Post-Game Talk: Nurse Skinned the Oilers

[CantHaveTkachev]

just another typical Game 1 from the Oilers in the playoffs lol

score flattered the Oilers....they got outplayed badly...hopefully a good wakeup call
-Skinner was awful and rattled
-Nurse was awful, same with Ceci
-McDavid was quiet
-hopefully Drai is ok

 

[MessierII]

A lot of people blaming the D and the goaltending but 7 shots in 40 minutes just isn’t it. They stopped playing at 4-1. This is the playoffs. That can’t happen.

 

[bellagiobob]

Nuge is going to be having nightmares tonight.

 

[McFlyingV]

Team in general was f***ing embarrassing in the 2nd and 3rd with Skinner leading the charge. First period was really good and then they just stopped competing. 3-1 PPs was a joke as well. Complete joke in that regard. What a clusterf*** of awful tonight by the Oilers and the refs.

 

[foshizzle]

They will never win anything with a Nurse-Ceci and Skinner combo. You can't have a terrible top 4 defensive pair and an average goalie and win anything meaningful. One of those maybe but not both.

McDavid was a complete no show. I know he's earned a lot of rope but absolutely inexcusable from your captain. Nobody showed up really outside of Ekholm and Hyman.

Team is just too content to be just ok, no aggression, no taking initiative, no passion. The last 2 games of the Kings series were like this too, not good enough not nearly good enough.

Agree on everything. I said before the game that Janmark will neutralize McDavid. Knob being McLelland level stubborn by not moving away from him

 

[CycloneSweep]

Nuge is going to be having nightmares tonight.

Nah. This is just par the course for him.

 

[BlackDogg]

Cup or bust guys basically a no show

 

[oilers4life5]

I blame the coach. Should have sat Drai and focused the team

 

[Oilking83]

f***ing embarrassing from our tops guys. And man o man skinner sucks

 

[syz]

Also let's not overlook RNH doing what he does best, missing open nets.

 

[soothsayer]

you let in one of those last 4 goals in the playoffs, it's bad. Skinner gave up 4 straight awful goals to give them the game. I've seen enough of this guy.

 

[3IR]

I've never been more embarrassed about a postseason game in the Mcdavid era. Every single Oiler completely stopped moving their feet once they thought it was in the bag.

We got absolutely walked by a team missing its starting goalie, and who's top offensive player is rumored to be injured he's been so unimpactful.

Giving up a lead like that without any kind of pushback in the regular season is one thing, but this is the kind of momentum these young teams who people are convinced are on a season long "heater", absolutely feed off of.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

On the bright side I don’t think we can play any worse than that. What a blown opportunity. 4 goals on 12 shots against a shaky goalie and we don’t test him again for another 22 minutes. Horribly officiated game didn’t help. Scrub this one and get ‘em next game.

You can’t pass up opportunities like that. I expect them to be better but when you get gifted a W gotta go for the jugular, the whole team was already thinking about their post game meal going into the third.

 

[foshizzle]

Losing a game where you lead 4-1 is a back breaker

Nurse has shown zero signs of growth after years of failure

He’s actually regressed. He has completely removed the physical element from his game

 

[Jesus]

Not to mention that it would be nice if the Oilers could muster up more than 7 shots in 2 periods against a shaky rookie goalie WTF (RNH should have scored that one...)

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Cant tell if that loss feels like game 1 loss to Calgary. Or Game 1 loss to Vegas.

But Vancouver is a pretty shitty team. And we played way worse.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

McDavid was off and the entire 3rd and 4th line sucked. Kane was bad. VD was bad. Nurse Ceci were awful and there’s the Skinner I was worried about. Cost us the game.

 

[Frank the Tank]

Oddly less concerned about this series after that game.

Oilers basically beat themselves and still almost won

The problem is that they may be without Draisaitl for an extended period of time. That resonates beyond this terrible effort.

 

[Wreckus]

Chiarelli and Holland robbed this organization of a solidly built team in the McDrai era.

Yup. Still pisses me off.

 

[McFlyingV]

You'll be even more annoyed when you hear his post game conference where he thinks he played good.

I dont think hes ever thought he played a bad game.

Nah he knows how bad he played you could see it in every reaction after the majority of his goals. He better make this one up to the boys cause that was horrific. The only goal he gets a pass on is the first one, but every goal was a low quality chance.

 

[Oilking83]

Also let's not overlook RNH doing what he does best, missing open nets.

He needs to wake the f up. He’s been pulling the disappearing act in the playoffs for way too long

 

[RandomGuy79]

So it's clear we can't go to Skinner again. Can Campbell step up and do something?

 

[foshizzle]

Don’t think we can. McDavid has no answer for their D and JT Miller.

Canucks in 4. I don’t see the oilers having any life in this series.

Not when you have Janmark as a linemate

 

[AlbOilFAN]

I don’t understand Knob as well, why does he bench Ryan in the third period

 

[CupofOil]

A lot of people blaming the D and the goaltending but 7 shots in 40 minutes just isn’t it. They stopped playing at 4-1. This is the playoffs. That can’t happen.

They stopped playing way before 4-1. Only a terrible 3rd string goalie allowed this game to be a 4-1 game when in reality, it was more like a 1-1 game with both teams looking like dog shit.