McLeod 16:45 4-1. I’m turning off phone and computer.

There will be a G7 in Sunrise. I really did think Paul Maurice had an inspired game plan at the beginning: be super physical, shock & awe Edmonton, rattle their bones, throw them off their game. But my son said when I pitched that view that he didn’t like what he was seeing on TV. We weren’t able to gain possession. That made sense too. It’s one thing to rattle them but when they slither free with the puck, you’re not generating any offensive chance, and that was the story of the 1P, at the end of which we were down one goal. Then the early 2P goal and we were really behind the 🎱. We’re just not as fleet or as resilient or as talented offenively as the “Oilers.” Connor McDavid said after G4 that they were “figuring Florida out.” They have completed their education and they have FL facing the ignominy of the first reverse sweep in the Stanley Cup Finals in 82 years. The 🐆 will lose G7 unless some deus ex machina comes down from the heavens as savior for them. Exquisitely painful for this franchise if they do lose four straight games after being up 3 games to nothing. Nothing like it has ever occurred in the memory of living man.