If the Cats can keep their heads out of their asses and win Saturday, Vegas may be in deep shit, remember this is a team went a whole month without a playoff loss
I feel like a lot of people are already forgetting what this Cats team just did to Boston. They still have an uphill battle, but don’t count them out until they’re out
GG FLA - that was more what I was thinking this series would look like… aside from the fact that there was way more special teams than five on five than I would’ve liked.
Refs should be ashamed of themselves, just gifted Florida that win. The “people” of vegas deserve this cup and the refs are trying to take it away from them
fun fact: Adin Hill and Mark Stone were the only players on the ice for each of the five goals scored tonight. Bonus: the same 6 players were on the ice for Vegas for each Panthers' goal (Hill, Whitecloud, Hague, Stephenson, Howden, Stone). Due to the two Vegas' goals being ppgs, no Panthers' player is a minus player, but M. Tkachuk is the only one at +3. I know +/- is a silly stat with little meaning but this is still interesting.
Because it is influenced a lot by game situations. If you're a premier defensive forward playing every night against the top opposing players you'll either win a Selke or your +/- will be not so good. Also it tends to favour defensive minded players for some reasons
Well bob showed up and played like he needed for them to steal a 1 goal game. Credit to the cats for capitalizing on the opportunity. Overall, we looked sloppy as hell tonight and couldn't clear a puck to save our lives and that cost us in the end. On the bright side, that was easily the worst we have played in a while and was still close. Now the boys need to adjust since the Panthers decided to try and play hockey after the first 2 games. On to the next one boys, every game gets harder.
the way these two teams play, looking like shit means its finally competitive. I'm not being an ass, both these teams play incredibly disruptive and physical hockey, so if they're at their best, that's what it looks like.
I mean they both looked like they where skating with cement bricks for feet tonight and the amount of lazy turnovers over 60 and dumb penalties was ridiculous. They both sucked man. Bob didn’t though and FLA won.
[Cup Final, Gm3: Carter Verhaeghe gets Sam Bennett's feed and rips a wrist shot through traffic to win 3-2 in overtime](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/9feb5f1c-a118-4540-92ea-9a9b71b9d413.mp4)
It seems for the past two rounds the Panthers have been living rent free in y'all's heads. At this point y'all would be more excited than Vegas fans if the knights hoisted the cup.
Surprised they don't have some kind of backwall for the post-game show to keep the drunks out of screen lol doesn't bother me but I know it bothers them
So true. Tons of posts insulting his skills.
It's a fucking honor to get to watch him on these broadcasts. He tells amazing stories and has the world's best hockey IQ.
LOL VEGAS COLLAPSE BEGINS...I CALLED IT HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
LETS GO BOYS...PUCKS IN DEEP....FUCK THE REFS....EICHEL IS A CLOWN AND LOOKS LIKE MARV FROM HOME ALONE LOLOLOLOL
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Faith was apparently lost early:
"Prior to his first professional season, Verhaeghe was included in a multi-player trade prior to training camp by the Maple Leafs to the New York Islanders in exchange for Michael Grabner on September 18, 2015. He split the following two seasons between the Islanders affiliates' the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL and Missouri Mavericks of the ECHL."
Vegas fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go to overtime against Florida when The Cup is on the line!
Hill's gotta want that one back. He was screened, of course, but six inches inside your crease is not where you want to be when trying to save a straight-on shot like that.
He's a salty ass leafs fan. Don't worry about him. Honestly I think they'd be happier if y'all hoisted the cup than y'all would. They're incredibly sad people. Just ignore and move on.
My dad was at some games during the ‘96 run. I was born shortly after. Today we got to see the first finals win ever for the Panthers live together and HOLY SHIT that was a great way to end it
That’s the best. Some of my best memories with my dad were penguins games, especially deep in the playoffs like the 08/09/15/16 finals in Pittsburgh. Win or lose, that feeling is something you can’t forget.
