Article content The Edmonton Oilers are dragging the Florida Panthers back to Edmonton, one painful mile at a time, courtesy of a gusty, gritty and glorious 5-3 win in Game 6. The two Connors, Brown and McDavid were Edmonton’s heroes of the game, along with a sensational Stuart Skinner, who out-played Sergei Bobrovsky in the nets. Edmonton played shut down defence late in the game after Florida scored four minutes into the third, not allowing another Grade A shot the entire game.
The Grade A shots were Edmonton 11, Florida 11, with the subset of more dangerous 5-alarm shots five for the Oilers, five for the Panthers Connor McDavid , 9. With majestic performances like this, he’s making a claim as the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs. Two goals, two assists.
Quiet first period spend trying to master the bouncing puck. He came to life on Edmonton’s early second period power play, almost beating four defenders on one rush, then earning an assist, setting up Bouch’s bomb. A moment later he came down the wing, picked up a pass from Foegele and scored from a bad angle on Bobrovsky, with every gentleman NHL announcer from here to eternity then saying, “That’s one Bob would like to have back.
” Stinker play by Bob. A moment later and McDavid made a play only he can; late on an Edmonton power play he beat Eetu Luostarinen at the blueline, the split between Niko Mikkola and Dmitry Kulikov, drawing over Bob before snapping a nifty pass to Corey Perry for Edmonton’s fou.