Post-Game Talk: This is the end

[Canadiancon]

As bad as Tkachuk’s on ice comments were after the game, Maurice’s were even more vomit inducing. He took Narcissism to a new level. I don’t remember them word for word because, honestly, I wanted to forget them as soon as I heard them but he basically compared himself to every great in hockey who had ever won the Stanley Cup because he himself has know won one too. Rocket Richard was one of the names he pulled out of his ass. It was infinitely more bizarre and out there than any of the other pressers he’s given during the playoffs on nights when he was feeling good about himself. Nick Zito isn’t the only lunatic working for that team.

You do realize he was giving a shout out to his father and telling him his last name would be along side his fathers hockey heroes who he grew up watching?

 

[DrDrai]

I have to say - flames fans cheering for Tkachuk is legit baffling to me.

That's the same energy as bringing the biggest present to your exes wedding.

Hahahaha, no doubt, its like losing a hot chick to another guy and then she say's "At least it wasn't your best friend!"

Same goes for Canuck fans and Luongo, somehow that involves them winning some small percentage.

 

[TheNumber4]

Ok I have had all night and half the day to process the loss. Two things to take from this run.

One the team has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. 10 days ago everyone including myself had them pegged for a dead.They fought back hard and accomplished something that was practically impossible. To make it a one game series after falling behind 3-0 is nothing short of extraordinary.

Two I believe KK panicked too early stacking the lines. The Henrique Brown Janmark line barely saw the ice after the panthers went up by a goal. I get that you want to give the two players on the world a chance to get it back but I think it burned them out too early. Should have waited until the 15 min mark of the 3rd to do that. Rumor has it Connor needs surgery for something abdominal this wouldn’t surprise me as his shot was off all year. Drai with broken ribs from the Canucks series taking five crosschecks is just absurd and proves the league does sweet f all to protect its players. I’m hoping we are back in this spot next year but it’s going to be tough especially if Connor misses part of the season. All in all it was a hell of a run and I’m damn proud of this team. GO OILERS GO NOW AND FOREVER

Agreed. f*** am I ever proud of this team. I feel pain, but I feel more pain for these guys that put it all on the line to bring a Cup home. They did this for Edmontin, a win would have cemented another 8 years in Edmonton for McDrai, they wanted this badly, for themselves and for the City of Edmonton and it’s fans, which I truly believe they love. This cup run may not have brought a cup, but it made this team and this city family.

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Simple answer is Bettman hates Canada. Why is there no team In Quebec?? They are thirsty and would rake in the dough. Instead the NHL drip fed the Arizona coyotes IV for YEARS until they finally ran out and had to pull them off life support. And now we have the "Utah Hockey Club"

Bettman is a total joke and there's a reason he gets booed every time he shows his face.

Im not buying it, but that’s me.

I think Europe was marching through Germany at that point, but I 100% agree that the series was lost in games 1 through 3, especially game 3. The Oilers needed their 8-1 performance in game 3, but in the end it came too late.

Oops sorry, my history of that era is a bit fuzzy

 

[TheNumber4]

I have to say - flames fans cheering for Tkachuk is legit baffling to me.

That's the same energy as bringing the biggest present to your exes wedding.

That sad pathetic fanbase and franchise just grasping at straws trying to manufacture something to be happy about; when we all know there’s NOtHiNG to be happy about as a flames fan.

 

[McBigYak]

As bad as Tkachuk’s on ice comments were after the game, Maurice’s were even more vomit inducing. He took Narcissism to a new level. I don’t remember them word for word because, honestly, I wanted to forget them as soon as I heard them but he basically compared himself to every great in hockey who had ever won the Stanley Cup because he himself has know won one too. Rocket Richard was one of the names he pulled out of his ass. It was infinitely more bizarre and out there than any of the other pressers he’s given during the playoffs on nights when he was feeling good about himself. Nick Zito isn’t the only lunatic working for that team.

You certainly don't remember them as he was paying homage to his father and saying his name will now be etched beside the greats. He wasn't comparing himself to anyone. It was the complete opposite of narcissism.

