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I was there, it was the loudest game I've ever been to. It was absolutely crazy in there. What an experience!! It spilled out into the Ice district too, we took an Uber home and for about 15 Kms from the Rogers Place , EVERYONE was honking and waving Oilers stuff, crazy and awesome!

The shot of Luongo in the luxury suite not looking happy was priceless, didn’t want to see him lift the cup on Canadian soil

My numbers are 8,16 and 5. The length of the winning streaks we went on after losing 3 games this season.

I'd pay to hear the outtake reel when staples realized he hadn't hit record. Professional of you guys to power thru and do a take 2 👏

Brown and Janmark were amazing this game!

...I may be late to the party, but Janmark is impressing more and more. This guy doesn't take crap from anyone. He is big enough... but he plays bigger (71 take note). OILER depth should not be underestimate.

What a glorious night

Long post follows. Read / Don't Read up to you. Statistics for Round 4 Cup Finals Game 4 Florida at Edmonton June 15th, 2024. These are "Base" statistics not the detailed ones compiled by the Cult of Hockey and are simply a foundation for reference. Score: Panthers 1, Edmonton 8. Panthers lead series 3-1 Edmonton Oilers Janmark 1 Goal (Shortie), 1 Primary Assist Henrique 1 Goal Holloway 2 Goals, 1 Primary Assist McDavid 1 Goal, 2 Primary Assists, 1 Secondary Assist (PP Goal) Nurse 1 Goal Nuge 1 Goal McLeod 1 Goal Brown 1 Primary Assist (on Shortie) Ekholm 1 Secondary Assist Draisaitl 2 Primary Assists (1 on PP) Kulak 1 Secondary Assist Hyman 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist Perry 1 Secondary Assist Foegele 1 Secondary Assist Bouchard 1 Secondary Assist Skinner 32 Saves on 33 Shots = .970 Save %age (NEARLY PERFECT) (60 mins played) Florida Panthers Tarasenko 1 Goal Forsling 1 Primary Assist Lundell 1 Secondary Assist Bobrovski 11 Saves on 16 Shots = .688 Save %age (REALLY REALLY BAD) (24 minutes played) Stolarz 16 Saves on 19 Shots = .842 Save %age (REALLY BAD) (34 minutes played) 3 Stars: 3-Janmark (1G, 1A), 2-Holloway (2G, 1A), 1-McDavid (1G, 3A) Florida Edmonton Shots on Goal 33 35 Hits 50 33 Faceoffs Won 29 33 PP 0/4 1/6 Penalty Mins 12 8 Giveaways 10 (7 per NST) 19 (12 per NST) Takeaways 8 14 (11 per NST) Blocked Shots 16 (10 per NST) 23 (20 per NST) Player TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways Ekholm 21:08 3 1 0 2 3 1 0 Bouchard 20:24 0 1 0 6 1 3 1 Nurse 20:03 6 3 4 1 5 2 0 Ceci 18:45 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 Broberg 18:24 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 Kulak 15:36 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 Nuge 17:56 4 -1 0 3 2 0 0 Draisaitl 17:47 3 0 0 2 0 0 1 McDavid 17:27 2 2 0 0 1 1 4 Hyman 17:13 1 2 0 2 1 0 0 Foegele 16:03 4 3 0 2 1 1 0 McLeod 15:08 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 Janmark 14:53 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 Brown 14:42 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 Perry 13:41 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 Holloway 12:36 2 3 0 3 2 0 0 Henrique 10:49 1 1 0 5 2 0 2 Ryan 9:25 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 Oilers Faceoffs Won Lost Percent McLeod 8 2 80.0 Henrique 8 7 53.3 Draisaitl 8 7 53.3 Ryan 3 4 42.9 Nuge 2 1 66.7 McDavid 2 8 20.0 Hyman 1 0 100.0 Brown 1 0 100.0 Panthers Faceoffs Won Lost Percent Barkov 8 8 50.0 Lundell 7 3 70.0 Bennett 6 8 42.9 Stenlund 5 9 35.7 Reinhart 2 5 28.6 Lorentz 1 0 100.0 This was a nearly perfect game and the biggest posterior punting by one team over another certainly in the series. Bob got chased from the net. Stolarz was "better" but it's like comparing toxic waste to trying to swim a deep lake filled with excrement while intoxicated, they're both bad it's just that one will kill you faster (you're guess as to which). Florida did get one goal (hence the nearly perfect) but other than that Stu made some great saves. The guys in front of him did a great job (double the blocks per NST. almost double the takeaways (though nearly double the giveaways), the PK was perfect, the PP Scored (on a 5 on 3). When Florida decided that the game was best played without the puck and by hitting and scrumming no one backed down. There were a couple of foolish penalties (the first one by Nurse less than 2 minutes into the period is coming to mind) but honestly it wasn't bad. Minutes played were a LOT more balanced. Take care all

