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Edmonton @ Los Angeles (Game #1) [message #842875] |
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 OilFans
Messages: 1743
Registered: February 2006
Location: Edmonton
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  Game #1 Edmonton @ Los Angeles
8:00PM SN, 630 CHED RadioScore Prediction
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2974
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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Don't care what anyone says
Start Pickard next game
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HamBlaster
Messages: 1112
Registered: June 2007
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Can we pack Skinner up and send him home? The guy is the definition of momentum-killer and sieve.
Nice effort to get back into the game from the rest of the squad, but when you have playoff Swiss cheese in net, you're not going to go far.
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watchman
Messages: 1712
Registered: October 2019
Location: River City
1 Cup
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| tardigrade81 wrote on Mon, 21 April 2025 23:05 |
Don't care what anyone says
Start Pickard next game
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...hard to argue with letting in 6. PICKS can not be worse. ...and probably better.
...this time, it's for real (isn't it?).
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Leia
Messages: 429
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
No Cups
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You know what, we may have lost but we are in the Kings head for sure. They felt they were home and dry at 4-0. To come back as we did, with a team that is far from healthy, with players due back soon they'll be thinking we got lucky tonight.
Got to keep our heads and stop taking stupid penalties, but that 5 on 3 kill was important, not just for tonight but the series. It should give us some confidence.
Peeved we lost after the come back, but more positives than negatives.
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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Mike
Messages: 1461
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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| Leia wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 02:14 |
Got to keep our heads and stop taking stupid penalties
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lol - you have got to be kidding. We need refs to call a fair game. This was bush league.
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Jay
Messages: 751
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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| tardigrade81 wrote on Mon, 21 April 2025 23:05 |
Don't care what anyone says
Start Pickard next game
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I think they will.
Knoblauch likes Skinner but I think he likes being an NHL coach too.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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Mike
Messages: 1461
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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| Jay wrote on Tue, 22 April 2025 02:10 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Mon, 21 April 2025 23:05 |
Don't care what anyone says
Start Pickard next game
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I think they will.
Knoblauch likes Skinner but I think he likes being an NHL coach too.
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What the hell is your problem with our boy Stu? Did you not check the stats? .800 tonight!!! For every goal he let in, he stopped a whopping 4 shots! Top shelf stuff right here.
Not sure about the GA, but something over 6. Too late here to calculate.
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Kr55
Messages: 11344
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Ridiculous game. Hope we can start the next one looking like we actually belong in the playoffs. Get the split.
"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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g2k
Messages: 2916
Registered: January 2003
Location: The Hood
2 Cups
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5 against Keumper in his own rink.
There’s that.
Start Pickard.
#firebob #screwitjustselltheteam #ownerisacreep
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cpcos
Messages: 40
Registered: March 2013
No Cups
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We don’t deserve this wonder McDavid…. He’s so unlucky to end up to a Canadian team…. and Oilers nonetheless….
Skinner doesn’t belong in Nhl…
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 smyth260
Messages: 1154
Registered: November 2007
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You get what you deserve when you roll into the playoffs with sub .900 goaltending and no plan B. All those analytics hires, McDavid’s old agent at the helm, a 3 time cup winning GM…And the play was to go with this uninspiring duo of goaltending..
We may win the series yet, but any run is going to be harder than it needs to be.
Waste of a 4 pt game from 97.
[Updated on: Mon, 21 April 2025 23:20]
Clean house or bust
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Kr55
Messages: 11344
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Taking a moment to realize how hard Danault owned us tonight.
Whining about oilers holding sticks in the media somehow leads to the refs calling a phantom stick hold penalty on us, right at the start of the game, for LA's first goal. Kulak never even touched the stick, he just had an arm out like lots of players do all night.
His head flop while getting a cross check in the chest, like many D to after the whistle on players being aggressive in the crease, draws a 5 on 3 call for another instant goal.
Scores 2 goals himself including the fluke GWG.
Just so gross. Don't let this happen again Oilers.
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"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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Adam
Messages: 7341
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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Defencemen ice time tonight:
Bouchard - 28:20
Nurse - 25:17
Kulak - 24:58
Walman - 19:35
Emberson - 13:10
J. Brown - 4:54
This is unsustainable, especially if we get in to some overtime games. The Oilers can't afford to play Brown again, and they need to give a little more trust down the roster. If we roll 3 defencemen out for 25+ minutes a night, they're going to break down and they're going to make mistakes when they tire out.
On forward, Frederic with only 9:11 tonight...still doesn't look healthy. Maybe he should come out if Kane goes in and rest up.
"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
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4788
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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| Adam wrote on Mon, 21 April 2025 23:15 |
Defencemen ice time tonight:
Bouchard - 28:20
Nurse - 25:17
Kulak - 24:58
Walman - 19:35
Emberson - 13:10
J. Brown - 4:54
This is unsustainable, especially if we get in to some overtime games. The Oilers can't afford to play Brown again, and they need to give a little more trust down the roster. If we roll 3 defencemen out for 25+ minutes a night, they're going to break down and they're going to make mistakes when they tire out.
On forward, Frederic with only 9:11 tonight...still doesn't look healthy. Maybe he should come out if Kane goes in and rest up.
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They had even had Dermott if Klingberg wasn't ready.. and at least Dineen has showed he has a good puck IQ and can skate, move the puck.. Knob and the defensive coaches chunked that one.. inserting Brown.. I think I blame the defensive coaches more.. Stuart and ☕ .. they obviously OK'd it.
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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nullterm
Messages: 1075
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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Knoblauch is either winning a cup or getting fired this summer. Nothing in between. Bad decision after bad decision, but McDavid almost saved his skin. Could have easily been Paul Coffey coming out in the 3rd period as new head coach.
Skinner… is either about to go on a tear as he usually does after 2/3 awful games or you need to ride Pickard. The whole team spent the whole game waking up realizing they are in the playoffs, but he wasn’t holding the team in while they did.
Oilers are the Schrödinger's cat of the playoffs, you have no idea if you are opening a box to a live or dead cat.
No panic yet. If they pull out a game 2 win in LA we’re rolling.
[Updated on: Tue, 22 April 2025 01:15]
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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Adam
Messages: 7341
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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Who should come out? Janmark, notwithstanding the goal tonight. He had 2 goals all season before that, with only one past an actual goalie.
However, it's Knoblauch, so he'll keep his meat-and-potatoes guy in, and he'll bench Jeff Skinner despite all his hot play down the stretch.
"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
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nullterm
Messages: 1075
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
1 Cup
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Mon, 21 April 2025 23:03 |
Refs + Skinner = Loss
J. Skinner, Arvedsson, who goes out if Kane comes in?
Arvedsson.. too small and slow.. Skinner same.. but more agile..
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I voted Skinner. He’s shown nothing and maybe the wrong guy against the Kings. Maybe next series. Arved atleast had some decent looks around the net.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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