Post-Game Talk: Connor Magic!

[OILFAN FOREVER]

Have watched the highlights like 30 times today. So nice to play well in a game 1 for a change.

Klingberg deserves a lot of props. He has stepped in and played amazing. The surgery seems to have gone well and he is playing so well. Connor Brown has also stepped up in these playoffs. My favorite goal of the night was the 4th one due to the Draisaitl reaction on the bench. Finally, Corey Perry continues to produce. Drai said he is one of the smartest players he's ever seen and it's true. Perry just knows where to go.

Don't let up in game 2. Vegas will play their best game of the playoffs. We need to match their energy early.

 

[oXo Cube]

I uninstalled Twitter after I got tired of the replies to every tweet I opened being full of bots spewing political BS and porn accounts hawking their onlyfans link on otherwise entirely unrelated content.

I haven't missed it.

 

[Bumblebee Man]

Yup, all people have to do is look up these stats before sharing their opinions, but whether it's laziness, liquid courage, hubris, or some combination, they like to just blurt out takes based on the infallible accuracy of their "eye test" and laugh off the data. Then we get false, easily disproven narratives like Evan Bouchard being a bigger problem than our goaltending all season.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Bouchard is playing better since the switch. It's easier to play with confidence when you don't have the media and large swathes of the fanbase blaming you for every mistake that goes in the net. Plus there's also the fact that he "levels up" at this time of the year.

Throwing pucks into the slot like in game 1 or giving the puck away at center on the pp attempting a horrible drop pass to McDavid is not the goalies fault.

Suggesting that Bouchard is playing better/worse b/c of the goalie has to be one of the worst takes you'll ever see.

Bouchard has been better b/c he hasn't made any five alarm giveaways consistently since game one.

It's really not that complicated. Your take is hilarious tho

 

[nally]

well did actually. You said he was a bad goalie ( he isn't) then when called out, you moved the goal post to he was a dead average goalie ( which exactly what he is, so kudos for getting it right) then you moved on to we wont win with him. So, im not sure we actually agree on Picard.

Theres other factors that go into winning games other save percentage, a .929 doesn't guarantee a win, the only save percentage that guarantees a win in the playoffs is 1.00% and no goalies do that night in and night out. You can absolutely win with .891 if the rest of the team is performing. So far, for the last 5 games we've been firing on all cylinders. Its not going to be easy, but it never is, even with the best goalie.

Grant Fuhr has a playoff save percentage of .898. His most important stat was wins

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

That sells a ton of garbage products

You said no one uses it, though.

Bluesky, by comparison has lower volumes with generally high quality per post. Twitter is easily the Walmart in this comparison, where you have to wade through a ton of trash to get the content you’re after, and the quality will still be pretty terrible once you find it.

 

[OILFAN FOREVER]

One cool stat. McDavid is already in the top 50 of all time playoff points. Corey Perry is 48th, Draisaitl 66th.

 

[HockeyGuy1964]

Emberson only played 6:43. Is Stecher not available?

Emberson was the 1 player I thought had a poor game.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

You said no one uses it, though.

Bluesky, by comparison has lower volumes with generally high quality per post. Twitter is easily the Walmart in this comparison, where you have to wade through a ton of trash to get the content you’re after, and the quality will still be pretty terrible once you find it.

again, postings of what? clearly not anything sports related

 

[jukon]

One cool stat. McDavid is already in the top 50 of all time playoff points. Corey Perry is 48th, Draisaitl 66th.

Perry is also tied for 9th in all time playoff games played, could be as high as 3rd depending on this year's run.

 

[Stoneman89]

Emberson was the 1 player I thought had a poor game.

I think I would trust Stetcher in more than 6 minutes, so I hope he gets a chance. I see him as an upgrade over Emberson.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Yup, all people have to do is look up these stats before sharing their opinions, but whether it's laziness, liquid courage, hubris, or some combination, they like to just blurt out takes based on the infallible accuracy of their "eye test" and laugh off the data. Then we get false, easily disproven narratives like Evan Bouchard being a bigger problem than our goaltending all season.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Bouchard is playing better since the switch. It's easier to play with confidence when you don't have the media and large swathes of the fanbase blaming you for every mistake that goes in the net. Plus there's also the fact that he "levels up" at this time of the year.

A competent to good puck handling goalie is the first ingredient to solid transition and moving pucks quickly and getting them out. Pickard makes deft plays with puck to his D, Gets zone outs himself and did yesterday on pk, and he decisions quickly with awareness meaning that his D reasonably know what he is going to do.

In contrast the other guy who shall go unnamed decisions pucks slowly, is often late to move to pucks or not at all, is unpredictable in puck management and is an impediment to transition and D knowing reasonably what is going to occur with pucks and dumps.

Of course theres a connection between puck playing goalies and sound transition. To say its not a factor is to not even understand hockey.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

again, postings of what? clearly not anything sports related

Here’s something sports related: you have moved the goalposts.

The fact that slow-on-the-uptake sports media haven’t yet migrated doesn’t mean that Twitter is generally a superior social media platform.

I can watch the best hockey players in the world on Sportsnet, but Sportsnet still sucks from a viewer experience perspective.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Throwing pucks into the slot like in game 1 or giving the puck away at center on the pp attempting a horrible drop pass to McDavid is not the goalies fault.

Suggesting that Bouchard is playing better/worse b/c of the goalie has to be one of the worst takes you'll ever see.

Bouchard has been better b/c he hasn't made any five alarm giveaways consistently since game one.