Thanks david for your bad things segment! Florida has made just as many mistakes this series as the Oil. Their goalie has bailed them out repeatedly! Not saying we’re gonna pull the impossible reverse. But this GD series has been a lot closer than the extremely quiet Kings, Canucks & Panthers trolls will admit today! (Stars fans stay classy!)

So satisfying, this series did not deserve to be 3-0...Lady Luck flipped the script last night, those posts the Panthers hit when the game was tied were ours previously. Only need 3 more! P.S. Congrats to Connor and the Oiler team for two more records!

Whatever happens over these next days, they can never take this 8-1 Stanley Cup Final game victory away from me. As a younger fan that did not experience the glory days of this club, June 15th 2024 was the best Oilers game of my life and I will never forget it!!! Go Oilers Go! 💙🧡

The boys finally started shooting High. We all know Bobrovsky has a Koskinen glove. Florida will protect him better next game. Oilers odds are slim at coming back in this but I'm so glad they gave the fans this game.

2:40 Janmark was actually deflecting the puck wide, it bounced off the Florida player into the net😂

Panthers ain't that tough... just a bunch of fakers and divers. That's Nurse hit to start the game Bennett was crying on the bench like a baby and then goes to the back for less than a minute and doesn't miss a shift... and was skating as fast as he can too. Panthers must have a white mage on staff. A true Maurice coached team.

No surprise to me at all, I expected a big win. This team just loves to be in do or die to turn it loud. "Oilers A game beats any team in the NHL" I said at the start of the playoffs, and this still isn't their A game, but B plus got it done. Their A game will be needed though from here out to close this deal. Janmark is sadly and badly underrated. He has picked up his game in a major way, and I hope the fans give him his due from here out. I rate this game as 5 Fantastic magical bags of Pancakes! 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞!

Second time is the charm , boys ; thx for the redo

Invite Shania back for the next home game!

Great breakdown David Staples. Nice work)

The best part of last nights victory was you know at the 2nd int, Panthers were probably saying something like "I don't care if it's 6-1, we aren't rolling over, let's play some "Panthers hockey" and at least win a Period before going back home blah blah blah" They come put and start the 3rd by outshooting the Oilers 9-1 which the Oilers withstand then shove it back at them and said "Here eat two more goals!". Sure it was garbage time. Whatever. Commentators where asking if Oilers should run up the score or will that anger/motivate Florida? If the Panthers aren't motivated enough by this point than they shouldn't be in the SCF to begin with. but I didn't want the Panthers to have ANYTHING to feel good about from that game.

Another Oil win, and the series is as close as it can be after five games.

Bruce’s playoff beard

David if you want to remember one of Bouchard’s hits watch the last 5 seconds of the first period. Ekblad charges in ,out of position to deliver some punishment. Bouchard sees him and does a reverse hit that drops Ekblad like a bag of potatoes

Get the next one and i think it will go 7

Great Oilers home ice win. Hopefully not the last this season 😬. Panthers hit a few post, Skinner made some crazy saves. Morning after analysis states game likely not as lopsided as 8-1 suggest. Just like the series is not as lopsided as 3-1 suggest. Florida will be better next game. Oilers better be ready to go in with the same intensity and battle again.

