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Florida @ Edmonton (Game #5) [message #846631] |
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 tardigrade81
Messages: 3511
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
3 Cups
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Well 4-2
[Updated on: Sat, 14 June 2025 20:41]
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nullterm
Messages: 1149
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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Are we the team that perennially can’t finish when it ultimately counts? Highlights all season but throwing blanks when the chips are down? Last year Game 7 vibes all over. No effort, can’t put together a basic pass. Pickard was keeping us in it but no one else showed up to score.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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tardigrade81
Messages: 3511
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
3 Cups
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Might be. I honestly don't know. Just pathetic effort tonight all the way
5-2. Just horrific hockey tonight.
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Leia
Messages: 501
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
No Cups
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At least in game 3 when we weren't at the races and clearly a step behind the Panthers we showed some fight, this has been nothing short of lie down and let us walk all over us. No effort, no fight or passion.
Take me home, country road
to the place where I belong
to Alberta, to see the Oilers
take me home, country road
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Kr55
Messages: 11931
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Pwned. So much for home ice meaning something. Marchand runs our arena.
First time facing elimination all playoffs on Tuesday.
[Updated on: Sat, 14 June 2025 20:50]
"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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Oscargasm
Messages: 6001
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
6 Cups
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The Must has left the building
Survivor CHAMP S52 | S66
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Mike
Messages: 1848
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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Nobody finishing checks. Nobody sense of urgency out there. In #^*{%} game 5 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS!!!! Unreal.
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HamBlaster
Messages: 1200
Registered: June 2007
1 Cup
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Put out a dog**** effort and receive dog**** results. Simple as that.
Oilers looked like they were playing a preseason game for 3/4 of that game. No surprise... you got clobbered.
Three dog**** first periods in a row. In the Finals. Brutal.
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HamBlaster
Messages: 1200
Registered: June 2007
1 Cup
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Yep. I'm starting to expect that the Oilers just don't have it, with this core. They have two more games to prove that they have the desire to actually win the Cup, and if they don't... they're going to have the reputation as being perennial also-rans.
Terrible effort.
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philly boy
Messages: 138
Registered: July 2007
Location: E-Town
No Cups
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Needed that game 2 OT. Florida has snatched their soul.
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nullterm
Messages: 1149
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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I watched every game of the 06 run anthem to final buzzer. Regardless of skill or what the score was. That team showed up every game and every shift and left it on the ice. If you go out fighting I’ll watch every second with all my heart.
This series, I’ve turned off THREE games (resumed last game) because the effort was absolutely pathetic and I couldn’t stand to watch. No hits. Couldn’t make a pass or carry the puck. Pathetic offensive zone. Everyone on this roster is capable of so much more. And it’s infuriating that they all have that deer in the headlights look hoping the game will turn their way. Guys it’s on you.
[Updated on: Sat, 14 June 2025 21:17]
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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nullterm
Messages: 1149
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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| HamBlaster wrote on Sat, 14 June 2025 20:12 |
Yep. I'm starting to expect that the Oilers just don't have it, with this core. They have two more games to prove that they have the desire to actually win the Cup, and if they don't... they're going to have the reputation as being perennial also-rans.
Terrible effort.
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McDavid (and Draisatl) is in Joe Thornton territory now.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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Mike
Messages: 1848
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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It’s not like you can say we were almost there. Again - outside the first few minutes minutes, we never threatened. From the point Marchand scored the first (which was embarrassing for all involved, it just never felt like we were going to win. Such a let down.
And the officiating is abysmal. They let Florida get away with so much. But out PP is not working anyway, so whatever I guess. Ughhhh
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nullterm
Messages: 1149
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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| Mike wrote on Sat, 14 June 2025 20:16 |
It’s not like you can say we were almost there. Again - outside the first few minutes minutes, we never threatened. From the point Marchand scored the first (which was embarrassing for all involved, it just never felt like we were going to win. Such a let down.
And the officiating is abysmal. They let Florida get away with so much. But out PP is not working anyway, so whatever I guess. Ughhhh
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Officiating was fine this game. We just lost to a hungrier team that wants to win way more than we do.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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Kr55
Messages: 11931
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Such a shame Picks made some saves to keep it 2-0, but we refused to do anything useful until we were finally down by 3.
So now we probably go back to Stu, and we probably have to win the cup with Stu. That's probably the end of Pickard now for the playoffs. Give him the lamest possible effort to end his playoffs.
