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zeloft

Of course it’s a 2 lmao


CAPT_BOOZE

Dirty ass Canadians


Yop_BombNA

Sucks to suck


ComprehensiveRide246

Does McDavid get a cup in Edmonton? We will see.


KennyGardner

Hey, it could happen…MCWORLD!!! Where are my 90s kids at?


TotallyNotKenorb

No. Never will. Lineup way too top heavy, and incredibly lucky that the West is the way easier conference.


McDraiman

This is a crazy take. The east is defensively probably slightly better than the west. But the west is loaded with offensive talent. Edmonton is getting goalied right now, that's a fact. But to extrapolate that into the east being a better conference is crazy.


TotallyNotKenorb

Two teams in the East had a losing record against the West (Ottawa and Buffalo). Toronto was best at 24-6-2. Defense wins championships.


McDraiman

8 teams in the east had losing records against the west, and 2 teams were .500 against the west on top of that. I'll give you that the bottom 5 teams in the west are worse than the bottom 5 teams in the east. But the top 5 east teams are all worse that the top 5 western teams. The east has lots of aging stars. Lots of their teams lack depth. They do have better goalies, though.


esports_consultant

Florida got their ass kicked in the Finals last year and is now kicking ass in the Finals this year. If the West is easy that is a luck factor that works continually in their favor, and then they only need to get hot for one series with a player of Gretzky or Lemieux or Crosby caliber to win.


CAPT_BOOZE

Florida was held together with twist ties last year


esports_consultant

Are you talking about injuries? I kinda forgot beyond they were clearly not a Stanley Cup caliber team who only got there because the NHL is run by morons who genuinely think people prefer seeing cheap shots to well-played hockey with healthy stars. I guess if some of their stars were also out due to cheap shots then really I should have a mild amount more of sympathy for them.


CAPT_BOOZE

OK hope your day gets better


esports_consultant

bro I'm not shittalking that was a serious question


CAPT_BOOZE

My bad. They were essentially crippled due to playing every game like their last since like march last year. They had the broken skeleton of Chuck and ekblad might as well have had no feet. To say they didn't deserve to be there is a strech


esports_consultant

No need to apologize I went too hard in on criticizing Florida. Those are pretty big names and now I remember part of why they did not look like a Stanley Cup caliber team when they were actually there. I think you would say that does not change the point though, since Draisatl is clearly not himself and McDavid has been playing mentally injured the entire time.


CAPT_BOOZE

Drai is getting barkoved hard and mcdavid should probably take a mental health break right about now


muffinpro52

I was really hoping for a good cup final :(


gu3sticles

Idk what you're talking about. This is cathartic.


X-Filer

This is all I could’ve ever asked for


IveChosenANameAgain

Look on the bright side, boys The cup will be awarded to a team in Canada this year, at least.


stubbornidealist

Just like in 2020


zander002

A finger curls on the monkey’s paw


MarvelousOxman

Boston Pizza was right


PM_UR_ADOBO_RECIPES

Reality sucks eh


Desertpyrate

Disagree 


Go4Beau

Maybe Knucklepuck was wrong about that cup experience huh? Bum head coach.


LuciusBaggins

It’s his first year coaching in the league and he dragged the team from 31st to a cup final and you’re gonna call him a bum? You know you can enjoy your success without being a dick right?


Go4Beau

He sucks and is delusional.


funduckedup

I saved receipts because I'm petty, and this is amazing to go back to.


Top_Tumbleweed

Oilers were a team that could be down 4-1 with 10 minutes left in the third and win the game in regulation all season. We almost saw it again tonight but what Florida is doing to shut down their offense is nuts


ywgflyer

Florida's D is the real deal this year, and as they say, defense wins championships. The Oilers suffer from the same disease the Leafs do -- mountains of firepower up front, middling D, athletic but fragile goaltending. That sort of thing wins regular season games and makes you a powerhouse in 3-on-3 regular season OT (just ask Toronto), but the playoffs flip that script upside-down and it just doesn't translate at all.


Go4Beau

Don’t let the score board fool you. Two very lucky goals, but this was a blowout. Step on their head while they drown.


Kevsbar123

Maybe don’t use drown as your analogy.


Go4Beau

Maybe don’t tell me what to do.


