Pre-Game Talk: Oilers vs. Canucks - time to make Vancouver rainier than usual

[ozhenson]

Fantasy - "Woke movement get all pissy listening to that version"

Reality - 2 people talking about it

Seems the pissy one is you?

Hey, if he didn't have something to be angry about, what purpose would life even have?

 

[bellagiobob]

still no schedule?

It’s two Canadian teams facing each other, pretty much the worst case scenario for the US networks that run the league scheduling. We may not even get a schedule, the league has forgotten about us.

 

[Senor Catface]

You must be exhausting to talk to in person lol

I think he gets along great with everyone on CP.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

As nice as it is to see...the year the oilers faced the jets in the covid playoffs, the oilers were favored and were swept..Oilers have to be prepared.

The writers unanimously picked Calgary over the Oilers too. It wasn’t to this extent, but they were heavily favoured.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Are we getting Cuthbert?

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

still no schedule?

Don't see why it wouldn't be Tues, Thurs, Sat, Mon.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

From ESPN staff writers..

Sean Allen: Oilers in five
John Buccigross: Oilers in six
Ryan Callahan: Oilers in five
Cassie Campbell-Pascall: Oilers in six
Sachin Chandan: Oilers in five
Ryan S. Clark: Canucks in seven
Linda Cohn: Oilers in seven
Ray Ferraro: Oilers in six
Leah Hextall: Oilers in six
Emily Kaplan: Oilers in six
Tim Kavanagh: Oilers in five
Hilary Knight: Oilers in seven
Peter Lawrence-Riddell: Oilers in six
Steve Levy: Oilers in five
Vince Masi: Oilers in six
Victoria Matiash: Oilers in five
Sean McDonough: Oilers in six
Mark Messier: Oilers in six
AJ Mleczko: Oilers in five
Arda Öcal: Oilers in five
Kristen Shilton: Oilers in six
Bob Wischusen: Oilers in seven
Greg Wyshynski: Oilers in seven

Consensus prediction: Oilers (22 of 23 picks)

Stop it espn.

 

[Ibanez]

Stop it espn.

This was my exact thought

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Think about it, you celebrate when Toronto gets eliminated by Boston but what comes back our way, you don't remember being eliminated by Vegas?

We celebrate when Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg etc are eliminated because we know they'd celebrate if we were eliminated.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Think about it, you celebrate when Toronto gets eliminated by Boston but what comes back our way, you don't remember being eliminated by Vegas?

Lol Toronto fans have been completely up our ass for years. Laughing at our failures and saying McDavid is coming home.

I have no beef with Jets fans and not nearly as much beef with Canuck fans as they have with us though.

 

[samiam]

Don't see why it wouldn't be Tues, Thurs, Sat, Mon.

The US networks want games on alternating nights.
If Vegas wins tonight, and they fly to Colorado to play the Avs, their building is not available on Wednesday night. Which means they would start on Tuesday, and the Oilers/Canucks series would start on Wednesday.
This would screw us out of our Saturday night game!
Additionally, if Dallas wins tonight, then Colorado will fly there to play them. Because of the NBA Mavs, there are also some complications with the arena in Dallas.
I see our series getting the shitty end of the stick!

 

[RandomGuy79]

The US networks want games on alternating nights.
If Vegas wins tonight, and they fly to Colorado to play the Avs, their building is not available on Wednesday night. Which means they would start on Tuesday, and the Oilers/Canucks series would start on Wednesday.
This would screw us out of our Saturday night game!
Additionally, if Dallas wins tonight, then Colorado will fly there to play them. Because of the NBA Mavs, they are also some complications with the arena in Dallas.
I see our series getting the shitty end of the stick!

Not starting until Wednesday will hurt us, and favour the Canucks. Just too much time off. So f***ing frustrating. Maybe they should just cancel the series and make the other series the Conference finals and make the league and the US networks f***ing happy.

