Post-Game Talk: Oilers Win Game 1! Broken sticks and lucky deflections be damned!

[Oilers in NS]

PLD was atrocious tonight.

his goal tonight was pretty much the epitome of his entire season. Low effort.

That contract/trade seems like a big oopsie.

Makes Chevy look like a genius. They robbed LA. Gabriel Vilardi, Alex Iafallo, and Rasmus Kupari, and a second-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.Jul 4, 2023. Those players have helped Winnipeg. They then signed him to a 8 year 68 mil. That could be a GM killer

Kane announcing to the NHL he has a sport hernia.

did she have a hip replacement? Thats the way I move now

 

[Oilers in NS]

Bieksa watched and quoted the Ducks exposing that pk, and clown faced Elliot Friedman at the same time lol

I kinda wonder if Friedman is a Pitcher or Catcher

 

[Oilers in NS]

This is what henrique affords the Oilers now. People sleeping on how good he is with the right situation. henrique so intelligent, strong on pucks, can make quick cycle passing plays. he not only completes that line he allows us to drop Nuge with Drai. So that we have two centers on each of our top two lines. its hard to deal with.

Great points. I love the ability to have 2 centers out there each time. Someone mentioned earlier that Henrique is a mini version of Nuge and I agree 100%. Henrique plays a smart efficient game. We were shittting all over Holland for this trade at first but it looks good now. Go figure, Holland knows more then us Armchair GM's

 

[TheGingaNinja]

What kind of fan predicts a loss in the playoffs? yikes

Absolutely invisible when the team wins, chain posting in threads when the team loses. A real "Fan".

Heavy emphasis on the quotation marks.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

Imagine being gifted 3 utterly flukey, completely unearned, goals from the hockey gods and still end up being trounced, and giving up a touchdown.

They'll never admit it, but that has to be living rent free in their heads right now. They are a pretty shameless team, but having that much go your way and still getting thrashed this way can't be easy to handle, especially when they really didn't have a moment the whole game they can hang heir hat on.

We play the rest of the series this way, it should be a short one.

 

[JordanGalhanth]

Imagine being gifted 3 utterly flukey, completely unearned, goals from the hockey gods and still end up being trounced, and giving up a touchdown.

They'll never admit it, but that has to be living rent free in their heads right now. They are a pretty shameless team, but having that much go your way and still getting thrashed this way can't be easy to handle, especially when they really didn't have a moment the whole game they can hang heir hat on.

We play the rest of the series this way, it should be a short one.

BIG key is going to be adjusting for the emotional rebound that the Kings could try to leverage next game. We saw that last night in the Boston / Leafs series; after dominating in Game 1, the Bruins were hibernating for most of Game 2. Can't afford to do that against LA.

15 wins to go.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

That's how you start your playoff journey!
I really do hope that's all the lucky bounces the hockey gods gave LA for this series, Stu looked quite annoyed by the end of it..
Nice one by Moore on Vinny, as much as I like violent hockey revenge, beating the Kings on the scoresheet first is what I want to see from them on wednesday.

Go Oil!

 

[Oilers in NS]

I didnt even realize it, Brown didnt play. I think u have to keep on running same lineup

 

[brentashton]

Not gonna lie, I'd be irate about that if I was a Sharks fan.

But I'm not a Sharks fan, am I?

SJS have way bigger issues to deal with than being butt hurt about Klim being at the game.

But if they are really annoyed , yes, we would take him back at 50% retained.

 

[syz]

I didnt even realize it, Brown didnt play. I think u have to keep on running same lineup

Will have to see how the PK does. So far so good though.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

One down

15 to go!

 

[Ruok]

I had to go to sleep when after it was 4-0. Glad I didn't wake up and see the kings somehow came back.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

I had to go to sleep when after it was 4-0. Glad I didn't wake up and see the kings somehow came back.

They didn't come back, they got a couple of flukes when they were down 6-2.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Unfortunately if this year is anything like the last couple our PP opportunities are going to dry up as soon as the league realizes we have an unfair advantage. Can't let us benefit from being good at something.

Sure, but I'm not worried, this team scored 4 at evens last night. This team is different than last year.

 

[tardigrade81]

Finally, The Game 1 victories have come back to Edmonnnntonnnn!

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I have been told by many people i look like the rock!

Well by mom

Anyway. What a win !!

 

[Oilers in NS]

Im just happy our board is not like Leafs board. FIrst game, fire everyone, trade this player, trade this player. Second game, that player is the greatest, we are going to the cup

 

[brentashton]

I have been told by many people i look like the rock!

Well by mom

Anyway. What a win !!

You sure she meant The Rock? Maybe she meant Mark Stone?!