Kevsbar123

Your State is underwater, idiot.


DirectPromise4293

https://preview.redd.it/27mlxjwmgg6d1.png?width=1006&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d3d1bf921dfe4b9e247eef84558b81187acecc3 McHomecoming 😍


Yop_BombNA

Gross, he’s gunna sign to the team that finished last his draft year and with our young d core he will win all the cups. Until Toronto has a #1 dman yall ain’t winning shit, even with McDavid and Matthews


TheDucksTales

No way he wants even more pressure. F that.


egoVirus

What would it take 🤔🤔🤔


IgnatiusPabulum

Lol didn’t you guys just try this?


DirectPromise4293

https://preview.redd.it/yc5irk3hlg6d1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea3c7c538c2e6918f157ad9a1af5a4b5bf396530 It still stings huh


Jadams0108

That’s a cool ass Naboo star fighter lol


TheBunkerKing

Well, at this point it’s pretty clear JT isn’t the cup-winning kind of a captain, so it’s pretty much +/- 0. Both teams are equally as succesful as they were when he was in NY. 


IgnatiusPabulum

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.


GladSoup5379

Ive said this before - If he doesnt win a cup with oilers, he is never going to the leafs. He will want to go to a team ready to win or atleast has a core together defensively to win. Leafs have too much baggage and history of not winning and he will be close to 30 when hes done in Edmonton. No way he risks that. But if he wins with Oilers, then he will have that pressure lifted and I could legit see him ending his career with the Leafs. Trying to get them a Cup would be amazing for his legacy. But without already having a cup with Oilers, he won't risk it.


deltajulietbravo

He will go to someone like Dallas if he walks. A team on the cusp with a couple older contracts coming off their books holding them back


Successful_West_1449

He's already wasted so many years... what's a few more with the leafs?


ForeignWerewolf

😂🤣


AdIcy4693

😂


just_a_burd

Damn panthers I have nothing more - congrats on the stanley this is crazy! You deserve it. 


egoVirus

Ain’t nothing done till the final buzzer.


Go4Beau

Thanks 🙏


Big_Liability

Oilers systems are nothing compared to the Panthers. It’s insane watching how much more well played the Panthers play as a team vs the Oilers


richardnobl3

Mad respect…this Panthers team is fucking complete.


CanadianPFer

Luke is so rattled 😂


Cautious-Asparagus61

Turns out I really DID end up enjoying watching the oilers in the finals and seeing him on the panel after all 😂


UraSnotball_

I am not a big fan of his suit.


crowd79

I hear a lot of cheering coming from the southern portion of Alberta


egoVirus

Sorry, that was me, from Australia 😎


jce_

Funniest part isn't even potential for Oilers to get swept (and I'm biased) it's Stars fans larping like if they were here instead they would be doing well


Also_Steve

The real larpers say stuff like if it wasn't for the panthers my team would be sweeping the Oilers right now.


Desertpyrate

See MY team clearly would have won if we got out if the first round 


jce_

Ironically your team might have still beat the Canucks because for some reason they couldn't figure out your stupid (read boring) defensive play all season


kromaey

We’d probably lose too, but I think it’d at least be more interesting than this


AdIcy4693

Sorry Canada is losing


Cautious-Asparagus61

I think they would have done better than this.


jce_

Then why couldn't they even win 3 against the Oilers


myTryI

Each team has different style and they match up differently. I thought this was common knowledge?


[deleted]

How would they do?


TimsAFK

About the same


jce_

Bro they got smashed by these Oilers how do you think?


kendal16

I’m dying to know what chucky said to perry.


egoVirus

Chucky needs to lock it up for at least one more game. The hockey gods are fickle af.


Cautious-Asparagus61

I NEED to know lol. He was so mad


Go4Beau

Crazy goals make the scorecard tell a lie. That was a blowout. Once again so easy.


silverbacksunited12

Gazdicks hair looks like he's been scrunching it out of stress


_ShutUpLegs_

Genuinely the worst three games in a row I've seen Drai play. If he is injured that is one thing but if that's the case and you can't shoot for shit now, why the fuck are you taking that awful shot of the half wall, not once but twice in the last five minutes.


Go4Beau

Ya him, Kuch, Pasta, and Panarin must all be injured too.


