Stanley Cup: Florida Panthers [ATL1] vs Edmonton Oilers [PAC2] - Florida wins 4-3

[bdubbs]

The last two pages were something else... more proof that the Panthers need to end this series tonight. The stress is turning poster against poster about--*checks notes* the definition of the number of days off between games.

GO PANTHERS GO.

[Shazam]

Please sweet jebus win tonight Panthers.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Let's see the universe begin to make things right today.

It's time.

[Macho0978]

Hold McDavid to 2 or less and win this. Leon looks off, you have 1 guy to stop.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by kukkudo

I will be at the game tonight, it should be a great atmosphere.

Lucky! Witnessing the Oilers lose the Cup on home ice will be a memory for any Flames fan to treasure forever!

[White Out 403]

It's probably mentally unhealthy how much this is driving me nuts, and, how much I hate the oilers and need the Panthers to win.

[midniteowl]

My avatar...


Go Panthers Go ))))))))))))))))
End this please ))))))))))))

[FanIn80]

Tkachuk looking like 'a force' again for Panthers in Stanley Cup Final

EDMONTON – The play of Matthew Tkachuk’s that Paul Maurice has watched over and over isn’t the one you’d think. It isn’t the diving, sliding, reaching save that Tkachuk made with 21 seconds remaining in the Florida Panthers’ Game 5 loss to the Edmonton Oilers, the one where his stick reached out and swiped the puck away from the goal line at the very last second.

No, it’s his sublime backcheck of Connor McDavid from Game 2. With six minutes remaining in a game the Panthers led by two goals, Tkachuk caught up to McDavid on a breakaway chance, getting his stick in, disrupting McDavid just enough that he couldn’t get a clean shot in on Sergei Bobrovsky.

He didn’t score.

“He was outstanding [in Game 5], but the clip that I still don’t understand why I haven’t seen more than once is the backcheck on McDavid when he reaches between his legs and uses his stick and knocks it off on that rush,” the Panthers coach said. “I think the only time I saw that was on the video.

“How would you not show that 5,000 times? I did. That’s training camp video. I told him when we’re doing our laps next year and we’re bagging him at the end of practice and he’s at the end, we’ve seen him catch that guy. We know how fast he is now.”

“I just want to elevate because I want to help my team. I want to help this team win,” Tkachuk said. “That’s what everybody thinks right now. It’s go out there, do whatever you can, just win that one game. We have that mindset. Edmonton has that mindset.

“I think that’s why both teams are in the position they’re in right now is because we both have that. You don’t really think about the series. You don’t try to get ahead of yourself. You don’t reflect on mistakes made in previous games. You just attack each day and each game like it’s a completely new one.

“It doesn’t matter what I did or what we did last game. It’s a fresh day tomorrow, it’s a fresh game day. We’re very excited. … Stanley Cup Finals, it doesn’t get better than this.”

https://www.nhl.com/news/matthew-tka...nley-cup-final

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

https://www.nhl.com/news/matthew-tka...nley-cup-final

Hmmm...would McDavid and back check be on the same sentence?

[Yamer]

Spector thinks that Skinner is a top 10 goalie in the league.

I have:

Hellebuyck
Vasilevskiy
Bobrovsky
Shesterkin
Gibson
Demko
Markstrom
Swayman
Saros
Oettinger
Sorokin
Ullmark
Binnington

over him. Sound right?

[Ped]

You don't need to be a top 10 goalie to win a cup (See Rantta, Antti)

[Brick]

Go Panthers

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Ped

You don't need to be a top 10 goalie to win a cup (See Rantta, Antti)

Yes, and Niemi, Hill, Kuemper, etc.

But that wasn't the argument.

[Paulie Walnuts]

McMickey covers up every single war the Oilers have, including Skinner.

He is not a top 10 goalie. In fact he was one of the worst playoff goalies of all time.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Spector thinks

It's okay to stop after "Spector thinks" and ignore the rest.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

It's okay to stop after "Spector thinks" and ignore the rest.

I don't know what Spector does, but I'm not sure it truly qualifies as thinking.

[Rhett44]

Please Florida, just show up and play your best tonight.

I don't know if I could handle the reaction if the Oilers win tonight. Please save us Tkachuk.

[The Yen Man]

I honestly lost a bit of sleep after the last Oilers win. For the sake of all that's good, please end this tonight Panthers.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

Please Florida, just show up and play your best tonight.

I don't know if I could handle the reaction if the Oilers win tonight. Please save us Tkachuk.

If the Panthers lose tonight, any confidence they might have had will be completely shot and the Oilers would likely cruise to an easy game 7 win.

It needs to end tonight once and for all.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Yamer

Spector thinks that Skinner is a top 10 goalie in the league.

I have:

Hellebuyck
Vasilevskiy
Bobrovsky
Shesterkin
Gibson
Demko
Markstrom
Swayman
Saros
Oettinger
Sorokin
Ullmark
Binnington

over him. Sound right?

Not Gibson anymore probably... You forgot Adin Hill. Guys like Pekka Luukkonen and Kochetkov are arguable, short track record but that track record is strong. Based on this year's play Jonathan Quick is still on that list despite his age and Connor Ingram probably should be too.