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Login To Make Your Prediction2024-25P Regular Season| Monday, April 21, 2025 | Edmonton 5 @ Los Angeles 6 | Loss | | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Edmonton 2 @ Los Angeles 6 | Loss | | Friday, April 25, 2025 | Los Angeles 4 @ Edmonton 7 | Win | | Sunday, April 27, 2025 | Los Angeles 3 @ Edmonton 4 (OT) | Win | | Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | Edmonton 3 @ Los Angeles 1 | Win | | Thursday, May 1, 2025 | Los Angeles @ Edmonton | | Saturday, May 3, 2025 | Edmonton @ Los Angeles |
Home Record: 2-0-0 Road Record: 1-2-0 Overall Record: 3-2-0
Home / Road Goals For: 11/10 Total: 21
Home / Road Goals Against: 7/13 Total: 202023-24 Regular Season| Saturday, December 30, 2023 | Edmonton 3 @ Los Angeles 2 (OT) (SO) | Win | | Saturday, February 10, 2024 | Edmonton 0 @ Los Angeles 4 | Loss | | Monday, February 26, 2024 | Los Angeles 2 @ Edmonton 4 | Win | | Thursday, March 28, 2024 | Los Angeles 1 @ Edmonton 4 | Win |
Home Record: 2-0-0 Road Record: 1-1-0 Overall Record: 3-1-0
Home / Road Goals For: 8/3 Total: 11
Home / Road Goals Against: 3/6 Total: 9 |
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4879
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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In McDavid I Trust
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 09:57 |
In McDavid I Trust
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NHLoilers74
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Registered: April 2025
Location: England Gloucestershire
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Hi, I am new here and from the UK so I don't know as much about Ice hockey as you guys. I have been an Oilers fan for over 30 years though.
What I do know though is we won't win anything with Skinner in the net though. 12 conceded in two games. Yes our defence is poor but what is going on with Skinner? He has been poor for a while now.
Hope we get the win later back home.
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tardigrade81
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Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
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We are winning tonight.
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CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
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| tardigrade81 wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 06:20 |
We are winning tonight.
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Yup.
Friday night home playoff game with the best player in the world being in a grumpy mood? There's almost no better way to spend an pleasant early spring evening. Get the nachos and coors light ready.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1315
Registered: October 2006
Location: Kensington, PEI
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| NHLoilers74 wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 06:46 |
Hi, I am new here and from the UK so I don't know as much about Ice hockey as you guys. I have been an Oilers fan for over 30 years though.
What I do know though is we won't win anything with Skinner in the net though. 12 conceded in two games. Yes our defence is poor but what is going on with Skinner? He has been poor for a while now.
Hope we get the win later back home.
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Welcome!
Hopefully Frederic sits out this one. It was painful watching him in game 2. Put Skinner back on McDavid's wing.
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Adam
Messages: 7368
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| NHLoilers74 wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 03:46 |
Hi, I am new here and from the UK so I don't know as much about Ice hockey as you guys. I have been an Oilers fan for over 30 years though.
What I do know though is we won't win anything with Skinner in the net though. 12 conceded in two games. Yes our defence is poor but what is going on with Skinner? He has been poor for a while now.
Hope we get the win later back home.
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To be fair, Skinner's only allowed 11 of those goals!!!
Welcome! Enjoy the game tonight!
"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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Leia
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Registered: May 2003
Location: England
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| NHLoilers74 wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 03:46 |
Hi, I am new here and from the UK so I don't know as much about Ice hockey as you guys. I have been an Oilers fan for over 30 years though.
What I do know though is we won't win anything with Skinner in the net though. 12 conceded in two games. Yes our defence is poor but what is going on with Skinner? He has been poor for a while now.
Hope we get the win later back home.
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Forget all the 51st State stupidity, the Brits are taking over Oilfans 
Here's hoping we can get back on track with this one, proper ruined my week off being tired and grumpy because we've played so badly. Feel like I need a week off to recover from this week.
A Connor hat-trick tonight for me, he's going to light up the Kings and we'll all be hailing that Brown has finally arrived.
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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Oscargasm
Messages: 5938
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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Just. Must. Win.
Category 6 Mustnado winds for this one
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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tardigrade81
Messages: 3104
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
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Pick starting in net. Excellent
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Adam
Messages: 7368
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Pickard reportedly starting tonight.
Here's hoping it goes well.
Also - whoever in the organization has been informing all the goaltending decisions has to be changed. The history here is incredible.
2023 - Skinner is pulled three times in a row versus Vegas. Team decides that he's the starter and that all we need behind him is a back-up in his 30s who hasn't been over .900 sv% in years.
2024 - We go to the Finals, but along the way, Skinner struggles so badly against Vancouver that he needs to be sat in favour of Pickard's first ever playoff starts. In the summer, the team decides that they're still the tandem to take this forward.
Fall 2024 - both goalies fumbling out of the gate, especially Skinner. Goalies getting moved with some regularity. Oilers decide no - all good. We got the guys we need.
2025 - After two dreadful starts, Skinner sat in favour of Pickard's third ever playoff start. No matter what happens from here on out in this post-season, all of that prior decision-making is just exposed as a complete bleeping disaster.
Whether they believed in Skinner or not, Pickard shouldn't be the one they're tapping now. They should have upgraded at some point to someone who you might possibly be able to count on here. I mean, imagine if we'd gotten Logan Thompson or Mackenzie Blackwood in the last year, and Pickard was pushed to the AHL or lost on waivers? We're in such a better position.
I believe the Oilers can win. The Kings are beatable and we have the best players. But the goaltending is a tire fire and such an obvious one that I don't know how you don't fire someone over those decisions.
