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

[Scrantonicity 2]

With the 2 we have currently we still dominated your flames.

I dont think we need any more.

Cope.

 

[KyleJRM]

The Avs are outclassing the Oilers, clearly, but the difference in this game was a post at one end to spring a guy coming out of the box at the other end. The rhetoric needs to be tempered just a tad.

Mike Smith was playing *insane* to keep it that close. It could have easily been 6-2.

 

[JWK]

MVP of this game was Draisaitl.

Helped Avs score. the 3rd goal after his dive and then a beautiful pass to Rantanen for the empty netter

 

[Heldig]

Avs are just a better built team than the Oilers and played better. Refs are cringe with the exorbitant amount of PPs they gave the Avs this series but it's not why the team is losing. The team is losing b/c Ken Holland built a dog shit defense despite literally everyone knowing that was the Oilers issue for years and placing all his chips in on a 40 year old goalie.

Which of the penalties today were unwarranted? All 4 were blatant and obvious calls IMO.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Ken Holland should be fired for the Darnell Nurse contract alone

Nurse is 27 and his contract stats next season. Yikes!

 

[snipes]

“Every team who doesn’t win the the Stanley Cup is garbage, pure trash and would lose to the local junior B team“

 

[66-30-33]

Gonna see this on Monday. The Av's are just THAT GOOD! Sweep em up...

Pens fan here...sweep your way to the cup please! after let MacKinnon be a UFA so he can join his BFFs team.

 

[yababy]

The guy who purposely left 5m on the table so his team could build a winner is winning.
It’s not just Mackinnons 5m, it’s everyone else on the team that needs to fall in behind his contract
See Tampa, Florida, Penguins
The guy who left no money on the table and produced a Nurse 9.5 million contract is getting what he deserves.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Colorado is 5 straight wins away from matching the 80's Oilers. 16-2 in PO.

 

[snipes]

Oilers would have lost to the preds if they played them.

Weakest opponent the avs had played this year by far.

The Oilers curb stomp the Preds. Draisaitl owns that team.

 

[Turbonium]

It is amazing that with the talent the Avs have they still need the refs to push them to beat the Oilers...

And I know, fans always complain about the refs, but I've never been frustrated by the refs like in this series....

Which call tonight shouldn't have been made?

The Oilers are making it easy on the refs.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Did you miss the SOG difference and all the miracle saves by Smith, or the injury to Kadri having the Avs play shorthanded the whole game?

Smith's miracle saves are often the result of Smith getting out of position, and the Avs played with precisely the same number of forwards that the Oilers did. I said in my post that the Avs are clearly outclassing the Oilers. But a post at one end to a breakaway goal at the other was the difference in who won or lost, so the people ready to launch themselves off a bridge over how much the Oilers are a disgrace to the game of hockey maybe need to dial it back a touch.

 

[Heldig]

It is amazing that with the talent the Avs have they still need the refs to push them to beat the Oilers...

And I know, fans always complain about the refs, but I've never been frustrated by the refs like in this series....

Really? Which penalties today were not deserved?

 

[Devonator]

I have to say I am disappointed in the Oilers....I expected a much better fight from them in this series....but the Avs are showing they are on another level to be sure......

 

[Tobias Kahun]

The guy who purposely left 5m on the table so his team could build a winner is winning.
It’s not just Mackinnons 5m, it’s everyone else on the team that needs to fall in behind his contract
See Tampa, Florida, Penguins
The guy who left no money on the table and produced a Nurse 9.5 million contract is getting what he deserves.

You think Mackinnon left 5m on the table?

No, he signed a contract for what he was worth at the time.

 

[Kravtsov420]

Nurse is 27 and his contract stats next season. Yikes!

I’d have one of those fancy paintings of my agent hanging above my mansion fireplace if I were him

 

[VivaLasVegas]

The Oilers just need a couple more #1 draft picks and they'll be primed for a cup run.

They'll need better than McGhost -- 2 goals in 3 games in a conference championship is something far short of "generational".

 

[ViD]

Colorado is 5 straight wins away from matching the 80's Oilers. 16-2 in PO.

They would have to beat Shestyorkin in 4 straight. Impossible.

 

[katfude]

I'm just impressed that Kane is such a piece of shit that he has only made Kadri look that much better.

Stand with Naz.

 

[MessierII]

Smith's miracle saves are often the result of Smith getting out of position, and the Avs played with precisely the same number of forwards that the Oilers did. I said in my post that the Avs are clearly outclassing the Oilers. But a post at one end to a breakaway goal at the other was the difference in who won or lost, so the people ready to launch themselves off a bridge over how much the Oilers are a disgrace to the game of hockey maybe need to dial it back a touch.

Yeah 2 games have been 1 goal games. This isn’t domination. Avs are clearly better but it’s not the landslide you’d think it was by reading HF mains.

 

[Platano King]

I'd much rather play the Oil in the final, but if the Avs win let it be a sweep. Hopefully the extra time off can help the Rangers if we get past Tampa.

 

[katfude]

They would have to beat Shestyorkin in 4 straight. Impossible.

Focus on tampa first. Get that stranglehold before you plan the parade, buddy.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

The difference really was the Avalanche power play being ineffective. The shots and play were fairly heavily in Colorado’s favour. But I’d agree it was the closest match of the series.

The Oilers PK was also effective.

 

[Turbonium]

Yet they just smoked the Pacific division champs without even breaking a sweat.

This just shows how awful the Pacific is.

Blues or Wild would've come out from that side of the bracket without breaking a sweat.

 

[sethro109]

You think Mackinnon left 5m on the table?

No, he signed a contract for what he was worth at the time.

Both MacK and the Avs said he took a discount when he signed his current contract. Everyone, even Avs fans thought he'd be making 1 million more than he is now.

But yeah, he definitely didn't take a 5 million dollar discount.