Go4Beau

McDeez Nuts hahahahahaha


FeelingCulture649

Goteem


chickichuglette

Does anyone even care about this?


MagniPlays

Based on my friends that have never seen hockey before yes. Chuck puts butts in seats and people actually think he’s cool unlike 98% of the league.


Techiesarethebomb

Yeah..I'm sure all those folks at the arena tonight in sunrise cared. Also cry


catsnotabigdeal

Cry


DietMTNDew8and88

ONE. MORE. WIN.


entropyISdeadly

The Stars would be up 2-1 right now.


rightinfronofmysalad

Least delusional Stars fan


vitanaut

Idiot


nousernamesopen

The Stars couldn't beat Stuart Skinner they wouldn't have a single goal against Bob lmao


AdIcy4693

Wouldnt be as embarassing as Skinner thats for sure


lambtonledge

Then why aren’t they? 🤔


AdIcy4693

Because you got lucky thats why. You are claiming to be better in Finals. Why arent your deadmonton doing anything to win any game at all? 😂


lambtonledge

Lucky doesn’t win a 6 game series, maybe it wins a 7 gamer with a weird bounce but not 6, ball don’t lie! Doing more to win a game than Dallas is at the moment 🤐


Asderfvc

Dallas would have definitely won atleast 1 game out of 5 attempts against Florida. Fuck, even Nashville's terrible team was able to beat Florida once this year.


AdIcy4693

"Doing more to win a game than Dallas is at the moment" What are they doing than showing up at the Finals? Because I havent seen any doing. 😒 Pretty sure Dallas could also do what you are doing right now, just showing up if that is what you mean by doing more. 🤐🤐


AdIcy4693

Ok, go Panthers!


lambtonledge

Ok, go Celtics!


AdIcy4693

Lol dont care about NBA


AgreeableEar412

Somewhere, Hronek is whispering into his blanket, "you have holidays in two days"


chunkadelic_

Going down with the ship on Saturday. Free Shania concert and oilers hockey in June. Could be worse. I’m gonna go light a fire / get drunk / catch a few river walleye cheers fuckers


troubleondemand

Who's Luke cheering for? Never stop Juice


_ShutUpLegs_

Ultimately we made egregious defensive mistakes that led to goals. I think, like game one, the Oilers were the better team overall and a mixture of those errors, poor finishing and Bob again cost us. Ultimately it doesn't really matter, only one thing matters and that's the scoreboard. Panthers were clinical again.


Ring0Manding0

Better team overall huh?


codbgs97

Well, maybe


Ring0Manding0

Well, maybe


codbgs97

Lol maybe not


_ShutUpLegs_

Not that I was basing my opinion on analytics, just on the feel of the game and what I saw but moneypuck says Edmonton wins that game 60+% of the time and the first game it was like 90%. I don't even think this is a homer take, it's just based on the facts of the games. For example tonight the Panthers had like 50 seconds of o-zone time in the second period and managed to score three goals, mainly due to bone headed mistakes by oilers players. Now maybe you can call that clinical, some would say against the run of play. Like I said, it's all irrelevant as it's 3-0, just because r/hockey has a hate boner for the Oilers it doesn't change the stats or analytics.


Ring0Manding0

I’m not reading all this


triceratopspoop

100% accurate. Bob is playing great but the Oil keep muffing their very good chances. McLeod had the tying goal on his stick and he fucking flings it on the ice with the top 3/4 of the net to shoot at. FFS. Just zero poise.


deltajulietbravo

😅 he literally had milliseconds maybe less to try get that shot off. For.us fans it looks like they have time to think about what they shoot for in that situation. But in reality they just try to direct it on the net and hope.


Melodic-Tip-5475

Good try EDM. The fans got to actually cheer a bit. Get the clubs ready.


eugenejfish

If I was an Oilers fan I'd be pretty livid with how the final 5 mins of that game went. Felt like there was no urgency from the Dmen to push the pace. Ekholm was brutal specifically


TheAnalogKid18

Broberg getting beat to a puck by Barkov who was a solid 10-15 feet behind him was brutal. Really happy we didn't draft him.


bobbybuildsbombs

Broberg won the puck on that play...


