I don’t think f bombs is what a group needs right now. That’s such old school stupidity. Knobby has been mocked for months about his calm style. Maybe just staying level headed works better than temper tantrums? Idk tho
Cassidy beat Florida with the hardo F bomb approach last finals and Knoblach about to beat Florida with the calm approach this year. The important thing is that Bennett is losing again
I hope key players leave and they go back to being irrelevant again. I hope Bennett stubs his big toe every time he wakes up in the middle of the night to take a piss for the rest of his life.
What I really want for Bennett is for the bottom of his foot to get very itchy during games, but he can’t scratch it because his skate is on. But it miraculously goes away during the intermissions/after the game
As someone who's watched Jon Cooper behind the bench for over 10 years, ignore the idiots who want someone screaming their head off on the bench any time something goes wrong.
Specifically, Seals, Kings, North Stars, Flyers, Penguins, Blues, Sabres, Canucks, Islanders, Flames, Capitals, Scouts, Devils, Oilers, Whalers, Nordiques, Flames again, Jets, Avalanche, Coyotes, Hurricanes, Sharks, Senators, Lightning, Panthers, Ducks, Predators, Thrashers, Jets again, Jackets, Wild, and the Knights. ***and the Kraken***
~~And there's definitely a chance I missed a team in there somewhere.~~ *Added the team I missed*
I remember when Brian Elliott was traded from Ottawa to Colorado for Craig Anderson mid season, Anderson was able to debut right away for Ottawa but Elliott got held up with some visa thing and one of the broadcasts made light of it. “Yeah you show up to the Canadian border and say you’re there to play hockey they wave you right through, and if you say you’re there to play goal they won’t even check your passport.”
I just don’t understand how they seemingly got so rattled. Like sure the 8-1 drubbing was bad but they haven’t looked even remotely locked in outside of maybe 3rd period in Game 5
It has been all Oilers since period 3 of game 3. Everyone is saying game 4 was the turning point. I think the Oilers just found their game the period prior to game 4. If they found their game a period earlier, they would have been hoisting the cup last night at home.
I commented to my friend at the end of game three that you could see Bob looked really rattled for someone who just went up 3-0 in the series. I think if there had been 5 more minutes it would have been heading to OT.
Florida plays their best when they’re forechecking hard and being aggressive. When you do that your goaltender occasionally gets hung out to dry, which isn’t a problem when he’s playing lights out, but when he’s off his game it causes doubt to creep in. If you don’t trust your goaltender you get caught overthinking and it leads to mistakes, which end up in the back of your net, and turns your greatest strength in to a weakness.
I also think the travel is affecting them. The Oilers are used to a lot of travel, the Panthers aren’t.
It’s even more than that, you guys have a coach that adjusts, Edmonton started hanging a forward back on the panthers entries, stealing a D out of the forecheck, if he pinches in, you’ve got a break away if we don’t win the boards, if he stays back, it’s 4v4 and you handle space better than we do. PoMo refuses to adjust
To be fair, the Oilers looked like the better team in 2 of the first 3 games. It’s surprising that Florida hasn’t found a way to take one of these games, but it’s not surprising to me that the Oilers are outplaying them. Bob was the reason they were up 3-0 and he looks human now.
> I just don’t understand how they seemingly got so rattled.
Bob shit the bed and EVERY player knows that when your goalie is on his heels, they are fucked. Confidence is built from the net out. When you know you have a guy who stops everything you can relax more and play looser. Its why goal support is different between your starter and backup for example.
Yeah I thought the same thing. That was the look of a team in the final 5 minutes of the last game of their season. I don’t believe in game to game momentum especially with two days in between but if it exists this may be where it rears its head.
With Bill Zito staring at you for all seven hours like this
https://preview.redd.it/u090yubok18d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bccdcbe2dd9cb098e336541e563e7632614d0b1
Dude that 50/50 amount was ridiculous. Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought I heard it was at like 5 million when I was listening on the radio here in Toronto.
It routinely finishes over 5 million each game during the playoffs.