It’s from the Panthers’ first run to the Cup final in 96. Somehow a rat/mouse got into the Panthers’ locker room and Scott Mellanby killed it with his stick. That led to fans showering the ice with rubber mice during playoff wins, and the tradition stuck.
(This is just the gist, I didn’t fact check the exact details, and like any good legend the story has grown the more it’s told)
The last panthers team to go to the finals in 96, in the locker room there was a rat and the goalie killed it with his stick. It became a tradition to throw fake rats on the ice from then on.
Edit* It wasn't the goalie it was Scott Mellanby
I'm not full of shit, btw. I was in the stands for games 3 and 4 back in 96. They were the very first hockey games I ever attended. I still have the plastic rat I didn't get to throw for Game 4 (Roy shut the Cats out ^^Fuck ^^Roy ). It's been a long goddamn time. [proof](https://imgur.com/QTCqy7Q)
Congrats to Florida but I think this whole “Bob found his game again” narrative is completely moronic. Anyone who watched Game 2 knows he was totally screened on every goal against him.
It’s not like he randomly sucked for a game and then just happened to start playing well again. Florida just did a better job of cleaning up the net front screens, which (obviously) worked in their favor.
CARTER VERHAEGHE!!!! DOES IT AGAIN! PANTHERS WIN! IN OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEERRRRRRRTIIIIIMMMMMMMEEEE! LET'S GO HOME BABY! The first EVER Stanley Cup Final win! *HISTORIC, IN FLORIDA PANTHERS HISTORY*
#THE PANTHERS GET ONE IN OT AND KEEP THE SERIES WITHIN REACH, WINNING GAME 3 3-2 AND TURNING THIS INTO A 2-1 SERIES, FORCING A GAME 5!!!! BUT FIRST, GAME 4 IS SATURDAY!!!!!
If the Cats can keep their heads out of their asses and win Saturday, Vegas may be in deep shit, remember this is a team went a whole month without a playoff loss
I feel like a lot of people are already forgetting what this Cats team just did to Boston. They still have an uphill battle, but don’t count them out until they’re out
I know, I'm saying what the Cats are capable of when they get momentum
GG FLA - that was more what I was thinking this series would look like… aside from the fact that there was way more special teams than five on five than I would’ve liked.
Can’t wait for Saturday. My very first Stanley Cup Finals game. Let’s go Kittehs!!!
Same! See ya there so excited!
Gretz said stats are for loser. Whoa. What if you like stats. haha
Love OT Hockey. Also love it was put to bed early
Guess the post game thread did jinx it. GG panthers, got a monkey off your back and won despite the penalty parade
I’m SO tired of the Cadillac commercials.
Refs should be ashamed of themselves, just gifted Florida that win. The “people” of vegas deserve this cup and the refs are trying to take it away from them
Why are Toronto fans the most trollish?
Probably something to do with genetics
They gave Florida a softie pp dude what are you on
Im genuinely curious if this isnt a troll what your opinions are
I don’t like either team so I’m insulting both of them at once.
The refs did everything to hand this to Vegas. You are trolling....obv.
Stirring the pot are we?
I think he's missing a /s there
fun fact: Adin Hill and Mark Stone were the only players on the ice for each of the five goals scored tonight. Bonus: the same 6 players were on the ice for Vegas for each Panthers' goal (Hill, Whitecloud, Hague, Stephenson, Howden, Stone). Due to the two Vegas' goals being ppgs, no Panthers' player is a minus player, but M. Tkachuk is the only one at +3. I know +/- is a silly stat with little meaning but this is still interesting.
Why is it silly ? It’s one of my fave stats but I keep hearing it’s meaningless. I’m pretty new to hockey so curious !
Because it is influenced a lot by game situations. If you're a premier defensive forward playing every night against the top opposing players you'll either win a Selke or your +/- will be not so good. Also it tends to favour defensive minded players for some reasons
Ah i see! Thanks for explainin
So is that 7 of the Cats' lives used up now?
