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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[Jugitsu]

Still rooting for Panthers. But if McDavid and Edmonton completes the comeback I can’t be mad. You can make a movie of their legendary season, with the disastrous start to the season and worst possible start to the finals only to get the biggest reward in the end.

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

August 24th? What am I missing here.

 

[snag]

If Panthers lose this will destroy the franchise . Yes it's that serious. Hope cats win for their existence .

If they can't withstand that, my sympathies.

GO OILERS!

 

[The Winter Soldier]

At the start of this series I said either team would be a worthy Cup winner. Still believe this, best 2 teams left standing. Oilers not packing it in down 0-3. Florida making it to the cup finals 2 years in a row. Not an insignificant achievement. Let the best team in game 7 win. Can’t ask for more from these 2 most deserving teams.

 

[NikolaTesla]

What is happening is crazy especially when considering that the oilers were so far from a playoff spot 2 months into the league. They came back in the race with an insane win streak. Now theyre coming back from a 0-3 deficit in the SC final. Crazy shit.

 

[ICanMotteBelieveIt]

Btw McDavid, Draisaitl, Hyman & Bouchard, also Nuge(?), are truly amazing.

Oilers should not be able to win a Cup with that defense and that goalie. They're carrying the f*** out of the team.

When was the last time a team won the cup with a starting goalie as "meh" as the Oilers?

I know they haven't won it yet but I honestly never believed McDavid would win a Cup in Edmonton due to their Front Office, so-so prospects, their D and G.

McDavid is so f***ing good. I wonder how many points and how many cups he'll end up with.

P.s Edmonton fans - do you think Draisaitl will stay? Or do you think he'll try to cash in and also become the undisputed #1 on another team?

An Oilers cup win would fix HF. The race to be "Canada's team" would be over; hockey fans across Canada could finally relax; Oilers fans would no longer have any enemies. It would usher in an era of peace few have ever seen.

If the Oilers win the Cup, the Maple Leafs or Flames or Canucks or whoever can go 82-0 next season and then 16-0 in the playoffs, and I won't say a word beyond "congratulations" before putting on my Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Champions hat and going for a walk.

Good points.

It would be kinda nice to see a canadian team finally win a Cup again, it's been ages.

Also super hilarious if Edmonton does it before Toronto.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

The Panthers are cooked. They should be embarrassed for letting the Stanley Cup slip away from their grasp like this.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Florida are gonna pull a Penguins and win (their second of two back-to-back Finals appearances) in Game 7.

Who will be Florida’s Max Talbot??

 

[Shrimper]

The Panthers are cooked. Easy Oiler win

 

[Scintillating10]

Florida with epic collapse

 

[Daishi]

The Panthers are cooked. They should be embarrassed for letting the Stanley Cup slip away from their grasp like this.

I have to agree after looking at their post game reactions. First loss Maurice just laughed. Second loss he said it's nothing things are still going to plan. Now they are in panic and disbelief and play scared hockey. Their PP is abysmal. Their famous forecheck is nonexistent. Their captain tries to convince people he's not worried but everyone can see they are so nervous there's simply no way they can recover from this. Oilers on the other hand are just flowing and playing their game with confidence. Cats will lose 4-1 at home while getting outshot. It won't be close.

A lot of hockey pundits are eating crow right now. At 3-0 they were basically saying it was a miracle the Oil got this far because they are not built like a championship team anyway. What a joke.

 

[DKH]

The incredible part about the Flyers was they were also down 0-3 in game 7 & still pulled it off

Basically the ultimate comeback of all comebacks

Ruined Bruins franchise as well - they didn’t win a Cup until the following year

 

[syz]

Panthers really have nothing to hang their hat on after game 6. Game 5 they could at least tell themselves they had that big push the last half of the game. Basically just have to try and forget everything up to this point now.

