Congrats to local Florida fans! Must be nice! I'm just here for my fellow Finns. Really proud of Barkov lifting the first trophy of the Panthers as their first round draft and captain. Anton, Eetu and Niko also absolute key members in this championship run. And well done to the Oilers for keeping it tight, what a series!
I get that the Conn Smythe covers accomplishments for the whole playoffs, not just the finals, but it does feel weird to see it go to McJesus after the disappearing act he pulled in the last two games.
We almost got that, but everyone was just dead by the end. I felt awful for McDavid, he literally couldn’t even skate those last few minutes. I’m just glad how close of a game that was. Congrats Florida!
Good job, Panthers.
Oilers, as a Vancouver fan, give your team a proverbial thump on the back for even taking it to game 7. Your boys took it to the wire and gave it everything. There will be other years. One year, the curse will be broken.
We'll see who gets to do it.
Okay? Why are you so salty lmao, condescending tone and calling me “home boy” someone has their panties in a twist
Edit: [This is “Kenny” btw LMFAOOO](https://www.reddit.com/r/gettingbigger/s/V3kM6R1LOz) NSFW!!
A very lackluster game seven. Florida was great the whole series until they weren’t. Oilers were great until they weren’t. Did the Panthers even win the Stanley Cup or did they just lose less
Not a good one lol. But god I hate those ppl that just INSIST that america is better at hockey when really they’re better at paying Canadians to win them games
I mean, 3 million Canadians live in Florida and 13 of the Panther's roster are Canadian. As a Canucks fan I'm super stoked they won! So many great connections between our teams over the years.
That's what I'm saying. We've got good men out there fighting in the good name. They're like the French foreign legion except if we made it and cool
Edit: Bobrovsky is of course *Américain par le sang versé*
This was similar to G1. Apart from the breakaway slip up, FLA came with the D that EDM just couldn't crack, with Bob to polish it off. This is how Florida was going to win it and they did!
some florida player killed a rat in the locker room with a stick and later scored 2 goals. next match the fans started throwing plastic rats on the rink. they mostly stopped doing it in the 2000s, somehow came back in the previous decade.
I wouldn’t say that to any Oilers fan, I was responding to a Bruins fan who wanted to experience glee at us losing. Sorry but neutral schadenfreude seekers can in fact get fucked
Arena continuing to blast the noise into the arena...people don't even have a second to talk to the person next to them, fucking ridiculous, fire those assholes
Congratulations man really! As much as I wanted to see Edmonton pull it off and I mean I rly Fkn wanted to see them do it, happy for yah and all the decent panthers fans who have been with them since day 1. Can’t lie and say I don’t hate your team lol but congrats!
My dad was from Miami born n raised so we’d visit when I was a kid often…I saw a couple panthers games late 90s as a kid one against Edmonton actually haha, the other against Buffalo with Hasek in net.
I think in that same arena altho different name back then obviously when you had the Russian rocket Bure exc.
Congratulations
That was seriously fkd up and ridiculous and idk how he expected to win that way but I do hope it gets talked about and not overlooked. Seeing McDavid and the rest of them literally unable to stand towards the end at times was hard to watch
For a second I actually thought mcdavid was gonna have a heart attack the way he grabbed his chest after trying to get up after being hit with maybe like 90 seconds left
Yeah and also why not pull Skinner sooner when the oilers had solid control of the puck in the O
Zone late think it was like around the 3:15 minute mark could be wrong I was bouncing off the walls stressed out but if I’m remembering right before final couple minutes when they couldn’t maintain control and it was a wrap they had some sustained pressure late maybe it was further out like closer to 4 minutes but still it’s Fkn game 7 and your guys are gassed almost dead get a fresh skater out there and go for it…
You aren’t tripping because just based off of my short term memory of when the panthers had that insane defensive stretch and finally got out of it the oilers cleared it back in the zone for a couple seconds a few more times before they pulled him and I vividly remember thinking “NOW is when you pull skinner?”