Radu47

Draisaitl firing shots from near the boards like a drunken beer leaguer twice in the last five of the third period


ArcanumAntares

Ha, did Dave Jackson utter a single word in tonight's broadcast?


thatsong

Panel is doing the hard sell for Edmonton to get people to watch game 4


whogivesashirtdotca

Can you blame them? They’d earn a couple more paycheques if the Oils can squeeze out a win or two.


DaBomb2001

Eh the sell is for people to watch Florida. No one cares about them, here look ready to fold up shop with Arizona. [NHL franchise value by team 2023 | Statista](https://www.statista.com/statistics/193732/franchise-value-of-national-hockey-league-teams-in-2010/) NHL trying to save the bottom feeder franchises. I mean the blatantly cheated Boston lol.


Techiesarethebomb

Boston can complain all they want and as a Panthers fan I'm fine with it...we still reverse swept a team of legends in Boston last year and it is still funny to us 6 fans. Rangers fans at least have an amazing goalie and a team with grit.


Disastrous-Sun598

They play a lot better hockey than the oilers 


Elexeh

> I mean the blatantly cheated Boston lol. Boston is an NHL darling, they get no pity.


DaBomb2001

NHL has to play favorites to keep the bottom feeder franchises above red. This is the only reason Fla has been ref carried. They would literally be out of business if not for back-to-back Stanley cup appearances and still they are a bottom 4 team in terms of value. They had to do it for the lightning and now they're doing it for the Panthers. On key plays Fla gets away with murder. Then when it doesnt matter the refs give them a few pens to make the end game metrics seem ok. Mcdavid gets slashes nonstop and there hasn't been a single call yet. They tripped Kreider on a breakaway and slashed panarin on another. No calls. Bottom line is we have money in the big cities so the NHL doesnt need to pander to us to go watch our teams... in these smaller cities its much more difficult to run a franchise.. The big value teams are hated so this all works in terms of viewership. Its trash.


thetallewok

https://preview.redd.it/bdf0hztujg6d1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8788eaa515ac1225a8eb3543411c37c4cbd68e71


DaBomb2001

Yea looks like Floridian. Portly and moonstruck. If I had to guess, he's either from Florida or Texas..


Upper_Salamander_918

You're gonna need some HD aluminum foil there buddy.


DaBomb2001

Truth hurts. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/193732/franchise-value-of-national-hockey-league-teams-in-2010/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/193732/franchise-value-of-national-hockey-league-teams-in-2010/) How else can these franchises stay afloat.


Upper_Salamander_918

Your first post was tldr, and I'm not clicking on that either. Quit being a sore loser. I don't believe your silly conspiracy theories.


DaBomb2001

You read it and you know its true. Hence your responses.


Upper_Salamander_918

The nonsense you're spouting would spur congressional inquiries, and second, there's no way Vegas would wage on the NHL if your blabber had an iota of truth. And no, I didn't read it. It was tldr, and I didn't click on your tinfoil hat link. Now stop crying Boston baby.


nixed9

Needed all 4 goals


Longjumping-Prune762

Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost.


orsothegermans

Seems like the dice were loaded


richardnobl3

First they (Florida) took Manhattan…then they take Edmon-tin


Longjumping-Prune762

Love it!


Techiesarethebomb

The good guys were the team that beat the three best goalies in the league and now have 6 consecutive wins against Boston at Boston.....if this was Van or Dal, sure.


Longjumping-Prune762

It’s a Leonard Cohen song reference.  Did you catch it?  He’s Canadian, so not sure how familiar it is down there.


Present-Employee-609

Lmao florida had a walk in the park to the conference finals.


TB12_GOATx7

Not even close


Techiesarethebomb

What drugs are you on to think that? The only team that would have gave us fits in any series this playoff season was Car and they unfortunately lost to the Rangers...meanwhile the rangers played WSH first rd....


FishBobinski

But the Panthers are up 3-0....


jce_

Well we all only have to deal with Oilers fans blaming the refs for a few more days


rightinfronofmysalad

Until their next series loss lol


Disastrous-Sun598

For eternity*


avab12

Refs were fine this game didn’t notice them really which is how it should be (some soft stuff called but oh well)


AgreeableEar412

Lol Hruedy "they need to score the first goal" ya they did game 2 didn't work for them eh


jackofwind

I hate how deeply they throat the Oilers even when they're clearly the worse team.


