ScuttlePuck NHL Hockey Podcast

The Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in 6 games.  After being tied at 2-2 the Panthers overwhelmed the Oilers in games 5 and 6.  Sam Bennett won the Conn Smythe. We discuss what the Panthers did right  and where the Oilers went wrong.  

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Title Player - Andrew Cogliano

NEWS

Playoffs -  

   Game 3 - Panthers blow out Oilers 6-1 ( who predicted that? )

   Game 4 -  Oilers come back after going down 3-0 - 

McDavid almost posterizes Ekblad

Skinner pulled at 3-0 and OIlers come back

   Game 5 - Panthers win 5-2

low shots, grinding, opportunistic game

Marchand with 2

   Game 6 - 5-1 Panthers win cup.

Bennett Conn Smythe

Reinhart gets 4 in final game

Playoff stats

McDavid - 33 points

Draisaitl - 33 points

Reinhart,Bouchard, Tkachuk, Verhaeghe - 23 points

- Edmonton sports talk - very critical, too old, lots of criticisms that weren’t said after 4 games. 

- Oilers injuries - Hyman, Ekholm, too much

- Oilers SV% in playoffs - .888  - Pickard .886 / Skinner .889  7 wins each - who is the starter? 

- Reg season  Pickard .900 / Skinner .896 - they got exact same goaltending in playoffs.  Why expect something different? 

- Florida - .914 - Bob played every minute.

Among goalies that played 5 games or more in playoffs, Skinner was 10th of 17, Pickard 13th.  

- Seravalli reporting that league investigating Kane on LTIR - of course they are.

Next for Oilers

Bouchard? 

Skinner? 

Guess the 5th

Final, random thoughts on playoffs - 

Refs in the way

Linesmen - drop the puck!

Hockey Night broadcast comments - 

Tkachuk pregame interview - questio