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Ain't gonna lie, the Florida Panthers are getting cooked.
This team looked like an unstoppable juggernaut in their run to the Stanley Cup Final for the most part. They were up 3-0 in the series on the Edmonton Oilers. Then
Shania Twain happened. I don't know how else to explain it. How can you? Florida had Edmonton on the ropes. I want to credit the Oilers' collective resolve and the star power of Connor McDavid as catalysts for their historic comeback, but holy sh*t, the Panthers are puking all over themselves. A backslide of historic proportions.
https://twitter.com/SNstats/status/1804348163538493613
Maybe it was the most famous Oilers fan in all the land who's
now joined the Playboy roster.
https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1804259018959131112
Regardless of the reason or the cosmic alignments that have brought this reversal of fortunes, victories by scores of 8-1, 5-3, and now 5-1 in Friday's Game 6 have the Oilers on the precipice of a most improbable rally. Say it with me, ladies and gents: That's why. They play. The game.
Couldn't help but notice the cleverness of Twitter — pardon me,
Elon Musk's [XX]X — when it came to how voracious hockey viewers reacted to Florida's epic choke job.
https://twitter.com/BarDown/status/1804348129514267055
https://twitter.com/DVNJr/status/1804348843384815628
https://twitter.com/avatarrant/status/1804347509159915784
https://twitter.com/Cabbie/status/1804346138964689101
https://twitter.com/SopranosWorld/status/1804333442336764033
https://twitter.com/BookOfEli_NFL/status/1804346821034099173
https://twitter.com/MacMallyMMA/status/1804347701850407042
https://twitter.com/Lizzs_Lockeroom/status/1804346301162663971
Truer words have never been spoken with this astute observation:
https://twitter.com/AndrewRaycroft/status/1804346828214669345
Aaaaand hit 'em with a little more SHANIA!!
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1804349487537942989
Poor Panthers. Game 7 is on Monday. Are their fans even going to be able to get up for this one? Of course they will, but how scared must they be? A do-or-die Game 7 and your team is totally crapping their pants, looking like a shell of themselves.
I'd seldom seen a stingier even-strength hockey team in recent years than Florida through the Conference Finals. They manhandled the New York Rangers. That series could've easily been a sweep, same as this Stanley Cup Final. The wild thing about Game 6 is McDavid, after two four-point outings in the prior two wins, didn't have a goal or an assist. Leon Draisaitl picked up an assist, which was only his
third point of the series. It's the Oilers supporting cast, and especially goaltender Stuart Skinner, who've really picked up the slack.
If you'd have told anyone
this is how the netminder showdown between Skinner and Sergei Bobrovsky would've gone after Game 3, you'd be looked at like you had two heads.
https://twitter.com/Arda/status/1804350459777335553
https://twitter.com/BigHeadHcky/status/1804333392911102379
One more face-off between the Panthers and Oilers for all the marbles and a whole lotta history beyond the innate immortality that comes with hoisting Lord Stanley's Cup and having your team name engraved on it. What a world.
https://twitter.com/avatarrant/status/1804314042351173964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWWiJWergk
