Post-Game Talk: A successful season?

[Oilhawks]

Condolences from Blues nation. Was pulling for you guys. My heart broke for y'all tonight. Hope you can get a tendy and some defense next season. Oilers sure are fun to watch.

Thank you. I was rooting for the Blues last series, I think Blues would have won if not for the Binnington injury. Need a goalie and one more top 4D. Nurse was rough this series but he was playing injured.

 

[Del Preston]

I really think you guys are a piece away from greatness

Give me Shesterkin.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Bob speculating Nurse will miss the beginning of next season due to surgery.

Maybe he can LTIR until the playoffs so we have a fighting chance at affording a better defence.

 

[Rengorlex]

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.

Yeah, the scary part is what is this team going to look like when McDavid and Draisaitl aren't scoring at two points per game? Because this for sure was an outlier. The team got massively outscored and massively outchanced when McDavid wasn't on the ice in these playoffs. Holland found wingers that compliment him, but that's about as much as a success he had.

 

[Shizuka]

They went further than expected but it's still galling to go out in a sweep, especially when the players fell flat on their faces to start all three series and never learned from it. That clownshow GM felt this tandem was the best he could do and that they were good enough..

I'm going to hold off on criticizing any more or it might not stop. Get rid of the dead weight in the roster, get players who know their roles and are willing to play them, and find some f***ing goaltending that provides consistent, steady reliability. Even with that mediocre standard as a baseline, I think this team might have had enough to take it to 7 against a frankly much more determined and deep avs lineup.

 

[Mez]

We had 1 game where Smith was above .900 this series. Cant win much with that.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I really think you guys are a piece away from greatness

We are a starting goalie and #1 d away

 

[Cloned]

All the fans attending this game should get their money back. The NHL officiating robbed you of the outcome. I'll play that. AV's get a goal with the official stopping up the puck in our zone, leads to goal. One of the worst phantom calls you'll ever see, on Ryan, leads to goal. Then of course no highstick on the winning goal. I mean did anybody expect a call on that? Nah, I didn't either. This just a shortlist of the one sided calls of the game and the AV's being allowed to constantly interfere, hold, to prevent our forecheck.

I would be angrier if it was Game 6 or 7 in a tight series.

But this outcome was inevitable imo. So while I’m annoyed by the officiating, the anger is less palpable lmao

 

[AddyTheWrath]

Ceci deflection is on Drai for not getting over to the point. Mackinnon one oir D got caught high. Keith and Bouchard weren't good on the OT goal.

This team just doesn't defend nearly well enough. If they want to actually get a Cup finals you're never gonna do it playing this fire wagon 5-4, 6-5 style.

Draisaitl was playing with a dead man’s body so I don’t fault him at all. He could barely even skate by the end.

MacKinnon should’ve never scored from that angle. Smith should’ve had that one. It was a 1v1 and MacK was driving wide. Challenge the shooter FFS.

OT goal was highsticking IMO, but that’s the way she goes.

I don’t disagree that we need to improve our defense. I just don’t think we were particularly bad defensively tonight. The goals were mostly on Smith, bad breaks, or poor officiating.

 

[Mr McV]

To run their show like the Oilers did in the second period, and then to give it all away in 31 seconds is just mind blowing.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Mike Smith should take the million dollar he is due, go LTIR,
And reimburse every single one of those fan who he robbed.

 

[PULSATING]

What a ride this season was guys! Thanks for putting up with my shitposting.

Remember 6 months ago when Dave Tippet was our coach? Who would've thought we'd make it to the WCF? Not me lol, I was prepping for the lottery.

Hope Kenny has some tricks up his sleave to improve the D and G, not sure I trust the guy. I don't think this falls all on Smith but he could have been better. I think it's obvious that the D is just not good enough also. Probably need another #2 to bolster Nurse.

 

[Game 8]

Catchy. Going to download this.

Awesome tune that somehow never made it up to Canada.

 

[CycloneSweep]

We had 1 game where Smith was above .900 this series. Cant win much with that.

I also think we registered 1 good scoring chance all of game 2 as well. Not all on him, but a lot was.

 

[Mez]

To run their show like the Oilers did in the second period, and then to give it all away in 31 seconds is just mind blowing.

Is it though? this is the Oilers after all.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Avs were good enough to take it easy for half the series and do just enough to win.

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.

 

[Cloned]

Avs were good enough to take it easy for half the series and do just enough to win.

Pretty much like us against Calgary.

 

[Satire]

Frustrating result obviously tonight, but was great to have the ride. I'll be interested to see what injuries Nurse and Drai were nursing. Great season from McDavid and Drai.

Hoping Skinner can take the reigns next year and run with it. We are a piece or two away from being a legit cup threat.

 

[gordonhught]

We are a starting goalie and #1 d away

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

I would be thrilled.

 

[Magnum23]

Happy we made it to round 3 and beating Calgary was amazing. But it shows we need major upgrades on defence and in goaltending. No way we can win with a similar d core next year.

 

[JoeSakic13]

I really think you guys are a piece away from greatness

This. I knew that Hyman was a terrific pickup, but man is he an amazing fit for that squad. Kane (though prone to bonehead play) is still an offensive dynamo.

I’m not sure Smith is the answer in goal, but getting into the WCF finals shows that you’re pretty close already. Not to mention you have some solid prospects on the backend coming up no?

 

[TypeSly]

I wish that the Oilers could have just won ONE game this series. It's so hard to feel good about the season because of being swept to end it, and in the fashion of how they got swept (One BS non-offside goal gifted to the Avs and then choking late in games multiple times).

It's so hard not to be bitter at Smith right now, the way he just sh*t the bed all series, and it only kept getting worse until finally putting us out of our misery in OT of the final game. Seriously, how many gaffs can one goalie have to cost his team games? And of course they happen, only at the most absolutely crucial times. Can any Oiler fan honestly say they would want to see him in net for the playoffs ever again? I bet there's not one player in that locker room that would say that they do.

 

[Soundwave]

Avs got to the Cup finals 6-5 style?

Avs beat us both ways. When we wanted to play wide open stupid hockey they took advantage. They also in the middle chunk of the series shut our offense down for large stretches.

This team honestly was bad defensively for much of the playoffs.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Cant run smith / skinner if we want a cup.

 

[EchoesoftheEighties]

Just outclassed by a better team. Sucks.

Overall super proud of the boys and this year. Not the ending we would've loved but it happens. I'm gonna soak this L for a bit though. Not mad, just a little upset.