2024 CUP CHECK: Game 3 - Protoss - Panthers 4, Oilers 3 

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Exactly.

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100%, this is an amazing save in the series right now....but that Tampa one was a thing of legends.

100%. Game 2 was tied 2-2 late in the 2nd when he made that save and Florida didn't win it until OT. That puck from Dumba goes in it's likely 1-1 headed to Tampa. Completely different series.

I think Steve has been like that this entire time. He was very clear that the Oilers are a fantastic team (and probably would’ve beaten any other Eastern team pretty handedly) but that the Panthers are just something different this year. Only reaction videos I’ve been watching. Hard as an Oiler fan to see my team misrepresented by everyone. This Florida team is insane and will win a deserved cup.

@@wwpjd28 I wasn't criticizing Steve: it's just that most of the other youtuber's reviews of game 3, I have seen so far, are only focusing on "stupid" and "unforgivable" mistakes that some Oiler's players did... These reviews tend to refuse to accept that Florida forces the Oilers to make these mistakes...

@@SirVTropic I agree. I didn’t think you were criticizing Steve. I thought (like you just said) that you were complementing him for seeing the quality of both teams. Oilers are an elite team with the best superstars on the planet. And the Panthers are just better. Better coached, better executed, better defense than i expected (and I knew they were insane), and a goalie playing out of his mind.

@@wwpjd28 I think you're giving the Panthers a little too much credit. A lot of this is on the Oilers for screwing up. In game 1 alone Edmonton could have won *if* they had shot at bobby's weak spots. Assuming the coaching staff and players are competent enough, they should know this. Instead as you witnessed every single shot in game 1 was down low (BOBBYS STRONGEST SPOTTTT). and the oilers had a lot of scoring chances. i think if they were smarter about this and started going up high (as we saw more of in game 3) then more goals would be on the scoreboard. just my 2 cents.

97 is not a great player he’s an exciting player and there’s a huge difference between the two.

Yeah but atleast the Leafs won the game when they made the comeback

Yet they're getting swept like only an Oiler can do lol

​@@Leafs888oh your reaching there to find that light at the end.of the tunnel 😅

This is what the Oilers look like if they play in the Leafs division in the playoffs.

Leafs have to face the Leagues best teams every spring, Oilers get to play LA and a team that hasn't made the playoffs in years and the second most overrated west team in Dallas....

Lindstrom jr.

Plus minus means a lot a lot a really lot especially+54

And they got him for 5.75m for the next 8 years. The best deal in the NHL.

@@jorssu13Unreal. What a steal.

​@kristianhirka5605 it can mean a lot. It can also be meaningless. Example. Say your team goes for a change and the second your skates hit tye ice they score, that's a -1 on you even though you were on the ice for literally 1 second before the goa. The same thing can happen for a +1. Also if you have a goal that gives up 8 goals on 9 shots that might not be on the defense. Plus minus just means while Forsling is on the ice the other team is less likely to score. But while Nerus is on the ice the other team is more likely to score.

Still waiting to see this "Best Player in the World" do something worthy of that title "in this series". Haven't seen it... His +/- so far is a net zero. His face off % is absolutely horrific. Goals, zero. Back checking and grinding pucks out in corners, not much there either. 🤔

@cmdrbillpaxton4302 You mean like how he has more points by a mile than any other team and beat Wayne Gretzkys record for most points in the post season. Stuff like that?

@@Petry4u I guess you can't read because I posted "in this series" which was 100% true at the time for the first 3 games "of this series". He has played up to expectation in the last two games. Will see if edmonton can pull of the reverse sweep shortly...

as a lightning fan I agree. once I saw that save I knew we both lost the series and the panthers were gonna win the cup they weren't gonna be denied this time lol

@@hotcheeto9180 exactly- Lightning have always had the Panthers number. Once that save happened, that was it.

​@@hotcheeto9180 last year when Hill robbed Cousins in game 1 I felt a horrible feeling that came true.

​@adrianfernandez7386 dang I forgot about that one. That save hurt

Mind blowing SC2 came out almost 15 years ago lol Still play it sometimes today.

Still play SC2 online, great game to this day!

Never played it, but love League of Legends, which lead me to watch professional Koreans play video games. Watching them measure the distance of their mouse from their keyboards before a professional match made me realize this was something else. Also, 300-500 decisions per minute. Unreal!!

My wife for hire!

