I was under the impression you were discussing yesteraday's game but game 1 was pretty even at 5v5 with a slight advantage towards Colorado, game 2 the Oilers got stomped, game 3 was Oilers favoured. You can argue the calls on the Oilers were blatant penalties but they missed a lot of blatant ones against the Avs (the most notable being the MacKinnon slewfoot on Draisaitl in the 1st period).
The Oilers window isn't open in the first place b/c we have a garbage general manager in Ken Holland who doesn't even have an analytics department and allocated 19 million in cap hit between Nurse/Keith/Barrie. We actually just don't have the cap space to fit in any more depth b/c we have an overpaid #2 dman and 2 Marc-Andre Bergeron clones taking up a quarter of our payroll. We're probably unironically better off praying guys like Holloway/Broberg can turn into Byram esque studs who become impact contributors on ELCs. Chances are you're not getting better players at comparable cost.
Matthews required wrist surgery that left him off the ice until the season was underway, after an injury sustained part way through the previous season, and people dump on him constantly for poor performance in the Habs series.
There are unironically ppl on our boards who defend Ken Holland for building this garbage roster and f***ing up our cap that hard b/c the two future Hall of Famers went nuclear and dragged these bums into the WCF.
You see--what the Oilers complain about isn't obvious (such as the 'Landeskog headshot' on Yamamoto) or the alleged slewfoot on the already one-legged Drai. I mean Oilers fans are still vehemently complaining the non-offside call in Game 1 for God's sakes. Complaining about calls seems to be a coping mechanism for the situation their team is in. The Oilers, their fans, and even the coaching staff are more focused past 'missed calls' than on their own discipline. Let's see how that pans out for them in the upcoming games.
The Oilers have a garbage roster brought to a level they don't deserve by McDavid/Draisaitl/Woodcroft, I have never said otherwise. They were always going to lose this series. It's also objectively true that MacKinnon slewfooted Draisaitl, those are not mutually exclusive.
And McKinnon and others are trying to take out Draisaitl. That’s playoff hockey. Both teams have some key injuries. The Avalanche just have the depth to cover for injuries. And realistically no team could cover for a player like Draisaitl being injured.
Alright now look at our bottom 6. Foegele/McLeod/Puljujarvi are salvageable players but they don't have a pair of hands between the 3 of them. Kassian is an outright liability and another Ken Holland Justin Abdelkader special. Josh Archibald is the absolute single worst player in the NHL who analytically is a bigger outlier as a negative than McDavid is as a positive and the only reason he doesn't harm the team more is b/c he plays 5 mins per night. The top 6 is good but McDavid/Draisaitl are making Kane/Hyman/RNH look better than they actually are, which would be fine if we didn't support that top 6 with a non-human bottom 6, a non tire fire defense, and 2 non coinflippers in net.
Murray would last 5 minutes against a team as dirty as the Oilers. It's time to bring in the other Mac.
Assuming both the Avs and Rangers advance, we'd need MacD for Reaves anyway. Might as well start shaking off the now.
I believe so yes. Just think the Red Sox 0-3 comeback in 2004 against the super elite Yankees was a bit more impressive . Of course i have Sox bias so
Shouldn't you be busy worrying about Gaudreau's new contract with Philadelphia or New Jersey and Tkachuk's incoming 12 million dollar per season deal? Maybe we can have Tkachuk double up and play goalie for Jacob "Vezina" Markstrom.