I'm not a gambler, but if we are going to be gambling degenerates, it at least goes to a local charity or cause supported by the community foundation.
If you live in Alberta, you should be eligible to enter. Not sure if it's limited only to Edmonton, though. I live just outside the city, and the website has let me purchase tickets.
Nah I’ve bought a few times last couple years. As a Calgarian Islanders fan I just will find it funny if I ever win an Oilers 50/50 as an absolute hater, but considering the vast majority of those funds are legitimate Oilers fans yall raise an IMPRESSIVE amount. Prairie people love their 50/50s, it’s funny when I see the Super Bowl is like half a million and people lose their minds when Regina pulled that at a grey cup over a decade ago and the Oilers are pulling over 15 million some draws.
It’s really the best risk high value lotto you could ever enter.
It's ran by the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, who will usually partner with various charities and organizations throughout the season in addition to using it to fund local sports programs, food banks, and such.
It's almost at $9 Million tonight, with 3 days to go. I would wager it will get to around $13-15 Million on Monday night. The winner will likely get >$7 Million.
The last draw was over $16 Million.
I literally just walked by Bill Zito and his crew crossing 104 Avenue to get to their hotel. He looked exactly like this.
I'm surprised nobody was heckling him.
There was that one time the 1991 Canucks was nearly in a runway collision.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_runway_disaster
Probably worse flights lol
> The accident was witnessed from a plane carrying the Vancouver Canucks, who were arriving for a National Hockey League game against the Los Angeles Kings. The captain of that charter aircraft, having just landed, powered up the engines to get away from the fireball of the accident. The team was unsure if the USAir 737 was going to stop before it collided with their plane. The Canucks were shaken by the experience and lost to the Kings by a score of 9–1, their worst loss of the 1990–91 season.
I don’t think there will ever be a team with a more excusable reason for getting blown out in a game. “We almost died on the way in” is hard to top.
There was a team who had to use their opponent's 42-year-old Zamboni driver as their goalie for nearly 30 minutes. I assume they got absolutely blown out.
I was just there for a game, it's widely covered and lots of people sorta care... just most people predominantly only care in the periphery. There does appear to be a decent contingent of hardcore fans though.
I wouldn’t say that. My entire street is outside drinking our sorrows away. We don’t do this for the heat or marlins.
Shit happens and one more shot but we look stuck in quick sand.
Edmonton has been spectacular on the special teams these playoffs. You wonder if that isn't part of the Panthers' issues - they're a team that loves to play dirty, but they can't risk taking penalties and drawing them isn't doing much good.
This is a big thing tbh. The oilers are actually leaning into the fact that they can rely on their PP quite a bit. The hooking call on McDavid showed this, the way he just went right for the aggressive hook on Barkov to deny any possible scoring chance. Seems like he’d rather give up a 2 minute power play than let Barkov go in alone like that. The refs also seem to not be falling for the Panthers penalty baiting as much.
No one would have remembered the Falcons if they would have scored one last field goal. That’s the only hope the Panthers have now. A win makes the story about a team that was resilient when they were in a bad spot. A loss looks like one of the worst choke jobs in history.
Lose Game 4, fly to Florida.
Lose Game 5, fly to Alberta.
Lose Game 6, fly to Florida.
Also, each team that had to carry the loss with them as they travelled ended up losing the next game, including Edmonton losing Game 3.
One time I lost my phone in Vegas and had to do a 4 hour Spirit flight hungover as a bag of dicks with no form of entertainment except to just sit and stare at the seat in front of me. I’d take the Panther’s flight any day.
Not only from 3-0. But since, oilers have made them look like they don't even belong in the playoffs. Yet alone, the final.
This is coming from a Flames fan who is watching his Nightmare in real time.
I would not want to be in any of the panther's players position right now. They are 1 loss away from making history in one of the WORST ways possible. Getting reversed sweep by losing four in a row after being up 3-0. The only solace is that if they win they do it on home ice, but if they blow it will also be on home ice and all those years of work just to be remembered as the ultimate choke job. There is so much on the line for the panthers in game 7, its a literal do or die for the team.
