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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[Mike C]

You can’t be serious. The only reason the Oilers looked good in the first two periods was because they got away with absolute murder. Refs were on the Oilers side and they still couldn’t score.

I think it was fair both ways. I thought both the Bennett and Perry interference penalties were a tad on the ticky-tack side but on the whole the refs were OK

 

[TheSuperElite]

63 hits. 60 percent face off wins, 21 blocks, 3 penalty kills, 7 more takeaways, 4 less giveaways, a 3-0 shutout where they scored 2 on 17 shots is enough to impress me but what the hell do I know eh?

Bob definitely stole this game

 

[Turin]

Florida had an awful 1st, that’s mostly it. They had an ok 2nd and a good third.

Going from Dallas to Florida is less of a leap than going from NYR to Edmonton.

 

[Mike C]

Bob definitely stole this game

be that as it may, when all the tears have dribbled into the beer, the Oilers still lost.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1799686618879611102

 

[TheSuperElite]

be that as it may, when all the tears have dribbled into the beer, the Oilers still lost.

as I said in the first message you quoted, the better team doesn't always win, as evidenced tonight

 

[DelZottoHitTheNetJK]

This Florida team is one of the best I've seen post lockout. They don't have the firepower of the Tampa teams during their reign of terror, but they just give up absolutely nothing and play absolutely the most boring but effective hockey

 

[Mike C]

as I said in the first message you quoted, the better team doesn't always win, as evidenced tonight

gotta switch to fantasy baseball mode before bed. thanks for the chat....lotta hockey left to be played

 

[Daishi]

Cats will get outshot/out chanced this series, Bob will even the playing field. Edmonton is a better skating team, Florida has been playing teams running 2Cs in their top six for the last two months

Florida beat three amazing teams on their way to the cup final, including the Presidents' trophy winner. I really don't believe they think Edmonton is any better than the teams they already beat. Maurice has been exuding confidence all playoffs.

I think a lot of guys are interpreting this first game incorrectly. In hockey and team sports in general its a well known phrase that it tells a lot about a team if they win even when they play poorly.

 

[BlueSeal]

They’ll never bench Nurse. A $9.25 million cap hit sitting out is too embarrassing to the GM.

More embarrassing than not winning the Cup because you're playing him? Money is money, the Cup is Forever. Bench him and keep your job lol.

 

[pekka55]

Bob stole this one. Florida needs to play better defensively, they can't just rely on Bob to have a shutout every game.

 

[snag]

be that as it may, when all the tears have dribbled into the beer, the Oilers still lost.

Yep. Exactly like game 6 of the western final. Post-game and all. Difference is this is game 1....now what are the teams responses

 

[tarheelhockey]

This game reminded me a lot of their sweep over Carolina last year. Oilers threw everything at Bob and by all rights should have at least been tied. Instead he just wipes everything out and you’re shaking your head losing in a shutout.

Last year the magic ran out when he hit the Finals. The fact that he’s still on this plane should be a bit scary for the Oilers. You don’t get a lot of time to knock him out of his zone, before the series slips away.

 

[JoeSakic13]

 

[winnipegger]

In an alternate universe Edmonton is up 2 or 3 nothing after the first and goes on to win. How many freaking breakaways did Edmonton have? That game was all Bob.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

In an alternate universe Edmonton is up 2 or 3 nothing after the first and goes on to win. How many freaking breakaways did Edmonton have? That game was all Bob.

Sometimes you get goalie'd, like Connor said this was the hockey gods making sure that game 6 against Dallas was paid back.

 

[Panthers Propaganda]

Completely disagree. I counted 8 missed calls on Florida. Many slashes to the hands and interference. 3 missed calls on Oilers.

Sounds like you should lace em up for the league!

My uncle is the same way after too many Molsons.

Either way, Bob won us this one full stop. We played well enough to basically hold on. We will need to be better if we want to win it all full stop.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1799638655335809377

 

[Dieseloil]

A lot of shoulda coulda wouldas for Edm, dust it off and play the same way in game 2. Except you Darnell, grab a brain. Went through your wickets indeed. And too many shots went awry, it wasn’t all Bob. Zero puck luck too.

 

[Skeletorrr]

Is anybody keeping a record of legit goals? To me it looked like only good goal was the Rodrigues one. The first one deflected from Skinner so that counts as a freak bounce? right? Also the last one was an empty netter so those shouldn't count.

 

[dwdl21]

Well Oiler fans welcome to the club. You've been Bobrovskied. Lol.

 

[Spawn]

What were you expecting, that nobody would say anything if your team lost a Finals game? This is what it’s like to be at the late stages, everyone’s watching and waiting to tear the losing team apart.

Just wait to see how quiet it is if the Oilers win a game lol

 

[snag]

Just wait to see how quiet it is if the Oilers win a game lol

Or how they get diminished, devalued, discredited, etc

Because every other team was good.....and the Oilers are just lucky to be there

 

[Orca Smash]

By generate more you actually mean generate less right? Florida scored less than all of LA, Van and Dallas at 5v5. The high flying Panthers were 26th in the league in 5v5 goals for this season.

It's incredible how the narrative around Florida here is they're some sort of offensive juggernaut lmao.

No I mean they generate more shorts in prior series then van, la or dallas so far in playoffs. Tonight they did not. But that should have been clear from my post. Generate does not mean generate goals, it means generate shots.

 

[Ryuji Yamazaki]

Bobrovsky carries Florida's overrated defense so hard lmao

Lmao here come the excuses.