Edmonton Oilers @ Florida Panthers 8pm ET on ABC.
The Panthers are favored to win the series due to a well balanced team and a stout goalie, but the Oilers have the playoffs top 4 scorers and 5 of the top 7.
Florida's biggest weakness is their D are not very good defensively and due to their aggressive style they play in the offensive zone are prone to giving up odd-man rushes and they rely on their goalie (Bobrovsky) to bail them out. They also take a lot of penalties (generally speaking).
the Oilers are lethal on the power play (37.3% to lead the playoffs). The Oilers PK also leads the playoffs. They will need both to be at their best to win the series because their goalie (Skinner) has not been consistent (but was fantastic in the Dallas series).
This is Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl's first SCF appearance and both have had stellar careers to this point, but post-season success has eluded them both and been a stain to an extent on their careers. The only stain.
Should be a fun series. The heavy forecheck and 200-foot game of Florida with Barkov, Tkachuck, Bennett, Verhaeghe, Reinhart, vs the speed and skill of Edmonton with McDavid, Draisaitl, Hyman, Bouchard, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, etc.
Woo hoo!
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I think the MLB playoffs are too quick, honestly. With a best of 7 you really know which team is better.
LOL, so under that arrangement who is the first "Mr. Thanksgiving" ??
I'd shorten the regular season so the playoffs started in September.
And so can FL. Game 7 in the SCF. Nothing better
Let's go Oil!
Oilers have the momentum for sure
Their PK has been outstanding
Plus 5v5 edge to Oilers also
Bobrovsky is going to have to stand on his head imv for Panthers to win.
Gotta think Drury will be interested
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I think the last sweep in the NHL finals was the Red Wings? 1998?
Correct.
I think FL sweeps.
You absolute fool.
Same. I have mentioned this several times, I hate it too, it kills the flow IMO.
but on the plus side once the SC finals wrap up, just three more days until the draft.
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Kevin Kurz
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Montreal was dumb as shit for not taking him.
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doing some work. Most of the expectations were PHI was taking a big gamble and Michkov wouldn't debut for years. All the teams who passed on him (besides CHI) may look foolish if he can deliver.
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Montreal was dumb as shit for not taking him.
Yeah. Even if he doesn't pan out, not exactly like they were in win-now mode and couldn't wait a couple years.
If you get good odds you should bet on that.
Of course I'm traveling for work. not a huge deal, it's on ABC and I'm sure the hotel bar will have the game, but would be better to watch in the comfort of my home.,
Brodeur is probably after those 2 for me.
My favorite goalie "moment" of all time other than Jim Craig in Miracle on Ice was the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. Mike Richter may have had the best performance I've seen a goalie have in any format, in any tournament.
I was away early in this SCF (nice post by rnargi having expunged more or less ECF) and saw this.
The evolution of the position in the NHL fascinates me. Of the keepers pj eliminates as before his time Dryden, followed by Parent and Esposito (relatively smaller in stature--Dryden was a complete outlier in his time, now he'd be 'normal' with the Bobs, Hellebucyks, etc. Athletic behemoths who can occlude much of the 6'x 4' just by squatting in their pads. (An aside, I was at the Rangers-Leafs SCP game in '71 when, after a scrum, Vic Hadfield picked up Parent's mask and flew it over the glass into the stands and the fans wouldn't throw it back; by the time his backup mask was brought from the dressing room they had, iirc.)
The others pj mentions in his disqualify category were physical specimens apart: Gump (whom I saw play a bunch, was a smallish, rolly polly teddy bear, with a modicum of athleticism), Plante was slender, maybe an avg. male of his time, Broda (remember him the least, sorta same), and Sawchuk was prolly the biggest, but nothing like today's netminders. Roy definitely fit within the quick, slender, lithe snakes with his arms. Hasek and Brodeur, hardly chunky iron men, born to their HOF breed.
That's why Igor, today, is such an outlier, because he harkens back to the quick, smallish, darting keeper, a vanishing breed. Quick may not be much bigger than Esposito. I haven't looked up any of these GK's heights/weights, all from memory.
Keeper of a flame for underdogs and throwbacks in time, I hope that Bob doesn't have it tonight.
Go Oilers!
I loved watching him play in person and on TV.
Another smallish goalie probably less than 6’
I think Oilers have a huge advantage tonight in game 7.
It's f-ing game 7 and it's hockey - no one is favored or has an advantage IMO. That said, pick 1 goalie on either team for this game and it's still Bobrovsky for me despite the shit show the last 3 games have been.
I'm just rooting for a non-blowout and OT.
Heroes are made in game 7's.
Also though I bet EDM to win the cup and McDavid and Barkov for Conn Smythe - so rooting for two of those to happen too, lol.
Agreed. I rarely watch if the Rangers are out, but this is a great series -- expecting a really entertaining game tonight.
If EDM manages a lead it's going to be torture for FL fans.
Sunrise
well that's how I learned it existed too, lol (because the Panthers arena is there)
It's f-ing game 7 and it's hockey - no one is favored or has an advantage IMO. That said, pick 1 goalie on either team for this game and it's still Bobrovsky for me despite the shit show the last 3 games have been.
I'm just rooting for a non-blowout and OT.
Heroes are made in game 7's.
Also though I bet EDM to win the cup and McDavid and Barkov for Conn Smythe - so rooting for two of those to happen too, lol.
The afternoon guys on NHL Network think McDavid has the Conn Smythe locked up regardless of outcome tonight.
I'm a dad with a 6 year old that is giddy for hockey.
I can't wait for the puck to drop.
Game 7. Let's Go!
I'm a dad with a 6 year old that is giddy for hockey.
I can't wait for the puck to drop.
Game 7. Let's Go!
Good luck, bud.
NYR and BOS couldn't make them pay.
tie game, great pace.
McDavid quite first period
Ya gotta love SCF game 7 intensity
McDavid quite first period
Ya gotta love SCF game 7 intensity
Agreed. Quickly established physicality which led to their forcheck being effective in a sustained manner for the first time since early in game 3. Edm has to find a way to break it, either by being more aggressive off the boards and out of the corners or making the forecheckers pay with big hits.
Stanley Cup Finals - Game 7 - Edmonton Oilers @ Florida Panthers on ABC/ESPN - 8 pm ET start - ( New Window )
I'm a dad with a 6 year old that is giddy for hockey.
I can't wait for the puck to drop.
Game 7. Let's Go!
It's safe to say all Rangers fans are with you!
Wow...I knew they were gonna score there. All EDN there and FL pots one.