"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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Oscargasm
Messages: 6001
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
6 Cups
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This sucks.
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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watchman
Messages: 1857
Registered: October 2019
Location: River City
1 Cup
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look... in what world do you take out Kapanen for Arvi or Skinner? ...don't ever play 14 on his off side again. Bouch... don't start the next first period in a comma. Whole team... if you don't play physically, you lose against FLA. Show that you want to go to the net the same way Marchand walked past Perry and through Bouch... and you will have a chance to extend this to 7. 
...this time, it's for real (isn't it?).
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HamBlaster
Messages: 1200
Registered: June 2007
1 Cup
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Yep. Just don't have enough to take a team through to the Cup.
Oh well... they have two more opportunities to prove otherwise. If they don't, definitely in the Joe Thornton conversation.
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HamBlaster
Messages: 1200
Registered: June 2007
1 Cup
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Trash effort from the guys in front of him. Not blaming this on Picks at all.
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5151
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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Difference in energy all around.. Oilers lacked it.. some guys just looked spent.. well is getting dry..
Over all the speed was not there.. both in the feet and mental processing.. could really use some more speed through the line up.. too slow to pucks.. unable to cycle.. weak possession.
extra day might help some of these guys for next game.. this was a quick turn around (single day)
If they go out like this again.. I think some of the off season decisions will be made a little easier.. and clearer..
[Updated on: Sun, 15 June 2025 04:28]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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smyth260
Messages: 1193
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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Depressing. Home ice advantage and 2 games squandered. Backs against the wall 3rd finals in my life.
I hope the outcome is different this time.
Clean house or bust
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Mike
Messages: 1848
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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Can’t help but feel this is a hopeless situation. I don’t think we’ve been the better team in any of the 5 games. Not by much if at all anyway.
Regardless of the outcome - whether they win the next 2, or lose in 6 or 7, the biggest failure from this group has to be going into this season with a Skinner/Pickard duo again. The boys are saying all the right things about their goalies, but it’s just not enough for a team with Cup aspirations.
And man - Bruins had 2 big trades with the finalists. On one side, Frederic for a 2nd, 4th, and a prospect. Florida got Marchand for a conditional 1st in 2027. 
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Rutuu
Messages: 148
Registered: March 2011
Location: Brisbane
No Cups
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| Mike wrote on Sun, 15 June 2025 13:44 |
Can’t help but feel this is a hopeless situation. I don’t think we’ve been the better team in any of the 5 games. Not by much if at all anyway.
Regardless of the outcome - whether they win the next 2, or lose in 6 or 7, the biggest failure from this group has to be going into this season with a Skinner/Pickard duo again. The boys are saying all the right things about their goalies, but it’s just not enough for a team with Cup aspirations.
And man - Bruins had 2 big trades with the finalists. On one side, Frederic for a 2nd, 4th, and a prospect. Florida got Marchand for a conditional 1st in 2027.
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Agree on not addressing the goalie situation. Walman has been a great add, so it's nice that we did something about the D. Hyman out is really hurting at the moment, he'd be a difference maker in a series like this.
It's not over by a long shot, but I'd like our chances more if we'd have Broberg, Holloway and a healthy Zach Hyman.
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Donzis86
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2024
Location: Regina, SK
No Cups
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How is Frederic still in the lineup? He is invisible and contributes nothing.
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5151
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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| nullterm wrote on Sat, 14 June 2025 20:14 |
I watched every game of the 06 run anthem to final buzzer. Regardless of skill or what the score was. That team showed up every game and every shift and left it on the ice. If you go out fighting I’ll watch every second with all my heart.
This series, I’ve turned off THREE games (resumed last game) because the effort was absolutely pathetic and I couldn’t stand to watch. No hits. Couldn’t make a pass or carry the puck. Pathetic offensive zone. Everyone on this roster is capable of so much more. And it’s infuriating that they all have that deer in the headlights look hoping the game will turn their way. Guys it’s on you.
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This .. 👍
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1431
Registered: October 2006
Location: Summerside, PEI
1 Cup
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Coffey is starting to really annoy me with his insistence on playing defensemen on their off side.
EVERYONE is struggling with that, and Florida is exploiting it big time.
I just can't understand why he won't stick with lefty-righty pairings.
Ek - Bouch
Nurse - Walman (I know Walman is a lefty, but he's played RD)
Kulak - Klingberg
Get some stability back there rather than constantly mixing & matching.
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