Pre-Game Talk: There is no try - its do or die. Pregame Jitter Thread for Game 3

[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

We are about to get swept!

Not a chance

 

[Arpeggio]

Win the next one and we're right back in it. We haven't seen the Oil's best game yet, and they deserved game 1. We were down 2-0 in 06 too, and that one went seven. We got this!

 

[McAsuno]

I would insert Gagner in the lineup actually, truth be told. His skating may not be at a high level, but that guy has more f***ing heart compared to players like McLeod. What pisses me off the most about McLeod is despite being among top of the team's fastest wheels of his skating along with his height and size, he's softer than butter constantly refusing to get into the dirty areas. I've seen more balls from Yamamoto, even though Kailer took more punishment despite being a tiny player against the boards or in front of the net. It's pathetic to watch game after game with McLeod. This is playoffs hockey, McLeod. Man the f*** up for once rather than play all game in the f***ing perimeter. 1 f***ing goal in 19 GP isn't gonna cut it whatsoever.

I'm gonna guess it'll be Dan O'Rourke and shitlord Steve Kozari next game after the shit show official performances by both Hebert and piece of shit Rooney. We might as well do the same stuff like the panthers did last game. Get hit? Go down right away in a fetal position like its the most painful experience ever, get the trainers to hop off the Oilers bench, help escort to the dressing room, then come back few minutes after. If not only that, might as well embellish like how Bennett and Tkachuk constantly did.


Prime example of that pathetic shit last night from Bennett. Embellishment penalty that went uncalled at its finest, yet Bouchard gets called in the game for the softest bullshit. Dumbass fairweather panther fans and their 'hEYYyYyYyy HeYyyYyYyYyYY' after Bennett going down. Morons there don't know shit about hockey.

Win in G3 and G4. We f***ing got this.

 

[Spawn]

Oilers are lucky Draisaitl wasn’t suspended for that elbow on Barkov and had ~8 minutes of PP time last game. Managed 1 shot.

Officiating has nothing to do with why the Oilers are down in this series.

First game they got Bobrovsky’d. Second game they just got owned.

 

[Yablo21]

A comeback would be so much sweeter realizing that the last team to come back from a 2-0 deficit was the 2011 Bruins. It would be so delicious to be able to rub this in the face of the numerous butt hurt Canucks fans out there.

 

[Fishy McScales]

Oilers are lucky Draisaitl wasn’t suspended for that elbow on Barkov and had ~8 minutes of PP time last game. Managed 1 shot.

Officiating has nothing to do with why the Oilers are down in this series.

First game they got Bobrovsky’d. Second game they just got owned.

Officiating in the last game definitely had something to do with it, shortening our bench for no reason in the first period, denying us a 5-on-3 and calling a penalty on us retroactively which led to the third goal.

Now the Oilers might very well have lost anyway, but it's not like it's black or white where officiating decided the game or it didn't. It was one factor of several but it was a factor.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

I'm getting slight flashbacks to all the obstruction and missed stuff in the Winnipeg series years ago. I guess it's a proven strategy by now though....

He knows the concept of flooding very well. Ugly hockey, but it works.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

50,000 posts in 39 months?

I gather you just graduated from one of our amazing Canadian schools.

 

[Fishy McScales]

This is an angle that the refs didn't have.

I'm not a fan of spending so much time dwelling on the reffing. It's a very bad sign when it takes up so much oxygen, and it's a loser mindset. I suppose it's okay when fans do it but I'm always glad when the players dismiss this.

The team will start to win when they play better. A couple bad calls wasn't a big factor

Agree, the players 100% need to just shrug it off and reset.

The moment a team starts showing frustration at the officials, it is usually over in my experience.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Oilers are lucky Draisaitl wasn’t suspended for that elbow on Barkov and had ~8 minutes of PP time last game. Managed 1 shot.

Officiating has nothing to do with why the Oilers are down in this series.

First game they got Bobrovsky’d. Second game they just got owned.

Bennett's hit on Marchand was much worse and he didn't get suspended
there was no chance Drai was going to

 

[mkatcherin00]

Finally an Edmonton media member grows some balls and calls it out. In Boston and Toronto the media would be doing a full court press calling it out.


I know they could totally call it out with reason and still get the point across. It’s this culture of anti whining and assumption of non bias that permeates the League.

Have to get desperate and play the same game. Shake your wrists, flop, etc much more.

Knowing us, our flop would go uncalled and would go back the other way for a Florida goal lol

 

[Canovin]

So is Barkov injured or no?

 

[elmeroil]

So is Barkov injured or no?

I highly doubt it, likely just them playing games.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

So is Barkov injured or no?

No. They are just playing games.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

I highly doubt it, likely just them playing games.

Agreed.

The league handles suspensions based on outcomes. It'd be in their interest to say he's injured, as Drai would actually be looking at sitting for a game or 2 then.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1800890750621958388

it's a miracle!

