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 Ragnarok73
Messages: 2411
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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| Mike wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 14:01 |
| Mike wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 15:59 |
man, still 5 hours to go? Come on.....
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Still 4 hours? I wrote this post like 8 hours ago. What gives?
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Think of it more like having waited over 34 years for this moment, and that may make it a bit more bearable...
"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.
5-14-6-1
"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."
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Kr55
Messages: 10432
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| kungpaobenji27 wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 15:16 |
| Kr55 wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 11:28 |
| Ragnarok73 wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 08:13 |
| Suomalainen wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 08:04 |
Going to get Florida's best effort tonight. Weather an early storm and then score first to make them chase. I think the Panthers are running out of steam, so getting them to expend energy trying to come back is better
It's going to be tight either way, time to flip the script on '06.
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This doesn't even feel close to the same as what happened in '06. That year, I always felt that they were just staving off the inevitable loss after Rolo got hurt in Game 1. This year, it feels like the proverbial date with destiny.
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Yeah that team had to grind for every single bit of anything they got. Carolina kinda threw the towel in on game 6 too, totally flipping to the mindset that they were gonna go all in on game 7, and we kinda got overconfident of how easy game 6 was.
Found the game sheet from that game 7. What was even going on with the ice time?
https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/car-vs-edm/2006/06/19/2005030 417/boxscore
Smyth 17 mins. Hemsky 15:52.
My memory is fading of how that team was coached, but boy does that not look like ice times of a team that was trailing from 1:30 into the 1st period of a game 7.
Not having game breakers up front, or at least barely even playing your best offensive players up front, is not an issue we have today. Our big boys are gonna get all the time they need to show what they have tonight. We will win or lose with them, and I like our odds.
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This is what scares me about tonight....Mac-T typically made all the right adjustments with his playoff lineups (01, 03, and 06) until that Game 7 of the 2006 SCF.
Whatever the case, I am ripe with nerves as the last couple weeks in my life have been inevitable with many changes coming...and also rather unproductive as this series has consumed so much of my existence following this team since the early 2000s.
That 06 team was full of gamebreakers at forward but at sporadic albeit timely moments for the most part. Samsonov, Peca, Hemsky, Torres, Stoll, Pisani, Smitty, etc. While I am too appreciative of Horcoff's efforts in that run, he was a huge benefactor of #83 and #94.
Anyways...tired of all the narratives...media coverage, etc. Let's get the show on the road & empty the clip tonight!
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I dunno if I would call those many of players game breakers. More like overachieving underdogs. Most of those guys did nothing else in playoffs the rest of their careers aside from being really good depth guys, and at best above average regular seasons. We have two of likely the top 5 players in the world at forward and a D playing like a top 3 of current offensive D. Had Pronger in 2006, but he had the entire weight of the team on his back to have to carry every situation. Was little left to go hard on offense.
Enough talking down about the 2006 team and trying to talk up the current guys from me though. Gotta hope for the best. That our top guys have a whale of a game and that we don't get messed over by bad puck luck.
"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
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Gator21
Messages: 171
Registered: February 2016
Location: Kelowna, BC
No Cups
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LET’S GO OILERS!!! Win it for Colby, Joey, Ben and Angie! And heck win it for yourselves and immortality and every fan that has dedicated tens of thousands of dollars and hours on the Oilers over the years!
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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I'd love to see a big game from Nuge. He's been alright this playoffs. He's been decent offensively. Decent defensively. Good on the PK. So Nuge being Nuge.
It was 13 yrs ago today when he got drafted. This is what he's wanted. Probably took longer than he hoped. But here is it, the cup is there for the taking. If ever there was a game to go all out, give it everything you got and have himself A GAME, tonight is the night.
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5909
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
5 Cups
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I don’t care who scores the MUSTY Cup clincher.. as long as he’s wearing white, blue and orange!
LFGOOOILERS!!!!!
Survivor CHAMP S52 | S66
OG's #MUSTWIN Scale
Category 1 - Lightly Musty
Category 2 - Moderately Musty
Category 3 - Considerably Musty
Category 4 - Severely Musty
Category 5 - Incredibly Musty
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4206
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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👍🏻
[Updated on: Mon, 24 June 2024 17:18]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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Hibernia
Messages: 86
Registered: October 1998
Location: Sin John's
No Cups
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Still a few tickets available under $900 now.
Oilfans, OilersNation, whatever you want to call us, has been known to travel well. Tonight is about to put an exclamation mark on that!
What happened to all of my messages? lol (I guess it's been awhile) Twitter: @AitchOil
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Mike
Messages: 1373
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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| Hibernia wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 20:40 |
Still a few tickets available under $900 now.
Oilfans, OilersNation, whatever you want to call us, has been known to travel well. Tonight is about to put an exclamation mark on that!
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Crap. Should have gone. I knew they would go down again. Oh well.
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inverno76
Messages: 2299
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
2 Cups
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Good luck my friends! Let’s enjoy this!
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inverno76
Messages: 2299
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
2 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 16:02 |
I'd love to see a big game from Nuge. He's been alright this playoffs. He's been decent offensively. Decent defensively. Good on the PK. So Nuge being Nuge.
It was 13 yrs ago today when he got drafted. This is what he's wanted. Probably took longer than he hoped. But here is it, the cup is there for the taking. If ever there was a game to go all out, give it everything you got and have himself A GAME, tonight is the night.
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Sounds like he’s sick tonight. Hopefully so DayQuil and something special from
The doc and maybe a Fuhrsie bump will get him right as rain.
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Suomalainen
Messages: 890
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
No Cups
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| Mike wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 17:44 |
| Hibernia wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 20:40 |
Still a few tickets available under $900 now.
Oilfans, OilersNation, whatever you want to call us, has been known to travel well. Tonight is about to put an exclamation mark on that!
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Crap. Should have gone. I knew they would go down again. Oh well.
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I know we won't see until the anthems, but NHL network down here seems to be indicating we might be close to 50/50 fan split.
97.
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Mike
Messages: 1373
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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| Suomalainen wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 20:52 |
| Mike wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 17:44 |
| Hibernia wrote on Mon, 24 June 2024 20:40 |
Still a few tickets available under $900 now.
Oilfans, OilersNation, whatever you want to call us, has been known to travel well. Tonight is about to put an exclamation mark on that!
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Crap. Should have gone. I knew they would go down again. Oh well.
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I know we won't see until the anthems, but NHL network down here seems to be indicating we might be close to 50/50 fan split.
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lol - that doesn’t help me! Oh well - hopefully I can use the money I saved for a parade! So nervous right now.
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