It was an amazing speech from a coach who certainly deserves the cup.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Just read that mcdavid has been playing with an abdominal injury that requires surgery, makes sense why he wasn't shooting, and Draisaitl has a possible broken rib on top of that hand/ finger issue. Again he looked brutal the final series

I'm sure more injuries will come out shortly. I get it to It's part of the game. Cup usually goes to who ends up Healthier in the end

Courtesy of Tyler f***ing Myers, that giraffe looking motherf***er. If scientists were ever looking at the evolutionary link how giraffes’ necks got so long, I’d start with his family tree.

 

[McJadeddog]

Needed at least one of the 4 posts hit in game 1 to go in. In all honesty had we won that game we probably would have lifted the cup in game 6

I told my wife that we should have won the cup in game 6, as we were the better team in 4 games through game 6. But I was curious if the advanced stats actually backed that up, and they don't.

I went and looked at the deserve to win tracker at moneypuck, which is a pretty good tool to judge such things and here were the % chances of winning for each game:

1 - 90% EDM
2 - 70% FLA
3 - 63% EDM
4 - 80% EDM
5 - 54% FLA
6 - 63% FLA
7 - 63% EDM

What is really interesting, is that the team that "should have won", only won twice all series. The results also show just how close the games and series were. Only two games of over 71%+, and 4 below 63%. Florida is full marks for winning last night, but I'll go to my grave stating that you could replay the series 100 times and each team would win close to 50% of those replays. Very close teams. A pretty convincing argument could also be made that we deserved a much better fate than we got in the series as well. Hockey is roughly 30-35% luck though, so you get these results pretty often, especially in a cap league where there is a LOT of parity between teams.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

That sad pathetic fanbase and franchise just grasping at straws trying to manufacture something to be happy about; when we all know there’s NOtHiNG to be happy about as a flames fan.

Some one at work said Tkachuk said something post game to the fans in Calgary and how he wasn’t going to let Edmonton win the cup. That f***ing clown was such a non-factor in the series. Matt Tkachuk is not as good of a hockey player Matt Tkachuk thinks he is.

 

[Oilhawks]

You do realize he was giving a shout out to his father and telling him his last name would be along side his fathers hockey heroes who he grew up watching?

 

[BlackDogg]

I have to say - flames fans cheering for Tkachuk is legit baffling to me.

That's the same energy as bringing the biggest present to your exes wedding.

New definition of cuck. CUCKGARY flames.

 

[Arpeggio]

One of the lessons I'll take from this run is the same as what I took from last year's. This team needs to step up and have a complete regular season for once, and secure home ice throughout the playoffs. The Vancouver series never should've gone seven, and they win the Cup if they start the final at home. No one is beating this team with four home playoff games in a series, and they need to get serious about it.

 

[bellagiobob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805596922042106353

 

[WaitingForUser]

Some one at work said Tkachuk said something post game to the fans in Calgary and how he wasn’t going to let Edmonton win the cup. That f***ing clown was such a non-factor in the series. Matt Tkachuk is not as good of a hockey player Matt Tkachuk thinks he is.

Right 3 points all series and he somehow takes credit for “stopping the oilers” guy is beyond a joke I hope he chokes on that damn mouth guard in his sleep

 

[TheNumber4]

Some one at work said Tkachuk said something post game to the fans in Calgary and how he wasn’t going to let Edmonton win the cup. That f***ing clown was such a non-factor in the series. Matt Tkachuk is not as good of a hockey player Matt Tkachuk thinks he is.

Lol I said as much on the mains:

Post in thread '"Shout out to my fans in Calgary. You know I couldn't let Edmonton win." - Matthew Tkachuk'
"Shout out to my fans in Calgary. You know I couldn't let Edmonton win." - Matthew Tkachuk

 

[Oilhawks]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805596922042106353

Kind of intrigued by Spector giving Skinner a third place vote. Not entirely undeserved, but Bouchard definitely deserved more third places than the Matty homer one

 

[Little Fury]

Oops sorry, my history of that era is a bit fuzzy

No you were right: the last successful reverse sweep was 1942. The last time a team came back from 3-0 to force game 7 but ultimately lose (before this year) was 1945 (one week before Hitler killed himself).

