11-06-2025
Will the Edmonton Oilers be able to exorcise their Stanley Cup demons?
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After splitting the first two games of this year's rematch at Rogers Place in Edmonton in a couple of overtime games it looked like nobody might win, the Oilers returned to Sunrise, Fla., for Game 3, and ended up playing right into the Panthers' paws.
The antagonists of this story played their roles to a T, antagonizing the Oilers into precarious situations where they could be picked off, one by one, with the audience back in Edmonton foreseeing the obvious foreshadowing while screaming at their beloved characters to stop.
Essentially, the Panthers turned the Oilers into the bad guys in the eyes of the officials, who doled out no fewer than 84 penalty minutes in Monday's game, the overwhelming majority of which cited Edmonton as the aggressor.
If the Oilers were a bright, clean clown peering out from the sewer, then their red balloon popped in a 6-1 loss, and out spewed the Boogeyman, followed by the Babadook, both Freddy and Jason, some clown in a cornfield and a host of Deadites, to name a few.