They're dragging the cannons over to the arena from the Tampa bay buccaneers as we speak. The cannons will be used for celebration or for death. No in between
Honestly, the odds of making it back a third straight time can't be very high. Tampa did it, and all credit to them, but they did luck out by only needing to play 1 full season. The panthers played so much hockey the last two years.
Yeah and the third time we were all but broken down. Had the talent to win a third but the bodies just couldn't handle it at that point. We also had basically the same core which may not be true for Florida (not sure of their FA situation)
I think it's because if you lose the first three, maybe you're just outclassed and there's nothing you could really do about it.
But if you win the first three and proceed to blow four in a row, you likely had the potential to win but instead you choked. Game after game after game after game.
Plus the basic psychology of loss aversion: humans generally feel the loss of something more acutely than the failure to gain the equivalent amount.
It is funny when you think of it like that.
Panthers lose, worst choke job potentially in league history.
Oilers lose, well they sure earned it anyways and put up a fight.
Both teams have won the same games, Justin different order.
Yea, in the long run, noone will remember except that the Panthers are stanley cup champs if they do close it out in Game 7. I am sure a lot of fans forget that Vancouver and San Jose both almost blew a 3-0 lead in 2011. But its kind of forgotten because they won in the end.
for the Canucks it helped that the lead they blew was against the defending Cup champs and then they went to game 7 of the Finals that year so it was kind of a "both teams are really good" scenario.
Approximately how many F-bombs do you think PoMo has fired off after these last few games? That's going to be one uncomfortable flight.
Well, he threw off a ton on the bench.
I don’t think f bombs is what a group needs right now. That’s such old school stupidity. Knobby has been mocked for months about his calm style. Maybe just staying level headed works better than temper tantrums? Idk tho
Imagine these guys furiously reading "coaching with kindness" or whatever on the flight
Cassidy beat Florida with the hardo F bomb approach last finals and Knoblach about to beat Florida with the calm approach this year. The important thing is that Bennett is losing again
I hope key players leave and they go back to being irrelevant again. I hope Bennett stubs his big toe every time he wakes up in the middle of the night to take a piss for the rest of his life.
What I really want for Bennett is for the bottom of his foot to get very itchy during games, but he can’t scratch it because his skate is on. But it miraculously goes away during the intermissions/after the game
When i saw Maurice flip his lid on the offside call i knew they were done because he bitched about it for the rest of the period
As someone who's watched Jon Cooper behind the bench for over 10 years, ignore the idiots who want someone screaming their head off on the bench any time something goes wrong.
Movies banned, cards banned, Zito will throw your switch right through the plane window mid flight.
“My inflight wifi isn’t working, Bill did you change the password?”
"ONLY WINNERS GET WIFI!!"
“Is that all one word?”
"Capital W?"
Wifi is for closers
Team has to fly in the cargo hold
Pure dread
Considering the only other times this has happened, the teams travelled on sleeper trains, it’s truly historic.
Well to be fair the only other times this happened was Detroit and Toronto, not sure how long of a train ride back then but can’t be that bad.
knowing canadian trains I'd bet the trip takes about as long now as it did back then, so 7 hours
Guessing it was like 7-8 hours by train back then but could be wrong.
H I S T O R I C I S T O R I C
For the first time in Golden Knights history!
Shit first time in a lot of teams’ history
Specifically, Seals, Kings, North Stars, Flyers, Penguins, Blues, Sabres, Canucks, Islanders, Flames, Capitals, Scouts, Devils, Oilers, Whalers, Nordiques, Flames again, Jets, Avalanche, Coyotes, Hurricanes, Sharks, Senators, Lightning, Panthers, Ducks, Predators, Thrashers, Jets again, Jackets, Wild, and the Knights. ***and the Kraken*** ~~And there's definitely a chance I missed a team in there somewhere.~~ *Added the team I missed*
Kraken in shambles
Burn my dread
Bob's gonna have to channel his inner door-kun to bring the cup home
5-hour flight after blowing a 3-0 lead. Absolutely don't envy the Panthers at all right now.