EDIT to add - I forgot but we didn't just bet on Skinner in 2023-24...we also believed that Jack Campbell just worked really hard in the summer so he was going to be viable again last year...oops.
[Updated on: Fri, 25 April 2025 11:50]
"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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Oscargasm
Messages: 5938
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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| Adam wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 11:48 |
Pickard reportedly starting tonight.
Here's hoping it goes well.
Also - whoever in the organization has been informing all the goaltending decisions has to be changed. The history here is incredible.
2023 - Skinner is pulled three times in a row versus Vegas. Team decides that he's the starter and that all we need behind him is a back-up in his 30s who hasn't been over .900 sv% in years.
2024 - We go to the Finals, but along the way, Skinner struggles so badly against Vancouver that he needs to be sat in favour of Pickard's first ever playoff starts. In the summer, the team decides that they're still the tandem to take this forward.
Fall 2024 - both goalies fumbling out of the gate, especially Skinner. Goalies getting moved with some regularity. Oilers decide no - all good. We got the guys we need.
2025 - After two dreadful starts, Skinner sat in favour of Pickard's third ever playoff start. No matter what happens from here on out in this post-season, all of that prior decision-making is just exposed as a complete bleeping disaster.
Whether they believed in Skinner or not, Pickard shouldn't be the one they're tapping now. They should have upgraded at some point to someone who you might possibly be able to count on here. I mean, imagine if we'd gotten Logan Thompson or Mackenzie Blackwood in the last year, and Pickard was pushed to the AHL or lost on waivers? We're in such a better position.
I believe the Oilers can win. The Kings are beatable and we have the best players. But the goaltending is a tire fire and such an obvious one that I don't know how you don't fire someone over those decisions.
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But but but Gregor and the MSM tell me the problem is Bouchard! 🙄🙄
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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Jay
Messages: 835
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 11:48 |
Pickard reportedly starting tonight.
Here's hoping it goes well.
Also - whoever in the organization has been informing all the goaltending decisions has to be changed. The history here is incredible.
2023 - Skinner is pulled three times in a row versus Vegas. Team decides that he's the starter and that all we need behind him is a back-up in his 30s who hasn't been over .900 sv% in years.
2024 - We go to the Finals, but along the way, Skinner struggles so badly against Vancouver that he needs to be sat in favour of Pickard's first ever playoff starts. In the summer, the team decides that they're still the tandem to take this forward.
Fall 2024 - both goalies fumbling out of the gate, especially Skinner. Goalies getting moved with some regularity. Oilers decide no - all good. We got the guys we need.
2025 - After two dreadful starts, Skinner sat in favour of Pickard's third ever playoff start. No matter what happens from here on out in this post-season, all of that prior decision-making is just exposed as a complete bleeping disaster.
Whether they believed in Skinner or not, Pickard shouldn't be the one they're tapping now. They should have upgraded at some point to someone who you might possibly be able to count on here. I mean, imagine if we'd gotten Logan Thompson or Mackenzie Blackwood in the last year, and Pickard was pushed to the AHL or lost on waivers? We're in such a better position.
I believe the Oilers can win. The Kings are beatable and we have the best players. But the goaltending is a tire fire and such an obvious one that I don't know how you don't fire someone over those decisions.
EDIT to add - I forgot but we didn't just bet on Skinner in 2023-24...we also believed that Jack Campbell just worked really hard in the summer so he was going to be viable again last year...oops.
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2023 Skinner was pulled against LA too.
I'm glad Pickard is starting tonight. I said at the start of the playoffs that it was never 'if' but 'when' Skinner would be pulled. The only question was how big of a hole would they be in when they finally realise (hopefully for the last time) that he is a massive liability. Hopefully it's not too late and they can still dig their way out of this.
Let's hope the Stewart Skinner as a number 1 experiment is finally over. He seems like a good guy and can probably carve out a career for himself as an AHL starter or an NHL backup if he finds the right situation but he needs to be wearing a ball cap from now on.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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Adam
Messages: 7368
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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The other crazy thing is that it looks like Jeff Skinner again sits, while the ghost of Trent Frederic and his wonky ankle are back in. I honestly can't conceive of why we'd do that. He doesn't look healthy at all.
Are the coaches doing anything more than just asking him if he thinks he can play?
"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: 4879
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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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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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4879
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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Per Tracy.. er' I mean Bob..
Draisaitl-McDavid-Hyman
Podkolzin-RNH-Arvidsson
Kane-Henrique-Brown
Frederic-Janmark-Perry
Skinner/Jones-Ryan-Kapanen
D rotating:
Klingberg-Bouchard
Nurse-Emberson
Kulak-Walman
Brown-Stecher
Pickard
Skinner
In the end I think the top D-pair in minutes will be Walman Kulak
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Adam
Messages: 7368
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 12:46 |
In the end I think the top D-pair in minutes will be Walman Kulak
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There is absolutely zero chance of that.
Bouchard & Nurse are still going to finish 1-2 in TOI. Kulak will be 3rd, same as the last two games and Walman fourth maybe - although he was 6th in usage in Game 2.
"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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Oscargasm
Messages: 5938
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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This is the series here, tonight. It doesn’t get much more Musty than this.
Lose and they’re toast. It would just be a matter of how long they delay the inevitable. But! WIN!? And it’s series on!
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: 4879
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 14:53 |
.. WIN!? And it’s series on!
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In McDavid. I Trust. 👍🏻
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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tardigrade81
Messages: 3104
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
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And in pickard !!
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5938
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 16:44 |
| Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 25 April 2025 14:53 |
.. WIN!? And it’s series on!
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In McDavid. I Trust. 👍🏻
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That makes two of us, my friend!
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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