I had no interest in watching this and clicked in PURELY because it said "Protoss" lol

And great drafting. He gets good picks from deep in the draft

Forsling, who is today one of the top defensemen in the league, top +- performer in the season, was CLAIMED OFF WAIVERS

@@chootum8295 and Bobrovsky... everyone acts like "woah he is a great goalie!" Yep, totally unexpected "all of a sudden", as if they were sleeping when he took 2 Vezinas in the years passed.

Yeah Florida was trash for like 20 years and now my god they’re 1 away from the cup.

@@DarthABBA exactly. It’s hard to argue that Zito is not the most valuable GM in the league. Turning around a franchise and getting the right coaches and players, and build them into the most undisputed dominating team in the league is nuts. GM all around the league gotta take some notes from what was done in Florida

Florida looks like the Yankees on ice

I'd like Florida to seal this series with a 6:0 or 7:1 win in Game 4.

​@@musicclassic5938Oilers will get like 3 or 4 PP goals and force game 5, but then florida embarrasses them.

If Oilers manages to pull themselves up enough for winning the next one, then it's back to Florida and McDavid "put under guardianship" of Barkov.

Just prolong the misery

The Oilers are the Leafs but your high-end talent shows up in the playoffs. Questionable D and Goalies. its crazy

Everyone has to remember hot goaltender wins the oilers are finally scoring so if anyone can come back would be oilers but the difference is Florida s goaltending and it's to bad but it happens and is the main reason if not for him the oilers would be tied or even leading series but goaltender s are the big difference between the two teams

Lifelong Oilers fan....I love our team.....I love that our All-Stars show up in the playoffs....BUT......Look at the goals this series and especially last night.....The Oilers are the ultimate contradiction. They are a team in the Stanley Cup finals. BUT STILL STRUGGLE WITH THE BASICS!!!....Routine dump in for Skinner and Ceci....GOAL. Yet another bone headed give away by Bouchard....GOAL. A 2 on 1 and apparently Bouchard STILL has no idea where he is supposed to be defending a 2 on 1...GOAL. Nurse, simple clearance?.....GOAL Let's not forget our offences overpassing and under back checking. Knoblachs constant line juggling, seems to have created more confusion and lack of cohesion than paying off for him.. The tactic of keeping McDavid and Draisaitl seperated....until they start losing.....and than nervously putting them together when the other team is 2 goals up and expect them to save the day everytime??? It screams of a coach who is in over his head. Oilers, like the Leafs have some BIG roster decision's and BIG question's to ask this summer. The Canadian Stanley Cup drought continues until then.

@@tankdiggs8974 ....and might I add questionable back checking from some forwards and questionable line up decisions by Knoblach?

​@algrundau9441 I don't know enough about the Oilers to comment on the other things, but when Towes and Kane were winning cups in Chicago, they were played on separate lines, except for power plays. If they were playing together 5 on 5, no need to check the score, you knew Chicago needed a goal.

Oilers have two great players; that's it.

@@melvynobrien6193 Yup.

His point is that those players are excelling because of the system and team cohesion. Even has said it wouldn't be surprising if they moved on to other teams and saw a bit of a drop off. Panthers cohesion is unreal.

@@melvynobrien6193 and two nasty liabilities named Nurse and Ceci!

@@CC-pj7iy Most importantly are awesome players willing to buy into the system and trust the coach and alter their own game. Superstars make your choice: follow orders and sacrifice for the team or get your personal glory, but no cup for you.

Huh? Tkatchuk, Barkov, Bobrovski, they are on the same level as Cale Makar and McDavid....

They said that about the Dallas Stars... the depth and goalie would win out.

I mean they also very much have the one or two star players its very important to me that we all understand they very much have the star players

@@erichamithey also were battling injury

@@jabronirigatoni4648no they aren’t but they are legit star players. Anyone saying Florida doesn’t have stars and is just elite depth and team play plus a goalie (which is more of what I see in Dallas), is kidding themselves.

So what, they should have kept Maurice around for 16 years waiting to see if he could lead them to a cup?

@@randysgutful Yeah, I and many other Leafs fans would take a waiting 16 years for a cup as opposed to just one playoff series win in 16 years.

Coach: nothin's coming up Knobloch

While I agree that save vs lightning was incredible. It wasn’t in the cup finals to secure a victory.

The Leafs would have scored more than the Oilers in a series against them and actually win a game.

Isn’t conn smythe based off the whole playoffs though? Bob wasn’t needed nearly as much in the first three rounds tbh. I think Barkov should get it.

Coin toss between Barky and Bob, honorable mention to Gus Forsling.

@@hezl19 The way Barky has shut down all the top talent they've faced is something really special, and the fact the whole squad is following the example just makes it so much better. The Panthers are where they are because they're playing the way Barky has always played.