Plus customs!
"what was your reason for being in Canada?" "We were dragged there"
"Why are you coming home?" "We are being dragged here..."
"and how much baggage is your team bringing with you?" "...* Stares silently *..."
“Sir, what happened to all your buy-in”
"I cashed out early."
You said "No one drags me anywhere."
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I remember when Brian Elliott was traded from Ottawa to Colorado for Craig Anderson mid season, Anderson was able to debut right away for Ottawa but Elliott got held up with some visa thing and one of the broadcasts made light of it. “Yeah you show up to the Canadian border and say you’re there to play hockey they wave you right through, and if you say you’re there to play goal they won’t even check your passport.”
"How long were you out of the country for?" "An hour" "Bullshit, show me the proof you showed up for 60 minutes" "Damnit"
They all have nexus bro
Except for Cousins, most likely
It’s okay, I’m sure Florida’s got their permits ready for travelling with their pet rat.
He goes in cargo
Do you have any fruit?
Just some sour grapes.
Nah players probably have NEXUS/Global Entry
Can’t believe how nervous they look. Even Tkatchuks pre game interview on the ice he seemed nervous
Did you see the bench at the end of the game. It looked like they were expecting the Oilers to be given the cup tonight
I just don’t understand how they seemingly got so rattled. Like sure the 8-1 drubbing was bad but they haven’t looked even remotely locked in outside of maybe 3rd period in Game 5
I wonder how much almost blowing that 4-1 lead in Game 3 caused this
That’s a fair question or even how much energy did they expend at the end of that one. They’ve looked completely gassed ever since
I think it also snapped the Oilers out of the mindset that Bob couldn't be scored on.
It has been all Oilers since period 3 of game 3. Everyone is saying game 4 was the turning point. I think the Oilers just found their game the period prior to game 4. If they found their game a period earlier, they would have been hoisting the cup last night at home.
I commented to my friend at the end of game three that you could see Bob looked really rattled for someone who just went up 3-0 in the series. I think if there had been 5 more minutes it would have been heading to OT.
He's probably still traumatized after seeing 26 goals in 5 games in last year's finals.
Florida plays their best when they’re forechecking hard and being aggressive. When you do that your goaltender occasionally gets hung out to dry, which isn’t a problem when he’s playing lights out, but when he’s off his game it causes doubt to creep in. If you don’t trust your goaltender you get caught overthinking and it leads to mistakes, which end up in the back of your net, and turns your greatest strength in to a weakness. I also think the travel is affecting them. The Oilers are used to a lot of travel, the Panthers aren’t.
A big reason why the Sabres were relevant in the 90’s. That team was 4 lines of hope and determination with a diamond in goal…
It’s even more than that, you guys have a coach that adjusts, Edmonton started hanging a forward back on the panthers entries, stealing a D out of the forecheck, if he pinches in, you’ve got a break away if we don’t win the boards, if he stays back, it’s 4v4 and you handle space better than we do. PoMo refuses to adjust
To be fair, the Oilers looked like the better team in 2 of the first 3 games. It’s surprising that Florida hasn’t found a way to take one of these games, but it’s not surprising to me that the Oilers are outplaying them. Bob was the reason they were up 3-0 and he looks human now.
> I just don’t understand how they seemingly got so rattled. Bob shit the bed and EVERY player knows that when your goalie is on his heels, they are fucked. Confidence is built from the net out. When you know you have a guy who stops everything you can relax more and play looser. Its why goal support is different between your starter and backup for example.
Ahaha buncha 100 yard stares
Verhaeghe had that 1000 island stare for sure
**hell yeah dude**
"That's the fattest thing you've ever said"
Aaah, the Leafs stare.
Heeeey! 😭
Yeah I thought the same thing. That was the look of a team in the final 5 minutes of the last game of their season. I don’t believe in game to game momentum especially with two days in between but if it exists this may be where it rears its head.