That should raise some confidence and increase some doubt. This pounce only opens up the concept of possibilities. A win in game 5 and we've got a series. Love to see Bennett and Tkachuk get smacked around. Cheap shot after whistle artists.

You guys nailed it, thanks for the podcast fellas. You love to see the oilers play to their potential and show everyone who they really are. Beat Florida with skill and this series should really be 3-1 oilers if it weren’t for the small mistakes and bad goals against. Oilers have outplayed Florida mostly in this series. Florida is cheap, and it’s a shame Kane is hurt because boy, he’d sure put the screws to Bennett and Tkachuk. One game at a time, and regardless what happens this is something to build on for next season.

Bruce, as co-pilot, you will have to begin by asking "Are you recording...." I guessed that David forgot to record when there was no podcast after the first game of the cup final.

Oilers in 7

Keep cheering! Oilers in 7! BELIEVE.

9:40 exactly, Bob is not impossible, to score the Oilers just need to get up close, preferably have a diversion and then just crash the net. Gotta be close, try something and see what happens, catch things on the rebound, play directly, aim upwards, use confusion to your advantage. Passing across the ice and telegraphing your every move and intention to shoot long shots just doesn't work on him nor on the Panthers' defence.

Throughout the season i did not understand Connor Brown's role. But he has been fantastic in the playoffs with Janmark.

wow, whyte avenue was celebretory ... too much in my estimation ... we've got a long way to go to win the cup ... that said whew at least we didn't get swept. More importantly, our big guns get to realize they have a team to play with. One more home game please fellas!

There is a you tube clip of Bouchard’s reverse hit on Ekblad. It’s a good video with the puck nowhere to be seen

David. Damn you!!!!

Gotta put away the Oilers before they figure you out. Calling it a huge win would be an understatement. Keep the puck moving and skate hard, only three wins to go!!!

Just a quick comment here to praise Bruce's Edm. Journal "player grades'" articles. Nothing against David's or Kurt's (and they're both outstanding pocasters), but their writing quality leaves a little to be desired. Somehow, though, Bruce's entries are fabulously well written and always well measured. I'm aware that Bruce puts in some time, energy, and craft to his written articles, and I just wanted to think him for it.

Bobrovsky is a true Jekyll and Hyde goalie. If he's on his game he's a Vezina winner. But when he goes off his game you get a result like his last game. This weird inconsistency has dogged Bob throughout his career and has made a shambles of his playoff results. So, maybe Edmonton has his number, but maybe not. It's only one game, as bad as it was, and Florida has a very good team in front of their goalie so we'll have to wait until the next game is played to find out which Sergei shows up. Stuart Skinner is much younger and greener than Bobrovsky, but I see a similarity between these two opposing goaltenders and it's not a good one. Skinner has also been very inconsistent in these playoffs, even benched for a couple games. I do hope Skinner manages to outgrow these inconsistencies for the Oilers' sake. Back in the day, everyone knew Grant Fuhr wasn't going to win a Vezina trophy since those Oilers teams didn't really much practice the philosophy of team defense, at least during the regular season. But come playoff time it was a different story and few goalies were ever better than Fuhr when it came time to make the clutch save in the playoffs. I see only little glimpses of that with Stuart Skinner's play thus far. But Skinner has more growth and learning to be done in the NHL so, hopefully, he can achieve better consistency than Sergei Bobrovsky has shown in his career. I still think Florida wins the series but I don't know how many more games that will take. As much as this series is huge for the Oilers whether they win or lose, the man for whom this series means the most has to be Sergei Bobrovsky. When a goalie is a Vezina contender throughout much of his regular season play in his career, but is a somewhat notorious choke artist throughout most of his playoff career, that has to leave a cloud of doubt over his head. Losing four straight to a clearly better Vegas team and a hot rookie goaltender last year is one thing. If the Oilers, by some miracle, come back in this series to win the Stanley Cup, that is a monumental choke of another greater level. If this happens to the Panthers and Bobrovsky it could actually break Sergei psychologically and finish his career. Florida will never have a better chance to win the Stanley Cup than each "next game" in what remains of this series. If the Panthers and Bobrovsky blow this, it will rank up there with other all-time epic fails in pro sports history. That's why I still think Florida wins this because of the shadow losing this series now would cast over the team and everyone involved with the Panthers.

