McDavid questions Vancouver switching goalies and playing PP1 in 8-1 game

[snag]

Because on a societal level, we’ve reached the point where enough people have either been vaccinated or had COVID to reach herd immunity.

Whereas in 2020, COVID was a virus we had zero countermeasures for, which overwhelmed the capacities of many hospitals to care for patients, and thus a lot of people got sick and died alone.

K, you guys aren't even getting my point. I don't give a f*** about covid. I don't mask. I go to games, malls, concerts....I live life. But I also stay home when sick as should everyone.

The point is, in any other work place, if you are sick.....stay home. Really. Why do we make excuses for knowingly exposing other people? And in the name of being a team player like others have said?

Give. Me. A . f***ing. Break.

It ain't just about the individual. I mean, as a health care worker, if this is the mentality....I seriously do hope every player on a team (even if it is the Oilers) if even a single player plays sick, I hope that entire dressing room gets ravaged....and good.

I get vaccinated because I am in and out of ERs and ORs across a relatively wide portion of the province. You never know who you might come in contact with and what their compromisations might be....be it in public or a clinical setting.

You say we had no countermeasures for Covid....fine. I will take that. For everything else we should at least have a level of intelligence we don't just throw out the window. And there should be a certain level of decency and respect as to not willfully get other people sick.

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Damn, the McDavid haters are out in full force.

Dismissing people's criticisms of something as being "haters" is the lowest form of discourse.

Insinuating they are blinded from a rational argument/criticism and their argument is purely due to simply "hating"? You're not even bothering to debate the actual subject.

The truth is... McDavid comes off as whiney here. Instead of focusing on the absolute beat down and atrocious play of his team, decides to take offense to a meaningless goalie swap. Ok.

 

[Three On Zero]

McDavid shouldn't have any questions to what the Nucks did or didn't do last night.

Should be questioning what his team didn't do yesterday.

I mean the Dolphins literally just ran up the score on the Broncos a couple weeks back. Take some lessons from what was said from that game and don't make yourself look stupid.

I'm an Oilers fan fyi.

A good response would have been “it doesn’t matter what the other team did tonight, what matters is we need to be better as a group and come out strong on Saturday”

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Wow all the McD haters just crawled out from their rocks in this thread lmao. I'm no fanboy so I don't care much, but it's hilarious

You seem to care.

 

[joestevens29]

A good response would have been “it doesn’t matter what the other team did tonight, what matters is we need to be better as a group and come out strong on Saturday”

I mean damn near anything would've been better

 

[MCR74]

I thought it was disrespectful of the Oilers to switch goalies last night. Pulling their starter because they thought they could easily comeback against the lowly Canucks with their backup in net even when down multiple goals showed a complete lack of respect.

Regardless of the result?

 

[snag]

I mean damn near anything would've been better

Absolutely. Demko played a good game. Oilers sucked ass. They owned the play early on and after that first goal they showed a hefty dose of fragility.

As the leader he needs to own and acknowledge that.

 

[Snatcher Demko]

I'm sure McDavid didn't know Demko's health condition at that moment. Also he's wrong - the Canucks were playing their bottom six much of the 3rd and on the last PPs.

Finally - boy does he get asked some dumb questions by the reporters.

 

[joestevens29]

I'm sure McDavid didn't know Demko's health condition at that moment. Also he's wrong - the Canucks were playing their bottom six much of the 3rd and on the last PPs.

Finally - boy does he get asked some dumb questions by the reporters.

I don't even know why they do post game interviews. The questions are usually the same stupid shit with the same non-informational responses.

Really a waste of time IMO.

 

[Three On Zero]

I'm sure McDavid didn't know Demko's health condition at that moment. Also he's wrong - the Canucks were playing their bottom six much of the 3rd and on the last PPs.

Finally - boy does he get asked some dumb questions by the reporters.

Reporters are some of the worst for trolling and fishing for a headline that will garner clicks.

 

[snag]

I don't even know why they do post game interviews. The questions are usually the same stupid shit with the same non-informational responses.

Really a waste of time IMO.

Never watch them myself. Only ever see them cause people in places like this dissect a snippet and get their panties in a twist about it.

 

[dealwithit]

Is it an effect of living in Edmonton or does he look creepier and more like a coke addict every season?

They don't call him Methdavid for nothing!

 

[Three On Zero]

And they didn't call the Sedins the Sisters for nothing either

It would appear that people criticizing McDavid has struck a nerve with you, judging by this comment

 

[Hockeyholic]

Worry about playing D and keeping the puck out of your own net.

Primary reason they won't win a cup imo

 

[snag]

It would appear that people criticizing McDavid has struck a nerve with you, judging by this comment

I have no problem criticizing the player for his on ice performance or that in front of the camera.

But if this is the route we are gonna go, fair game.

 

[S E P H]

Didn't the Oilers literally put in a scrub EBUG in the last five minutes of one of their games last season when they were up 6-1 or something?

Connor McHypocrite

 

[snag]

Didn't the Oilers literally put in a scrub EBUG in the last five minutes of one of their games last season when they were up 6-1 or something?

Connor McHypocrite

Actually, he said "It's not like Smith is an EBUG" thus....he is not actually saying anything hypocritical there.

 

[North Cole]

He literally said “we don’t like that”

Who cares? As evidenced by the first page of the thread, everyone doesn't like McDavid winning Art Ross'. What's the difference lmfao, McDavid in his feelings about getting pumped by the Canucks, HF in their feelings about McDavid winning trophies.

 

[Siludin]

What happens if a player throws up mid-play? Like just pukes all over the place through the cage - big mess.
Does the play stop?

 

[S E P H]

Actually, he said "It's not like Smith is an EBUG" thus....he is not actually saying anything hypocritical there.

You lot put in somebody even more scrubbier than Smith blud.

 

[North Cole]

Is it an effect of living in Edmonton or does he look creepier and more like a coke addict every season?

Living in Edmonton makes McDavid look like a coke addict? Lmao, how is this dogshit even allowed?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Already some hilarious post game pressers from stars this season.

 

[MCR74]

What happens if a player throws up mid-play? Like just pukes all over the place through the cage - big mess.
Does the play stop?

I imagine yes, but McDavid would take the opportunity to score a goal regardless.

 

[Guttersniped]

Didn't the Oilers literally put in a scrub EBUG in the last five minutes of one of their games last season when they were up 6-1 or something?

Connor McHypocrite

Actually, he said "It's not like Smith is an EBUG" thus....he is not actually saying anything hypocritical there.

I feel a little stupid here because I don’t still understand what McDavid’s original point was or even the point of your exchange here.

A switch to a back up goalie isn’t insulting or even particularly notable. We all know it can happen at any time for many different reasons.

Now, I can sort of see a hypothetical argument for a team’s pride being stung if a team voluntarily aputs an EBUG in to replace a healthy goalie. Being so confident that you willingly forgo playing with a NHL goalie might send an unintended message.

When I first watched the clip and I was genuinely confused that he brought it up and EBUG part only made it more confusing.

I now wonder if McDavid was pointing to this as an example of a team doing something similar to what the Oilers did with the EBUG (note: even though pretty different) because they took some flak over the EBUG switch?

I can’t stress enough that I don’t remotely understand what McDavid is going on about in the clip. The Canucks broke him.

 

[Lt Dan]

One game in and he is already whining