Post-Game Talk: LA drowning in Oil tonight

[Satire]

Dominate game by the Oilers. Edmonton had won every game I didn't watch live. Looks like I can't watch game 6 lol

Thank you for your sacrifice.

 

[rboomercat90]

Pickard>Skinner. Can't say it enough. Saved our playoffs.

Really the Kings fans chanting Pickard, really that was stupid. He's been damn good. They could've been jeering their own club.

I’m pretty sure those Kings fans still want Skinner.

 

[M Ace]

What a performance. They dominated and overcame a Conn Smythe performance by Kuemper.

Pickard with a 3 game winning streak now and looking stable AF in net.

Pickard = "Adin Hill 2.0 - The ´25th version"

 

[Satire]

Skinner would have kicked that back into the net, no doubt about it

Someone said it here - Skinner has the higher ceiling in terms of when he's on he's fantastic. Pickard is just solid all-round. He's much more controlled and predictable. That's what we need in net right now I think.

People also forget that Stu is pretty young still. He's still got time to grow

 

[McFlyingV]

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.

Honestly the way Klingberg's played he might be a good re-sign candidate if he wants to be here. His skating has looked better of late, and his puck moving has been exceptional. Would love to see this blue line with a healthy Ekholm and Klingberg bumping Emberson to 7D.

 

[Keggatron]

Still reading through the thread, currently page 4. But sweet Jesus, no passengers. Can't remember the last time I said Nuge was playing great, but GD, he had an unreal game tonight. Kane, what can I say? Absolute game changer. Hyman, who I haven't like at all this series was f***ing great. Hell of a game from that second line.

The defensive play was unreal. Had nothing in the second, just iced it the whole period. This was an 8-1 game or more disguised as an 3-1 game. My goodness Klinger keeps looking better and better, apologies Stan. Bouch huge plays all night. Only thing that was bad about the skaters on the ice for the Oilers were the refs. How can you completely dominate a team, outshoot them 46-22 and still be a negative diff in PPs? It's unbelievable what's happening here.

Keep it going fellas. Seems like we're rounding into form here.

Edit- forget to mention how good Walman looked tonight. Man if we can get this defense going forward, I'm salivating.

 

[Da McBomb]

The captain showed Pickard some love after Game 4 and tonight he showed some love to the Janitor

 

[mcdingdong]

Kempe is -7 averaging 2 p/g. Holy PP merchant! Him and Doughty are getting CRUSHED 5v5

 

[MessierThanThou]

Honestly the way Klingberg's played he might be a good re-sign candidate if he wants to be here. His skating has looked better of late, and his puck moving has been exceptional. Would love to see this blue line with a healthy Ekholm and Klingberg bumping Emberson to 7D.

I guess the 3 to 4 to 5 million dollar per year question is...can we afford him?

People also forget that Stu is pretty young still. He's still got time to grow

Thanks, Bob.

 

[Spawn]

Also it’s amazing how both the Leafs and Oilers have 3-2 series leads and yet one team feels like they’re on a funeral march and the other feels like things are just getting started.

One team's core is 1-13 in games in which they can close out a series. The other team's core is 7-2 in the same situation. That funeral march is well earned for the Leafs lol.

 

[Duder54]

Kane's reaction lol

Spec is literally the worst.

 

[McFlyingV]

I guess the 3 to 4 to 5 million dollar per year question is...can we afford him?



Thanks, Bob.

Don't know if the sample is big enough for him to command that. I think 4 mil would be his absolute ceiling if the Oilers go on a run and he plays lights out the whole way.

 

[Tarus]

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

Nice to see it's not just Edmonton sports reporters asking incredibly stupid questions of NHL players/executives

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Evander Kane is always at his most effective when he plays like Tom Wilson imo.

Very physical, up in your face. Complete asshole. Always chirping. But, make the smart plays between the whistles.

 

[Throttlehead]

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.

It shows panic, and no faith in your team. You can not shorten your bench that much and expect a run in the playoffs, not to mention his dumbassery playing forwards on defence for a fair chunk of time. Its a no confidence vote by your coach.

