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

[samiam]

Oilers finish series promptly, get disadvantage of a ridiculously long break of one week. Vancouver get just what they want with a Wednesday start despite f***ing up in first round and taking a long time to eliminate Nashville.

No way the game shouldn't be tomorrow. Why Not? Boston already playing tomorrow in 2nd round. This is nuts. basically f***ing over WC so that all our series will end later than the EC FFS teams in the East will have two games done before we even START 2nd round. NHL doing NHL things.

Can't start series tomorrow because of the concert at Rogers Arena.
Could have started Tuesday, but the US networks want games on alternating nights.
With the Dallas arena already booked for a concert Wednesday night, the only option for them was to start their series on Tuesday, which means starting the Oilers/Canucks series Wednesday.
Again, the US networks wanting games on alternating nights, is a big part of this.
Complete B.S, as we get screwed again!

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

This is funny as hell-

 

[bellagiobob]

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Event Calendar | Rogers Place

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Stars On Ice booked for May 12 at Rogers Place

 

[bellagiobob]

Gary is taking his disappointment of his Vegas darlings losing out on us. No wonder we play games until the end of June. Hang the Plaque - Zero Days Without Stupidity.

 

[T-Funk]

f*** off Bettman you f***ing vampire.

 

[cantthinkofone]

Event Calendar | Rogers Place

A calendar of upcoming events at Rogers Place. Oilers and Oil Kings games, concerts, shows, and special events.

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Stars On Ice booked for May 12 at Rogers Place

It doesn't look like they sold many tickets for that. Either way that seems like an easy event to reschedule to Saturday like they did with the wnba game

 

[bellagiobob]

I'm sure if the Leafs were still playing that they would have been pushed to Sunday as well, it's all good.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Well, the Oilers rest too, and have some extra time to heal any bruises.

Amd also time to work on some things to beat the nucks.

 

[tiger_80]

This is funny as hell-

He bouchebombed his pants in front of Bouchard. Definitely no Oiler player (or fan) wanted to see that!

 

[Duke74]

Most unfortunate that it gives Vancouver a nice rest as well.

The break definitely favors Vancouver. The perfect time to rest without too long of a layoff.

 

[Pavel10]

I see that 9 year old Canucks super fan has gone viral. It's funny entire first round Canucks insist how unfair it is not having a watch party for riot reasons.

Then you see 100 grown men egging on a little boy to show why they can't have a watch party for fear of rioting.

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

Well, the Oilers rest too, and have some extra time to heal any bruises.

Didn't Mcdavid come out and say they suck when rested? (start of year, after all star break)

This just seems like bad news all around

 

[tiger_80]

Didn't Mcdavid come out and say they suck when rested? (start of year, after all star break)

This just seems like bad news all around

But at an all-star they did not play for like 2 weeks.

 

[McHelpus]

I see that 9 year old Canucks super fan has gone viral. It's funny entire first round Canucks insist how unfair it is not having a watch party for riot reasons.

Then you see 100 grown men egging on a little boy to show why they can't have a watch party for fear of rioting.

They are overly aggressive for nothing... It's like they are trying to make this bigger than the battle of alberta. It just comes across as desperate.
Calgary is the little brother
Vancouver is the cousin you're forced to hang out with

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

But at an all-star they did not play for like 2 weeks.

This will end up being 1 week off

All Star break was 9 days

 

[ThePhoenixx]

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So a game every two days. No extra day break in there for travel.

I guess the flight is only an hour. Interesting.

 

[Broberg Speed]

A whole week off is counterproductive. It only serves to cool the team. Nobody wants this much time off in playoffs. 2-4days off between series is ideal. More than that and its getting out of game practice, game readiness. This f***s the Oilers over.

It matters what they do with the time.

 

[McClelland]

Will be a hard wake up for most of the Nucks fans barely got past the Preds

Dont think a 3rd stringer goalie will get us in trouble. Demko back probably little more. 4-1 or 4-2 but no drama.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

I'm ok with this remember McDavid missed games late with an injury, he will be fully healed, good for Kane and Henrique as well.

Just sucks that hughes will get all the time in the world to rest and heal up. We need to beat him up harder than NSH does, but I'm worried we're not going to be nearly as physical as they were outside of a couple of players

 

[Senor Catface]

Even their mods are trolls that come here to vote.

 

[McDrai]

I swear even if we made it to the finals and faced a team like Florida Bettman would still manage to schedule all of our games to 8pm or later

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Bettman can jump off a cliff with this schedule.

 

[VainGretzky]

Just sucks that hughes will get all the time in the world to rest and heal up. We need to beat him up harder than NSH does, but I'm worried we're not going to be nearly as physical as they were outside of a couple of players

Fck Hughes Bouchard will double him in points this series

 

[bellagiobob]

The league has delayed this series for so long that Demko was cleared to play and is now hurt again.

 

[Oilhawks]

Even their mods are trolls that come here to vote.

Yeah, noticed that too.

A little odd…I guess maturity isn’t a prerequisite