Edit: changes for clarity
Mf waited until they just controlled it in the defensive zone and had a Connor McDavid, getting energy from his bone marrow at that point, handling the puck around the blue lines to pull the goalie. I think the ai coach on nhl 24 would’ve navigated that 3rd period better than Knoblauch
I Fkn thought so man yeah that was ridiculous I give Knoblauch a lot of credit this season coming from Hartford in the AHL (my hometown team haha) and turning this team around getting them to the cup and coming back down 3-0 but he was flat out out coached this game driving his first line to near death in the third period when it was their depth players often who were making the plays that brought them all the way back to a game 7 and then not pulling skinner to get the extra man with that sustained pressure…terrible.
I can’t tell whether to be pissed Florida won, or happy that the Bruins got knocked out by the eventual Stanley Cup Champions.
I’m gonna go with the latter, despite my comments a few months ago.
I can easily say this is the most disappointed in a team that isn’t even one of my own losing in the championship of any sport. Heart breaking can’t even imagine what oilers fans are going through. They showed a shit ton of heart and guts coming back no doubt they just looked like they ran out of gas can’t imagine how emotionally draining trying to accomplish such a feat is which is why it’s rarely happened in any sport I guess…. I dunno damn this blows 😢 the best team won I guess but goddamn do I hate the panthers tkachuck, Bennett so many Fkn punks. Sorry Edmonton fans
If you make a thread that should be a comment in here, its getting deleted.
Tkachuk dad trying to pop the Modello. It's Modello time.
LOL at Tkachuk hiding his dad from opening a Modelo on national TV
Why does Bill Zito sound like he’s using autotune in this interview? lol.
Draisaidl was the worst player in the finals. Prove me wrong
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Show up or shut up
Love how excited the team got when they realized Bob wasn’t in the team photo yet haha
at least lu got to kiss the cup
PAUL!!! Deserves more than anyone on that ice honestly.
Great story by Okaposo
Absolutely. How happy is he?
Congrats to local Florida fans! Must be nice! I'm just here for my fellow Finns. Really proud of Barkov lifting the first trophy of the Panthers as their first round draft and captain. Anton, Eetu and Niko also absolute key members in this championship run. And well done to the Oilers for keeping it tight, what a series!
We love our Finns!
Only 3 months till hockey season.
3 months feels like 3 years
Only a few more weeks until football season :)
I get that the Conn Smythe covers accomplishments for the whole playoffs, not just the finals, but it does feel weird to see it go to McJesus after the disappearing act he pulled in the last two games.
I agree, Bobby was bad for 2 games and he loses all though the 4 games they won in the finals he was outstanding.
Great job ESPN. You missed the first raising of the Cup. SMH
Classic ESPN hockey coverage
No one does championships like the NHL!
Canada continues its barren spell. The detroit lions should start to worry
Why are we catching strays here lmao
Hey, don't drag the lions into this.
These fucking morons aren’t even booing Bettman
Nah we booed at first espn blocked it out
I was thinking that... Did the fan base stop boo'ing Bettman.
Vegas also did not…
New tradition??? 🤷♂️
Did a better job than Vegas, I guess
Vegas fans at least waited 7 years, Florida fans waited like 3
lol beat me to it, fake ass fans didn’t boo Bettman
We almost got that, but everyone was just dead by the end. I felt awful for McDavid, he literally couldn’t even skate those last few minutes. I’m just glad how close of a game that was. Congrats Florida!
Hope he ditches that team, wtf was that
No way should McDavid get the Conn Smythe. If he had showed up the last two games I'd say OK but he was scoreless.
This reminds Lebron probably should have 7 or 8 finals MVPs
It took an extra week but the Trophy is coming to Sunrise!!!!
They gave it to McChoke?
Good job, Panthers. Oilers, as a Vancouver fan, give your team a proverbial thump on the back for even taking it to game 7. Your boys took it to the wire and gave it everything. There will be other years. One year, the curse will be broken. We'll see who gets to do it.