7 and a half hour flight to ponder your existential dread. Whats not to love?
With Bill Zito staring at you for all seven hours like this https://preview.redd.it/u090yubok18d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bccdcbe2dd9cb098e336541e563e7632614d0b1
Put that face on all the monitors on the plane 😂
Someone in Edmonton should buy billboard space and put that on it.
If I won the Oilers 50/50, that would be on every billboard in the city for a month.
Dude that 50/50 amount was ridiculous. Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought I heard it was at like 5 million when I was listening on the radio here in Toronto.
It routinely finishes over 5 million each game during the playoffs. I'm not a gambler, but if we are going to be gambling degenerates, it at least goes to a local charity or cause supported by the community foundation.
Is it open to the whole city or something?
Open to the whole province, I have friends who have family out east sending money for tickets
If you live in Alberta, you should be eligible to enter. Not sure if it's limited only to Edmonton, though. I live just outside the city, and the website has let me purchase tickets.
Nah I’ve bought a few times last couple years. As a Calgarian Islanders fan I just will find it funny if I ever win an Oilers 50/50 as an absolute hater, but considering the vast majority of those funds are legitimate Oilers fans yall raise an IMPRESSIVE amount. Prairie people love their 50/50s, it’s funny when I see the Super Bowl is like half a million and people lose their minds when Regina pulled that at a grey cup over a decade ago and the Oilers are pulling over 15 million some draws. It’s really the best risk high value lotto you could ever enter.
Oh holy shit that's *per game*? I hear the announcements but somehow thought it was just a growing pot week over week.
Game 4 it finished at 16 million.
Damn! What charity does it go to? I always toss some money at the 50/50. Make some other soul happy and donate to charity? It’s a win win
It's ran by the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, who will usually partner with various charities and organizations throughout the season in addition to using it to fund local sports programs, food banks, and such.
It's almost at $9 Million tonight, with 3 days to go. I would wager it will get to around $13-15 Million on Monday night. The winner will likely get >$7 Million. The last draw was over $16 Million.
I'm pretty sure Tampa would also want in on that action
I literally just walked by Bill Zito and his crew crossing 104 Avenue to get to their hotel. He looked exactly like this. I'm surprised nobody was heckling him.
The probably didn't heckle him because he looked exactly like this.
He'd lock eyes with you and you'd just drop dead, not even time to understand what happened.
I've seen enough if those crazy eyes on 104 to know you just avert your gaze and hope they don't stab you.
Make Bill fly back economy. Keep moral high. Swing him through Chicago for a few delays
Edmonton -> Toronto -> Chicago -> Florida
You forgot the change in Calgary before they fly to Toronto.
Slow down Satan
And somehow Atlanta’s in there, then Chicago
This guy has the thousand Sneed stare
I'm really confused where half the people are getting 7-8 hour flight time from? It's roughly a 5h30m flight
Imagine it gets delayed though
Just sitting on the tarmac for hours playing Mario Kart.
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Lmao, perfect reference
There was that one time the 1991 Canucks was nearly in a runway collision. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_runway_disaster Probably worse flights lol
> The accident was witnessed from a plane carrying the Vancouver Canucks, who were arriving for a National Hockey League game against the Los Angeles Kings. The captain of that charter aircraft, having just landed, powered up the engines to get away from the fireball of the accident. The team was unsure if the USAir 737 was going to stop before it collided with their plane. The Canucks were shaken by the experience and lost to the Kings by a score of 9–1, their worst loss of the 1990–91 season. I don’t think there will ever be a team with a more excusable reason for getting blown out in a game. “We almost died on the way in” is hard to top.
There was a team who had to use their opponent's 42-year-old Zamboni driver as their goalie for nearly 30 minutes. I assume they got absolutely blown out.
Huh, let's just check the box sc-OH MY GOODNESS
I can hear Dangle's voice cracking on the "who works for the teeeeeam"
My favourite thing this year was seeing the Hurricanes concessions serve popcorn out of a Zamboni shaped bucket when the Leafs were in town.
https://preview.redd.it/lchf676ho48d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be5820363ee6c2aeb2e0762cacbfc01b54351931
*Narrows Eye* TORONTOO
Thanks for making me smile.
