NHL 2023-2024 Season - Arizona Stays Homeless

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Oilers over-relied on their powerplay during the season and these playoffs to hide some of their shortcomings. Panthers shutting their powerplays just highlight all the facets of the game where Oilers are not good at.

If Oilers were scoring on their powerplay at their regular pace. They'd have 3-4 goals more in this series and we would have a totally different series.
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To be fair, the Oilers PK during the playoffs has been really good (93% efficiency)

Their PP is still operating at 31% - that's still crazy good.

Granted, as the Canucks and Panthers have learned - you just gotta jump all over the puck carrier and don't let PP1 have any time at all to setup.
 
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Does anyone know how to get stats on specific series? I remember Florida completely shutting down our PP as well but I'm trying to remember if it was as bad as they're doing to Edmonton.
 
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Oilers fans not sure what's worse: losing Cup or realizing Leafs fans were right about how good Atlantic Division is

EDMONTON – Down 3-0 to the Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers fans report they don’t know what is making them feel worse: the possibility of being swept out of the Stanley Cup Finals, or the realization that Leafs fans were right when they talked about how the team’s struggles in the playoffs...
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Oilers fans not sure what's worse: losing Cup or realizing Leafs fans were right about how good Atlantic Division is

EDMONTON – Down 3-0 to the Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers fans report they don’t know what is making them feel worse: the possibility of being swept out of the Stanley Cup Finals, or the realization that Leafs fans were right when they talked about how the team’s struggles in the playoffs...
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At least Oilers reached the Finals - not the 1 time trip to the second round.. hey the Canucks did that too for the first time in 10+ years!
 
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Shania Twain performing "Man I feel like a woman" as the Oilers are about to get swept is almost too on the nose to not think somebody is fucking with us.
 
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Oilers shooting their load in one game. If any team can reset and come back with a vengeance it’s the Panthers.
 
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That's the Oilers I expected to see this series. Gonna be near impossible to pull that off for 4 games though, Florida is just too built for this, and they have the coaching advantage IMO.
 
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when was the last time a team came back from being 3 down in a final? Must be 50 or 60 years ago. I think there was like 1 team which came back from that in a playoff series in the 90's but that was not in the final
 
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Saw the Miami Heat do this in both of their Finals last year and in 2020. They played out of their minds to win one more game against the Lakers / Nuggets, and were absolutely gassed and eliminated the games after that. Edmonton found another level facing elimination in their arena, but it's simply not sustainable for 3 more games.
 
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all faith is officially gone out of the panthers lmao i cant believe these shitters are gonna win the cup
 
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Oil getting the puck luck now. Shortie barely beat Bob, knee shot shitter goal, don't think McDavid was aiming for that skate but who knows its McDavid

Cats need to feel the heat a little for their best hockey to come out. They lift it in Canada.
 
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