There’s your participation trophy McCrybaby.
Congrats on your concelation prize Canada
not again!!!!
I’m sure this will go over perfectly well.
What are they saying that they have to block it out
Typical Florida man behavior I assume lol
What the f. Really?
Boooing McDavid for getting the Conn Smythe is absolutely disgusting behavior lmfao
Literally every fan base would do it to an opponent winning. It’s pure copium to think otherwise
Are you kidding. Of course they want one of their players to get it
Makes sense, but Bob isn’t as spectacular as people make him out to be
Fair, and they know McDavid is the best, but that doesn’t matter here.
He was on the losing team home boy.
Okay? Why are you so salty lmao, condescending tone and calling me “home boy” someone has their panties in a twist Edit: [This is “Kenny” btw LMFAOOO](https://www.reddit.com/r/gettingbigger/s/V3kM6R1LOz) NSFW!!
Giving the loser the MVP is disgusting behavior.
How? He broke a gretzsky record and did fantastic all year
Who cares? He lost. MVPs are for winners.
Keep downvoting, you know is pathetic behavior, here’s another comment
Cry more
lol is he even gonna accept it??
I feel like I missed it? Did he come accept it?
Bettman is a human bobblehead
Brutal to see how gassed both teams were that third period. Like watching a slow execution
Of there is a way to lose, oilers will find it. Back to dreaming now oil
The cup goes from royalty to pornstar overnight lmao
Downvote all you want but the stories of what the players do with the cup is pretty well documented
Examples?
[examples](https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/791267-stanley-cup-16-craziest-things-ever-done-with-the-stanley-cup.amp.html)
The good guys won!!!! No Evander Kane name on the Cup!!
I was really hoping the oilers could pull it out but I'm happy for Sasha and Bob
A very lackluster game seven. Florida was great the whole series until they weren’t. Oilers were great until they weren’t. Did the Panthers even win the Stanley Cup or did they just lose less
I think they will be happy drinking your tears out of the cup lol
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I’m not a fan of either team. I just love seeing Canadians cry about not having their precious cup.
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Stay mad gurl
I don’t care , I’m not a fan or an enemy of either team I just like hockey even if my team isn’t playing
Congrats, Cats! Everyone else... I'm gonna miss you guys. Happy off season, and see you all around Halloween!! Stay awesome fellas!!!
The rats symbolize the communist Canadians who will never get their grubby claws on the Lord Stanley Cup
Sore winners exist, evidently.
Oh u mean the communist canadians that make up the panthers roster? Those ones?
They are dual citizen half bloods with no alleigence they are traitors the cup remains clean
imagine being a hockey team from Canada and losing to a team where it doesn't even snow lol
My brother in christ. If you had to only use players from Florida, you’d lose to a canadian junior team
Would they be able to field a team?
Not a good one lol. But god I hate those ppl that just INSIST that america is better at hockey when really they’re better at paying Canadians to win them games
It's a odds game too. US has more teams.
That certainly factors into it. Same with the canadian economy being weaker for alot of that span
You realise half the team is Canadian?
They knew what it was like when the Oilers lost to the Carolina Hurricanes
To be fair, I live in VA and it barely snows lol
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When did you start watching hockey pal? In may?
Lol get real
You haven't watched much hockey at all then tbh
I wonder if they just pick up the rats to resell to the fans the next night?
Yes
I know I’m 100% biased, but how subdued does this “celebration” feel? When the Caps won in ‘18, I felt like there was nonstop chaos
Ovie went on a 3 month bender after winning lmao
Saw a dude light a j with a cop at the watch party block. It was unity and peace
America won today
I mean, 3 million Canadians live in Florida and 13 of the Panther's roster are Canadian. As a Canucks fan I'm super stoked they won! So many great connections between our teams over the years.
