ESPN - South Florida is the sort of place where bizarre doesn’t just live, it thrives. Jake Walman, who was fined for squirting water in Game 3, scored what appeared to be the game-winning goal for the Edmonton Oilers in the third period ... only for Sam Reinhart to score for the Florida Panthers with 20 seconds left in regulation ... before Leon Draisaitl scored the actual game winner in overtime to give Edmonton a 5-4 win and tie the Stanley Cup Final at 2-2.

Game 4 was so erratic that even Florida Man likely thought it was too much. Exactly how hectic are we talking? How about the Panthers opening with a 3-0 lead in the first period, only to see the Oilers pull Stuart Skinner, replace him with Calvin Pickard and then score three goals of their own in the second period.

That set the stage for a defensive deadlock in the third that appeared to first be broken when Walman scored with 6:24 left, only to have Florida even the score. Draisaitl finished the job for Edmonton in overtime.

At this point, you know the drill. Ryan S. Clark and Kristen Shilton take a look at what worked and what didn’t for each team, while identifying which players to watch in Game 5 and pondering the big questions for the Oilers and the Panthers come Saturday.

After the Oilers allowed two goals in each period of Game 3, they allowed three in the first period of Game 4. In total, the first period marked the sixth time in the first 10 periods of this series that the Panthers have come away with multiple goals. That’s what forced Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch and his staff to make a quick adjustment to avoid a disaster similar to Game 3.

Knoblauch’s decision to remove Skinner to start the second led to Pickard stopping all 10 shots he faced in the frame. It helped that the Oilers went from a 38.4% shot share in the first to a 55.6% shot share in the second, resulting in three goals. It was just their second multigoal period during the Cup Final.

Everything was going so well in the third. Their defensive structure allowed eight combined high-danger scoring chances in the second and third period, a contrast from the seven they allowed in the first alone. To be 20 seconds away from tying the series all while the Panthers had a shot share that was greater than 60%? That’s what made Reinhart’s goal so disheartening.

But in the end, Draisaitl’s game winner drew the Oilers level entering Game 5 on Saturday.

The Panthers tried to call game in the first period. And, briefly, it looked like they succeeded. They pounced early with a pair of Matthew Tkachuk power play goals (his first points of the Cup Final), and Anton Lundell added insult to Oilers’ injury by extending Florida’s lead to three with just 41 seconds left in the first period -- a 20-minute frame where the Panthers outshot Edmonton 17-7 and outchanced them 21-5. Florida’s furious forecheck once again appeared to flummox the Oilers.

But Edmonton made a goalie change to start the second, and their karma shifted along with it. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (on the power play), Darnell Nurse and Vasily Podkolzin erased all of Florida’s first-period work and put the Panthers on their heels.

And Pickard had Florida’s number in net, keeping the Panthers’ deep well of offensive threats from finding an equalizer until 20 seconds were left in regulation and Reinhart found an opening.

Florida’s eventual loss in extra time felt stunning. The Panthers’ uncharacteristic mistakes -- players caught below the goal line, losing track of assignments, turnovers -- ultimately doomed them in a game they were on track to win handily. Now all that matters is how they rebound in the quick turnaround to Game 5.