Post-Game Talk: Skinner Does Dallas

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Whelp looking like its gonna be the panthers next round unless the hurricanes can go on a miracle run here

Who care, this team can get it done and they owe the Panthers like they did the Knights.

 

[WaitingForUser]

It all started with that infamous Calgary series a couple years back and the whole “two guys beat us” comment. Ever since then head coaches can’t seem to help but twist themselves into a straitjacket pretzel with increasingly wild histrionics when we play them. Maurice has largely been immune to this which is probably a reason why the Panthers prevailed last year- being a raving lunatic to the media probably means they are a raving lunatic in the room too, and that’s the last thing players in such high pressure situations need.

That’s also when the Oilers started dismantling their divisional rivals

 

[Dieseloil]

Lucky, Nurse has to stop with this dumb shit especially with Ekholm out. He's too valuable to the team and there's too much at stake. If the Oilers simply cut the stupid out of the game (adding in the stupid Kane and Perry penalties in Game 1) and they'd likely be favorites for the Cup. Just cut the stupid out, it should be easy for vets to recognize this.

1000%

 

[Dieseloil]

Well it’s simple really:

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[29Beast97Mode]

Who care, this team can get it done and they owe the Panthers like they did the Knights.

No I actually think it's a good thing, revenge, hope that drives the team to beat Dallas even more

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

No I actually think it's a good thing, revenge, hope that drives the team to beat Dallas even more

Absolutely. The Canes look like frauds, this is utterly bizarre, the East looks low end, so to speak.

 

[TB12]

Don't start nothing, won't be nothing.

f*** around, find out.

Both apply equally here. Eat shit Roope.

 

[McShogun99]

Whelp looking like its gonna be the panthers next round unless the hurricanes can go on a miracle run here

A miracle run for Carolina would be just to win 1 game in the ECF.

 

[WaitingForUser]

Who care, this team can get it done and they owe the Panthers like they did the Knights.

Yep looking forward to the rematch with home ice

 

[avocadosmoothie]

Absolutely. The Canes look like frauds, this is utterly bizarre, the East looks low end, so to speak.

that's a polite way of saying the East is utterly trash, right?

 

[Drivesaitl]

The current series is 1-1. Not gonna count all the chickens just yet. Panthers are taking care of business, we're still 3 W's away from punching ticket. So are Dallas.

Best of 5 now. Oilers with home advantage in this series now.

 

[Faelko]

The current series is 1-1. Not gonna count all the chickens just yet. Panthers are taking care of business, we're still 3 W's away from punching ticket. So are Dallas.

Best of 5 now. Oilers with home advantage in this series now.

Yep, lots of hockey to be played yet.

 

[rboomercat90]

It was definitely a windup, he put some force into it. Again, if that happened to McDavid this fanbase would be calling the offender a piece of shit.

It was a 2 minute minor penalty and thats only if they bother to call it all. Worse than that gets ignored numerous times in the game. I was joking in the GDT during the first period that a Stars player couldn’t skate anywhere near Corey Perry without getting whacked and that was after he’d already taken a penalty.

This was only an issue because either Nurse managed to get him in a spot with no padding and hurt him or Hintz was faking the entire thing to try and draw as big of a penalty as he could in a game they had nothing going. That sure worked for them in game 1. Debouer decided after the game to try to use a nothing incident to try and game the officials for an advantage later in the series. Benn and Marchment followed his lead. We’ll find out soon enough how seriously injured Hintz was.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stecher is the correct choice to come out for Ekholm, but with how he's playing the Oil thankfully don't need to rush it.


The one player who will be happiest to see Ekholm back is Kulak. He's holding his own, but you can see some frayed edges in his game as he's being asked to play top pairing with Bouch and top PK with Nurse.

Getting Ekholm back will let him slip into Stecher's second pairing minutes with Nurse and (more importantly) a far smaller role on the PK, where Nurse and Ekholm anchor the left side, and Kulak, Bouchard, and Walman split the time on the right.

 

[AM]

I think you're not used to depth defenseman who are good and can move the puck. He's been excellent.

Didn’t say anything else.


Pretty sure they talked to him about it.

 

[DirtyDrawers]

Listen man. This series is going the same way all the other ones went. Edmonton was the best team in the LA series; even though losing the first two games they were still the best team. They were the best in the Vegas series. They have been the best in this series, even during the Game 1 loss they were the better team. They're have been no fluke wins.

Expect a rematch of last years finals. Though I don't know if it will be different, but probably expect a 7 game series again.

 

[The Trash Man]

Listen man. This series is going the same way all the other ones went. Edmonton was the best team in the LA series; even though losing the first two games they were still the best team. They were the best in the Vegas series. They have been the best in this series, even during the Game 1 loss they were the better team. They're have been no fluke wins.

Expect a rematch of last years finals. Though I don't know if it will be different, but probably expect a 7 game series again.

Time will tell but I believe it will be different this year

 

[KCC]

Listen man. This series is going the same way all the other ones went. Edmonton was the best team in the LA series; even though losing the first two games they were still the best team. They were the best in the Vegas series. They have been the best in this series, even during the Game 1 loss they were the better team. They're have been no fluke wins.

Expect a rematch of last years finals. Though I don't know if it will be different, but probably expect a 7 game series again.

Who knows. Often in sports you have to lose before you win especially in hockey. Florida learned heartbreak 2 years ago and then won it all last year. Maybe EDM's experience from the finals helps them this year and they push through, we will see. I would feel so bad for McDavid and Draisaitl if they lost again in the finals this year. lol I hope they can do it. If anyone deserves a cup right now it's those 2.

 

[Kinibo]

Not our best game today and the score was flattering imo. They can’t all be masterpieces.

But… Last 12 games we’re 10-2 against the combined efforts of LA, Vegas and the Stars. Hard to argue with those results.

 

[DirtyDrawers]

Who knows. Often in sports you have to lose before you win especially in hockey. Florida learned heartbreak 2 years ago and then won it all last year. Maybe EDM's experience from the finals helps them this year and they push through, we will see. I would feel so bad for McDavid and Draisaitl if they lost again in the finals this year. lol I hope they can do it. If anyone deserves a cup right now it's those 2.

Yeah you never know. This could be a remake of the 2008-09 with Detroit and Pittsburgh. 1st year Detroit wins, the next Pittsburgh.