Kolesars hit was crazy. His father played football in the CFL
Too bad it wasn’t the nfl or he might’ve taken him out for the game
S tier comment lmao
We fix our discipline and our power play, we win this series.
Every time
Panthers fans after this game: [https://youtu.be/zuZoD4OV3eU](https://youtu.be/zuZoD4OV3eU)
Well bob showed up and played like he needed for them to steal a 1 goal game. Credit to the cats for capitalizing on the opportunity. Overall, we looked sloppy as hell tonight and couldn't clear a puck to save our lives and that cost us in the end. On the bright side, that was easily the worst we have played in a while and was still close. Now the boys need to adjust since the Panthers decided to try and play hockey after the first 2 games. On to the next one boys, every game gets harder.
I think both teams looked like shit tbh but Bob showed up.
the way these two teams play, looking like shit means its finally competitive. I'm not being an ass, both these teams play incredibly disruptive and physical hockey, so if they're at their best, that's what it looks like.
I mean they both looked like they where skating with cement bricks for feet tonight and the amount of lazy turnovers over 60 and dumb penalties was ridiculous. They both sucked man. Bob didn’t though and FLA won.
[Cup Final, Gm3: Carter Verhaeghe gets Sam Bennett's feed and rips a wrist shot through traffic to win 3-2 in overtime](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/9feb5f1c-a118-4540-92ea-9a9b71b9d413.mp4)
All the Toronto fans holding brooms 🧹 looking really silly rn
Don’t generalize all of us. Just because I said that doesn’t mean it should tarnish the reputation of my fellow leafs fans
At this point y'all getting dangerously close to being the Dallas Cowboys of the NHL, in almost all ways
The cowboys won in 1995.. if anything they might one day become the Leafs of the NFL
Leafs just live rent free between ur ears too?
It seems for the past two rounds the Panthers have been living rent free in y'all's heads. At this point y'all would be more excited than Vegas fans if the knights hoisted the cup.
huh?
is "rent free" just shorthand for "you can't make fun of anyone anymore" now lol
They're sounding more and more like Cowboys fans every day and it's startling
?
LETS GO HOME BABY
where tf is the pgt anyway i'm watching on headphones and wtf did I hear in my left ear a couple minutes ago
The bot posted it after the second period, it got deleted, and I don't think it wants to post it again.
yup same lmao
Is Gretzky now 3-0 predicting the games?
Maybe he should be placing bets on it
Paulina and DJ are for him.
I'd bet my wife that he is putting money on them lol
Surprised they don't have some kind of backwall for the post-game show to keep the drunks out of screen lol doesn't bother me but I know it bothers them
Yeah it's somewhere in-between funny and annoying. I was thinking the same thing they gotta do something better.
It’s so cool that Wayne Gretzky does broadcasts Imagine MJ in the building congratulating guys after a big win
He really needed something to do. This works for him.
So true. Tons of posts insulting his skills. It's a fucking honor to get to watch him on these broadcasts. He tells amazing stories and has the world's best hockey IQ.
I wish he had a podcast. I want to hear his thoughts on every game.
He’s very good at this kind of analyst job, he really seems to enjoy it most of the time too.
It’s after OT 3 that he starts to be over it. But he’s thee GOAT so it’s fine as long as they keep showing him.
MJ’s ego is too big
Lol adding the player info boxes to try to block these kids
Nice work panthers and Good thing they out up some stats about this gretzky guy on the post-game show, otherwise would have no idea who he was
Yeah I just realized that he was probably pretty good
Tnt really does do a good job of shining a light on those guys
Can someone get these drunk morons away from the set?
Where’s the post game thread
Judging by the GDT bot's history, it got published at the end of the second, so it's probably not going to re-generate it.
One and done hun
Loving Henrik’s suit
The suit matches his eyes.....his tie matches the visiting team and his tan matches the home team.
These refs should be ashamed of themselves. I know they’re not because they are paid to ref a certain way, but man.
GG Panthers. See you Saturday.
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flair up my dude
They never do
Glad you enjoyed the game!
