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Series Talk: [P2] Los Angeles Kings Vs [P3] Edmonton Oilers (EDM Lead 3-2)

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Sergei Shirokov said:
This is over, can't see LA winning in EDM.

LA folded like a cheap tent in this series.
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Hinges on goaltending. If pickard can be at least average the team has a solid chance. I would hate to see him have a skinner type game and then they actually go back to that plug in game 7. Stu has had so many bad games and he always kept the net. If picks does, he should be allowed to start 7 as well.
 
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Can Oilers fans explain why there are multiple fight videos coming out from the outdoor watch party after every game? Why are some of your fans fighting each other so much?
 
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Rob Brown said:
Can Oilers fans explain why there are multiple fight videos coming out from the outdoor watch party after every game? Why are some of your fans fighting each other so much?
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Drunk people in Edmonton just generally fight a lot. When I was 18-22 when you went out on a weekend it was fairly common place to get into a fight. If not you would witness multiple fights. I actually think there’s less fights than back in the day just more cameras.
 
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This is from a random February game vs Nashville in February 2024 so I don't think this is a fair thread. What I do think is fair is a discussion about the coaching in LA. Jim Hiller has coached this round like his life's on the line if Edmonton loses. Not even bringing up that terrible all time bad challenge, LA had great defense and ran 4 lines all year, to run 9 forwards and 4 dmen into the ground Round 1 is just unfathomable. Like even if they get by Edmonton, does he know there are 3 more rounds? The Kings are beyond gassed, I have no idea what he's doing.
 
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Rob Brown said:
Can Oilers fans explain why there are multiple fight videos coming out from the outdoor watch party after every game? Why are some of your fans fighting each other so much?
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go look at HFOil. That'll explain it. Fans are fighting fans there over goalies.
 
MessierII said:
Drunk people in Edmonton just generally fight a lot. When I was 18-22 when you went out on a weekend it was fairly common place to get into a fight. If not you would witness multiple fights. I actually think there’s less fights than back in the day just more cameras.
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Interesting...I'm not familiar with the setup outside the arena but is it managed/controlled by the team? As in is there security, controlled drink sales, maximum # of fans allowed etc.? Or just a free-for-all? I guess I'm thinking that could be part of the problem if there is limited security/police presence and no management of the amount of alcohol being consumed so just curious.

When the Leafs first started doing the outdoor watch parties vs. Boston in 2013 it was a free-for-all and wasn't managed properly at all. I remember in 2013 the first home game I was walking into the arena at like 6pm and there was a young girl with alcohol poisoning lying on the ground puking in the middle of a crowd, and I think after that first series they really clamped down on it.
 
GoldenBearHockey said:
For #1, I am saying that the official was out of position, and lost sight of the puck, as soon as that happens, the play is supposed to be whistled down, he was in the corner when that entire scrum started, and didn't get to the net in time. There's no video showing that Byfield was on the puck, he was over it, absolutely, he had his hands in front of it, his knees behind it, and his back OVER it, that's all LEGAL, there's nothing illegal about that, he was basically cradling it. With that being said, it absolutely could have been called a PS, but it's not always called a PS there are instances where a player does that, in the crease, and it's not called, because again, craadling it is fine, he didn't put his hands over it, didn't pick it up, didn't pull it into his body, and didn't lay on it.

When the official loses site of the puck, they are supposed to whistle it down, most of the time they give it a beat, 3 beats etc, but it's whistled down, there were several VERY late whistles in that game.

Absolutely you can, sticks do it all the time, hands can do the same thing, it's a sweeping motion, you can do it right now, put something on the floor, put your hand next to it, and push......watch what happens.

#2. Got it, so Kane meant to destroy him with a high illegal hit, but got the knee instead.....makes sense.

3. If McDavid isn't holding onto Gavrikov's stick like it's manna from heaven, Gavrikov skates away.

Oilers were absolutely heads and tails above LA last night......but this whole schtick about Cali reffing or the Oilers being victims is for suckers....
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1) Got it, so your justification for the bad call was that bad reffing position leads to situations where blowing down the play on a loose puck is the right call, and therefore the hand on the covering the puck (swiping it out) in the crease is ok, because the play should have (but was not) whistled down first. Again, that's perverse logic. As for the rest, "cradling the puck" and what not, just lol... we all saw the video, your take is out there. Byfield dives on the puck like a cat on a mouse with both hands.

2) We don't know if it would have been an illegal hit or not, Kempe dodged it effectively (except for his knee). There is nothing Kane can do there given the speed. He didn't alter his trajectory at all. You could maybe call a trip if you like... it certainly wasn't a knee.

I don't think any Oilers fans feel victimized today. People are rightly calling you out from your take after last game, where YOU complained about the OT penalty and made easily refutable arguments (which today are being refuted) to suggest that the team dictating play will and should naturally draw more penalties. That has not been the case in this series certainly.
 
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Summer Rose said:
I definitely at least deserve some ire by posting that I’d sooner root for the Flames than the Oilers in a thread about the Oilers (and Kings). :P
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ucanthanzalthetruth said:
This is from a random February game vs Nashville in February 2024 so I don't think this is a fair thread. What I do think is fair is a discussion about the coaching in LA. Jim Hiller has coached this round like his life's on the line if Edmonton loses. Not even bringing up that terrible all time bad challenge, LA had great defense and ran 4 lines all year, to run 9 forwards and 4 dmen into the ground Round 1 is just unfathomable. Like even if they get by Edmonton, does he know there are 3 more rounds? The Kings are beyond gassed, I have no idea what he's doing.
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They ran Kempe at defense again last game
 
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