Game Four Preview: Oilers vs. Panthers in Stanley Cup Finals

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00:00Game four of the Stanley Cup finals, of course, which will resume tonight in South Florida after

00:07the Panthers beat up the Oilers in game number three a couple of nights back. They will get

00:11back in the mix tonight. Why don't we start by hearing from Leon Dreisaitl. Of course,

00:17the Oilers, after getting smashed the other night, need to put that one behind them and

00:21get themselves ready for game four. I mean, sometimes those games where you just get

00:25waxed a little bit, they're almost easier to get out of, right? Because we didn't play

00:35our best. They played their best. We weren't even close to bringing our best. So, you know,

00:41you park that, you move on. Obviously, you think about it. But yeah, today's a great chance

00:47for us to tie the series. Yeah, that's one way of looking at it. You can say all you want

00:52about, oh, we just moved past it. They got their ass beat. All right. So, talking about,

00:59oh, we didn't have it. They had their best game. So, now we can just go have our best game.

01:04Well, prove it. Because I saw none of that the other night in game three. I saw none of

01:12that. So, if they don't win the night in sunrise, they're screwed.

01:16Yeah, it sounds nice when you say it. But you have to go out and prove it on the other side of

01:26it. That's for sure. Next, let's hear from Paul Maurice. Of course, Brad Marchand has made a huge

01:33impact here in the Stanley Cup final. What did Maurice think when he was getting this guy on his

01:38team? Obviously, his reputation, we know what it was, the rat, et cetera. Maurice, he loves this guy,

01:43of course, because he's on his team now. You hear about the reputation as a player.

01:48But I didn't know that how much. He's awesome. Like, he is funny to be around. Just sit off at

01:58five or ten feet and you walk away with a smile every day. It's just such a good mood every day.

02:02Loves the game. Loves his teammates. Such a smart player. Creative hands. But it was the penalty

02:09killing that I thought for sure we're getting. Right? Whether where I fit him, I don't know

02:15who he plays with. I don't know. But I know that guy's an elite penalty killer. And he and

02:19Anton Lundell have been a great pair for us. So, here's the deal. He's the guy that you hate

02:24to death. But if he's on your team, you love him. He's a guy you just don't want to play against,

02:31but you want to play with. It's real simple. He's a winner. And he comes up big all the time,

02:37doing all the little things on the ice. He scores. He steals box. He hits guys. He can

02:45PK. He can do everything. He can skate. He knows how to pass. Perfect. You know, tape

02:50job passes. The guy's fantastic. He can tip in. He can get his stick on anything. And

02:55he's, you know, five foot tall. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's like watching T.J. McConnell

03:01on skates. Hmm. It is like watching T.J. McConnell on skates sometimes when you look

03:08at him. You and Gabe talked about this earlier. Overs, obviously, have been hot in the Stanley

03:15Cup Final. Now, Stanley Cup Final games with totals of six or more, in the last 20 years,

03:21it was two and eight, those that go into the over. Three and O in this series for the over

03:27so far. Every game has been over. That trend going to continue tonight, Scotty? The over

03:32trend in this series? Yeah, you know, it's I've gotten all three overs and I've gotten

03:39all three money lines and I'm going to go over again. And the Oilers, I think the only

03:44way for them, in my view, I don't believe for one minute that Skinner can stop them from

03:50scoring. So I think it's going to be a wild game. But I think they can actually win

03:55this game five to three. I think they can win the game, but they're going to have to

03:59score five or six goals to do it because Florida's not denied ever. When do you see them get shut

04:05out or blanked or stopped on their home ice? Good luck. In fact, not only that, in all three

04:12games, I hit the goal in the first 10 minutes. I mean, they score goals within a minute of all

04:17three games.

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