 

[rboomercat90]

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

There might be 2 or 3 guys in the league right now, I think, that have more smugness than Lowe. He knew a thing or two about smugness.

 

[MessierThanThou]

Top 3 are obvious...

 

[Jumptheshark]

Team effort. So happy Kane was not moved

 

[bellagiobob]

Hyman with like 22 hits his last two games

Guy has turned into Kiefer Sherwood all of a sudden

It was always going to come in the playoffs. So many posters criticized us for not being physical in the regular season, when that's not our 82 game forte, and we didn't need to play a style of play that just wears us down. And we were missing Kane, the guy that drags everybody into the fight. I had zero concern that we wouldn't start playing physical in the playoffs, just like we did last year. We have worn down LA's D a ton with consistent hits, and Kempe and Kopitar have taken a pretty good pounding as well, and as a result have been less effective the last few games.

 

[Keggatron]

Every one of our D was. But the Oilers were getting great back pressure tonight and we're strong on the line making it hard for Kings to get anything clean in zone entries.

This coaching staff is way better than given credit for.

remember when people were asking if there would be adjustments?

Really, you want em you got em. Last 3 games with the confidence of finally having a goalie in net Oilers have been steadily ramping their all round play.

Tons of adjustments. Lots of film, and players really heeding direction. Textbook coverage game. They don't get better than this.

I agree with like 90 percent of your posts but I mean, this coaching staff is the reason they started Skinner in games 1 and to everyone's disbelief, game 2. Completely puzzling decisions, not to mention even going back to him last year.

Picks made that Fiala wrap around save look so easy late in the third. Stu doesn’t get there to stop it.

In a game we throughly dominate, PPs 3-2 for them. Seems impossible.

Mad props to Kane. Scores a goal, sends a message but stays controlled against Gavrikov and doesn’t kill Clarke for that ridiculous cross check.

Thought the exact same thing on the wraparound. Always in disbelief about the reffing for the last I can't even remember? 8 years. It just keeps setting new lows. And yes Kane is an unbelievable "pickup" for these playoffs. Guy is such a difference maker. 100% spot on!

 

[syz]

Kempe is -7 averaging 2 p/g. Holy PP merchant! Him and Doughty are getting CRUSHED 5v5

There have been 41 goals in the series and Kempe has been on the ice for 23 of them.

 

[McAsuno]

One thing I haven’t seen anybody mention in this thread was how Kaner immediately responded when Gavrikov added two extra unnecessary cross checks on McDavid while Connor was laying on the ice (go figure shit for brains refs didn’t call a penalty). The moment Kane went after him, Gavrikov immediately backed off like a chicken shit and hid behind the ref. Even good ol Klingberg got involved by giving Fiala the stinky glove. Kaner has his bad moments here and there, but you’d have to be a complete idiot to deny guys like him bring much needed extra swagger to the team. I always respect any player on the team that sticks up for their teammates. Win it at home in game 6, Oilers.

 

[Arty Spooners Bsmnt]

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.

And that's how we lost home ice advantage for the playoffs.

 

[harpoon]

Haha. CP has more pages of comments on the game today than the actual LA Kings GDT. Talk about an unhealthy obsession. No need to stop by, it’s mostly just the usual trash - ‘grease pigs this’ and ‘glitter twins that’ and our most ardent critic with a series of astute observations on the game …

 

[Keggatron]

Haha. CP has more pages of comments on the game today than the actual LA Kings GDT. Talk about an unhealthy obsession. No need to stop by, it’s mostly just the usual trash - ‘grease pigs this’ and ‘glitter twins that’ and our most ardent critic with a series of astute observations on the game …

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LOL totally explains being down 3-2 in PPs after completely dominating the whole game. I've never even seen a deserve to win o meter as lopsided as the one tonight. We didn't even score on the PP tonight WTF?

Edid - Quoted the wrong post lol. I'm a little drunky