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

[Ibanez]

Too bad it’s fake and what he really thinks is that this series is over. He just needs to throw in a positive comment every once in awhile so he can continue his true purpose here. To bring up anything negative about the Oilers he can.

At this point I’m just riding the positivity train. Regardless of who it is! And I’m hoping the positive reinforcement catches on

ride or die my peeps!

 

[Little Fury]

One time I kissed my grandma does that count

Only if there was tongue.

 

[Drivesaitl]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1800607388225126641

Why was it even reviewable? How about all of Bennetts dirty charging hits and putting people out of the playoffs?

Panthers got a hotline to Player safety. Its an absolute joke this minor penalty was even reviewed. says a lot just with that.

Benttwit runs players all game. Touch a Panther and is suspension review.

Losereinen and Barcoff are fine. Who would've thought?

 

[Fishy McScales]

One time I kissed my grandma does that count

Only you can make that call, but you should probably sacrifice yourself just to be sure.

 

[Ibanez]

If I'm the Oilers, after every major hit I'm laying on the ice moaning and groaning

Knob even called it out in the presser. Something along the lines of “Bouch didn’t stay down, the other guy did”

I thought he addressed that very well.

 

[TheNumber4]

At this point I’m just riding the positivity train. Regardless of who it is! And I’m hoping the positive reinforcement catches on

ride or die my peeps!

For sure. That’s the right attitude to have. We are headed back home and are more than capable of winning 2 at home. f*** the odds.

 

[DrDrai]

Why was it even reviewable? How about all of Bennetts dirty charging hits and putting people out of the playoffs?

Panthers got a hotline to Player safety. Its an absolute joke this minor penalty was even reviewed. says a lot just with that.

Bentwit runs players all game. Touch a Panther and is suspension review.

Losereinen and Barcoff are fine. Who would've thought?

Because he left the game, and people are butt hurt.

Could you imagine if they actually suspended Drai? What a mockery it would have been.

 

[LevelingSolo]

Interested to know how banged up 97 and 29 are

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Interested to know how banged up 97 and 29 are

Could also be exhausted too. Bouchard looked a bit that way last night.

 

[ZJuice]

Can a mental skills coach suddenly increase the testosterone levels in Mcleod?

If that mental skills coach is also a doctor or nurse practitioner
Juice him up!!

 

[foshizzle]

I’m amazed that there isn’t more talk about Ekblad literally choking Bouchard. Has anyone ever seen a player do that to another before?

Like the danger to a hold like that I think is flying under the radar

 

[Fishy McScales]

It's so annoying that complaining about poor officiating just gets waved off as being sore losers.

Like, half of Cucks identity is complaining about the refs (the other half being hating the Oilers), but you just know that now that it screws the Oilers they think the officiating is fine and the Oilers should suck it up.

 

[russ99]

No jitters, Oilers can play a lot better and Panthers have more to lose.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Benttwit reminds me of this brain damaged loser before Rust Cohle beat em up. Once you have this thought you can't get it out of your head. As service to doing something Kane should go berserk on this guy. Make it towards end of game so its not a major that can hurt us.

Few times that I'm an advocate of violence but I'll make exceptions time to time..

 

[brentashton]

Time to nut up here boys.

We can complain about the reffing double standard, about Bettman filling his face in a suite with Panther fans on national tv, about the lack of enforcing the actual rulebook come playoff time, about a power play thats gone stone cold (oh the irony), about the team defence being actually better without Darnell Nurse, about Holland not replacing healthy scratch Ceci at the TDL, about 97 and 29 not delivering on the largest stage, about McLeod carrying eggs in his shoulder pads, about Skinner not making a needed key save thus far, about getting goalied, about seeing that shit eating grin on Tkachuks face, about KK turning into JW for Game 1, about a 3rd line that couldn't score against a peewee team, about Florida out-willing the Oilers in puck battles, about seeming happy to be there versus there to win the thing....yes, we can complain about all these things and more.

But we wont. (I did it for you in the paragraph above).

Its do or die time. Trying gets you nothing. You must only do. (Yoda said that I think?) Git er done...(Yoda said that too I think?).

"Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die" as the old Crimean War saying goes. (The old Crimean War, not the new one)

We have to win Game 3. There is no bigger Must Win game this season than the one on Thursday night. @BertMcDrai is flying all the way in from Germany, @Took a pill in Sbisa is flying all the way in from Australia (apparently he is sick and can't work...), thousands will be at watch parties downtown, the rink will be buzzing.

There can be no try. No excuses.

Win. The. Game.

Thats all that matters.

Yoda the Cable Guy?

 

[Shad5150]

Not making excuses, they were brutal last night. However, that Florida humidity is a real bitch to get accustomed to.
That dry Alberta air, will do wonders for them. We'll win Thursday.

 

[TheNumber4]

It's so annoying that complaining about poor officiating just gets waved off as being sore losers.

