Post-Game Talk: Poor discipline and poor reffing is a bad combination

[sepHF]

who cares about the high stick? What the hell was that penalty on Draisaitl for unsportsmanlike

that was the softest call i have ever seen

 

[foshizzle]

like I said, sick advanced stats

when games are won by advanced stats, I'll pay attention

This doesn’t even make any sense- like most of your posts

 

[Ibanez]

Changed my avatar to Elmo. Even he doesn’t know what’s a penalty …

 

[Useless plug]

Jets fan here, dropping in to read all the legitimate complaints about this ######## league.

When the non partisan observer sees you getting f***ed, you know you're getting f***ed.

Worst officiating on the planet, driving fans from the game with every puck drop.

f*** the NHL. Bring back the WHA.

How are jets fans feeling about their series?

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

The four shifts of Broberg isn't really doing us any favors. With Bakersfield's season over, it would be nice to see Holloway draw in.

Holloway barely moved the needle in the regular season. What would he accomplish now? Guy will be ready next season at the earliest.

 

[mkatcherin00]

First of all LA is a trash team. They bring nothing of value, don't do anything, and just sit there. The way they play sucks and when they win its like an accident. Doughty is a loser and I'm ashamed he is from my country.

But onto the Oilers. If they lose this series it will be 75% them doing stupid s**t and 25% Korpi outduelling Skinner. Wow what a braindead team. RNH with the absolute two handed slash on a stick that is called 80% of the time or more. In overtime no less! Koskin who got lucky. Drai who literally killed all momentum with that dumb play of his. Who the hell gets a penalty during a goal celebration. You got to be a special kind of dumb.

Then you have danaukt giving McDavid a MASSIVE two hand lumberjack slash at the end of our last pp making him fall

Looked 100x worse. No call

 

[Cloned]

Hope the league likes having Stickgate all over the headlines. They deserve every bit of criticism.

 

[nexttothemoon]

If the league wants f***ing goals.. call the f***ing penalties fairly FOR BOTH SIDES and Oilers will score as well... instead of neutering the flow of the game and limiting talent.

The only way the Kings win this series is the fraudulent, scripted reffing which is handed down from NHL HQ.


Oilers haven't been a smart team...true... but the extra anchor of having to overcome the biased/fraudulent/scripted game management refereeing which is mandated by the NHL... is a LOT to overcome.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Skinner was excellent but Korpi was even better. I think that will be the difference.

Korpisalo didn't get enough respect on cratered C-Bus teams. His single handed steal beating an elite T-Bay team was remarkable. Put him behind this Kings team that plays a passive game that clogs up all space with two elite shutdown centres and it was going to be a slugfest match up. Skinner's largely held his own. This team has crushed themselves with penalties. Too much energy wasted on the PK.

 

[K1984]

Shades of 2017. Black eye for the sport tonight.

An absolute disgrace.

 

[djbard99]

Imagine blaming this team when it’s literally rigged to the nines. Cuckold central

 

[alphahelix]

who cares about the high stick? What the hell was that penalty on Draisaitl for unsportsmanlike

that was the softest call i have ever seen

The calls on Desharnais and Kostin were extremely soft too and matched easily by identical or worse plays by Kings that went Unpenalized. Someone should do a compare and contrast video.

 

[CycloneSweep]

7 game series.

I know you love to panic early but maybe for once in your life don’t freak out at the first sign of adversity.

7 game series for sure. But if you are struggling to win or score in games that you play well, what happens the moment you have an off night? If Oilers have a rough game 4 they probably get blown out.

Can this team win this series? Absolutely. But even if they do. They are absolutely not a cup contender. Their flaws are being exposed here pretty readily. Put a good goalie on their game in front of them and wait for them to take dumb penalties.

A big part of this is as the game goes on, our grinders minutes get cut when we need a greasy goal cause we aren’t scoring clean ones past the hot goalie.

 

[foshizzle]

Hopkins with the absolute brain dead slash in overtime when the refs are calling everything against him. He had a good year- but he disappears in playoffs

 

[Heavy Dee]

Games like this are why you need an Erik Karlsson.

 

[Spawn]

Facts is he has a 60% Corsi and overwhelming better then opponents advanced stats. So no, it isn't a fact mold brain.

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Facts is we are 3 games in and McDavid doesn't have a point at 5v5.

Expected goals and shot metrics are worth nothing.

 

[Useless plug]

It’s not really that much of an upset if it happens. 5 point difference? Edmonton on an incredible heater at the end. It will be a disappointment its not like there was a twenty point gap here.

I think that the tragedy will be the waste of a year where 3 players hit career highs in points and this team looked poised to go all the way...only to see it all collapse. They can still win (didn't they go down 2-1 last year???), but not if Korpi keeps up his play.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

They seem to do everything opposite of that, so far.

Yeah well they also want 6-7 game series to maximize revenue. What would the series be right now if penalties to each side were working 1-2 each game like they are in 90% of NHL hockey games.

 

[nexttothemoon]

League is fixed/scripted... not hard to comprehend except by those that are too naive to believe it.. and we have some here on these HFOil boards that can't understand that as well.

NHL is WWE.

 

[94 Oil Drops]

He mad about the high stick?

He's mostly angry about the call on Leon but yes, the stick too. The only way I can see us winning this series is if we never get involved in scrums. We've outplayed LA all 3 games but with officiating this brutal it doesn't matter. Imagine having your own league punish you being punished for having a great power play.

 

[Useless plug]

Facts is we are 3 games in and McDavid doesn't have a point at 5v5.

Expected goals and shot metrics are worth nothing.

Kings had a plan for him and it is working.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

How do you explain the puck changing directions so quickly then? Imo there's no question he touched the puck. What has been pointed out to me several times though is the fact it touched ekholm's back after the high stick, thus negating the high stick and leading to LA's possession. I hate it as much as the next person but at the end of the day it was the right call by the NHL's rules I guess. The garbage reffing as far as penalties go can stop anytime as far as I'm concerned though

Not the case

 

[Emotive]

GWG call aside. LA got away with the exact same play they called kostin on earlier in the game to start OT ( I don't think either should have been a penalty but if you're going to call it one way you better call it the other way) Kempe runs over Skinner right after. LA gets 2 PPs in 2 straight OT playoff games. Someone please tell me the last time this has happened in NHL history

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Dog shit refs and a goalie out playing our goalie.

 

[Oilhawks]

Shades of 2017. Black eye for the sport tonight.

An absolute disgrace.

And only Oilers fans remember how blighted that was by worst reffing in pro sports.

Only Sabres fans remember he was in the crease, only Flames fans remember "it crossed the line"...and so on.

As long as people keep paying to see this sub WWE scripted junk (at least WWE is fun), they'll keep screwing loyal fans to try and buy non-market fans.

I mean, the f***ing Kings only still exist because Gretzky was sold there.