Post-Game Talk: This is the end

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Am I serious? I’m not the one blaming Skinner for getting beat once by 57 goal scorer. The Oilers lost by ONE goal,
meanwhile none of the big guns did anything. But it’s Skinner’s fault, right?

I said the game isn’t on skinner bozo. Read.

Saying Florida should have had 5/6 goals that game is beyond hilarious.

 

[foshizzle]

Well yeah, he rarely shot the puck. everyone knew that.

We knew he was injured- but didnt know he was surgery level injured.

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

Skinner blew you guys the cup. He is the reason you lost.

 

[FlameChampion]

Not really a surprise. He looked off most of the year. Considering how many points he put up in the regular season and playoffs its quite astonishing for a guy who didn’t have his typical magic.

 

[Oilhawks]

So sad rn. It was almost an amazing story, soon to be forgotten.
Just another sad memory for the pile.

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Ass-Goblin Gary Buttman can’t be gone soon enough. Even if it’s “not his fault” the stink is there

 

[Cloned]

Going to hurt even more if he doesn't win one here now.

You’re in luck because I think him not winning it this year makes it even more likely he re-signs here long term.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Foegele owns and would be an amazing middle6/bottom6 player for a Cup group. He did well for us when the going got tough. Nothing wrong with him as a player, we need more guys like him.

McLeod, Ceci, Nurse, RNH...utterly useless.

Foegele was awful for most of the playoffs and took brain dead penalties. I’d rather a guy who shows up more often than not, and that’s not Foegele.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Have no idea how Mcdavid can go from superman for two games to Casper the nest two games. Knob did every single combination for lines except for f***ing Foegele-Mcdavid-Hyman which ate during game 5 made no f***ing sense.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Skinner blew you guys the cup. He is the reason you lost.

Thanks, Ken. Enjoy retirement.

 

[Ibanez]

Skinner blew you guys the cup. He is the reason you lost.

Lul

 

[MessierII]

Yeah. 2 goals by him that could have been stopped. you just don't get margin for any error in game 7 and the only reason this was a 7 game series was Skinner completely blowing game 3.

Team laid it all on the line and gave it everything they got. Oilers were the better club in the last 5 games of the series which is pretty impressive. Bobo was back to magic tonight. That happens.

I don’t think bob was that good Florida just played like a more desperate team. The D man saved a goal in that one scramble. They were in shooting lanes and doing everything they could to not give us a clean look. We failed to match their intensity from puck drop.

 

[Dave92]

Shame how it ended but i never thought i'd cheer for the Oilers to win a game much less a cup. Very impressive run.

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

Thanks, Ken. Enjoy retirement.

Holland is a moron.

 

[ORRFForever]

From the rest of Canada, "Thank You". That was a GREAT run and we were ALL rooting for you and McDavid.

 

[DrDrai]

Yeah, when I saw McDavid fall because of that florida Slush they were playing on, I knew the ice would play a factor.

This is why home-ice is important.

This is why the NHL needs to enforce a standard. If you can’t have reasonable ice then you either upgrade your building or all 7 games get played in the other building.

This isn’t an outdoor sport, the ice was a joke.

 

[gordonhught]

McLeod, Foegele, Ceci, Nurse

Sorry. Bitter. Drai did nothing in the finals,, but make sure to pay him 15 mil on an extension.

 

[larek]

No surprise to anyone who has followed McDavid. I’ve been calling it all year, he can’t shoot the puck and it’s been like that the entire season. Pretty amazing what him and the team were able to accomplish given injuries to key players like him and Draisaitl. I imagine Drai picked up a litany of injuries this run.

Like another poster said the start to next year might be a little rough if a few of these guys need to go under the knife

I'd be surprised if any of the top guys will have to have surgery

 

[StreetHawk]

Ice was awful, favoured the Panthers.
Refs were awful favoured the Panthers.
How can they justify giving the Oilers one powerplay in that game? And players falling all over the ice, we needed home ice advantage in this series.

NHL should, but they won't begin the season on Oct 1 or earlier. The US teams want fewer weeks against the NFL/NCAA football in the fall. Which is stupid since the NFL is going to 18 games soon from the sounds of it, so the NFL season will run to the 3rd week of Feb.

It's a heat wave going on in the NE USA. Had NYR or BOS made it, not sure how the ice there would be either. We are a week from Canada Day for crying out loud.

 

[CupofOil]

I feel like that was McDavids one chance at a cup and him going pointless in Game 7 is going to haunt him his entire career. It’s extremely hard to even get here and our cap situation is only going to get worse.

That said, incredibly proud that this group made it to Game 7 of the finals with how the season started.

Sad that it was a bust after all.

Not true, not this offseason. Next season will likely be their best shot at a Cup, outside of tonight obviously.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Disagree, fumbling the puck all game behind our blueline, losing battles, cycling and passing to death on offense before a low chance shot. They didn’t get to the net on entry until 7 minutes left in the third.

Could call it butterflies, or run down physically after a brutal postseason, but we played right into Florida’s gameplan, like in games 2 and 3.

The ice was shitty though Russ. Tht factored in as well and was tough making plays and passes. Florida play on this ice all the time and so are used to a slurpee cup. They were shooting everything and not trying as much. Just get pucks on net. Oilers tried that too.

 

[Garbageyuk]

I said the game isn’t on skinner bozo. Read.

Saying Florida should have had 5/6 goals that game is beyond hilarious.

You’re drunk. Skinner made tons of big saves. Cope in whatever weird way you need to, I guess.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Sorry. Bitter. Drai did nothing in the finals,, but make sure to pay him 15 mil on an extension.

ya, lets give that money to Janmark instead

 

[Anemia]

Well, as Canuck fans like to say, maybe next year.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Not true, not this offseason. Next season will likely be their best shot at a Cup, outside of tonight obviously.

We have Campbell, Ceci and Nurse taking nearly 20 mill of the cap. Thats not a recipe for success and we got here in spite of that and pretty much the entire cap increase is already spent on dead cap.

This coming year is arguably our next chance cause when Bouchard and Draisaitl get resigned our cap is gone.

 

[sepHF]

We knew he was injured- but didnt know he was surgery level injured.

It’s been all year, when it doesn’t get better over the course of months it’s gotta be a surgery thing

It’s a shame we had such a rough start and couldn’t take our foot off the gas pedal all year. If we had to shut him down for 8+ weeks we probably don’t even make the playoffs