stage. He not only created all of the offense for the oilers, but he was excellent all over the ice. Those are the facts, and the stage he did it on makes it a legendary performance.

What? Oilers got dominated all game, including McDavid. Skinner was the best player on the ice by a large margin, not McDavid.

 

[JKG33]

I've said it before and I'm saying it again, the Kings get underrated because they keep losing to the Oilers. They're a very good team that really needed to part ways with their coach and lean on their talent a little bit more. They're way too passive and that just doesn't work against Edmonton.

I won't stand for this praise. LA hasn't had an NHL goalie since dumping Quick

 

[Just Rude]

Blood pressure still going down from last night.
And you might be saying this in jest, but we've dealt with a lot of actual shoot stupidity in here.
Tough to differentiate. lmao

Fair. Enjoy it. Well deserved and, yes, I'm jelly.

 

[Two4Fighting]

We heard about the relentless grind of the Canucks and Stars too.

Just wait my little supernova star, my best advice to you is to be cautiously optimistic, McDavid Draisaitle and Hyman are a scary bunch, no doubt, but beyond that, lots of question marks.