 

[BlackDogg]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1800890750621958388

it's a miracle!

They have the best healers this side of Vegas.

So the officials look like buffoon monkeys after being played like beginner pianos. What else is new.

 

[foshizzle]

According to report they've actually travelled a lot. Florida is so far from everybody in hockey Except say Tampa. Oilers have travelled about 500more Km's That was the Snet graphic so its probably wrong. lol

But seriously Boston to Florida is far. NY to Florida a fair trip. We had LA which isn't immense distance, and Vancouver which isn't either. Dallas trip of course being our long trip before this series.


I've heard of her 5001X Now thats some padding. She's somehow always on my youtube algorithm. I have no idea how that happened.

Sorry, I meant throughout the season

 

[foshizzle]

I would insert Gagner in the lineup actually, truth be told. His skating may not be at a high level, but that guy has more f***ing heart compared to players like McLeod. What pisses me off the most about McLeod is despite being among top of the team's fastest wheels of his skating along with his height and size, he's softer than butter constantly refusing to get into the dirty areas. I've seen more balls from Yamamoto, even though Kailer took more punishment despite being a tiny player against the boards or in front of the net. It's pathetic to watch game after game with McLeod. This is playoffs hockey, McLeod. Man the f*** up for once rather than play all game in the f***ing perimeter. 1 f***ing goal in 19 GP isn't gonna cut it whatsoever.

I'm gonna guess it'll be Dan O'Rourke and shitlord Steve Kozari next game after the shit show official performances by both Hebert and piece of shit Rooney. We might as well do the same stuff like the panthers did last game. Get hit? Go down right away in a fetal position like its the most painful experience ever, get the trainers to hop off the Oilers bench, help escort to the dressing room, then come back few minutes after. If not only that, might as well embellish like how Bennett and Tkachuk constantly did.

Prime example of that pathetic shit last night from Bennett. Embellishment penalty that went uncalled at its finest, yet Bouchard gets called in the game for the softest bullshit. Dumbass fairweather panther fans and their 'hEYYyYyYyy HeYyyYyYyYyYY' after Bennett going down. Morons there don't know shit about hockey.

Win in G3 and G4. We f***ing got this.

McLeod's soft play was a knock against him in his draft year also. He has always been this player

 

[tardigrade81]

Where's the A&W logo?



Pole



I seem to recall a certain HFOil poster who makes the odd GDT around here who had a 16 game (shared with @Morpheus) and a 8 game win streak IIRC....

Coming right up good sir

 

[McShogun99]

It's becoming less and less popular. I NEVER see kids playing hockey in neighborhoods anymore.

All of the kids are into Basketball. Soccer too.

I notice this also. When i was a kid you'd see people playing street hockey everywhere. Now it's basketball in every alley.

I'm never on Twitter, now known as X. There we go. Seriously I'd never heard her name or seen her face just googled it now. Not a looker.

By WNBA standards she's Giselle.

 

[DrDrai]

Oilers are lucky Draisaitl wasn’t suspended for that elbow on Barkov and had ~8 minutes of PP time last game. Managed 1 shot.

Officiating has nothing to do with why the Oilers are down in this series.

First game they got Bobrovsky’d. Second game they just got owned.

I don't think they were luck with the suspension, it wasn't worthy of that.

You are correct on the PP side, same thing happened last year. They have had their chances but can't capitalize.

 

[McJadeddog]

Officiating in the last game definitely had something to do with it, shortening our bench for no reason in the first period, denying us a 5-on-3 and calling a penalty on us retroactively which led to the third goal.

Now the Oilers might very well have lost anyway, but it's not like it's black or white where officiating decided the game or it didn't. It was one factor of several but it was a factor.

Yeah, I don't know what the outcome would have been if the reffing wasn't atrocious last game, nobody does. What I DO know is that we got royally f***ed by the refs in numerous ways last game and it 100% had at least some effect on the game. Would we have scored on the 1:53 5v3 we should have had? Maybe, maybe not, there is no guarantee. But if we had scored, it would have obviously changed the dynamic of the game. Hell, we might have scored twice, that wouldn't have shocked me either. It was an egregious mistake by the refs, no doubt about it. The 5 min penalty was also really, really bad, as the entire HNIC crew agreed. The Drai penalty was the right call, he deserved a penalty for that, no doubt about it.

The point is that penalties affect the game, in hockey almost more than any other sport outside soccer. To pretend that the rest of the game would have just continued as it did is folly of the highest order. Nobody knows how the game would have played out after the 5 min penalty, or 5v3. But its obvious that it would have helped the Oilers if the right call was made, statistically speaking anyhow. But you don't get to re-run the experiment, so its all just conjecture.

 

[Broberg Speed]

The boiling point has been exceeded.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Barkov suddenly became healthy as soon as no suspension was announced.

Not really a surprise