Oilers look to turn page after devastating Game 3 loss

The Oilers were keen to turn the page. Then they had to pivot.

Edmonton was filtering out for practice Tuesday afternoon — less than 24 hours after getting thumped 6-1 by Florida in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final — when ice quality concerns forced the team onto a different pad at the Panthers' training facility.

With that brief hiccup out of the way, a group looking to move past a night where they not only lost on the scoreboard to fall behind 2-1 in a rematch of last season's title series, but were also second-best on both the discipline and composure fronts, got down to business on what had initially been pencilled in as a day off.

"It was not the game we wanted to bring," Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl said. "It was certainly far away from our best. Just flush it out a little bit and start getting ready."

Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and Co. will need a lot more for Thursday night back in Sunrise, Fla., following a 48-hour break in the action.

"You can't dwell on things," Oilers winger Corey Perry said of moving past Monday's debacle. "The next one's the biggest one. That's how we think about it, get ready for the next one. Move on."

Edmonton got into the gamesmanship weeds against a Florida group that does it better than anyone, with the likes of Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Bennett and Brad Marchand leading the way.

The Oilers took four penalties in the opening 20 minutes — three in the offensive zone and another for too many men. Edmonton didn't like some of the officiating decisions, but the defending Cup champions, as they so often do, put the referees in a position to make a judgment call.

The Panthers, it should be noted, also went to the box four times in the first period. Unlike the visitors, however, they capitalized on