Game Five Preview: Panthers vs Oilers Stanley Cup Showdown

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00:00Game 5, Panthers-Oilers, Saturday night, just after 8 o'clock East, back up to Alberta.

00:06Now, two things about this game that I want to just look at from a total perspective here, Dave,

00:13and follow me if we can.

00:15This is so bizarre that we have played four games in the Stanley Cup Final,

00:19and all of them have been over.

00:21Every game has gone over the total.

00:24I gave Pharrell some stat on Coast to Coast yesterday that, like, in the last 20 years,

00:28there was only, like, eight Stanley Cup Final games that went over 6.5 or something like that,

00:35with the totals you listed there.

00:36And you've had four for four now in this series alone.

00:41So there's two things I'm going to ask you here.

00:43Do you think that because it's getting later in the series now that we're going to get a little tighter

00:50and it's going to start to go under because the eyes are on the prize,

00:55things are going to get clenched up a little bit,

00:57and the other thing I'll factor in for Saturday is this is the only game in the entire series

01:04where they are going to play travel without the second day.

01:10Every other time there's travel, you have the extra day.

01:13This is the only game in the series where there's only one day between games

01:17and there's that huge, you know, 3,500-mile travel back and forth from South Florida to Edmonton.

01:24Will that factor in to the game five on Saturday night?

01:28So everything you said sounds right.

01:31And everything you said was what I thought was going to happen in game four,

01:35where they had the bad ice.

01:38You know, Florida's ice has been terrible.

01:40It can't keep it.

01:41Like 100 degrees there.

01:42Right?

01:43So it was ripe for an under, and I said that game four would be the game that would go under

01:49if a game was going to go under.

01:51So, yes, it should get tighter.

01:54Yes, it should get limited.

01:56Yes, there should be less power plays.

01:59Yes, all of the above.

02:01And yet we have most likely Edmonton with a goalie change

02:05and up and down action where no lead is safe.

02:09So do I want to go on record as saying one of these games is going under, Mike?

02:14I mean, as a book guy, I would think it should.

02:19Every game can't go over, can it?

02:21I don't think so.

02:23I mean, I don't think so.

02:24But, again, we're seeing something we've never seen before.

02:28Edmonton last night was the first team to come back on the road,

02:31being down three goals in a Stanley Cup final game since 1919.

02:36It was over 106 years ago, the last time it happened.

02:42Okay?

02:43Everything's out the window.

02:44I have no idea.

02:45Yeah, I mean, it's almost like what I just said about the overs.

02:48Like, I think that everything, if you try to compare this series

02:53to anything that's ever happened in the past history of this league,

02:58it just doesn't seem like you should waste your time doing it.

03:03Like, there's just –

03:04And these two teams just played seven games last year

03:10in the Stanley Cup final.

03:13And nothing – you can't take away anything from that.

03:16I mean, it was 3-0 Florida.

03:18Then it was 3-3.

03:20You know, Edmonton wanted to come back.

03:21The force of game seven.

03:22I think the only thing that you and I – I feel confidently about

03:28is that we will be back here next Friday talking about this,

03:32probably for the last show of the NHL Today show,

03:35unless we do a wrap show after that.

03:37I hope we are here for a game seven because, man,

03:41four games have been excellent.

03:45And I just want to see more of it.

03:47I think we're going to be back here for – I think we'll be back here no matter what.

03:53But I think we'll be at game seven next Friday night back in Edmonton.

03:58I just – the only thing I've been, like, right about since the start of this series

04:02was that it was going to be punch, punch back.

04:05It's been very weird how we've gotten there.

04:07But 1-1 after Edmonton, 2-2 after Florida.

04:11We've gotten there as crazy as a way as it has.

04:13And I believe we'll hold these next two.

04:17I think Edmonton's going to win the game five at home.

04:20I think Florida will get the return at home in game number six.

04:25And then all bets will be off.

04:26What if Florida wins game five tomorrow, Mike?

04:29That's the thing.

04:31What if Florida wins game five tomorrow?

04:33I think that Edmonton can win the game six in Florida.

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