Post-Game Talk: Oilers with the reverse orca card

[Captain Fantastic]

 

[JeffSkinner53]

 

[Drivesaitl]

Split McDrai, Split Nurse-Ceci, and start Pickard.

Knob would be getting roasted if this one went the other way. Woody would never have done that

Elevating Holloway to Drai line was also good. A lot of meat on the hoof on that line with Hollywood, Drai and Kane. Adds some speed on pucks too.

 

[Broberg Speed]

We lose this game without Drai. Period. Far from the first time he's led us to playoff victory. He's our best player in playoffs almost every year.

I don't believe Draisaitl will demand to be the highest paid player in the NHL. Give him the average of the elite players in this league and give him 8 years. Then he will be an Oiler for his entire career.

 

[TheNumber4]

Here's a weird one. All 3 teams made the finals in their respective years. Devils won.

Sweet. Gotta have resilience to make it that far, and we have shown to have that on spades.

 

[McOilers97]

There has been at least a dozen times that that shrimp Garland could have been drilled, and the Oilers still haven't taken the opportunity to obliterate him.

Yeah, I feel like it shouldn’t be that tough to neutralize him with physicality. I know he’s chippy, but he’s the smallest guy out there.

 

[tiger_80]

Jebus Christopher Columbus... I thought I was going to have a heart attack at the end of that game. What a goal by Bouchard, what a game. Best of 3 now, baby.

If they lost in OT, it would be a hearbreaker, especially after blowing the 4:1 lead in game one.

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

SNET is so dumb; their control room decided to cut to the Canucks' hallway at the exact moment Stu was about to hug Pickard. That would have been nice to see.

 

[Oilers in NS]

He's not really a power forward. More like a good skating shooter. Kind of like Boeser.

He likes to throw the body . He goes to the dirty areas as well. We have some guys that can skate but have stone hands. I suggested this line at first of year:
Holloway McLeod Foegele

I would call it Stonehenge Line

 

[Drivesaitl]

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11.5M buck man and he's missing in action. Such an unbelievably ineffective player in playoffs. Paid twice what Steve Austin was paid and his pilot got cancelled (TV humor, I have to explain my jokes)

There was a play in the third where Petey has the puck on the boards, freezes, and an Oiler wallops him and just takes puck away. epitomy of his playoffs. he's not even a good player in post season. he looks like an out of place bottomsix player. Worse because he bails on hits. just a complete joke.

They love Swede forwards in Vancouver.

I love mocking this guy.

 

[oobga]

 

[McOilers97]

We lose this game without Drai. Period. Far from the first time he's led us to playoff victory. He's our best player in playoffs almost every year.

I agree. They’ve produced at similar levels in the playoffs in their careers, but Draisaitl’s game seems to be tailor-made to handle playoff hockey. He stands out a bit more than McDavid to me in many of these games.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Nurse punching Joshua was classic.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Pickard all the way to the Cup

 

[BertMcDrai]

Yesss Baby...Leon is the playoffs king...more Jean-Luc please...beat them in Van next game and they are done!!

 

[oobga]

Pickard all the way to the Cup

Does Pickard get the good guy in the room bump? Lol. Like Mike Smith. No matter how bad Smith played we always went all out for him. While at the same time this team loves to just quit on goalies that sag and have terrible body language and low confidence.

Even more than the goalie play itself there has always been a big difference in how this team plays between goalie personalities. It's not a good thing for sure, you wish your team would play the same no matter what, but is what it is. Kostko another guy we loved to half arse in front of.

 

[benum]

Playoff Kulak can raise Cece to meh, The big guy can help Nurse get to meh/okay, then there’s the top pairing. I would put in someone for Cece to get great/okay/okay as a corps. Stecher or Broberg for Ceci? Won’t happen but should maybe?

 

[Oilers in NS]

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Mitch Marners twin. Same style of hockey

 

[syz]

kinda hard to be scared of a Swede. Very soft players.
Does that make me sound like a Bigot? Im just stating the obvious. When the going gets tough, the Swedesdont get going. They disappear


I bought a defibulator and I keep the pads on me when the Oilers r playing

 

[Captain Fantastic]

kinda hard to be scared of a Swede. Very soft players.
Does that make me sound like a Bigot? Im just stating the obvious. When the going gets tough, the Swedesdont get going. They disappear


I bought a defibulator and I keep the pads on me when the Oilers r playing

Except Ekholm. Ekholm seems to like taking out his anger on his fellow countrymen. It's funny.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Honestly Vancouver is louder. To be fair though they have no idea what they are cheering for or when to cheer. They go offside or ice a puck and their still cheering like idiots.

Thats the sound from the riots, police sirens and ambulances you're hearing bleeding into the arena. Its DT Vancouver after all. Have you been there?

I'm not even totally jk. The sound of sirens of all sorts is constant there. any time sounds like 100 emergency vehicles going to scenes.

 

[tiger_80]

He likes to throw the body . He goes to the dirty areas as well. We have some guys that can skate but have stone hands. I suggested this line at first of year:
Holloway McLeod Foegele

I would call it Stonehenge Line

He's a bit smallish to be a considered a power forward. A power forward uses his size and strength, rather than skating, drives the net, wins board battles, hits and fights. So Doan, Lucic, Kane, even Kassian.

 

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Elevating Holloway to Drai line was also good. A lot of meat on the hoof on that line with Hollywood, Drai and Kane. Adds some speed on pucks too.

Holloway into the top 6 is something we've been screaming for weeks. Feels good to be vindicated. Kid is a player and a good fit with Drai

 

[Drivesaitl]

Holloway into the top 6 is something we've been screaming for weeks. Feels good to be vindicated. Kid is a player and a good fit with Drai

i wanted it a year ago. Woody hated Holloway, or so it seemed.

 

[guymez]

Holloway into the top 6 is something we've been screaming for weeks. Feels good to be vindicated. Kid is a player and a good fit with Drai

Some nice size on that line and all 3 players can skate.
Better line with Holloway instead of Foegele.