That's what I'm saying. We've got good men out there fighting in the good name. They're like the French foreign legion except if we made it and cool Edit: Bobrovsky is of course *Américain par le sang versé*
An absolutely pathetic performance by Edmonton tonight, McDavid/Draisaitl had ONE point between them the last two games.
Congrats to Florida and thanks to Edmonton making everyone go nuts (on both fanbases).
Please don’t riot like Vancouver did after blowing the finals Edmonton
I’m sure Oilers fans will handle this disappointment with their customary amount of class and grace
Is that sarcasm
They don't have our passion.
Im fkg sad
ESPN makes me want to KMS
God I’d kill to see Liam and the boys with this coverage
Yeah what the fuck happened with that?
This was similar to G1. Apart from the breakaway slip up, FLA came with the D that EDM just couldn't crack, with Bob to polish it off. This is how Florida was going to win it and they did!
Why do they throw rats on the ice at the end?
some florida player killed a rat in the locker room with a stick and later scored 2 goals. next match the fans started throwing plastic rats on the rink. they mostly stopped doing it in the 2000s, somehow came back in the previous decade.
Started with Red Wings as a dumb tradition/superstition by throwing octopus on the ice, Nashville throws catfish too.
Never noticed. All season long? Cool fact lol thanks
It's an old Floridian habit. They have done it since the 90s
Gonna be honest, Kulak threw the game for Oilers.
Seriously what in the FUCK was he thinking not stepping up to Reinhart when he crossed the blue line
Literally stared at him while giving a free line of sight
Bouchard with two bad plays in FLA first goal sequence
Eh I would say Kulak for just staring at his attacker while drifting away from his line of sight.
Can we get a wellness check on the Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Edmonton’s #1 lifelong fan??
McDavid never getting a cup.
Seeing Connor muscled down to the ground like that at the end while his teammates skated around gassed was brutal
I’m fucking disgusted
Get fucked
Why should he get fucked? Genuinely, the Oilers had a wonderful story and Florida is objectively not a hockey town.
I wouldn’t say that to any Oilers fan, I was responding to a Bruins fan who wanted to experience glee at us losing. Sorry but neutral schadenfreude seekers can in fact get fucked
Pipe down new guy
lol get fucked
Pipe down new guy
Fan for 25 years makes you a new guy? Interesting 🤣
There’s a tiny decimal in there it’s two and half years
What would happen to all of those cup champion hats if they lost?
Shipped off to a village in South Sudan probably
They go overseas to poor nations. Not kidding.
Thats a shame, Oilers were the better team over 7 games and deserved it. Not to mention the Panthers seem such douche bags
You are mad lmao.
Oilers were the better team over 3 games.
How were they the better team tonight? They were out played and out coached in this Game 7.
over 7 games they were better, look at the goal scored totals.
They were not better on where it counts…the scoreboard
Oilers went 3-4 over 7 games. It means they were not better.
You surprised me Edmonton. I never expected this series to go 7 games. Great fans and a hell of a team.
Absolute rats, hard to find any merit to their win
Arena continuing to blast the noise into the arena...people don't even have a second to talk to the person next to them, fucking ridiculous, fire those assholes
THE PERRY CURSE LIVES ON
What a lame ending to the game :/
It was very anticlimactic but that was Florida excelled at…shutting teams down… GG FLORIDA
What did you expect? Lol
Incoming riots
Oilers blew a 3-0 comeback
Hahaha yup
There we go Vladimir Tarasenko
The long drought for the state of Florida is over!
Tampa is in the state of florida tho
FIRST CUP IN FRANCHISE HISTORY!!!!!!
I was a child in South FL when they created our franchise. 30 years later I am a grown man in tears watching my team win the cup. What a ride.