It's really not that complicated. Your take is hilarious tho

Sorry, it's really hard to take you seriously enough to give you the reply you seek, especially to such a comical overly agro post, but lucky for you someone bothered to offer some actual analysis of the correlation. And I fully admit that I could not have explained it nearly as well as the the person quoted below:

A competent to good puck handling goalie is the first ingredient to solid transition and moving pucks quickly and getting them out. Pickard makes deft plays with puck to his D, Gets zone outs himself and did yesterday on pk, and he decisions quickly with awareness meaning that his D reasonably know what he is going to do.

In contrast the other guy who shall go unnamed decisions pucks slowly, is often late to move to pucks or not at all, is unpredictable in puck management and is an impediment to transition and D knowing reasonably what is going to occur with pucks and dumps.

Of course theres a connection between puck playing goalies and sound transition. To say its not a factor is to not even understand hockey.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Here’s something sports related: you have moved the goalposts.

The fact that slow-on-the-uptake sports media haven’t yet migrated doesn’t mean that Twitter is generally a superior social media platform.

I can watch the best hockey players in the world on Sportsnet, but Sportsnet still sucks from a viewer experience perspective.

Now I'm interested.

I have neither Twitter or Blue sky, FTR.

Does Bluesky have anything for us slow-on-the-uptake people?

What subjects are considered in the higher quality post category?

 

[K1984]

You think we played “near perfect 5v5 hockey” in Games 3, 4 and 6 vs LA?

Had to in order to come back after the poor goals that were let in prior. Definitely not for the full 60, but certainly did when we came back while allowing almost nothing the other way.

I would describe most of Game 5 against the Kings and Game 1 against Vegas (the only two where I would say there were no bad goals) as near perfect 5v5 hockey.

 

[K1984]

I think I would trust Stetcher in more than 6 minutes, so I hope he gets a chance. I see him as an upgrade over Emberson.

Especially when quick puck movement is critical in this series moreso than others. Bonus is he can babysit Darnell.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Now I'm interested.

I have neither Twitter or Blue sky, FTR.

Does Bluesky have anything for us slow-on-the-uptake people?

What subjects are considered in the higher quality post category?

I’m sure it does. I don’t think the subject dictates the quality so much as the reliability/veracity of individual posts - and greater ability to avoid spam/bots.

 

[foshizzle]

Yup, all people have to do is look up these stats before sharing their opinions, but whether it's laziness, liquid courage, hubris, or some combination, they like to just blurt out takes based on the infallible accuracy of their "eye test" and laugh off the data. Then we get false, easily disproven narratives like Evan Bouchard being a bigger problem than our goaltending all season.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Bouchard is playing better since the switch. It's easier to play with confidence when you don't have the media and large swathes of the fanbase blaming you for every mistake that goes in the net. Plus there's also the fact that he "levels up" at this time of the year.

Such a solid post.

We all have biases. Eye tests confirm biases. Everyone can look up metrics, like you said, to confirm what you see is actually what is happening. “Did I see what I wanted to see to or what actually happened?” Is a question I ask myself a lot. These biases are also perpetuated by Edmonton media who seem to know very little of the sport and its evolution.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Here’s something sports related: you have moved the goalposts.

The fact that slow-on-the-uptake sports media haven’t yet migrated doesn’t mean that Twitter is generally a superior social media platform.

I can watch the best hockey players in the world on Sportsnet, but Sportsnet still sucks from a viewer experience perspective.

Bluesky is basically twitter from 2016, politically speaking. Very left. It's a natural reaction to what Twitter is in 2025.

Twitter is what it is these days. It's the real wild west but its also clear that Elon does have his thumb on the scale pushing it to the right. Most obvious example of that is the "For You" tab which literally everyone agrees is a radioactive cesspool.

Fundamentally for me, I still use twitter. I just always use the "Following" tab. The comments can be pretty whack but I don't really engage in the discourse.

 

[Cloned]

For the love of McJesus can we please stop arguing about Twitter vs Bluesky in an Oilers PGT?

*angry Jokinen emote*

 

[OfCorsiDid]

A competent to good puck handling goalie is the first ingredient to solid transition and moving pucks quickly and getting them out. Pickard makes deft plays with puck to his D, Gets zone outs himself and did yesterday on pk, and he decisions quickly with awareness meaning that his D reasonably know what he is going to do.

In contrast the other guy who shall go unnamed decisions pucks slowly, is often late to move to pucks or not at all, is unpredictable in puck management and is an impediment to transition and D knowing reasonably what is going to occur with pucks and dumps.

Of course theres a connection between puck playing goalies and sound transition. To say its not a factor is to not even understand hockey.

I know this isn't the thread for this discussion, but I think we do need to talk more about what happened to Stuart Skinner's puck skills.

Like it's night and day from what he was like in 2021/22 and 2022/23.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Bluesky is basically twitter from 2016, politically speaking. Very left. It's a natural reaction to what Twitter is in 2025.

Twitter is what it is these days. It's the real wild west but its also clear that Elon does have his thumb on the scale pushing it to the right. Most obvious example of that is the "For You" tab which literally everyone agrees is a radioactive cesspool.

Fundamentally for me, I still use twitter. I just always use the "Following" tab. The comments can be pretty whack but I don't really engage in the discourse.

Those associations with the respective platforms have Marshall McLuhan orgasming in his grave.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

For the love of McJesus can we please stop arguing about Twitter vs Bluesky in an Oilers PGT?

*angry Jokinen emote*

Your options are:

• Bluesky vs Twitter debate
• Both Messier's arguing over Stuart Skinner

Place your vote below:

 

[Cloned]

Your options are:

• Bluesky vs Twitter debate
• Both Messier's arguing over Stuart Skinner

Place your vote below:

I’d rather just delete the thread.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

I’d rather just delete the thread.

Kinda like when my friends asked me who I wanted to win the Leafs/Panthers series and I responded with "asteroid".