Post-Game Talk: LA drowning in Oil tonight

[Morpheus]

 

[bellagiobob]

Happy to have him. Leads the playoffs in +/-

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

To be fair, even playoff Hellebuyck wouldn't have lost this game. Oilers gave them nothing.

Skinner would have found a way.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Happy to have him. Leads the playoffs in +/-

Yzerman attempting to go toe-to-toe with Kevin Lowe in smugness per 60.

 

[Da McBomb]

What can you say about this guy? Maybe the biggest pleasant surprise of the playoffs so far for the Oilers? I didn't even have him in the lineup at the start of the playoffs

 

[oobga]

Skinner would have found a way.

There was at least a couple LA chances that required Pickard to move quick laterally. And some awkward glove saves.

1 or 0 goal margin the entire game, there was plenty of time for a demoralizing backbreaker.


These are the games we lost all the time to start the year, and last year. Outshooting and generally dominating the opposition, can't score, and just watching almost every even half decent chance against flying into our net. And eventually we just give up before we could have finally broke through the opposing goalie.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Imagine the D with Viking back?

Ekholm-Bouch
Walman-Klingberg
Nurse-Kulak

Our 4th pairing here (Stetcher/Emberson) is better than the Stars' 2nd pairing (Lindell/Ceci)

 

[MessierThanThou]

There was at least a couple LA chances that required Pickard to move quick laterally. And some awkward glove saves.

1 or 0 goal margin the entire game, there was plenty of time for a demoralizing backbreaker.


These are the games we lost all the time to start the year, and last year. Outshooting and generally dominating the opposition, can't score, and just watching almost every even half decent chance against flying into our net.

Yup, I was re-living those same shot attempts going in on Stu throughout this season and the last three playoffs...had a couple PTSD Vietnam-style flashbacks.

 

[mcdingdong]

Skinner would have found a way.

Maybe, I think you may be underestimating the stink of playoff Helly!

 

[iCanada]

What a f***ing game.

Utter domination.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

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What can you say about this guy? Maybe the biggest pleasant surprise of the playoffs so far for the Oilers? I didn't even have him in the lineup at the start of the playoffs

Oilers getting a reputation as a place for guys to have bounce back years finally!

 

[Dirty Mind]

When the Oilers win I can’t damn sleep!

 

[rboomercat90]

Gotta wonder if Hiller is done with the Kings if they lose this series. His decision to challenge that goal in game 3 likely turned the series around. That was an obvious coaching blunder. To me what’s been worse had been his handling of the roster. He’s shortened his bench by 5 players for most of this series. I’ve never seen anybody else do that for stretches as long as he has. If you can’t play certain guys, don’t dress them. Dress other guys and use them. Gotta figure he’s losing his room. To top it off, from watching the post game pressers it sounds like the LA media hates him too.

It’s fun watching the Oilers destroy franchises in the post season. First with Calgary, then Vancouver and now the Kings.

 

[Coffey]

Been a while

 

[McFlyingV]

Don't think I've ever seen an xGA of 0.01 in a game, but Frederic and Henrique managed that tonight at 5v5.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Gotta wonder if Hiller is done with the Kings if they lose this series. His decision to challenge that goal in game 3 likely turned the series around. That was an obvious coaching blunder. To me what’s been worse had been his handling of the roster. He’s shortened his bench by 5 players for most of this series. I’ve never seen anybody else do that for stretches as long as he has. If you can’t play certain guys, don’t dress them. Dress other guys and use them. Gotta figure he’s losing his room. To top it off, from watching the post game pressers it sounds like the LA media hates him too.

It’s fun watching the Oilers destroy franchises in the post season. First with Calgary, then Vancouver and now the Kings.

They should've fired him last year, or well, dismissed him as interim HC.

Idk what Blake saw last year that was so compelling that made Hiller worth the bet.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Don't think I've ever seen an xGA of 0.01 in a game, but Frederic and Henrique managed that tonight at 5v5.

Frederic - Henrique - Brown

Well, I guess that's the shut down line now.

 

[Sheikyerbouti]

The morale in the Kings' dressing room must be titanic low


They had such a high the first two games, then slowly it started slipping away, and now it's floating down the river and they are watching.

 

[Ninety7]

Just turned 30 tonight.

What a birthday gift.

Janmark is a king

 

[Duder54]

Yzerman attempting to go toe-to-toe with Kevin Lowe in smugness per 60.

Lol, tbf, KLowe has the all-time NHL record for smugness and it's not going to be broken anytime soon.

 

[midnightcopper]

 

[Duder54]

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What can you say about this guy? Maybe the biggest pleasant surprise of the playoffs so far for the Oilers? I didn't even have him in the lineup at the start of the playoffs

Totally. As someone who has been dealing with chronic pain and injuries for the past several years, I can't even imagine how good he must feel to be playing pain-free right now. Great comeback story.

 

[McFlyingV]

Frederic - Henrique - Brown

Well, I guess that's the shut down line now.

You know the best part of that stat is that they played almost exclusively against the Kings AK line, and Fiala's line.

 

[Da McBomb]

What did the dipshit ask?

Kane's reaction lol

 

[MessierThanThou]

Funny 10 days ago we were talking about how dumb Bowman was for the Klingberg signing. And how Kane was going to be bought out this summer.

I love being wrong about this team. I was wrong about Klingberg and wrong about Pickard until just after Stu went down.

Not wrong about Stu though. I called that one a long time ago.