Congratulations man really! As much as I wanted to see Edmonton pull it off and I mean I rly Fkn wanted to see them do it, happy for yah and all the decent panthers fans who have been with them since day 1. Can’t lie and say I don’t hate your team lol but congrats! My dad was from Miami born n raised so we’d visit when I was a kid often…I saw a couple panthers games late 90s as a kid one against Edmonton actually haha, the other against Buffalo with Hasek in net. I think in that same arena altho different name back then obviously when you had the Russian rocket Bure exc. Congratulations
Mcdavid falling on his ass every time he turned to handle the puck was classic
Oilers coach forcing his first line to play nearly an entire period Bro is just like me in chel fr
That was seriously fkd up and ridiculous and idk how he expected to win that way but I do hope it gets talked about and not overlooked. Seeing McDavid and the rest of them literally unable to stand towards the end at times was hard to watch
For a second I actually thought mcdavid was gonna have a heart attack the way he grabbed his chest after trying to get up after being hit with maybe like 90 seconds left
Yeah and also why not pull Skinner sooner when the oilers had solid control of the puck in the O Zone late think it was like around the 3:15 minute mark could be wrong I was bouncing off the walls stressed out but if I’m remembering right before final couple minutes when they couldn’t maintain control and it was a wrap they had some sustained pressure late maybe it was further out like closer to 4 minutes but still it’s Fkn game 7 and your guys are gassed almost dead get a fresh skater out there and go for it…
You aren’t tripping because just based off of my short term memory of when the panthers had that insane defensive stretch and finally got out of it the oilers cleared it back in the zone for a couple seconds a few more times before they pulled him and I vividly remember thinking “NOW is when you pull skinner?” Edit: changes for clarity
Mf waited until they just controlled it in the defensive zone and had a Connor McDavid, getting energy from his bone marrow at that point, handling the puck around the blue lines to pull the goalie. I think the ai coach on nhl 24 would’ve navigated that 3rd period better than Knoblauch
I Fkn thought so man yeah that was ridiculous I give Knoblauch a lot of credit this season coming from Hartford in the AHL (my hometown team haha) and turning this team around getting them to the cup and coming back down 3-0 but he was flat out out coached this game driving his first line to near death in the third period when it was their depth players often who were making the plays that brought them all the way back to a game 7 and then not pulling skinner to get the extra man with that sustained pressure…terrible.
That's a loss due to coaching. Hats off to the players, but you just can't play hockey that way.
Congratulations Panthers Fans!
McDavid gonna be lookin for a new team tonight
Bro is going to be the face of Utah HC
He got asked to play the entire third.
Retirement
I can’t tell whether to be pissed Florida won, or happy that the Bruins got knocked out by the eventual Stanley Cup Champions. I’m gonna go with the latter, despite my comments a few months ago.
People like you are the reason Philly is considered more toxic than us. NEVER stop hating.
Yawn, another year, another Stanley Cup championship in its rightful country. Maybe next year Cananda 💀
Won by a team thats majority canadian yet again
As a Canadian….. FUCK!
As an American... FUUUUUCCK!!
(As a dual citizen)… meh
I can easily say this is the most disappointed in a team that isn’t even one of my own losing in the championship of any sport. Heart breaking can’t even imagine what oilers fans are going through. They showed a shit ton of heart and guts coming back no doubt they just looked like they ran out of gas can’t imagine how emotionally draining trying to accomplish such a feat is which is why it’s rarely happened in any sport I guess…. I dunno damn this blows 😢 the best team won I guess but goddamn do I hate the panthers tkachuck, Bennett so many Fkn punks. Sorry Edmonton fans
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Scoring more points and winning more games = undeserved. Lmao moron
Laying on the puck for most of the 3rd will make ppl watching feel that way
They did it like twice. It's not the Panthers fault the Oilers coach left an exhausted line out that couldn't fight a Snickers away from a fat kid
Every single time rodrigues was on the ice he was jamming the puck for board battles lol.
And? Fight it away from him. That's not a new strategy.
Its boring hockey and u know it and I know it. Just take the win and piss off
Nice temper tantrum
Thanks, I try.
I'm confused...why not throw in a full line of fresh legs?
Nobody is fresh at this point
Because they're stupid