Stanley Cup Final: Panthers-Oilers Game 3 grades, takeaways

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Go ahead and count to 11. One. Two. Yada Yada. Eleven.

That's how many times the Florida Panthers have scored five or more goals in a single game this postseason. No, really. They did it twice against the Tampa Bay Lightning, three times to the Toronto Maple Leafs, four times against the Carolina Hurricanes and after doing it in Game 2 to the Edmonton Oilers, they did it again Monday in a 6-1 romp in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Scoring goals in bunches is clearly nothing new for the Panthers. But to give up more than five goals in a playoff game? Prior to Game 2, the last time the Oilers allowed that many in a single contest was in Game 1 of the Western Conference…