 

[DKH]

Betman can’t let Florida lose - it will destroy the franchise

They will be in Houston in 5 years

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

I have to agree after looking at their post game reactions. First loss Maurice just laughed. Second loss he said it's nothing things are still going to plan. Now they are in panic and disbelief and play scared hockey. Their PP is abysmal. Their famous forecheck is nonexistent. Their captain tries to convince people he's not worried but everyone can see they are so nervous there's simply no way they can recover from this. Oilers on the other hand are just flowing and playing their game with confidence. They'll lose 4-1 at home while getting outshot. It won't be close.

A lot of hockey pundits are eating crow right now. At 3-0 they were basically saying it was a miracle the Oil got this far because they are not built like a championship team anyway. What a joke.

Tkachuk needs to step up big time. Same with Verhaege. Even Reinhart has slowed down. 8 goals??? 9 goals ish??? Outscored Hyman in the regular season. Meanwhile Hyman has the most goals in a playoff run since like... Joe Sakic?

 

[Spectrefire]

Everyone on Monday:

 

[WaitingForUser]

Are you giving the 2011 Canucks roses? Hell no.

You either win and you're legendary or you lose and everyone forgets about 2nd place next year.

There's no hypocrisy to it.

The 2011 Canucks collapsed and lost on home ice in game 7. Yeah they played in game 7 after failing to close out game six and having a 2-0 lead in the series. Not the same

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Ruined Bruins franchise as well - they didn’t win a Cup until the following year

In what world was that comment a dig at the bruins? Do you hate sports?

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Verhaeghe last 4 games... 1 assist, -11. Ouch.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

So even if oilers lose you haters and doubters giving us credit for making last game of year?

For me this is a definite yes. They've been very impressive in these playoffs, found a defensive level most didn't think they had. Myself included. And found their best game at the biggest moments.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Posting Game-6-LeBron McDavid again.

 

[Dirty Dan]

Oh shoot I forgot about this, was thinking more about his OT game winner was against the Rangers

 

[DKH]

In what world was that comment a dig at the bruins? Do you hate sports?

I do not like the violence and language players use. They are not setting a good example for the children

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

"First of all I hate it, its another one of these couple of pixels type of calls that takes a good goal off the board, its the danger of having offside reviews... (blurb about the infamous Duchene goal)

"It cannot be stressed enough how much of a pivot point in this game this was, and both teams talked about it. This was a moment in which the Panthers responded 10 seconds after Adam Henriques goal, to cut the lead to 2-1, Maurice said "thats the spark we needed" and they didn't get it. They got it taken off the board, its a 2-0 game again, Hyman scores late in the period 3-0 and were going back to Sunrise at that point so..

Whether you agree with the call or disagree agree with the call...... it doesnt matter, it truly was the pivot point in the game in my opinion, because you could feel the Panthers could've pushed after that & found their game, and it sapped their energy I think after getting that call taken off the board"

- Greg Wyshynski, 'the drop post game'

Just wanted to post this for the Oilers fans that gave me crap in the GDT for saying - from an analysis POV - that this was the moment in which the Panthers lost the game (@Oilslick941611)

 

[RMF5630]

"First of all I hate it, its another one of these couple of pixels type of calls that takes a good goal off the board, its the danger of having offside reviews... (blurb about the infamous Duchene goal)

"It cannot be stressed enough how much of a pivot point in this game this was, and both teams talked about it. This was a moment in which the Panthers responded 10 seconds after Adam Henriques goal, to cut the lead to 2-1, Maurice said "thats the spark we needed" and they didn't get it. They got it taken off the board, its a 2-0 game again, Hyman scores late in the period 3-0 and were going back to Sunrise at that point so..

Whether you agree with the call or disagree agree with the call...... it doesnt matter, it truly was the pivot point in the game in my opinion, because you could feel the Panthers could've pushed after that & found their game, and it sapped their energy I think after getting that call taken off the board"

- Greg Wyshynski, 'the drop post game'

Just wanted to post this for the Oilers fans that gave me crap in the GDT for saying - from an analysis POV - that this was the moment in which the Panthers lost the game (@Oilslick941611)

Tampa fan here, cry me a river Panthers. You loved it when Maurice had 3 goals pulled down versus Tampa. Yeah, those didn't impact the series. Maybe Maurice should ask Cooper how he dealt with it. But since this was only one goal...