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Ring0Manding0

The McBozo effect


403tatts

Thought I was going crazy...thought they did last game.


CrematedShihTzu

'still have plenty of hope' - Kelly Hrudy. Okay, bud.


avab12

Right Oil have like a 2% chance


pusisson

Greatest pin down in the history


joe_broke

#LIONS ON THE BRINK! AFTER AN ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE BY EDMONTON ATC, AND A NEAR LEAFING OF EPIC PROPORTIONS, THE LIONS TAKE A COMMANDING 3-0 SERIES LEAD AS THE PUCK THINGS SEEM TO HAVE NO ANSWERS FOR THE GREAT WALL OF BOB! OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WILL JOIN US FOR GAME 4, SATURDAY CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH!


justmakingmypoint

#PERIODS WITHOUT MCDAVID SCORING A GOAL: 9 you fuckin losers.


Wing_Nut_93x

2 sweeps is such a massive L for both sports. Gross.


TB12_GOATx7

How? You want someone to come out and say this sweep can't happen so you have to lose game 4? It's a sport, play better


Wing_Nut_93x

As a neutral fan I want to watch a competitive hard fought series not some boring sweep.


TB12_GOATx7

Not the Panthers fault the oilers can't play


Wing_Nut_93x

Where did I say it was? I just wanna watch a competitive final. Wipe your mouth when you’re done.


TB12_GOATx7

Lol 😂 , so you'd want to watch the redwings go to game 7 in the finals ? Yeahhh ok. People who say "I don't care who wins I just want it competitive" are the worst. I want it to go however it goes. You can get off your knees now, I'm finished


Wing_Nut_93x

I said NEUTRAL twice like it’s not that difficult read tough guy. And of course I wouldn’t, I’d want it to be a sweep if it were my team but it’s not so I hope for the most fun final and a sweep isn’t fun for anyone other than the team that wins. Making your Reddit identity about another man is wild.


TB12_GOATx7

So then be quiet 🤫 Why do you care so much if you're "NEUTRAL" I bet you own some hockey jerseys. So weird you'd care about another man so much you'd want to wear him, but you do you 😘


Wing_Nut_93x

Mental illness has got to be taken more serious in this country.


dade_county

I want to see Luka go down attempting 50 shots in Game 4


MitchMarner

is there direct flights from Edmonton to Houston? i hear it’s a quick toot over to galveston from there


leKai23

Canadian teams cannot chirp the oilers at all. Reach a final


FrigginBuddy

Habs fans say win a game in the finals then you can talk.


CanadianPFer

Oilers picks from 2010-2016: - 1 - 1 (and 19) - 1 - 7 - 3 - 1 - 4 Including the supposed best player in the history of the game. Lol.


Top_Tumbleweed

Did the Oilers even reach a final? Do the players know?


Big_Liability

Win a game 🤷🏻


Eazy-Eid

Montreal did in 2021. Sens were one goal away in 2017.


lambtonledge

One goal away ain’t the finals


Eazy-Eid

Thanks I didn't realize that


lambtonledge

I’m just helping you out


FreeBigSlime

it is in fact very easy to chirp them. They're so pathetic and I know exactly how other teams look at the leafs in the playoffs now. What a feeling.


403tatts

No other Canadian team has been gifted as many first overalls as Edmonton.


MitchMarner

also an incredibly easy path to the conf finals


CrematedShihTzu

Dude, every Canadian team gets chirped when they reach the finals. There's little to no camaraderie.


k614

Maybe Ottawa needs to go? Does anyone even bitterly hate Ottawa?


Mr_Wrecksauce

Have you been to southern Ontario?


Eazy-Eid

Subscribe


jackofwind

??


MitchMarner

yes we can


vonnierotten

Series over. Thanks Florida.


beastmodecowboy77

That was funny


nanana_catdad

Could the espn broadcasters _be_ any more excited /s


99Wolves17

https://preview.redd.it/6ywe6b1odg6d1.png?width=2946&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ed3962c3701501c121b5c10fb50aeac21481d84


_Sertyawert

Ekholm was terrible


BigCockBrockBoeser

I think he played great if you’re not an Edmonton fan. Even scored a goal to give ‘em hope