Have a great day Tyler.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Great points. I love the ability to have 2 centers out there each time. Someone mentioned earlier that Henrique is a mini version of Nuge and I agree 100%. Henrique plays a smart efficient game. We were shittting all over Holland for this trade at first but it looks good now. Go figure, Holland knows more then us Armchair GM's

I always liked Henrique, and he was giving the Kings some trouble as early as 2012 when he was with Jersey. Never forget that SC final. Elias and Henrique were Jerseys best forwards. You probably mean it differently but Henrique isn't a mini Nuge, he's a stronger more physical player that protects pucks well and has got a bit more battle. Needs to be remembered sometimes that other players, till they come here, they don't get the benefit of playing with great players every day. They get that when they arrive here.

EV Henrique is a fundamentally excellent player that contributes well offensively. Remembering as well this is older Henrique, far from prime, and he still looks this good. Good for KK to manage his minutes a bit. SC playoffs are a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[joestevens29]

Makes Chevy look like a genius. They robbed LA. Gabriel Vilardi, Alex Iafallo, and Rasmus Kupari, and a second-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.Jul 4, 2023. Those players have helped Winnipeg. They then signed him to a 8 year 68 mil. That could be a GM killer


did she have a hip replacement? Thats the way I move now

Chevy getting half of that for a guy that was handpicking his spot would've been genius. Regardless of who well Dubois played.

At the hindsight and all of those assets and he looks like the smartest man ever

Im just happy our board is not like Leafs board. FIrst game, fire everyone, trade this player, trade this player. Second game, that player is the greatest, we are going to the cup

If we would've lost it would've been like that lol

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Thinking back to last night, and I meant to mention it then, the sequence where Arvidsson gets the breakaway with the Oilers up 2-0, Skinner forces him to miss (or he misses the net depending on how you want to see it), then the Oil go right back, Hyman gets his 2nd and they're up 3-0

That swing was massive and this team never looked back after that.

 

[syz]

Thinking back to last night, and I meant to mention it then, the sequence where Arvidsson gets the breakaway with the Oilers up 2-0, Skinner forces him to miss (or he misses the net depending on how you want to see it), then the Oil go right back, Hyman gets his 2nd and they're up 3-0

That swing was massive and this team never looked back after that.

Skinner actually got a piece of it. Though it grazed the top of his pad so ultimately Arvidsson really just missed his shot by half an inch.

 

[Drivesaitl]

One benefit under Knoblauch is he rolls his lines which Woody refused to do. Part of that is they have 4 competent lines and even some competent guys in the press box. The biggest difference being Knoblauch will do it when they're trailing where as Woody would just shorten his bench at the first sight of they team trailing. The better minute distribution and quality press box options like Stetcher, Brown, Ryan, and Broberg give this team a major advantage of not running out of gas.

Yep. KK is not a bench active coach in terms of pulling goalies, time outs, that sort of thing but in deployment and where to put guys and how to arrange minutes and best utilize players he's a lot more gold standard than Woody was.

I love pointing out how astute he's been. His decision to but Henrique top line was highly critiqued. There were hundred posts here "why would you break up the best line in the NHL, what an Iddyiot"

It was a masterclass move because it makes the topline even harder to strip pucks from. Nuge is great on PP but Henrique is a slightly better EV player and less prone to get conservative. If theres a play there to go for blood he'll make it.

The move to insert the pace of Holloway and Janmark is masterclass. Its not something Woody would have done.

The paring of Kane and Perry at times, the usage of guys like McLeod with these guys to give them pace, these are best usages of players.

Of course when you rotate lines like this and distribute minutes everybody is involved, your shifts are more energetic, and the team more playing not only closer to 60minutes but could be better staying power as well going on as playoffs progress.

 

[Oilers in NS]

Chevy getting half of that for a guy that was handpicking his spot would've been genius. Regardless of who well Dubois played.

At the hindsight and all of those assets and he looks like the smartest man ever


If we would've lost it would've been like that lol

Chevy is a great GM

Agreed, when we lose, our fan base comes undone as well. You would think we are better hockey players then the players we are complaining about.
I just wanna win, is that too much to ask? I have about 100 different Oilers jerseys and Ill wear them every day if we win. My wife and daughter are Oiler fans, albeit they had no choice. There have been some rough days and we got laughed at but we stuck with them. With them so long, some of my jerseys dont fit anymore. Go Figure

 

[Drivesaitl]

Thinking back to last night, and I meant to mention it then, the sequence where Arvidsson gets the breakaway with the Oilers up 2-0, Skinner forces him to miss (or he misses the net depending on how you want to see it), then the Oil go right back, Hyman gets his 2nd and they're up 3-0

That swing was massive and this team never looked back after that.

Skinner made the stop with his pad. It just skimmed off his pad wide. It was a massive swing. It was a huge sequence, for sure the defining one in the game.

 

[nally]

One non hockey comment but that was the most pathetic hat collection effort ever. They were just randomly skating around and grabbing hats. Shovels and big bags folks.

Lots of bending over in those blue tights though