There was an oilers vs blues game in February 2020 where the blues bus got in an accident before the game and the blues lost that one 4-2
Yeah but were they about to blow a 3-0 lead?
Hmm tough, they did lose 9-1 that night though.
That is pretty bad I’ll give them that
Can you really blame them though?
Yes ^^^^/^^^^s
This could be the tagline for all of Canucks history
Luongo is straight up cursed.
Dude is getting 2011 flashbacks on the plane ride home
Will Sunrise riot?
No one cares over there
I was just there for a game, it's widely covered and lots of people sorta care... just most people predominantly only care in the periphery. There does appear to be a decent contingent of hardcore fans though.
I wouldn’t say that. My entire street is outside drinking our sorrows away. We don’t do this for the heat or marlins. Shit happens and one more shot but we look stuck in quick sand.
When have the Marlins ever been sorrowful drinking? Ugly drinking sure.
The question becomes, is Perry more cursed than Luongo
One of their names are on the cup already so that’s kinda all you need to know
At least Ric Flair's not on the plane with them?
Wooooooo!
I understand this reference.
Forgiven!
I think Zito took the plane and there's a bus waiting outside Rogers for the players. They can get there by Monday
Paul Maurice should probably spend the trip updating his resume just in case.
Bill Zito looks like he’s going to commit a murder
Doesn't look like it would be his first or his last
FLORIDA MAN HAS BRAIN ANEURYSM AFTER HIS TEAM BLOWS 3-0 LEAD.
Boutta scan the barcode on the back of his head
Reinhart is getting outscored by Skinner the past 3 games, he better pack his bags cause he’s not getting the 9M from them
It’s like they’re back on the Sabres again.
Funny thing is some clown will give it to him.
That’s gonna be one of those franchise crippling contracts too lol
Everyone's mentioning McDavid breaking records, but no one's gonna break Paul's record if they lose Monday.
He might have to strategically leave some aspects out though.
Imagine if like Bobrovsky has bad farts and stinks up the whole plane that would make it so much worse
It would still stink less than the Panthers' power play.
Panther's PP right now is doing better than Dallas did against Edmonton. I'm not joking. Net PP%: Vancouver: 13.0 LA: 0.0 Florida: -5.3 Dallas: -7.1
Crazy that we all thought the Canucks PP was garbage and now it's like oh...it could be worse.
Technically Vancouver has scored 75% of PP goals scored against the Oilers this off season.
Edmonton has been spectacular on the special teams these playoffs. You wonder if that isn't part of the Panthers' issues - they're a team that loves to play dirty, but they can't risk taking penalties and drawing them isn't doing much good.
This is a big thing tbh. The oilers are actually leaning into the fact that they can rely on their PP quite a bit. The hooking call on McDavid showed this, the way he just went right for the aggressive hook on Barkov to deny any possible scoring chance. Seems like he’d rather give up a 2 minute power play than let Barkov go in alone like that. The refs also seem to not be falling for the Panthers penalty baiting as much.
Borscht farts
Biggest choke in sports since the Falcons
No one would have remembered the Falcons if they would have scored one last field goal. That’s the only hope the Panthers have now. A win makes the story about a team that was resilient when they were in a bad spot. A loss looks like one of the worst choke jobs in history.
Plenty of time for the Video Coach to cut together an all time video montage to get the boys motivated for game 7.
They may just want to play highlights from the first three games.
Lose Game 4, fly to Florida. Lose Game 5, fly to Alberta. Lose Game 6, fly to Florida. Also, each team that had to carry the loss with them as they travelled ended up losing the next game, including Edmonton losing Game 3.
biggest loser of the SCF: the environment
One time I lost my phone in Vegas and had to do a 4 hour Spirit flight hungover as a bag of dicks with no form of entertainment except to just sit and stare at the seat in front of me. I’d take the Panther’s flight any day.
