Oilers heroics tie Stanley Cup Final, which team has the edge now?

Another game in the Stanley Cup Final, another overtime thriller

The Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers have played an all-time classic series to this point

and it's tied at two games apiece. So, who has the edge now that the season comes down to just two or three games

Thursday night, the Oilers were nearly dead and buried. Down 3-0 to the Panthers in the first period

they were in jeopardy of being down in the series to the defending champs three games to one

It would have likely been over. Then they rallied. Three goals of their own in the second period got them even

In the third period, they actually had a 4-3 lead until the Panthers tied it with just 20 seconds left in regulation

So for the third time in four games, it went to overtime, where Leon Dreisaitl worked his magic again

We believe that no matter how bad it is, if we get over that hump of adversity

you know we're going to keep pushing we're going to keep coming we're going to keep coming

eventually it'll it'll break and again you know we don't want to be in these situations too many

times but when when they happen I think we're great at it. Just hours after finishing second

in the league MVP voting Dreisaitl made history by scoring his fourth playoff overtime game winner

The one shot went off a defender leg and threw Sergei Bobrovsky pads His play in tandem with the electric Connor McDavid has been tough for the Panthers to corral Sam Reinhart believes they just have to match the Oilers output from here

on out. You kind of ride that wave. You know it's an emotional grind. That's part of it. That makes

it so sweet when you win it. So you know we're in another battle and we wouldn't want it any other

way and that's about recovering and going into Edmonton and trying to do what we can to win a

game five and bring it back here. The Oilers feel like they've stolen back the momentum before a

pivotal game five and they have home ice advantage once again but they're still carrying the burden

of trying to win the Stanley Cup for an entire nation. It's been 32 years since a Canadian team

has won it. Some fans are saying this is the best final series they have ever watched. Oilers coach

Chris Knobloch agrees to a point. I would like a little less stress for myself behind the bench and

Maybe I could enjoy it a little more, but I can definitely see it's really good, exciting hockey

So who has the edge? If we get a couple more overtime games, the Oilers are clearly comfortable with that

But the Panthers are the defending champs, and at times they have looked dominating in this series

Their head coach, Paul Maurice, is a master of adjustments. We'll see what he comes up with Saturday

It's been such a dramatic back-and-forth battle, it is hard to predict. Game 5 will tilt the scales

face off 8 p.m. Eastern in Alberta. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis