Edmonton Oilers defeat the Dallas Stars, 4-2, advance to SCF

[McPoyle]

This was a great series. Well fought by the Stars. Oilers were lucky to win game 6, Skinner stood on his head and McDavid scored one of the nicest goals of his career. On to the final.

 

[Canovin]

Dallas is too good to not be back next year. Nothing to be upset about

 

[Frosty415]

Crazy that when fully healthy the Canucks are the best team in the West by a country mile, didn’t know they were that good. Oilers and Stars were extremely lucky to not have played a healthy Canucks Team.

That's some insane copium right there

What's next? The Canucks are better than the Stanley Cup champs?

 

[North Cole]

This is a wild take, considering that goaltending was the last thing that cost the Canucks the second round series.

Oilers dominated them for multiple stretches throughout the entire series. When Vancouver had all the momentum after the Game 5 win, they got thumped in Game 6.

The better team won that series.

Hilarious thinking Demko was going to provide better goaltending. The other dude was playing out of his mind. Never seen a team get dominated for like 18/24 periods and come away thinking they were that close. Worse than the truthers making excuses for us being swept by Winnipeg

 

[Ol' Jase]

Multiple injuries, Canucks were basically limping at that point. Boeser (playing with a broken finger) had to miss game 7 with a blood clot (which is now fine). Players playing through all the reported injuries and with their 3rd string goalie and still almost beating the Oilers in a tight 7 game series. The better team definitely didn’t win that series. If Pettersson, Boeser, Hughes, Demko were fully healthy Canucks likely take it in 5 or 6.

Canucks weren't the only team that were banged up by a long shot. The entire Oiler team had to navigate rampant flu throughout their entire line up. Multiple players were not 100%, including McDavid. This is just getting silly.

The better team won the series.

 

[LTIR]

I don't think any sane person picked LA over Edmonton this year lol.

In that series thread close to 200 posters (18%) voted that LA will be Oilers.

Edm vs Dallas about 30% voted for Oilers to get past the Stars...

Not the same but one could consider people who thought Oilers will beat the Stats insane.

 

[Brookbank]

Didn't see that coming at all. Sorry Stars.. you had an unbelievably brutal schedule and a tremendous team. Those last 2 days of the regular season really did you no favors in terms scheduling and opponents.

Still in shock. A poster pointed out that each round had a Flame's ghost (Rittich, Zadorov, Tanev) and now we have the final boss ... Matthew T! Going to be an amazing final and curious if we can get the cup back to Canada.

Vancouver made it a lot closer than Dallas

I see some laugh emojis but no reply. Sorry to interrupt Oilers stars back slapping witb awkward truths

 

[thefutures]

Dallas threw the kitchen sink at 'em but just couldn't find a way to score enough goals.
Good series.

Power play was the difference.

Careful u might offend one of the drunkards that take offense to being called pp merchants

 

[Frozen Failure]

I mean, historical PP performance was probably the difference in this series. If Dallas had 3 goals off the PP, they might have won Game 1 and Game 6.

 

[Stickpucker]

Congrats Oilers.

I was a little surprised, disappointed with Dallas. They seemed to lack the physicality they showed in earlier series.

Maybe they were too scared to put Edmonton on the pp. Problem is without the physicality Edmonton looked comfortable out there.

 

[Ol' Jase]

Careful u might offend one of the drunkards that take offense to being called pp merchants

But they aren't "PP merchants", so there is that.

 

[Coffey]

But they aren't "PP merchants", so there is that.

Don't let facts get in the way of bad chirps.

 

[landstuhltaylor]

Didn't see that coming at all. Sorry Stars.. you had an unbelievably brutal schedule and a tremendous team. Those last 2 days of the regular season really did you no favors in terms scheduling and opponents.

Still in shock. A poster pointed out that each round had a Flame's ghost (Rittich, Zadorov, Tanev) and now we have the final boss ... Matthew T! Going to be an amazing final and curious if we can get the cup back to Canada.

You can probably make that list for a lot of teams. Englund, Zadorov, Duchene, Rodriguez for example.

 

[Ol' Jase]

Vancouver made it a lot closer than Dallas

I see some laugh emojis but no reply. Sorry to interrupt Oilers stars back slapping witb awkward truths

Made it closer? By one game.

Same result? Yep.

 

[soothsayer]

Crazy that when fully healthy the Canucks are the best team in the West by a country mile, didn’t know they were that good. Oilers and Stars were extremely lucky to not have played a healthy Canucks Team.

This is why no one likes you guys. Holy shit this takes delusion to a new level lol. Maybe you guys and put it on a banner.

 

[thegazelle]

Somewhere, Nail Yakupov must be punching a wall right now.

 

[thefutures]

Resign Ken Holland. What a genius

 

[Cup or Bust]

Multiple injuries, Canucks were basically limping at that point. Boeser (playing with a broken finger) had to miss game 7 with a blood clot (which is now fine). Players playing through all the reported injuries and with their 3rd string goalie and still almost beating the Oilers in a tight 7 game series. The better team definitely didn’t win that series. If Pettersson, Boeser, Hughes, Demko were fully healthy Canucks likely take it in 5 or 6.

Too bad excuses don't win games. I guess you can have an excuse party with your friends and talk for the next 5 years about how they might have won if everything went right.

 

[Brookbank]

This is why no one likes you guys. Holy shit this takes delusion to a new level lol. Maybe you guys and put it on a banner.

We were the most self loathing team for 8 years. And then we have a good start and instantly shouted down as frauds. So we don't give a F. You won't like is away.

Too bad excuses don't win games. I guess you can have an excuse party with your friends and talk for the next 5 years about how they might have won if everything went right. I hope you feel great about all the excuses

Ah yes. The core is locked up and we have 27 million in cap space. But hey , the next 5 years bruh

 

[Ol' Jase]

Edmonton beats Dallas in a good battle with a lot of good storylines.

Canuck fans still chiming in with “What about us?!?”

 

[soothsayer]

We were the most self loathing team for 8 years. And then we have a good start and instantly shouted down as frauds. So we don't give a F. You won't like is away.


Ah yes. The core is locked up and we have 27 million in cap space. But hey , the next 5 years bruh

Lol pathetic.

 

[CanadianHockey]

Growing up in the 90s/early 00s felt like Dallas was always bouncing Edmonton out of the playoffs. Feels good to have the tables turned!

 

[SavoieSeason]

This is why no one likes you guys. Holy shit this takes delusion to a new level lol. Maybe you guys and put it on a banner.

by a country mile, he says!

 

[ChaoticOrange]

That's some insane copium right there

What's next? The Canucks are better than the Stanley Cup champs?

 

[Brookbank]

Edmonton beats Dallas in a good battle with a lot of good storylines.

Canuck fans still chiming in with “What about us?!?”

90% of the league said loudly that Dallas will run over whoever won the Oilers Van series. So some crow has to be served here. Not only did the Oilers beat Dallas but they beat Dallas in less games than they beat Vancouver.