Post-Game Talk: LA drowning in Oil tonight

[Duke74]

Great photo..

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Is that Foegele? Love Nurses' puzzled expression in the background!

 

[Duke74]

Reminds me of these things

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Aren't there lots of those on the mainboards?

 

[Dieseloil]

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.

In his presser last night Hiller sounded like bad Hollywood B actor in a shitty gangster movie.

 

[McShogun99]

As in Jenna?

She cost me billions of potential kids in high school….

 

[VainGretzky]

McDavid is 2ppg at even strength not a single PP point

 

[Tobias Kahun]

McDavid is 2ppg at even strength not a single PP point

Even strength merchant

 

[FlameChampion]

McDavid is 2ppg at even strength not a single PP point

What about his back checks per 60?

 

[OfCorsiDid]

 

[Senor Catface]

McDavid is 2ppg at even strength not a single PP point

He basically has the same amount of EV points as Kucherov, Mackinnon, and Matthews combined.

 

[Canovin]

Great photo..

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Beheaded for the betrayal lol

 

[foshizzle]

I love how said “we” when talking about the Oilers. I also love when he said “look at my city!”

 

[foshizzle]

They don't forecheck because their coach is stuck in 1995.

In fact, he said they need to play tighter defensively. Like what????

 

[Captain Controversy]

Great photo..

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Foegele confirmed as a Lion or a super saiyan. Either way, he is golfing after tomorrow.

 

[Dieseloil]

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

 

[ManofSteel55]

Pickard is playing unreal.

So is Kane. Unfortunately this means we can't complain about Vegas doing the same LTIR shenanigans every year.

We can complain about our management not doing it every year though.

 

[29Beast97Mode]

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This is funny. It's also bad karma. Still have to win the next game, let's not get too cocky.

 

[ManofSteel55]

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I'm usually not one to speculate much on firings, but if this guy has a job in the NHL again, I will be shocked. He took an absolutely dominant 2 game lead and killed his entire team's momentum by challenging a play that had no chance of being overturned. Im 10 seconds of gameplay he broke his team, motivated ours, and since then has played pulis best forward as a defenseman, made himself a laughing stock of the league.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

He will probably still have a job if they get to round 2. Series ain’t over.

 

[fuswald]

He may be better if we had a goalie coach who could actually help goalies.

We need a goalie coach for sure.
Mike Smith?

 

[McTedi]

We need a goalie coach for sure.
Mike Smith?

Smith was a competitive guy and had a unique style, not sure that resonates as mentorship in today’s game. I’d look at whatever the Russians are doing with their young goalies, seems to pay dividends in their careers. Schwartz doesn’t appear to have a shelf life though, could be here forever.

 

[Dieseloil]

This is funny. It's also bad karma. Still have to win the next game, let's not get too cocky.

Maybe bad karma for me, but certainly not the team. They got this. Not going to be easy we know that.

 

[K1984]

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's strange that it seems to be an organizational philosophy to play this way. McLelland got fired for it, then they just tap his assistant to play the exact same style.

I understand what they are trying to achieve with their system and why, but after 4 years in a row of it not working, and players in your room screaming to change it, it just makes no sense that they just refuse to even acknowledge it might be a problem.

If they stepped on the forecheck in the end of Game 3 and 4 the series might already be over.

 

[Cloned]

It's strange that it seems to be an organizational philosophy to play this way. McLelland got fired for it, then they just tap his assistant to play the exact same style.

I understand what they are trying to achieve with their system and why, but after 4 years in a row of it not working, and players in your room screaming to change it, it just makes no sense that they just refuse to even acknowledge it might be a problem.

If they stepped on the forecheck in the end of Game 3 and 4 the series might already be over.

Koala wasn’t even a fan of it either, they basically forced him to run it. I think they’ve loosened the reins a bit with Hiller but for some reason they always revert back to a passive system with the lead.

 

[K1984]

Koala wasn’t even a fan of it either, they basically forced him to run it. I think they’ve loosened the reins a bit with Hiller but for some reason they always revert back to a passive system with the lead.

I think this version of the Kings is being victimized by an unplayable 4th line and bottom D pair as much if not more than the system.

In past years they always had a scrappy, energetic 4th line that could win shifts. There were a lot of guys that cycled through he team in that role, but they did their job. Now they just have a bunch of coke machines and it's killing them.