Oilers- Ten straight games without a powerplay differential advantage. Closing in on record?

[Captain97]

I'm a Habs fan and find it wild the lack of penalties Mcdavid "draws" because people definitely commit more infractions on him than are called by a ton

 

[nturn06]

LMFAOOOOO im sure it has nothing to do with Nurse, Perry and Kane being the residents of the sin bin.

Yup, that sounds about the right thing to post.... Not backed by the stats but will bring you many upvotes...

 

[pnep]

Ya that is false.

yep

Post in thread 'Oilers- Ten straight games without a powerplay differential advantage. Closing in on record?'

May 13, 2025

Anyone know what the record is for consecutive playoff games without having an advantage in playoff opportunities?

since 1977-78:​

17 Games


Detroit Red Wings

1988/04/06 - 1989/04/05

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Ottawa Senators

2008/04/11 - 2013/05/02...

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[Muffin]

Can you explain why teams like the Refalanche would benefit from best-in-the-league penalty differentials for like a decade through coaching changes, personnel changes, management changes, etc? Nazem Kadri was getting a lot of penalties and suspensions in Toronto but he was clean in Colorado? The VGK have suspiciously advantageous numbers this year, but honestly the playoffs haven’t been as bad as expected. I think the NHL intentionally sidelined a couple of their most biased refs from last years playoffs before this year’s started and it has helped. Still hard to say that there aren’t very strong “patterns” to the way things are being called, though.

Because you're a blind homer? Nazem Kadri clean in Colorado LMFAO?

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[Soda Gravy]

Or, be better than what Kane did in that moment to excessively obliterate the goalie.... he knew what he was doing. It is Kane after all.

He literally was putting his hands up because they scored and got cross checked in the back pushing him over the goalie. If you can put on a pair of skates and put your hand up in the air with your skates with nowhere to move forward, then take a cross check to the back and not fall on whatever is in front of you id be super impressed. Its pretty simple physics really, your center of gravity is already higher because of your arms in the air, then you aren't expecting a cross check in that situation. Only two options fall forward or try and move your foot forward which would involve stepping on the goalie with blades on your feet. Anyone who thinks that was a penalty on kane has a serous bias. He does alot of things that deserve penalties but that wasn't one of them.

 

[Oilslick941611]

The fact you actually think McNabb sold the call is pretty telling that you're blinded by your Homerism. Fact is that was a missed call and Edmonton basically came down and scored the other way after failing a 5 minute PP.

Don’t really care because Vegas tied the game after hertl injured our goalie by falling on him despite a precedence of brown being called for goalie interference despite him being pushed in game 1.

You aren’t going to win the missed call olympics. It was refreshing to see the oilers run hill last night. That might be the only way to get the refs to see their stupidity. Hill was spoken too after the first period last night as well after the refs saw his diving on video according to Friedman.

I don’t believe there is a conspiracy against any one team but I do believe Vegas gets preferential treatment.

 

[Mr Nogatco]

All you’ve done is whine about Oilers fans. If you don’t want to partake in the thread outlining inconsistencies in reffing, just leave?

How do you know it’s inconsistency in reffing and not the oilers committing more penalties? Teams win or lose 10 games in a row, does that mean those games are fixed?

 

[PuckG]

How do you know it’s inconsistency in reffing and not the oilers committing more penalties? Teams win or lose 10 games in a row, does that mean those games are fixed?

I never made that argument. In fact, my posts in here are the opposite. Carry on..

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I mean the bigger fallacy is that 'powerplay differential advantage' is the only measure of reffing and thus everyone else is out to get us but when that's what you're basing the entire premise of the thread on it's going to be tough to have meaningful HONEST discussion

 

[ChaoticOrange]

How do you know it’s inconsistency in reffing and not the oilers committing more penalties? Teams win or lose 10 games in a row, does that mean those games are fixed?

Primarily because the Oilers have, by and large, dominated at 5v5 so far these playoffs. They have the highest XGF% of all playoff teams, highest HDCF%, and the best goal differential of all the teams remaining. Usually carrying the play the way the Oilers have results in more penalties for their opposition, but in every single game, that hasn’t been the case.

 

[Kerberos]

Anybody approaching this discussion without preconceived notions and bias would look at the possession metrics the Oilers have and find it absolutely insane that they still have fewer PP opportunities than a team knocked out in R1.

Teams like Toronto have over 50% more PP opportunities in these playoffs already. The Oilers have been punished for being too good on the PP for a while now by the NHL.

 

[herashak]

It’s because they have Perry, Kane, and Nurse

 

[Cool Hand Puke]

Jim Carey in Liar Liar “stop breaking the law asshole”

 

[KCC]

It’s because they have Perry, Kane, and Nurse

Florida has their version of those 3 and they get the calls. Just saying. lol

 

[Cool Hand Puke]

I count 3 games so far this playoffs where there was no powerplay advantage for either team and one game where Edmonton had 9 Minutes of powerplay time vs 8 minutes for Vegas (without taking into account powerplay scoring).

 

[Leonardo87]