These damn oilers

Man, I'm not hoping for much yet. But go and win game 5 in Florida for one more home game this season.

Game 5 will be the hardest game of the season. You get over that hill, and suddenly the Panthers are going to be sweating bullets. Their offense is terrible, and they really haven't scored a goal that we didn't hand them. Tonight we scored 8 goals on great plays by our players, not mishaps on their players.

Let's go get one more game.

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frankbeardsley

74 SKINNER

21d

The second half of game 3's third period exposed the cracks in Florida's wall, and that short-handed goal tonight punched right through it.

Game 5 is gonna be intense, but the Oilers have proved they have what it takes.

GO OILERS GO!!!

Bubbly-Syllabub-1462

21d

Kick me in the beans I watched 70 Oilers games this year but I didn’t watch the game tonight and now I FOR SURE won’t watch game 5. Gotta keep it rolling!

bafras

17 KURRI

21d

Thank you for your sacrifice

episodicmadness

21d

Thank you for your service

7eventhSense

21d

If we get the next one game 6 is at Edmonton.

Master-File-9866

31 FUHR

21d

Game 4 was huge. Game 5 will be even bigger and Game 7 should we get that far will be the biggest challenge yet

Geralt-of-Rivai

29 DRAISAITL

21d

Depth baby. Teams win the cup by having the whole team contributing. Look at the scorers in Final series over the years, it's not the big stars putting up huge numbers, it's the third and fourth liners scoring big goals and making the difference. We've shown so far we have that, it's a full team game

Tacfurmissle

21d

Hockey is such a fickle game. We could even play better than them the next 3 games and still lose like we saw in game 1 and 3.

However, I'd like to think the hockey gods have already boned us for the series on those two games. I'm with you though, they be prepared game 5 and we'll very likely see their best. It will crucial to get a great start and get 2 or 3 past Bob early.

If, if they can pull off another win in game 5 then I'd be placing a bet they can win the series.

alexmtl

21d

Yea if they can pull another win on tuesday it changes everything. It will definitely play in florida’s head.

Habs fan here but rooting for you guys! 🥳

AxeScreen

21d

Over this season and post season every time I've watched an oilers game they lost, but every time I've listened to them play on the radio they won, including the 16 game heater, and all the games of the playoffs this has held true, last night despite being at home I was bedridden sick so I listened to em play on the radio, when they play game five I'll be at home but I'm going to listen to em play just to keep that ball rolling boys, mb for the first 3 games of the SCF that's on me

JalenHurtsKelce

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21d

What game did you watch lol? Their defense and forecheck were non-existent tonight. Tons of mistakes led to Oiler goals.

McDraiman

21d

They weren't passing us the puck.

That's how they've scored 80% of their goals in this series. Off of literal freebies. Florida didn't give us any freebies, we just kept winning 1 on 1s to get odd man rushes. They weren't handing our forecheckers the puck like we've been doing for them.

Geralt-of-Rivai

29 DRAISAITL

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Yes they have scored off of turnovers in our zone. A bad clearance out the zone, a bad forecheck behind the net leading to a pick in front. We shut that down, we have a chance

YellowSubreddit8

7 COFFEY

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Oilers did a couple of mistakes like that tonight too but the panthers didn't capitalize. To be able to win the next 3 they'll need to fine tune their defensive zone mistakes as well because it can be back breaking.

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BobBeSee

31 FUHR

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Oh look it’s a Florida fan.

JalenHurtsKelce

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21d

Flyers actually bub

Cdnyc85

21d

That's how the Panthers play. They don't play rush hockey. They create offense from good defense. So they force your team to make mistakes. You might think that's because your team is handing them the goal, but it's really because they're making bad plays because of the relentless pressure, minimal space and time, etc that the panthers usually offer. Last night the panthers forcheck was awful and they were completely disjointed, which allowed the oilers to get out and create rush opportunities, which are hard to stop. Different styles of play. If the panthers shut Edmonton down before they can start the rush, you get the results from the first 3 games. If they can't, you get game 4.

Raiders780

20d

We win game 5 I guarantee we are coming back to Florida for game 7