| Review:
San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55) [message #849895] |
Thu, 29 January 2026 21:30  |
|
|
 |
 Kr55
Messages: 12423
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
|
|
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
|
|
|
|
 |
 NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1551
Registered: October 2006
Location: Summerside, PEI
1 Cup
|
|
3 in a row! We broke the streak!!
Still no idea how as we had no business winning that after the way we started, but ok? Woooooo! Attaboy Zach!
|
|
|
|
|
Kr55
Messages: 12423
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
|
|
Celebrini telling the refs that he wasn't actually hit with a high stick but they call the penalty anyways was a very interesting event in this game. Shows what a huge ego barrier these refs exist behind. Still can't bring themselves to admit they made a mistake when the actual player the "penalty" was caused to says it wasn't a penalty.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1551
Registered: October 2006
Location: Summerside, PEI
1 Cup
|
|
| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 30 January 2026 00:48 |
Celebrini telling the refs that he wasn't actually hit with a high stick but they call the penalty anyways was a very interesting event in this game.
|
True. Props to him for calling it how it is. Too bad the refs don't give a crap about what rookies think. Been there done that with McDavid.
|
|
|
|
 |
Leia
Messages: 540
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
No Cups
|
|
This game wasn't shown in the UK other than via NHL tv and I don't have that, but watching the post game video output with the goals in it wasn't pretty. Yet, something stood out for me, we pulled this rabbit out of the hat again like we did on Monday. It was another ugly win just as it was against Washington, we are starting to find that we'll never give up till we are back attitude that bodes well for the end of season.
The ability to win when playing ugly says a lot about the character of the team.
Take me home, country road
to the place where I belong
to Alberta, to see the Oilers
take me home, country road
|
|
|
|
 |
tardigrade81
Messages: 3959
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
3 Cups
|
|
Just the way we drew it up, boys
Wow. Lol
|
|
|
|
 |
Adam
Messages: 7689
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
|
|
| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 29 January 2026 21:48 |
Celebrini telling the refs that he wasn't actually hit with a high stick but they call the penalty anyways was a very interesting event in this game. Shows what a huge ego barrier these refs exist behind. Still can't bring themselves to admit they made a mistake when the actual player the "penalty" was caused to says it wasn't a penalty.
|
Knoblauch said after the game that if the ref makes the call, he can't change his mind. I'm not sure that they always stick to that rule, but he was gracious about that decision post-game.
I had a game years ago where one of my teammates collapsed on the puck and was screaming in pain. The ref was yelling at him to move the puck and since he didn't, he called a delay of game penalty. We then had to call an ambulance because he'd broken his leg on the play. When he was finally gone, the ref told us he needed a player in the box. I was apoplectic, since clearly there was a good reason he wasn't listening to the ref but was told the same thing - the ref made the initial call and he can't just rescind it after.
If I'm the Sharks coach, I'm talking to Celebrini about that though after the fact. If the refs give you a gift, you just take it. No benefit to telling them the guy was innocent.
As for the rest of the game WE WON THREE IN A ROW!!!!!
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
|
|
|
|
|
Kr55
Messages: 12423
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
|
|
| Adam wrote on Fri, 30 January 2026 08:51 |
| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 29 January 2026 21:48 |
Celebrini telling the refs that he wasn't actually hit with a high stick but they call the penalty anyways was a very interesting event in this game. Shows what a huge ego barrier these refs exist behind. Still can't bring themselves to admit they made a mistake when the actual player the "penalty" was caused to says it wasn't a penalty.
|
Knoblauch said after the game that if the ref makes the call, he can't change his mind. I'm not sure that they always stick to that rule, but he was gracious about that decision post-game.
I had a game years ago where one of my teammates collapsed on the puck and was screaming in pain. The ref was yelling at him to move the puck and since he didn't, he called a delay of game penalty. We then had to call an ambulance because he'd broken his leg on the play. When he was finally gone, the ref told us he needed a player in the box. I was apoplectic, since clearly there was a good reason he wasn't listening to the ref but was told the same thing - the ref made the initial call and he can't just rescind it after.
If I'm the Sharks coach, I'm talking to Celebrini about that though after the fact. If the refs give you a gift, you just take it. No benefit to telling them the guy was innocent.
As for the rest of the game WE WON THREE IN A ROW!!!!!
|
Example of a ref changing his mind after making a call
https://x.com/gavalierr/status/2017203901750030389?s=46
And seem multiple claims that this exact same situation happened with Ovechkin and the refs listened to him and cancelled the penalty. Can’t find video of it though.
Think these refs last night are just of the mega ego variety. Wild that Celebrini can come up and flat out say he wasn't touched with the stick and the ref just totally ignores him, then I guess tells a lie to Knob that every call is carved into stone by the hockey gods the second the ref puts the arm up?
For sure though, might not see Celebrini do that again any time soon. Maybe when he is a 35 year old vet :)
[Updated on: Fri, 30 January 2026 10:42]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
tardigrade81
Messages: 3959
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
3 Cups
|
|
Ingram, have to give it to him. He led in three goals.(not overly his fault) but he is a goalie that doesn’t break. A lot of goalies when they let in two goals that quick into a game will get rattled and break. He was pretty solid the rest of the game only letting in one goal. He didn’t have to face a ton of challenging shots, but he was pretty solid after that first period.
|
|
|
|
|
Kr55
Messages: 12423
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
|
|
Bouch quietly took over the D points lead.
On pace to bust all his career highs while playing 25 mins a night including 1st PP and PK. Trade this bum!
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
|
|
|
|
 |
oilfan94
Messages: 536
Registered: June 2006
Location: USA
No Cups
|
|
| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 30 January 2026 12:43 |
Bouch quietly took over the D points lead.
On pace to bust all his career highs while playing 25 mins a night including 1st PP and PK. Trade this bum!
|
It's hilarious when I see fans (particularly fans of other teams) bashing on Bouchard and talking about how bad he is. The guy is an elite player. He is not Makar or Hughes, but he is a top 10 defender in the NHL. $10.5M is a lot, but there is no way that anyone can say he is a massive overpay. They say his numbers are good because he plays on the powerplay with McDavid, forgetting that Makar gets to play on the powerplay with MacKinnon. The Oilers power play is the greatest of all time and Bouchard is a huge part of that. He has the best shot of any defenceman in the NHL.
The mistakes he makes in his own zone are outweighed in 9/10 games he plays by what he adds. One thing that I see him being excellent at it the ability to keep the puck in the zone. If not for him being able to keep the puck in the zone last Spring the Oilers would have lost to LA. The guy is great, but because he is on the Oilers he gets bashed extra hard. The Oilers are a hard team to play for not just because of their own fans, but because since the 1980s I think there is a culture of fans just feeling that the Oilers don't deserve anything because they had Gretzky and won 5 Cups. During the Decade if Darkness people loved piling on the Oilers. I never feel bad for other fans when their team is doing poorly because of that (except maybe for Sabres fans).
|
|
|
|
 |
Skookum Jim
Messages: 5714
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
|
|
| Kr55 wrote on Fri, 30 January 2026 08:34 |
Example of a ref changing his mind after making a call
https://x.com/gavalierr/status/2017203901750030389?s=46
And seem multiple claims that this exact same situation happened with Ovechkin and the refs listened to him and cancelled the penalty. Can’t find video of it though.
|
Good example.. Yeah I'm sure I've seen refs do the "no penalty on the play" announcment many times.. especially on puck over glass.. without a replay.. they just huddle and change their minds.. refs obviously have discretion to nullify their call if persuaded otherwise,.. doesn't look good on their resume though.. so they stick with it right or wrong.
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
|
|
|
|
