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Pre-Game Talk: The Only Series We’ve Ever Known: Oilers @ Kings

Who wins?

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Tobias Kahun said:
a 4-1 series isnt close.
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Agreed. Every series has some close moments. That doesn't mean they're close. Even when Colorado swept the Oilers, there were close games and moments, where if something broke the Oilers way, you could say things would have been different. And that series was a total domination.
 
CupofOil said:
Games 1 and 3 the Oilers outplayed them significantly. Games 2 and 5 were tight, Game 4 the Kings badly outplayed the Oilers but Skinner, yes Skinner, stole the game. Games against the Kings are almost always slugfests. It was a close 5 game series, the Kings could have easily won Game 4 and the series would have been completely different had they won that game.
There has not been anything "not close" about the series between these two teams.
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They did not win a single game in regulation and were out scored 22-13. That’s not close.
 
It definitely is a toss up. LA looks way better this year and we did kinda barely beat them most games. LA will be very motivated and want revenge against us.. they’re going to attempt to injure as they always do too.

It’s 50/50 but I’m leaning Oilers of course. Although if they do beat us I have a sinking feeling that they’ll go on to win it all..
 
KeithIsActuallyBad said:
We can still win the series but any potential deep run is going to be extremely uphill unless the Wild/Blues can pull off some shenanigans.
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You said the same thing last season. Pipe down. I don’t get why you think we have no chance against Vegas.. did they destroy us this season? I must have missed that.
 
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5 Mins 4 Ftg said:
The Kings are better than last season. Goaltending and defence is best or near league best with a deep offence and the best home record in the league. They had 99 points last year. They are at 101 and counting this year. Kings with home ice coupled with Edmonton’s injuries should make them favored I would think.

But I’m not dumb enough to bet on hockey where Gary wants games artificially managed for the sake of parity. And if they throw the rule book out the window as is the tendency come playoff time it gives the Kings a massive advantage.
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Imho it’s less so that they are improved and more so we are worse.

There is also the fact that we leave the LA series with injuries every time and the fact that we are having massive injury issues with our big guys all year is a huge worry. Ekholm being out, Kane allegedly not even being ready, Frederic looking like game 3/4 etc it just seems like a perfect storm for an early exit.
We can still win games and maybe a round or two but everything surrounding this team definitely makes the thought of this being a cup contender this year a laugh.
 
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Slush battle against a team I’m sure the league feels is finally owed one against us. Not feeling too good about this series. Nothing impossible with healthy McDavid and Drai of course.
 
oobga said:
Slush battle against a team I’m sure the league feels is finally owed one against us. Not feeling too good about this series. Nothing impossible with healthy McDavid and Drai of course.
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I think we have this feeling that the NHL is going to rig against us but in these LA series I don't know its the case. On one side you Have LA KINGs who are a next to non existent entity in their market. Poor ticket prices, poor viewership vs the Oilers that have the most per game revenues of any team in the league last year and decent viewership and frankly with McD and Drai people watch. Even if they say they don't they probably watch some.

Its nothing but a bad deal for the NHL if LA advances. Financially, or any way, theres just no win in that and nor is it in advancing the game in that market, which decades have told us, it just doesn't happen. Only Gretz made LA happen and just for a brief while. The NHL should want the Oilers to advance. So thats a consideration for people that do bet on these sorts of things.

Now past first round all bets are off. NHL would rather Vegas or Colorado beat us. Just saying.
 
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Speaking of Ekholm, has there been any real update from the team on his injury? I've only seen one guy's reporting: Rishaug. Hoping there's a chance he's wrong and Ekholm's injury is one of those, "less serious than we thought" situations that you sometimes see. The injury reporting has been a little strange this year.
 
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Drivesaitl said:
I think we have this feeling that the NHL is going to rig against us but in these LA series I don't know its the case. On one side you Have LA KINGs who are a next to non existent entity in their market. Poor ticket prices, poor viewership vs the Oilers that have the most per game revenues of any team in the league last year and decent viewership and frankly with McD and Drai people watch. Even if they say they don't they probably watch some.

Its nothing but a bad deal for the NHL if LA advances. Financially, or any way, theres just no win in that and nor is it in advancing the game in that market, which decades have told us, it just doesn't happen. Only Gretz made LA happen and just for a brief while. The NHL should want the Oilers to advance. So thats a consideration for people that do bet on these sorts of things.

Now past first round all bets are off. NHL would rather Vegas or Colorado beat us. Just saying.
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According to Forbes and a few other sites the Kings are in the top tier of the league for revenue or very close to us. If they go far they can be the highest in the league potentially.
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UHHHH SON said:
According to Forbes and a few other sites the Kings are in the top tier of the league for revenue or very close to us. If they go far they can be the highest in the league potentially.
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I stand corrected. This also seems to concur. But where they getting the revenue from? It sure isn't gate. LA tickets are so cheap compared to here. Must have to do with having more district revenue?

 
Drivesaitl said:
I stand corrected. This also seems to concur. But where they getting the revenue from? It sure isn't gate. LA tickets are so cheap compared to here. Must have to do with having more district revenue?

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I do see a surprising amount of Kings merch around the streets of LA and SoCal in general. With that many people it's not so surprising. They've cleaned the city up real good in the last while as well in preparation for the Olympics.

Wife's from there, so I end up spending a good amount of months a year in the area.
 
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Oilhawks said:
The Kings were a lot closer to winning the series the playoffs prior to last, and not just because it went a game longer than last year.

Jack Campbell saved the series in game 4, a loss that would have given the Kings a 3-1 series lead
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Still didn’t win a game in regulation that series. A lot of late game heroics and kept it closer than it probably should have been. I believe when it was 2-2 they had held a lead for 13 seconds total or something.
 
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MessierII said:
Still didn’t win a game in regulation that series. A lot of late game heroics and kept it closer than it probably should have been. I believe when it was 2-2 they had held a lead for 13 seconds total or something.
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I remember Korpisalo being god mode as well, that did help the Kings a lot. Talbot wasn't that great last series
 
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