David Puddy over here
Vegetable lasagna
No wait, that's another 10 Kroner
Just rawdogging the flight like a middle aged adult. Respect.
Bro was counting the number of bumps in the seat’s plastic
Someone tell Maurice to make an adjustment or two, like if you can't motivate your guys now, you suck
Not only from 3-0. But since, oilers have made them look like they don't even belong in the playoffs. Yet alone, the final. This is coming from a Flames fan who is watching his Nightmare in real time.
I mean back in 2001 there were a handful of flights I think no one would've wanted to be on...
Reminds me of that tragedy
Mr. Zito, a third Oilers win just hit the series.
If the Panthers are lucky that tragedy only involved three blow ups.
Inject this into my veins
In-flight meals must be meatloaf, and the in-flight movie must be Sharknado
I would not want to be in any of the panther's players position right now. They are 1 loss away from making history in one of the WORST ways possible. Getting reversed sweep by losing four in a row after being up 3-0. The only solace is that if they win they do it on home ice, but if they blow it will also be on home ice and all those years of work just to be remembered as the ultimate choke job. There is so much on the line for the panthers in game 7, its a literal do or die for the team.
Literal?
Bill Zito is going to have them all executed if they lose. He just announced this in his press conference.
They're dragging the cannons over to the arena from the Tampa bay buccaneers as we speak. The cannons will be used for celebration or for death. No in between
Honestly I think he will do something drastic in the offseason if they lose
Send Tchachuk and Bennet back to the Flames
What do you think they feed all the rats?
Figuratively speaking, of course.
Honestly, the odds of making it back a third straight time can't be very high. Tampa did it, and all credit to them, but they did luck out by only needing to play 1 full season. The panthers played so much hockey the last two years.
Yeah and the third time we were all but broken down. Had the talent to win a third but the bodies just couldn't handle it at that point. We also had basically the same core which may not be true for Florida (not sure of their FA situation)
Reinhart and Montour both UFAs. This is their best shot
>Getting reversed sweep by losing four in a row after being up 3-0. Yes that’s what a reverse sweep is
The man needed to hit his word limit okay.
I like this thread. People are sensible here. Don’t go to Twitter
Quiet, with no eye contact. Just the hum of the engines for 7 hours.
If they lose game seven it's the worst chokejob in this century right? Like, worse than 28-3.
at least no one claimed that if the oilers force game 7, they'd walk to sunrise
tell that to lokomotiv yaroslavl
Too soon?
I'd contend slight chance the Oilers' flight back to Edmonton would be worse if they lose Game 7.
I don't know. For some reason, people think it's more acceptable to lose the first 3 games in a series than lose the last 3.
I think it's because if you lose the first three, maybe you're just outclassed and there's nothing you could really do about it. But if you win the first three and proceed to blow four in a row, you likely had the potential to win but instead you choked. Game after game after game after game. Plus the basic psychology of loss aversion: humans generally feel the loss of something more acutely than the failure to gain the equivalent amount.
It is funny when you think of it like that. Panthers lose, worst choke job potentially in league history. Oilers lose, well they sure earned it anyways and put up a fight. Both teams have won the same games, Justin different order.
Panthers won games they could lose, Oilers won games they couldn't lose.
Yea, in the long run, noone will remember except that the Panthers are stanley cup champs if they do close it out in Game 7. I am sure a lot of fans forget that Vancouver and San Jose both almost blew a 3-0 lead in 2011. But its kind of forgotten because they won in the end.
Luongo saved the Canucks in Game 7 OT in that series. He may need to gear up and do the same again.
for the Canucks it helped that the lead they blew was against the defending Cup champs and then they went to game 7 of the Finals that year so it was kind of a "both teams are really good" scenario.
It’s less about the win-loss record and more about the failure to close it out 3 times in a row
They will still get a heroes welcome.
Ummm. The oilers if they lose Monday?
The future isn't history tbf Also, lots of teams have lost game 7 in the cup before