Post-Game Talk: A successful season?

[JossyP]

It was a great playoff run for the Oilers. Beating the Flames was awesome,but it wasn’t our time for ultimate glory yet. Huge props to the avalanche, they were so strong in this series.

 

[MessierII]

I'm sorry to be negative but I can't feel good about this. Yes we beat Calgary and made it to round 3. Yes the experience is good for the group. But even a Hurculean effort by our top guys (even RNH was phenomenal) couldn't mask the gaping holes on the back end and it net. Everyone knew this coming into the season, and it was exposed this round. A competent GM with that much cap space surely could have done so much better than what we've been trotting out back there.

To be fair it’s tough when your #1 is playing at about 30%. Imagine Makar that hurt for the Avs how different this series would be. Out of 3 players we could least afford to have hurt 2 were badly hurt.

 

[Waivers]

Even though Colorado is amazing, Mike Smith isn’t the answer.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

To think the Blues, so far, gave the Avs the most trouble. 5 seconds away from OT and a chance to force a game 7.

Full credit to the Avs though, they are rolling. 12-2 so far.

The league and especially the officiating can deep throat a cactus thought.

 

[RattsSSV]

Nurse confirmed he tore his hip flexor

 

[McOilers97]

Ok, so torn hip flexor Nurse just said.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Special shout out to Kane, and Kassian, two players that understood what the Oilers needed more of in this series and at least tried to get some bad blood flowing. The Oilers, after the Flames series were having trouble dialing up motivating hate for this series and opponent. Both Kane and Kass were feeding that, but alas too late. I do feel the AV's responded dirty in this game in response to Kane on Kadri, and I think it got the AV's off their mental focus in this one. We should won, and there should have been more calls on the AV's infractions and undisciplined play.

So much learning experiences, we missed opportunities to get dialed in in this series. Felt the team really approached most of the series the wrong way.

 

[super6646]

Draisatl was a beast. I thought he was done after the hit (by landeskog I wanna say?).

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Torn hip flexor for Darnell. Off season surgery I imagine.

 

[LTIR]

Not sure how Smith can come to and face media after this shit

 

[CycloneSweep]

Seriously, take a step back if you are going to go into full negative nancy mode. We gave them all they could handle in games 1 and 4.

The Avs played bad in game 1 and game 4 and still found a way to win. That’s literally my point. The Avs are good enough that they can mostly play a shit game and just decide to win.

 

[syz]

Called a hip injury as soon as he went off the ice when he got hurt.

 

[Connor McConnor]

It was a good season for sure, we ran into a team that was better from top to bottom.

We didn’t lose this series because of MacK and Makar we lost because of guys like Compher and Nichuskin outplaying our bottom 6.

Oh and Mike Smith showing he’s 60 years old.

Would have liked us to push them to atleast 6 and I think the games were pretty close where that was a possibility but overall, what more could you have expected from this flawed roster.

 

[Mr Positive]

It was a great playoff run for the Oilers. Beating the Flames was awesome,but it wasn’t our time for ultimate glory yet. Huge props to the avalanche, they were so strong in this series.

They've suffered a ton as well. They've come into playoffs and failed many times as well and with much higher expectations than our team has. Their core is older as well aside from Makar.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

torn hip flexor.

Sounds painful.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Cant run smith / skinner if we want a cup.

We were not even tracking for a playoff birth with their record combined.

 

[Weitz]

I still can’t believe we have 4.3 million in dead cap next year.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I would say top 15 goalie and a hard to play against RHD. Re-sign Kane.

I would be thrilled.

Fair. I’d say if your top pairing is Nurse - Ceci, you don’t have a good defence. That’s a real good second pair though (not a knock on Ceci)

 

[McOilers97]

Not sure how Smith can come to and face media after this shit

I get the frustration, but these are human beings, dude. Have a little decency.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I still can’t believe we have 4.3 million in dead cap next year.

+ the overpays and bad contracts we have

 

[McHelpus]

This will likely be the most important offseason of the Mcdavid Era...

It was a great year! Beating the flames is something I will never forget.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

The sweep and watching Colorado celebrate a conference title win in their barn will hopefully not just light a fire under their asses, it better ignite a f***ing rocket.

 

[Magnum23]

Did Drai say what injury he had?

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Nurse discloses he played 3 series with a torn hip flexor. Such a shame this warrior was not at 100% to help this team. I hope some of the intense negativity for this player will be mitigated with a hard truth of a significant injury he played through.

 

[Cloned]

Draisatl was a beast. I thought he was done after the hit (by landeskog I wanna say?).

Did you just commit Flames fan treason?