Oilers vs. Panthers: Rematch for the Stanley Cup Finals

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00:00as we will now have a rematch between the Florida Panthers,

00:03our reigning champs, and the champs once again

00:05in the Western Conference,

00:06Connor McDavid, Leon Dreisaitl, Stuart Skinner even,

00:10and the Edmonton Oilers.

00:11Game number five last night, DRS,

00:13in Big D against the Dallas Stars,

00:16and Dallas was a slight home ice favorite

00:18to keep their season afloat

00:20and extend this series to a sixth game

00:22to send it back north of the border.

00:25Edmonton had other ideas from the very start.

00:28Three goals scored in the opening 10 minutes of regulation,

00:31and the Oilers never looked back.

00:33A goal and an assist out of Connor McDavid

00:36as well in game number five.

00:38The Oilers win it,

00:39and they win the Western Conference crown

00:41for a second straight season by a final score of 6-3.

00:45Yeah, six-pack by the Oilers.

00:46Those are the anticipated games, right?

00:48Even though we're looking at like five and a half as a total,

00:50like, ah, how's that game going to go?

00:51Always hard to keep Edmonton down,

00:53but also understand this.

00:54When a team is losing in the third period of a closeout game,

00:57they're going to pull that goalie a lot earlier

00:59than they anticipated to try to get back into that game.

01:01But credit to Oilers.

01:02The better team in the series, as you stated,

01:04losing game number one, oh, no, in heartbreaking fashion,

01:06and then you win four straight games

01:08to wind up back in the Stanley Cup Finals

01:10to take on the Florida Panthers,

01:11a team that you lost to in seven games last year.

01:15And it'll be interesting to see

01:16because the talking points are,

01:18is Edmonton good enough to win a cup?

01:19They're probably the best player on the planet on their team.

01:22It's just that can Canada actually win a Stanley Cup

01:25at this point with the best chance to finally break through.

01:28But as we talked about yesterday, too,

01:29Zach Hyman, one of the better players there

01:31for the Edmonton Oilers,

01:32out for the remainder of the playoffs.

01:34We'll see how that plays into it.

01:35Didn't hurt them in a game last night

01:36on the road against Dallas

01:37as they easily dispatched the Dallas Stars.

01:39And so many people came on this show, Ben,

01:42and talked to us throughout the year

01:43of how much they like the Dallas Stars

01:45to win the Stanley Cup.

01:46So this wasn't a surprise

01:47that Dallas was in the Western Conference Finals,

01:50but the surprise here at this point was

01:52the Oilers easily dispatched of them.

01:55That they certainly did.

01:56That 6-3 win for Edmonton last night

01:59in game number five.

02:01DRS, as we shared,

02:02the opening game of the series,

02:04the only victory for Dallas on home ice,

02:06they entered that third and final period

02:08trailing 3-1.

02:09They scored five straight goals in the third

02:11to win game number one

02:12by the final 6-3.

02:14And then Edmonton pulled off a sweep

02:16from that point.

02:18In the goal margin in those four consecutive wins

02:20for the Oilers, plus 14.

02:23They outscored the Stars 19-5

02:26in the four consecutive wins

02:28to win the Western Conference crown once again.

02:31The Dallas Stars have reached

02:32the Western Conference Finals

02:34three straight seasons.

02:36They have failed to reach the Cup Final

02:37in any of those three trips.

02:40And although last year, DRS,

02:42the Edmonton Oilers got ousted

02:44enforcing a wild seventh game

02:46against the Florida Panthers.

02:48There was still a thought.

02:49Is it finally McDavid's time in Edmonton?

02:52Because the Oilers entered this season

02:54as the favorites not to just win

02:56the Western Conference title,

02:58but also that Stanley Cup as well.

03:00And maybe, just maybe,

03:01return Lord Stanley's Cup

03:04to the Great White North.

03:05But entering the Western Conference postseason,

03:08a plus 480 price on Edmonton.

03:11That was the fourth best price

03:12in the conference.

03:13They have now reached the Cup Final once again

03:16where they will see the same foe

03:17as a season ago

03:18in the reigning champions

03:19in the Florida Panthers.

03:21Yeah, I mean, dating back to the 1980s,

03:23which was my heyday in hockey

03:24with the Philadelphia Flyers,

03:26like the Stanley Cup

03:26always went through Edmonton

03:28at that point.

03:28I mean, great players,

03:29the Yari Currys,

03:30the Wayne Gretzkys,

03:31the Mark Messiers,

03:32the Grant Fuehrers out there,

03:33Glenn Sather,

03:33the great head coach,

03:34the Northlands Coliseum up there

03:36where nobody could beat Edmonton there.

03:37And even my Philadelphia Flyers

03:39in 86-87

03:40lost game number seven.

03:41After, Ben,

03:42they scored an opening power play goal

03:44in the first period

03:45to go up 1-0,

03:45but still losing that game

03:47overall 3-1.

03:48I would love to,

03:49and again,

03:49oh, keep away from Canada.

03:50It is a fun talking point.

03:52Like, Canada's sport is hockey.

03:53They can never win the Stanley Cup,

03:55but it's not like

03:55only Canada players

03:56playing Canada

03:57and only the United States players

03:58playing the U.S.

03:59So it's a fun go-around

04:01when you talk about it.

04:01But I've always liked Edmonton.

04:03The brand of hockey

04:04is a lot of fun to watch,

04:06similar to when we saw

04:06like the Devils of the 1990s,

04:08the worst brand of hockey

04:09in the history of sport,

04:10the left-wing lock

04:11and all this nonsense

04:12where they actually had to make changes

04:14to the NHL to say,

04:15hey, the goal is not

04:161-0 every game

04:17and in complete war.

04:18Thank you, Edmonton,

04:19for bringing scoring back

04:20and making it cool again.

04:21We'd love to see them win.

04:23Over in four of the five games

04:24in this series

04:25or at least three of the five

04:27for Edmonton,

04:28who yesterday, Donnie,

04:29when we looked at the hypothetical matchup

04:31that seemed likely, right,

04:32the Oilers were up 3-1

04:33in the Western Conference Final,

04:35who would be the favorite?

04:36The Florida Panthers at minus 115,

04:39who is the actual favorite,

04:40not in the hypothetical,

04:42but the real Stanley Cup rematch

04:43that we have?

04:45The Edmonton Oilers,

04:46Donnie's Canadian

04:47and Western Conference team

04:48ever so slightly

04:49at minus 113.

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