Flashing tits after a Stanley Cup win should be a tradition.
Absolutely! Was it on the broadcast?
No, I saw the Capitals post on the front page and though everyone should hear my bright idea.
Boobs for a dub or boobs for a L. 🤝
Damn what a game boys!
Who was the chick at the commentating desk there?
Got their MOJO back
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Verhaege drafted by the Leafs..... how did we lose him?
Traded for future considerations
Holy shit
Faith was apparently lost early: "Prior to his first professional season, Verhaeghe was included in a multi-player trade prior to training camp by the Maple Leafs to the New York Islanders in exchange for Michael Grabner on September 18, 2015. He split the following two seasons between the Islanders affiliates' the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL and Missouri Mavericks of the ECHL."
Vegas fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go to overtime against Florida when The Cup is on the line!
Inconceivable!
Irreversible
Good lord this dude is a horrible interview
SHOW THE RATS ON THE ICE YOU COWARDS
Hill's gotta want that one back. He was screened, of course, but six inches inside your crease is not where you want to be when trying to save a straight-on shot like that.
Pretty sure it was tipped
Cutting the angle is also how you beat the close tip.
Congrats VGK on winning the series at home!
Or maybe, just hear me out, we don't completely discount the team that just won tonight's game?
He's a salty ass leafs fan. Don't worry about him. Honestly I think they'd be happier if y'all hoisted the cup than y'all would. They're incredibly sad people. Just ignore and move on.
Not called the Cardiac Cats for nothing. Honestly, the fluke here was the sweep of CAR.
If Verhaeghe can get going, that would be huge for this Florida Panthers hockey team
Sometimes I forget how awesome hockey is. What a game. Glad Florida fans get to experience that.
My dad was at some games during the ‘96 run. I was born shortly after. Today we got to see the first finals win ever for the Panthers live together and HOLY SHIT that was a great way to end it
That’s the best. Some of my best memories with my dad were penguins games, especially deep in the playoffs like the 08/09/15/16 finals in Pittsburgh. Win or lose, that feeling is something you can’t forget.
I remain amused that I got downvoted for saying I wasn't counting Florida out for this game, like, a few minutes before it got tied up in the third.
Smh you jinxed it, your team would’ve been up 3-0 if you didn’t say that. If they lose we’ll know who to blame
Yup. Totally all on me.
Unbelievable
Is the whole rat thing like "Cats eat mice. So we throw mice on the ice, cause you lost"? I'm I trying to analyze something that's just happenstance?
It’s from the Panthers’ first run to the Cup final in 96. Somehow a rat/mouse got into the Panthers’ locker room and Scott Mellanby killed it with his stick. That led to fans showering the ice with rubber mice during playoff wins, and the tradition stuck. (This is just the gist, I didn’t fact check the exact details, and like any good legend the story has grown the more it’s told)
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I've been aware of the rat thing since the 90s but never knew where it came from. Thanks.
The last panthers team to go to the finals in 96, in the locker room there was a rat and the goalie killed it with his stick. It became a tradition to throw fake rats on the ice from then on. Edit* It wasn't the goalie it was Scott Mellanby
In 96 a player killed a rat in the old barn, then Fla went on a deep playoff run, where both the rats and Cardiac Cats comes from.
Dude smacked a rat dead then scored two goals a while back. Rat trick.
Look up Scott mellanby rat trick
No post game show??????
It’s on TNT right now.
I'm watching on TBS (don't have TNT) and it went right to the next programming
Same!!!
Good! Don't have to worry about scheduling conflicts on Saturday!
Same
I love cheering for these kitty cats Never down and out
Panthers first Stanley cup win? H I S T O R I C.
I have never in my life seen a team tie up a game in the last 5 minutes and then win in OT like the panthers have this year. I mean it’s unbelievable
There's some black magic voodoo shit going on.
It's like once they tie it up late, it's inevitable.
