Post-Game Talk: A successful season?

[Ritchie Valens]

I think so.

You're Gawl damn right it was. Conference finals with a rookie coach who took over a floundering team out of the playoffs with less than 40 games to go.

Holland should have a pretty good idea what he needs to acquire this offseason.

Helleybuck is the top of my list.

 

[Kerberos]

Mike Smith better not show his face next season. Terrible goaltender. Almost cost us the Calgary series. Played a large part (along with the refs) in costing us this series.

Never makes the big save. Consistently flops around like an idiot and blames others for his own f*** ups.

 

[Yablo21]

Well that one was all mike smiths fault, no reason to make that play with a 2 goal lead.

 

[syz]

Successful season relative to the extremely flawed roster Holland has put together. Still think anything short of a cup when you have McDavid and Draisaitl playing like that should be considered failure.

 

[5 14 6 1]

Gut punch way to lose the WCF.

Smith and Nurse are both awful.

Good season from the team, still doesn't make it hurt any less. Heart breaker

 

[dssource]

Will be cheering for whomever makes it from the east.

Great season from the Oilers! Enjoy the summer everyone!

 

[DingDongCharlie]

Some good, McDrai over shadowed by this trash goaltender. Unfortunate.

 

[Vagabond]

I pray Smith and Keith retire.

I pray Nurse goes back to playing like the previous season.

Otherwise only a few tweaks and the Oilers can be that much better.

 

[Shanahanigans]

25 Million in cap space, and Holland decides the way to a cup is with this defense and goaltending. I don't even care, fire him into the sun. It took 2PPG performances by our two superstars with Drai playing on one leg to get us this far, and we get swept in round 3 because of our non-existent defense and goaltending. Mcdavid and Draisaitl deserve so much better.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Successful in my books. I’m gonna leave the boards to the gloomers over the summer to bicker about it though. See you next season or when some news happens.

 

[Kaniac]

It’ll be Smith and Skinner next year. Well Skinner and Rodrigue for most of the season while Smith tries to get healthy.

I'm fine with Smith being the back up, they have to let Skinner 100% run with it.

 

[TKB21]

Successful season all in all, this series really showed the glaring holes in this team and I’m not sure they can be fixed with our cap situation. Regardless Mike Smith needs to retire and Holland absolutely has to find a real goalie…

 

[Snipesaitl]

Better hope Skinner’s ready because you know Holland is rolling with Smith-Skinner next season

 

[CupofOil]

I'm proud of them. They battled hard until the very end despite having a lot of battle scars. 3 games that came down to the end.

I know there will be a lot of Mike Smith hate but it needs to be stated that they likely don't even get to the playoffs without him or past the Kings so while he makes some boneheaded plays, I'm not going to destroy a guy for being 40 years old and running out of steam.

Not the time to get mad at the team. They performed admirably, now it's up to the GM to make the right moves to get this team over this next hump.

 

[Ctrain2k]

Series should be 2-2, refs ruined the series oh well.

 

[The Hound]

Go Rags.

f*** Smith

 

[NedPlimpton]

The Avs are a tremendously skilled team and played to win this series. No doubt about it. Better team.

I never really used to even think about them, but this season (continuing into this series obviously) I really noticed how unlikeable they are. So many of their guys play a game I just kind of despise. I've never seen players go down so easy and "sell' so many calls in a very long time. I'm not even going to call it diving or say anything else, because it clearly works for them. It is what it is.

It's just that I developed a nice little "hatred" and it sure does make the games more intense feeling in that regard. Was good fun even when it wasn't.

I'm proud of this Oilers team for a damn good season. They overcame a lot and these playoffs sure were entertaining. Plenty of questions and work to be done, but for now I'll just enjoy the run for the great moments.

Like beating Calgary.

 

[McTedi]

Avs were better, should have got a couple wins though. McD and Drai got a step closer.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Mike Smith, yuck,
One more year, Holy ffff no!

 

[PBandJ]

Incoming "I come in peace" trolls.

Ran into the better team. It is what it is.

 

[Oildrum]

Great season. Got to see my first ever BOA and we hammered the flames which I will hold dearly for a long time.

D and Goalie need some serious work but we still have a lot of potential up front.

 

[Yablo21]

Better over now then in game 5

 

[tardigrade81]

Hurts man. Being swept is never easy.

Still proud of the boys. Was an exciting game. If Smith was half what he was earlier we win this

 

[CycloneSweep]

I'm fine with Smith being the back up, they have to let Skinner 100% run with it.

So we can draft high? Throwing a kid who hasn’t even had backup minutes in the NHL into a full time starting role is something not even rebuilding teams do.

 

[russ99]

Absolutely a successful season. Pretty obvious what needs to be done to take the next step.

Defense wins games in June.