Poll: Who Should Win the Stanley Cup?

[GopherMarroon]

We're down to the final four.

Poll closes June 4. You can change your vote until then.

 

[GopherMarroon]

Florida wins, far outplayed Rangers except Rangers had some good scoring chances.

 

[upnorthkid]

Went panthers but hoping for the oilers so mcdavid gets one. Think the final is probably panthers-stars with the stars being the team I’d want to see win the least

 

[GopherMarroon]

Wow, Oilers were winning. Game now to overtime after Dallas scored towards the end of regular.

Connor McDavid opened OT by committing a double-minor!?! He's in the box for 4 minutes.

Update: Stars hit the pipe twice.

Update: Oilers kill it off. Out of the box comes McDavid.

Later update: McDavid with the wide open net for the win, but Dallas goaltender Oettinger gets his stick to the spot where the shot went and somehow stops it.

Goaltender duel.

It goes to double-overtime.

 

[GopherMarroon]

McDavid redemption!

Oilers win in double OT!

 

[GopherMarroon]

Rangers-Florida in OT, slugging it out. Really good hockey.

Rangers win!

 

[GopherMarroon]

Oilers with a mishap leads to an empty net goal for Dallas. Looks like they let this slip away.

Series tied.

 

[GopherMarroon]

Oilers now lead the series 3 games to 2 over Stars. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored 2 goals on 3 shots on goal.

Florida leads Rangers 3 games to 2. Florida looks like the strongest playoff team.

 

[GopherMarroon]

2024 Stanley Cup Final schedule announced | NHL.com

NEW YORK (May 30, 2024) – The National Hockey League today announced the schedule for the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, which will match the winner of the Eastern Conference Final (either the Florida Panthers or New York Rangers) against the winner of the Western Conference Final (either the Dallas Stars

www.nhl.com

 

[bonin21]

I would like Okposo to get his name on the cup.

 

[Slim Tubby]

I would like Okposo to get his name on the cup.

He might quit on his teammates before that has a chance to happen.

 

[GopherMarroon]

I would like Okposo to get his name on the cup.

Bonin21 and others know this but for others, there's a backstory to Okposo and the Gophers.

Minnesota's Okposo quits college to join Islanders

Minnesota sophomore forward Kyle Okposo is leaving college to sign with the New York Islanders, the school announced Wednesday.

www.espn.com

Gophers coach Don Lucia said the Islanders caused a tough situation when he left mid-season. Islanders basically said they didn't respect Lucia's coaching, or maybe that was the excuse to sign him at a bad time.


He's from St Paul and plays for Florida. He's played in over 1,000 games. Surely his long career must be nearing the end.

Kyle Okposo Stats And News

Get all the latest stats, news, videos, and more on Kyle Okposo.

www.nhl.com

 

[GopherMarroon]

Florida is a video game team, to me. They are so good they're not real. LOL

Patchwork Panthers: How Florida built a perennial contender

Only three players on the current roster have been there since being drafted by the Panthers. Here's how the front office, coaches make it all work.

www.espn.com

 

[GopherMarroon]

And the lights are going out in Dallas.

Edmonton leads 2-0 after 1 period in the elimination of Dallas game.

Connor McDavid with a terrific goal and a terrific assist.

 

[GopherMarroon]

Florida is heavily favored.

Game 1 is Saturday the 8th:

2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs Bracket - ESPN

Visit ESPN to view the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs bracket for live scores and results.

www.espn.com

A Canadian team hasn't won the cup since 1993.

Who will win the Stanley Cup? Picks, predictions, odds for Oilers vs. Panthers in 2024 Stanley Cup Final | Sporting News

The 2024 NHL playoffs comes down to the Oilers and the Panthers. Here's everything you need to know for the 2024 Stanley Cup Final.

www.sportingnews.com

The Minnesota Wild in the Great State of Hockey have won the cup a record six times in a row, that was just a joke, correction, a bad joke.

Stanley Cup - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bonin21]

Ya, bad joke. Minnesota is LOSERVILLE, USA when it comes to pro sports + college football and basketball. For those of us under 35, it's been laughable.

Longest Championship Droughts By City

Full up to date list of the longest big 4 championship droughts of every sports city, in both years and seasons.

champsorchumps.us

"Did You Know? If you started rooting for the four Minnesota teams 20 years ago, your overall fan experience grade would be an F and you'd be in the 99.9% percentile for fan suffering?"

 

[GopherMarroon]

Edmonton Oilers vs. Florida Panthers is a Stanley Cup Final of teams far apart in every way

At more than 2,500 miles, Florida-Edmonton is the furthest apart two teams have been while playing in the Stanley Cup Final, eclipsing the previous record of Boston-Vancouver in 2011

abcnews.go.com

 

[GopherMarroon]

Florida takes the 1 game advantage behind goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. Florida now is heavily favored to win it all. At age 35 he is the oldest to record a shutout.




He was never drafted into the NHL partly due to uncertainty getting signed players from Russia. He made his first NHL start in 2010. (The Wild later in 2015 drafted Kirill Kaprizov in the 5th round who didn't play until 2021 and now the team's biggest star).