 

[Video Nasty]

I consider it a success, given the context of this entire season, but considering it a failure is not off base, nor is it even a bad thing.

The loss last night stings, especially after coming all the way back from 3-0 and losing by a single goal, but this was a hell of an effort after teetering on the brink of destruction after the opening of the regular season. Though I’ve been hopeful, I always had that sneaking feeling that McDavid and the Oilers might “have to” lose their first SCF appearance, ala Gretzky and Crosby (a fate I think Lemieux was able to avoid because his opponent was a 27 win/68 point/15 seed who still took 2 of the first 3 games). I was hoping to avoid that, but it is what it is.

Florida is a great team. The Oilers lost to a 110 point team that are now champions, have been to back to back Finals, and preceded that by winning the Presidents’ trophy two years ago. Terrific squad.

Now, if the Oilers are not champions next year at this point, sure, I will call that a failure. They’ve been to the dance, they were agonizingly close to a historic comeback, and I don’t see why they can’t pick themselves up, dust themselves off, get back to work and use this “failure” to get them over the hump.

 

[Oilhawks]

Lol I said as much on the mains:

Post in thread '"Shout out to my fans in Calgary. You know I couldn't let Edmonton win." - Matthew Tkachuk'
"Shout out to my fans in Calgary. You know I couldn't let Edmonton win." - Matthew Tkachuk

You might like my reply

It’s really the crux of it.

“You know I wouldn’t let Edmonton win, except the only time it mattered when I played for your team and then demanded a team killing trade”

 

[Drivesaitl]

Maurice said it. They had to lose 3 to learn to win 4.
Florida had nerves being 1 win away from the cup. But they were able to overcome them by failing 3 times in a row.
This was Edmontons FIRST chance of actually winning the cup and the nerves go to them like they did Florida. But Florida had the advantage of working out those nerves over 3 games.

Yeah. Maurice's answer after game 5 kind of haunted me. Because I thought he's onto it. I mocked the "no pressure" thing but he's a sage. He knew his team had nerves and the Oilers had none, until the Oilers had something at stake as he put it, and then the nerves. Its some next level thinking anyway and Maurice whether he makes this up on the fly or not is convincing enough to his players to have impact and to have helped them through this ordeal.

 

[McShogun99]

I have to say - flames fans cheering for Tkachuk is legit baffling to me.

That's the same energy as bringing the biggest present to your exes wedding.

That's like us cheering for Pronger to win a Cup in Anaheim. Just such a desperate fan base.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Some one at work said Tkachuk said something post game to the fans in Calgary and how he wasn’t going to let Edmonton win the cup. That f***ing clown was such a non-factor in the series. Matt Tkachuk is not as good of a hockey player Matt Tkachuk thinks he is.

What a goof. He didn't give a f*** about Calgary or the series given how he played. He was less impact in this series than Connor Brown. People know my opinions of Connor Brown.

 

[Little Fury]

You obviously don't run it back without improving the team. If anything, the fact that we have so many holes and still came so close should be encouraging. There were improvements from Bouchard, Broberg, Holloway, and Skinner. We have probably the best coach we've had in decades, and that's not even getting into Mark Stuart.

Coming so close and failing is devastating but it doesn't mean they can't make it all the way back. Just ask the Panthers.

In the last 40 years, only three teams have come back to win the Cup after losing in the final the previous year.

 

[Arpeggio]

In the last 40 years, only three teams have come back to win the Cup after losing in the final the previous year.

Yeah but ask the Panthers he said.

 

[Oilhawks]

What a goof. He didn't give a f*** about Calgary or the series given how he played. He was less impact in this series than Connor Brown. People know my opinions of Connor Brown.

He had a handful of impactful games all playoffs. If he played like he did there in this team, fans would have been pretty upset.

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