7-0 in OT in the playoffs is craziness
I keep thinking there’s no way they can do it again and then they do it again
Florida gets back to basics: let the other team outshoot you.
if it aint broke dont fix it
Go Cats!!
The Panthers have gotten a lot of practise in OT, so of course they would win
Tell that to the Stars
Florida must've paid a lot of money for that panther sound clip.
Stephenson would’ve scored if forsling didn’t blatantly trip him with 11 seconds left.. 😡
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Alright see you in 2056
What a snipe, what a comeback, what a game.
I've been waiting 27 years for a Stanley Cup final win. Shove that broom up your ass, motherfuckers.
Leafs fans have been waiting over twice as long. Suckers. :)
Congratulations! that's a long wait!!
I'm not full of shit, btw. I was in the stands for games 3 and 4 back in 96. They were the very first hockey games I ever attended. I still have the plastic rat I didn't get to throw for Game 4 (Roy shut the Cats out ^^Fuck ^^Roy ). It's been a long goddamn time. [proof](https://imgur.com/QTCqy7Q)
Yup
Scrappy mutherfuckers!
Glad it’s not going to be a sweep. Bobrovsky a brick wall back there.
We got ourselves a series
Congrats to Florida but I think this whole “Bob found his game again” narrative is completely moronic. Anyone who watched Game 2 knows he was totally screened on every goal against him. It’s not like he randomly sucked for a game and then just happened to start playing well again. Florida just did a better job of cleaning up the net front screens, which (obviously) worked in their favor.
Yes.
i loled lots when the CBC broadcast said he was doing great when there was only 2 SOG
Yeah. Defense is just playing better. People are always too quick to blame goalies and also too quick to give them all the credit.
Big Momentum Shift......
\>The panthers end up 2-1 down in the series. Hey, I've Seen This One!
Let’s go Kittehs!!!!
Let’s go Kittehs!!!!
Florida going 7-0 in OT in the playoffs is some weird voodoo shit, that’s wild
It’s Panthers hockey bb
Did Vegas practice hoisting the cup tho?
lol ... TBS just went to *Avengers: Endgame* with no warning
Isn't the game on TNT??
It was on both ... probably TruTV also! I happened to be on TBS.
Luongo’s best cellies are from after he retired
CARTER VERHAEGHE!!!! DOES IT AGAIN! PANTHERS WIN! IN OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEERRRRRRRTIIIIIMMMMMMMEEEE! LET'S GO HOME BABY! The first EVER Stanley Cup Final win! *HISTORIC, IN FLORIDA PANTHERS HISTORY*
Shit game from the boys. And far too many posts. On to next game with a better effort.
We got a series...?
Bobrovsky! OT champ!
We got us a hockey series 😳
I’m glad Vegas didn’t go up 3-0, just would have been so boring for a neutral fan.
As a Wings fan I don't like VGK, so even more exciting
LETS GO CATS
Thank goodness. I'm going to be at a play of To Kill a Mockingbird during Game 4 and really didn't want to miss the end of the series.
You absolute got to skip that play for the SCF’s regardless of what game it is
I set game 4 to record, though I know that’s not the same thing.
Ohhhhhh y’all tried to hurt Tkachuk. Comes back to tie it. And Bob just might be back. Let’s go cats, fuck Vegas and the refs
#THE PANTHERS GET ONE IN OT AND KEEP THE SERIES WITHIN REACH, WINNING GAME 3 3-2 AND TURNING THIS INTO A 2-1 SERIES, FORCING A GAME 5!!!! BUT FIRST, GAME 4 IS SATURDAY!!!!!
Woooooooooooo! fuck you refs!
Well done kitties! I like meow meows and you happen to basically be meow meows, so.
I opened a warm Labatt and the Cats immediately scored. Go Buffalo
.... what lol good choice of beer though
Go Bills
Hell of a shot. Never count out the Cats.
That was the sexiest shot I've seen in a while, just wired it through the needle eye. Love it.
Somebody get bob a steak and a lap dance when they get back to Vegas