Like, half of Cucks identity is complaining about the refs (the other half being hating the Oilers), but you just know that now that it screws the Oilers they think the officiating is fine and the Oilers should suck it up.

We got f***ed royally by the refs both games. It’s just facts. And I have no issue saying it.

 

[Jay Harris]

Well it's gut check time ... Absolutely MUST win both at home.
If you win both it's also a massive momentum swing and Fla will face added pressure going back home.
Perry back in for McLeod .... Ceci in for VD as hopefully he got a wake up call.
Play Brown, Janmark, Holloway more.
Get into Bob's mind ... (Calling Hyman and Perry)
If Evander really want a to help (and I believe he really does) grab Bennett and send a message.
WIN BOTH HOME GAMES!
After that anything is possible.

I believe....

 

[TheNumber4]

Glad to hear that Barkov has stopped faking injury.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Glad to hear that Barkov has stopped faking injury.

I get Maurice was looking forward to dropping that one liner, but he was just SO full of shit in his press conference.

 

[TheNumber4]

Friedman says it was a “weird” night of officiating cause they didn’t give Drai a penalty initially then did. And they gave Foegele a kneeing major when he admits it should have been a minor at most. And he didn’t think Bouchard deserves a slashing penalty.

He then goes on to say “he can’t fault the officials though”. Why the f*** not? He just admitted the oilers got screwed on 3 seperate occasions, but of course the Refs skate ANY accountability just cause.

I get Maurice was looking forward to dropping that one liner, but he was just SO full of shit in his press conference.

I know. That whole fake serious concern look. And talking like a philosopher. Guy is just making the NHL look like complete Pejorative Slurs

 

[Little Fury]

Friedman says it was a “weird” night of officiating cause they didn’t give Drai a penalty initially then did. And they gave Foegele a kneeing major when he admits it should have been a minor at most. And he didn’t think Bouchard deserves a slashing penalty.

He then goes on to say “he can’t fault yeh officials though”. Why the f*** not? He just admitted the oilers got screwed on 3 seperate occasions, but of course the Refs skate ANY accountability just cause.

Maybe he's saying it's not their fault because they were told to make things easy for FLA.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Friedman says it was a “weird” night of officiating cause they didn’t give Drai a penalty initially then did. And they gave Foegele a kneeing major when he admits it should have been a minor at most. And he didn’t think Bouchard deserves a slashing penalty.

He then goes on to say “he can’t fault yeh officials though”. Why the f*** not? He just admitted the oilers got screwed on 3 seperate occasions, but of course the Refs skate ANY accountability just cause.


I know. That whole fake serious concern look. And talking like a philosopher. Guy is just making the NHL look like complete Pejorative Slurs

Your forgetting about the ref huddle on the puck over glass penalty that mysteriously the linesman standing right there at the blue line somehow missed. Puck was inside the blue line but after a huddle review and a call from the Florida Assistant GMs Dad down to the refs it was determined that in Florida the rules are different and so no call was made.

The league has fixed this, with Bettman hobnobbing and filling his face in the Florida suite not giving a whit about the actual game and how poorly it was officiated, assigning all 4 officials whom the Oilers never beat, Cambells son being the AGM on Florida and the double standard there is for penalties, how much more obvious does it need to be.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Friedman says it was a “weird” night of officiating cause they didn’t give Drai a penalty initially then did. And they gave Foegele a kneeing major when he admits it should have been a minor at most. And he didn’t think Bouchard deserves a slashing penalty.

He then goes on to say “he can’t fault yeh officials though”. Why the f*** not? He just admitted the oilers got screwed on 3 seperate occasions, but of course the Refs skate ANY accountability just cause.


I know. That whole fake serious concern look. And talking like a philosopher. Guy is just making the NHL look like complete Pejorative Slurs

The Oilers lost themselves the game, we can all agree, but the officiating was absurdly atrocious and someone needs to say something about reckless and dangerous Sam Bennett is on the ice. He's Raffi Torres, Matt Cooke bad.

 

[TheNumber4]

Your forgetting about the ref huddle on the puck over glass penalty that mysteriously the linesman standing right there at the blue line somehow missed. Puck was inside the blue line but after a huddle review and a call from the Florida Assistant GMs Dad down to the refs it was determined that in Florida the rules are different and so no call was made.

The league has fixed this, with Bettman hobnobbing and filling his face in the Florida suite not giving a whit about the actual game and how poorly it was officiated, assigning all 4 officials whom the Oilers never beat, Cambells son being the AGM on Florida and the double standard there is for penalties, how much more obvious does it need to be.

I did forget. So many screw jobs I can’t even remember all of them. That was yet another example of the complete bullshit officiating we’ve been seeing all series.

I don’t doubt for a second that there’s something screwy going on. Colin Campbell being outted as asking for ref favors and doing it again, would not surprise me.