How concerning was this Oilers loss in Game 3?

How concerning was this Oilers loss in Game 3?

steuart Skinner has allowed 13 goals the first three games of the 2025 Stanley Cup final the numbers across the board not as good as last year’s cup final against the Panthers which as you know ended up going seven florida scored five plus goals in 11 of 20 games this postseason for more reaction to this game three loss by the Edmonton Oilers here is our Evson Oilers reporter Ryan Rashad and our hockey insider Pier Lebrun from Sunrise Florida where they covered the game for TSN guys first two games uh couldn’t have been much tighter overtime double overtime game three it’s a blowout pierre how did Florida dominate so uh so effectively uh because they brought their brand to the rink is what the Florida Panthers did they bullied the Oilers in every each way and you know they took ice away they frustrated the Oilers and eventually this is what happened with Carolina with Toronto with Tampa the blood boils over you get so frustrated when the Panthers find their agame that you come unglued and the Oilers and we’ve not seen this really from Edmonton perhaps not since the early days of the playoffs against LA absolutely came unglued but again credit the Florida Panthers this is what they want to do they don’t want to get into track meet they want to make every inch of vice difficult to earn they they want to they want to make it where you feel like lugging the puck out of your zone is the hardest thing you’ve done all year and that’s what we saw tonight this was Panthers hockey yeah i would say Jay that the job they did on McDavid and Dryidle was was a real solid job tonight like Leon Dryidle did not have a shot attempt in this game he spent six plus minutes on the power play tonight and he did not have a shot attempt in this game that’s Leon Dryidle there just weren’t the number of looks that they normally get in a game like this so the Panthers did a great job of gumming things up you see a huge hit there from Aaron Ecklad on Conor McDavid like this was classic Panthers hockey this was the best they’d played in the series probably the worst that the Oilers have played in this series conor McDavid said after he feels they haven’t really gotten to their game yet and so this is one they’re going to have to just clean from the memory banks jay that was ugly they were bad early they never found their game an awful first undisiplined a disastrous second period this wasn’t close for the Oilers tonight uh you said it Ryan uh probably the worst the Oilers have played how concerned should Oiler fans be about this game three lock well I mean it’s the playoffs and they say that you know one result doesn’t carry into the next and this is a mature team they’ll be able to flush this but I mean maybe concerning in that the Florida Panthers Pierre have really gotten to their formula and I would say the Oilers you know for small points in this series have gotten to their formula but really the Panthers have found their game and so you see stuff like this i mean at this point it’s just throwaway time the Oilers definitely got frustrated right chris Knobblock called this boys being boys making an investment in future games but you know concerning this is a mature group they’ll be able to rebound but the flow of play was not close for most of this game Pier so there’s concern there and imagine a team with Sam Bennett and Brad Marshaw uh and Matthew Kachchuck frustrating the heck of an opponent and this is the recipe it It’s unreal sam Bennett has been under the skin of the Oilers since the drop of the puck in game one but it all came to the surface tonight because the score became so lopsided that Edmonton wanted to settle some scores i mean Trent Federick’s decision to cross check Bennett in the back may come back to haunt him not a very good decision but it’s a night of bad decisions by the Oilers offensive zone penalties too many men on the ice a loss of composure that I’m surprised that we saw from the Oilers tonight only because they’re a veteran team that seems so focused throughout these playoffs on their eye in the prize the last thing I’ll add on that Jay is the discipline issues those penalties in the first period were no good there were multiple penalties tonight a secondary cross check that’s just not needed uh that’s the kind of stuff a mature team should not be doing in a Stanley Cup final the Oilers need to tidy that stuff up and then we haven’t even talked about the goalending situation guys ryan how do you think Chris Knobblock handles that for game four yeah he made it pretty clear in his postgame press conference like he he doesn’t think there was a big decision to be made steuart Skinner is going to go back in the net sounds like uh I was talking to Stu Skinner after the game in the scrum asked him a few questions about his own game he was really honest Pierre like he said there’s a couple I don’t like straight up getting beat so he took responsibility for a few of these then Conor McDavid said that might be a little noble of him but he didn’t necessarily agree so I don’t know what you thought Pierre this was not Skinner’s best night the other guy outplayed him flat out yeah I agree with you and listen I mean the Oilers need Stuart Skinner to basically saw off Broski in this series and obviously wasn’t even close on this night but Skinner’s not the headline here he’s not the reason they lost they I mean they got absolutely sunk before he was pulled but I will say timing is everything in this Stanley Cup final and what the Oilers needed is for Steuart Skinner to stop that shot from Sam Reinhardt when he made it 3-1 the Oilers had just scored in Cory Perry’s power play goal suddenly they’re feeling some momentum and the very next shift yeah great shot i get it but that goal can’t go in because that broke their back after and he flipped it up over the glass too and then ended up giving up the power play goal again so this wasn’t a banner night from Skinner but he owned it jay I mean Florida dominated throughout and even to add the cherry on top Paul Maurice gets his 1,000th win as an NHL head coach like it really was Florida’s night on Monday night guys you were terrific thanks for this we appreciate it

TSN Oilers reporter Ryan Rishaug and TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun join SC with Jay Onrait to break down how the Panthers were able to dismantle the Oilers in Game 3, the level of concern surrounding Edmonton following the loss, and how much blame should fall on Stuart Skinner.