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

[yukoner88]

Here's the theme song for Vancouver's impending storm

 

[bellagiobob]

LA bragged about that too. Didn’t turn out so well for them.

 

[Oilking83]

Need to pound them for sure. But don’t go out of our way and take dumb penalties doing it. Stay smart and disciplined. Shouldn’t turn this into those clown show barn burners we saw at the beginning of the year.

Facts. Connor and Leon are battle tested. Their stars aren’t. Need to be physical on them and I think they food.

 

[Navx94]

Bet365 has game 1 scheduled for Sunday at 7PM.

 

[Kerberos]

Vancouver sports fans give Toronto's a run for their money when it comes to ignorance, delusion and fairweather bandwagoning.

Hopefully we absolutely annihilate this team.

 

[TheNumber4]

Facts. Connor and Leon are battle tested. Their stars aren’t. Need to be physical on them and I think they food.

Yeh it always takes time for stars to figure out the playoffs. EP certainly hasn’t. Add some physicality and hate to the mix that the Preds didn’t bring, and we could see him wilt fast.

 

[Pavel10]

This is gonna be awesome. I live in Van and I'll be going to game 1.I'll be wearing my Messier Oilers jersey to mess with everybody. I'm so pumped.

Just be careful you live there so you know how violent they are. Might literally try and set you on fire if they lose.

 

[yukoner88]

Vancouver sports fans give Toronto's a run for their money when it comes to ignorance, delusion and fairweather bandwagoning.

Hopefully we absolutely annihilate this team.

Saw their "Not Frauds" thread on the main boards, laughed so hard I had to go shit after

 

[Pavel10]

Facts. Connor and Leon are battle tested. Their stars aren’t. Need to be physical on them and I think they food.

Yup, I'd go so far to say petterson is marner tier soft. They've never had to face playoff Leon and punished mcdavid.

 

[tiger_80]

Oilers revenge tour. Who the hell takes 4 wins in the regular season as meaning anything. The Canucks are already being crowned, that's why you take the ice.

The OIlers dethrowned the Kings. I don't know what they will do to Vancouver's poor Quinn!

 

[tiger_80]

Dallas is trying to kick the Cheetahs in the balls of Stone.

 

[RegDunlop]

Doubt it. We will be the late game every night on the backend of the doubleheader. Maybe 8:20 starts, but that’s likely as good as we get. Maybe on a Saturday if the EC plays an afternoon game we might get a 6PM start.

Only in TO loses tomorrow

Edit - only IF Toronto loses

 

[Lehnerd Skinnerd]

For as heated of a rivalry as we have, I was kind of surprised to learn that these two teams have only met twice in the playoffs, the last time being in 1992.

 

[RegDunlop]

LA bragged about that too. Didn’t turn out so well for them.

Yes
We shall see

 

[Vagabond]

Well.. I said Oil in 7 vs the Kings so I underestimated this team so far. Vancouver killed us in the reg mind you the first three were when the Oil were last in the league. The last loss was without McDavid.

Oil are battle hardened for playoffs.. so.. Oil in 6.

 

[TheNumber4]

EP has lost his smile (again).

Happy superstars outperform sad superstars.

Advantage Oilers.

 

[bellagiobob]

Crap, I was hoping for better odds for the Oil.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I have every confidence this team can win this series, go out and show it.

 

[yukoner88]

For as heated of a rivalry as we have, I was kind of surprised to learn that these two teams have only met twice in the playoffs, the last time being in 1992.

It's been really rare for both teams to be good at the same time

 

[TheNumber4]

Nucks fans are so proud of those wins in October. But it lead to the firing of Woodcroft and a stronger Oilers than ever.

Really we should thank them for those losses after we take them out.

 

[bellagiobob]

Flames fans whored themselves to the Kings bandwagon last round and it blew up in their faces and made them look like idiots. They are doubling down on their stupidity and joining the Cuck bandwagon. Perfect.

 

[Old Boys Club]

Social media will be insuffrable. Canucks being a playoff team from essentially game one completely enshittified following this sport on any platform as swaths of their formerly absent fans spammed everything remotely Oilers related.

 

[soothsayer]

My not-so-bold prediction is that the Oilers have an easier time with Vancouver than they did with LA. Vancouver looked horrific in round 1. The Oilers are shredding that version of the Canucks worse than they shredded the 2022 Flames.

 

[FlameChampion]

Vancouver usually plays Oilers pretty tough (in the regular season).

But if Vancouver plays like they did against Nashville, this should be a short series. I am not seeing their “star” players step it up.

 

[tiger_80]

For as heated of a rivalry as we have, I was kind of surprised to learn that these two teams have only met twice in the playoffs, the last time being in 1992.

It's not really a rivalry. The Oilers always kicked their ass, except for the decade of darkness.