WCF: Edmonton Oilers vs. Colorado Avalanche ( Avs lead 3-0 )

[Reparlana]

Kuemper on ice for practice does he start ? Probably should if he can. Far too leaky for my liking.

Would I start Francous - yes and let Kuemper start scf

As long as the defense keeps at it game 4 should be interesting. I predicted sweep so I'm all in for it but it should be a blood bath.

 

[TaLoN]

Kuemper on ice for practice does he start ? Probably should if he can. Far too leaky for my liking.

Would I start Francous - yes and let Kuemper start scf

As long as the defense keeps at it game 4 should be interesting. I predicted sweep so I'm all in for it but it should be a blood bath.

Francous should start the next game. Darcy is a streaky goaltender, you don't want him there when he's got that mental block activated like it looked recently. Let him reset after the team advances.

 

[tucker3434]

I’d want Kuemper to try to regain some mojo in a game that only quasi-matters. Maybe reduced pressure allows things to click back into place.

That’s assuming he’s healthy. If he isn’t 100%, start Frankie.

 

[John Mandalorian]

Kuemper on ice for practice does he start ? Probably should if he can. Far too leaky for my liking.

Would I start Francous - yes and let Kuemper start scf

As long as the defense keeps at it game 4 should be interesting. I predicted sweep so I'm all in for it but it should be a blood bath.

I'd go with Francouz until there's a reason not to.

 

[pockets]

Frankie: .920 2.37
Darcy: .897 2.65

Definitely stick with Frankie until DK is 100%, even then I’m not completely sold on going back to DK

 

[JoeSakic13]

You start Franky for sure in game 4. Even if the long term plan is to bring back Darcy, Francouz has gotten the Ws this series.

He’s gotten the team to be up 3-0 (regardless of how key to those Ws he was) so he deserves a shot to close out the series.

 

[PaulD]

They gave up 40+ shots and basically half of them grade A scoring chances.

Untill they fix their defense they are going nowhere.

That’s the worst Dcore in the top4 I can think of by a country mile

Yea. True.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

I’d want Kuemper to try to regain some mojo in a game that only quasi-matters. Maybe reduced pressure allows things to click back into place.

That’s assuming he’s healthy. If he isn’t 100%, start Frankie.

This isn't the time to experiment and do favors for players. The Avs are all in and Francouz has clearly been the superior goaltender in these playoffs.

 

[tucker3434]

This isn't the time to experiment and do favors for players. The Avs are all in and Francouz has clearly been the superior goaltender in these playoffs.

I think we need Kuemper’s upside next series. Getting him going now isn’t for him, it’s for us.

 

[Divine]

 

[TruePowerSlave]

I think we need Kuemper’s upside next series. Getting him going now isn’t for him, it’s for us.

He has played enough and didn't impress anyone. Francouz should absolutely stay in the net.

 

[tucker3434]

He has played enough and didn't impress anyone. Francouz should absolutely stay in the net.

He didn’t impress anyone in the first ten games of the year either. Then he did.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

I think we need Kuemper’s upside next series. Getting him going now isn’t for him, it’s for us.

Only if he is 100% healthy; but even then Frankie deserves to close out the Oilers.

 

[JoeSakic13]

I would currently have it as:

1 - McDavid
2 - MacKinnon
3 - Draisaitl (clearly injured)
4 - Kane
5 - Kadri
6 - Landeskog
7 - Rantanen (he’s been a disappointment this playoffs)

Bumping this because I got absolutely crucified for having MacKinnon above an injured Draisaitl before the series started.

 

[Goulet17]

Without Kadri, people are free to root for Colorado again.

 

[CupInSIX]

This knucklehead has all but ruined my hopes for a Muffinbowl SCF matchup against the Rangers.

 

[DFF]

Edmonton's strength is offense, oilers are not a defensive or defnese first team. Oilers haven't gotten their offensive game going expect perhaps the 1st game of the series. Avs adjusted to take away neutral zone speed game of the oilers.

Oilers gotta find ways to dump and recover pucks quickly; so far I haven't seen oil do anything different offensively. THey are doing the same thing again and again and its not working. Avs on theother hand are content if oilers want to keep on donig the same thing again and again offensively though

Shut down McDrai and they are done. Kings and Flames couldn’t contain McDavid.

 

[TaLoN]

I think we need Kuemper’s upside next series. Getting him going now isn’t for him, it’s for us.

Having seen Darcy play many games for both my team and then beyond. I think he does better if given a reset rather than letting him play through. Once that mental block starts, you keep feeding him games, that mental block grows.

He sits for a while, then comes back, if he makes a few saves early, he quickly regains confidence again.

He's not a guy who I trust to play through mental mistakes.

I feel it's best for both him AND the Avs, to sit him until next series at this point.

 

[NoName]

I said before the series that Edmonton would be exposed by a real contender in Colorado and that the only reason they have made it to the conference finals is because they came out of a tissue-soft division and I got flack for that. Well, lo and behold, now they are down 3-0.

I voted Colorado in 5 games... now I am not even sure it reaches game 5.

 

[wayninja]

Shut down McDrai and they are done. Kings and Flames couldn’t contain McDavid.

Yep. Makar has been brilliant against him.

 

[Three On Zero]

Colorado is down 4 very key players yet they aren’t complaining about injuries, Edmonton is down… Yamamoto and the excuses about injuries are non stop.

Good teams still find a way to win

 

[Muffin]

Hard to not see a sweep now


lmfao

 

[Three On Zero]

Yep. Makar has been brilliant against him.

Makar is the McDavid of defence, kid has stepped up HUGE this post season.

 

[DFF]

Yep. Makar has been brilliant against him.

Yes, 1st thing against McDavid, don’t wet your pants. You could tell the Flames D and Markstrom panic everytime he touched the puck.

 

[DFF]

Hard to not see a sweep now


lmfao
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