Bruuuuuce!

First goal - If Barkov hadn't dove into the scene so fast then Janmark might have missed Barkov's chest with his errant backhand shot. That first goal was all Barkov.

The Oilers turned the Panthers from Tight Ends into Wide Recievers .RIP Dutchy.

One at a time, but the blood is in the water.

The assists thing means absolutely nothing if we dont win at least one cup in the Mcdrai era. Absolutely nothing boys.

That flasher fan must have been naked by the end of the game

Bobrovski does bleed his own blood.

Bad thing: There’s the Ovi spot, the Drai spot, then there’s the Nurse spot. A few feet, about 45 degrees, in front of the left post, usually on the weak side (ie when puck on right side), in a place that makes him too far from any useful spot. Case in point, at 8"20' of 3rd period, Ekholm is pressured and Fla gets two good chances, allowed by Nurse, because: he didn't obstruct the forechecker charging around the back of the net; he wasn't in position to take a rim pass; he was 2 feet away from the slot, which in the NHL is a vast distance. Yeah, it was an 8-1 romp, but there’s no room for error now.

What is the function of Corey Perry?😊 🎉

Get rid of Ceci next season and keep Desharnis in 😊

It was important to NHL, Canada and Oilers that they won one game and Panthers delivered.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade - I love the fact we not only won, but we blew them out. However, the Panthers lost this game about as purposefully as you can. They've never won a Cup, are cocky as you know what (starts with F) that they can beat us at any time if they play their game so they decided winning it at home would be better. Not saying they had a team meeting and decided that, but they as a collective group sub-conciously did this. Game 5 will be a totally different team, expect the same Panthers team we saw in game 2 - and IF the Oilers can win that game, it's series on - but I would of bet an Oilers win tonight as a sure thing and Tuesday same, I'd bet on the Panthers - it's a sure thing and easy money

Bobrovsky is a very good goalie. I don't think he is that good at stopping brake outs (witch won the game). With out his fantastic defenders in front of him, he seems to struggle. Go Oilers. It's a steep hill, but very possible.

I have to say that it is humors, for those that may have missed it the Oiler's came back from the Abyss and STOMPED the Panthers and now are on their way to get fitted for their rings. 🤡 show from the fan base again.

Nurse doesn’t deserve an eight in player’s grades. He could have taken a major and killed the Oiler’s last chance

To cancel the soccor style actors they should say if they call a major penelty and game then the injured player also cannot come back to the game, i dont watch soccor snd if these actors continue in hockey I will not be watching it in the future

Same lineup game 5. Healthy or not kane sits out. Maybe deharnis for Broberg

Oh, and same with Boston - they blew that game purposely (NBA) - plus 1 more game means more money for league and teams.

Florida threw the game for the NHL brass. No way Gary wants this to be a sweep.

I realize this is an oilers station, something major not being mentioned is NURSE knee on knee hit based upon game 1 standards needs to be a 5 and a game

That hit from behind on Foegle 18:40 of the second period...What a Gdam pathetic non call yet again. Hard to stomach after Nurse's penalty to start the game when any fool would have said to the Panther "Get up, Grow up, and stop pretending or get an unsportsmen penalty". Anyway, great stuff otherwise, 3 to go)