 

[VainGretzky]

I have a feeling Perry and Henrique are going to step up this series. Foegle needs to pull his head out of his ass. He's brain dead sometimes.
Ryan is also good for a goal here and there. Nurse needs to hit the net with his shots and hurt their forwards when they come in.

Foegele is a streaky player let's hope he is about to begin 1

 

[VainGretzky]

Key to this series as well is the Oilers during the Kings series were not bitching at the refs complaining about the calls this helped us on the whole, the refs did not seem like they were looking for things to call on us. I hope they keep this attitude against the Canucks as well

 

[McShogun99]

It’s two Canadian teams facing each other, pretty much the worst case scenario for the US networks that run the league scheduling. We may not even get a schedule, the league has forgotten about us.

The league is just going to have a 15 minute segment on Sportsnet where they do a coin toss on which team moves onto round 3.

 

[Pavel10]

Foegele is a streaky player let's hope he is about to begin 1

He was probably the worst forward in round 1. Needs to step up or maybe give brown a look.

Think about it, you celebrate when Toronto gets eliminated by Boston but what comes back our way, you don't remember being eliminated by Vegas?

I don't remember Vegas tounge in cheek "how much longer til mcdavid asks for a trade".... Toronto losers on the other hand...

 

[VainGretzky]

The league is just going to have a 15 minute segment on Sportsnet where they do a coin toss on which team moves onto round 3.

I hard they are just going to get the Flames to decide who advances

 

[McHelpus]

I feel like if we win the series, Canuck Fans will dress up as Oiler fans try and ruin the moss pit by rioting.

 

[TheNumber4]

I feel sympathy for Leaf fans today.

Same as when Winnipeg got eliminated.

Sus!

 

[AM]

Think about it, you celebrate when Toronto gets eliminated by Boston but what comes back our way, you don't remember being eliminated by Vegas?

There is no causality.

 

[TheNumber4]

Think about it, you celebrate when Toronto gets eliminated by Boston but what comes back our way, you don't remember being eliminated by Vegas?

We shit on the Flames all the time and won.

We don’t shit on the Avs or Knights enough, and we lost.

Get out of here with your karma bullshit narrative. Literally trying to blame any eventual Oilers loss on the fans. Hmm why would an Oilers fan try to make other Oilers fans feel guilty and shitty ? Hmmmmmmm

 

[AM]

Stop it espn.

I don’t think those guys watched the regular season. Must of been too late for them? The oilers are the underdogs for the rest of the playoffs (you’d at least think they would check where the first two games of each series is).

Stop it espn.

I don’t think those guys watched the regular season. Must of been too late for them? The oilers are the underdogs for the rest of the playoffs (you’d at least think they would check where the first two games of each series is).

 

[Oilhawks]

 

[yukoner88]

Whenever it’s this lopsided it results in a series loss lol

From ESPN staff writers..

Sean Allen: Oilers in five
John Buccigross: Oilers in six
Ryan Callahan: Oilers in five
Cassie Campbell-Pascall: Oilers in six
Sachin Chandan: Oilers in five
Ryan S. Clark: Canucks in seven
Linda Cohn: Oilers in seven
Ray Ferraro: Oilers in six
Leah Hextall: Oilers in six
Emily Kaplan: Oilers in six
Tim Kavanagh: Oilers in five
Hilary Knight: Oilers in seven
Peter Lawrence-Riddell: Oilers in six
Steve Levy: Oilers in five
Vince Masi: Oilers in six
Victoria Matiash: Oilers in five
Sean McDonough: Oilers in six
Mark Messier: Oilers in six
AJ Mleczko: Oilers in five
Arda Öcal: Oilers in five
Kristen Shilton: Oilers in six
Bob Wischusen: Oilers in seven
Greg Wyshynski: Oilers in seven

Consensus prediction: Oilers (22 of 23 picks)

Whoever that Ryan S Clarke guy is, after an Oiler series win, we all get to communally kick him in the nuts

 

[yukoner88]

I feel like if we win the series, Canuck Fans will dress up as Oiler fans try and ruin the moss pit by rioting.

Just yell Mark Messier and they'll reveal themselves