​@@zimbabwejim7153its so much easier to play with sacrifice when you see your superstar captain do it! Such an underrated characteristic.

​@@hezl19 I would not say Sergei was not needed in the first three rounds. Boston and NYR were very close games with superb goalies playing against Cats. If you don't have an elite goalie, you will not pass teams like NYR or BOS. There have been exactly 3 games out of 20 that ruin Bob's stats in these playoffs. And Florida lost all 3. 1 game per each series. 4th vs TBL, 1st vs BOS, 3rd vs NYR. Barkov i.e. has 5 games with 0 points and negative +/- and 4 more games with 0 points and neutral +/-. That is 9 out of 20.

The Leafs cannot bring the same team back, coaching change or not. They have clearly showed year after year that they don't want to commit to playoff style hockey. Do you think the core 4 was devastated they didn't make it past the first round? You need a will to win in the playoffs, and the Leafs aren't even close.

i noticed him earlier on in the playoffs ~ nice play ~ whos that guy 42 ~ oh its that 42 guy again ~ then im hooked & now he is one of my favrite players ~ along w makar ~

He is too good of a defender to be noticed and be appreciated the way he really deserves I guess. He does his job so good that he doesn't look like a hero in a process.

Wait til the Panther raise the cup on Oilers ice! Hahah

​@@josephfarr2988Oilers win game 4, panthers win it at home in game 5

@@anthonyfaccaro7118 you could be right 👍 .. I'm still going with 4 games because the Oilers can't even score let alone win a game

You use your last two connected brain cells to come up with that take dumass?

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😂😂😂Touchdown 2 point convert The spell of bobrongo has been broken The dam has been breached

I'm a Leafs fan, lifetime, and I can't support the goddamn Oilers.

Woooooo

Let’s goooooo

people never remember who didn't win a cup

@@tedebayer1 the hockey Mecca of Montreal and Don Cherry disagrees.

Proof stats become useless in the playoffs.

This proves that only looking at stats is stupid. Just like Dubas purely building a team off stats. It isn't NHL 2k.

Things must be really bad in Montreal if fans are grasping at straws just to find anything to be positive about.

Steve is a Leafs fan, he views on defense are absolutely warped

Yes. I said before the series started it was the worst SC finalist in decades. I also predicted a 4-0 sweep of the Oilers.

Absolutely. Canadian media personalities have been absolutely delusional these finals-desperate to pump Oilers tires. Brutal.

@@ulmwilliams57 I have no idea how Oilers beat the Stars, stars we my pick in the finals against Florida

you’re right. he should’ve released a 3-second video in which he says “oilers lost game 3, probably lose the series” and it ends. that would be great content!

Absolutely amazing how you can predict the future with such certainty and incredible accuracy Thanks Nostradumass 😅lol

@@coldeadhands Imagine being cocky about not getting swept lmaoo just keep quiet kid it'll be over soon 😂

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He should get the Conn Smythe Trophy.

😂😂😂😂😂 Touchdown 2 point convert

and mostly came from Calgary

Yep. Its just florida's stars aren't "flashy" like mcdavids speed/hands, draisaityl's one timer or Bouchards Bombs. Instead, its because it's all defensive for Florida. Forsling with the best + -, Barkov which is the best defensive forward in the NHL, and then you got Bob who's the best goalie right now.

@@tedebayer1 I realize you said this because it's edmonton/calgary rivalry but i just wanted to add a lot of players formally sabres players too. reinhart, montour, kulikov, rodrigues okposo ....call them "Buffalo south" sometimes lol

@@tedebayer1 yet the most important one is drafted by panthers

NO, THEY CAN'T

Delusions run high

They need a top goalie, too. They won't reach the final next year.

Getting outscored 11-4 I say they do it 😅 😂. That is the most ludicrous take from this video. Steve has blinders on if he thinks the Oilers are a better team ”playoff team” than the Leafs. This is the third time in recent years the Oilers are getting swept against good playoff teams. The Leafs are always competitive in nearly every series against good playoff teams. If you rewatch the highlights of the TOR/FLA series it was a much closer series than it appeared. EDM is getting smoked against this team. The numbers don’t lie. It boggles my mind that people pick the Oilers to win the cup. Put them in the Leafs division and watch what happens. You are seeing it happen now. 1 goal per game folks.

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Yes but the Zerg aren’t as individually strong all of the Florida panthers are incredibly skilled but they can also work together incredibly

​@@jameson1239true. UNLESS you use the Ultralisk! So each panthers player is a ultalisk. Ahh the memories