GDT: WCSF GM 4 | Vancouver Canucks @ Edmonton Oilers | Tue, May 14 | 6:30PM PST | SPAC | Thunderdome!

[ManVanFan]

Not surprising after half of them barely did anything last night.

 

[ProviesGhost]

Spector trying to be part of story here is pretty sad.

 

[God]

Every Oilers writer is trying to re-live their glory days of covering the Gretzky Oilers. It's pathetic. The days of doing coke with Mark Messier are over and will never happen again, and the current iteration of the Oilers hate their guts for asking braindead questions after every game.

 

[ScottishCanuck]

Spector trying to be part of story here is pretty sad.

Gutter journalism from a gutter journalist.

 

[tantalum]

Last year this was a fine. With far more intent.

But it was during a play! An after the whistle scrum at the end of the game makes things 100X worse. Or some such non-sense.

 

[Brookbank]

Hoglander has been absolute rubbish besides finally showing a sliver of effort the previous game. Definitely deserved a sit. Karlsson played way better imo and didn't look out of place and was far better defensively. They team/Garland gave him the player of the game puck.

Aman also played very well. I was wary at first but both moves turned out to be good plays. Aman is a very good skater and positionally sound. He really makes it hard for the opposition to get things going and he's always good for a decent chance or two.

Hoglander better draw in in the next game. When he's on , he's one of the best players on the boards on the team. He hits like a truck. He was in the top 15 on 5/5 goals.

But Tocchet loves rewarding his yes-men. That's why Cole was getting so much important ice time. Like the first shift of the 2nd round. And look where it got us.

 

[JT Milker]

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

Hoglander's cardio was good for him, bad for the team.
He wasn't doing jack shit.

Repeating a joke 8 times doesn't make it any funnier.

Major difference: View attachment 870099

According to the Passion of the Christ we should go further, then?

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

Every Oilers writer is trying to re-live their glory days of covering the Gretzky Oilers. It's pathetic. The days of doing coke with Mark Messier are over and will never happen again, and the current iteration of the Oilers hate their guts for asking braindead questions after every game.

Terry Jones saying Soucy should be suspended for the rest of the playoffs was hilarious.

And yet I'm sure his pants were tenting when Messier dropped one of his many elbows.

 

[M2Beezy]

 

[Big zZz]

Anyone have updates on demmer? I'm wondering if game 5 is still realistic.

 

[valkynax]

Every Oilers writer is trying to re-live their glory days of covering the Gretzky Oilers. It's pathetic. The days of doing coke with Mark Messier are over and will never happen again, and the current iteration of the Oilers hate their guts for asking braindead questions after every game.

McDavid is close to Gretzky as the former approaches his prime, consider the era we're in.

I had not watched Gretzky much, but from what limited videos and recollections of other players/coachs I could find time to ingest, seems like Gretzky is magnitudes more classy of a guy than McDavid has been.

 

[beckstreaker07]

 

[tantalum]

Rutherford is still involved, he won’t let that happen.

And that's a pretty big difference this time around compared to Rome. Rutherford is old boys club. Gillis wasn't. I expect Rutherford will be lawyering pretty damn hard during the hearing. Especially given Soucy has one suspension in his career 3 years ago.

Hyman crosscheck is the same and likely worse. After the whistle play like Soucy but Hyman was intentionally going for the face.

 

[ziploc]

Repeating a joke 8 times doesn't make it any funnier.



According to the Passion of the Christ we should go further, then?

We don't want them coming back, no.

 

[Bgav]

If Soucy gets suspended, Hyman has to as well. That's a win for us

 

[valkynax]

This is what happens when you have corrupt spineless shilling c**ts like Kelly Suckerland officiating the game, letting one team get all the preferential treatment, as everything turns into utter shit.

 

[Orr4Norris]

We saw in 2011 how the narrative can quickly get out of control. Tocchet is a well liked coach by the media. He needs to channel some of that charisma to put some heat back on the Oilers.

Start with McDavid swinging his stick around at players like he’s already golfing. You gotta put some scrutiny on him.

And while Mcbaby faces lots of attention, he faces no more than Hughes. And you don’t see Hughes swinging his stick players.

Finally, that was not the first stick offence from McD. His hit on Hughes was intentional.

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

McDavid is close to Gretzky as the former approaches his prime, consider the era we're in.

I had not watched Gretzky much, but from what limited videos and recollections of other players/coachs I could find time to ingest, seems like Gretzky is magnitudes more classy of a guy than McDavid has been.

Gretzky more or less was a class act on and off the ice. He's pretty much the Platonic ideal of 'good natured Canadian hockey player.'

I've had the privilege to meet him a few times and he was nothing but gracious.

We saw in 2011 how the narrative can quickly get out of control. Tocchet is a well liked coach by the media. He needs to channel some of that charisma to put some heat back on the Oilers.

Start with McDavid swinging his stick around at players like he’s already golfing. You gotta put some scrutiny on him.

And while Mcbaby faces lots of attention, he faces no more than Hughes. And you don’t see Hughes swinging his stick players.

Finally, that was not the first stick offence from McD. His hit on Hughes was intentional.

Honestly, I think the way they're going about it is fine.

They're playing hard on the ice, they aren't backing down from chippy play and they aren't moaning about things off the ice.

You'll note that Dan Murphy was the one who dropped Zaddy having to get stitches, not Tocchet.

They're being smart about this.

 

[Peen]

yeah that hyman thing is literally the exact same thing and we do win the hyman / zadorov trade off

 

[valkynax]

We saw in 2011 how the narrative can quickly get out of control. Tocchet is a well liked coach by the media. He needs to channel some of that charisma to put some heat back on the Oilers.

Start with McDavid swinging his stick around at players like he’s already golfing. You gotta put some scrutiny on him.

And while Mcbaby faces lots of attention, he faces no more than Hughes. And you don’t see Hughes swinging his stick players.

The high stick no call shows clear as day which side of the fence the refs are on.

Gretzky more or less was a class act on and off the ice. He's pretty much the Platonic ideal of 'good natured Canadian hockey player.'

I've had the privilege to meet him a few times and he was nothing but gracious.

Good to hear, I suspected as much. McDavid can eat a bucket of shit and choke on it.

Though I feel that next game he'll again put on a stellar performance and we'll be home with a 2-2 split. Not gonna be upset if that happens.

 

[Nucker101]

yeah that hyman thing is literally the exact same thing and we do win the hyman / zadorov trade off

Hyman's is worse imo, he's aiming high all the way

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Where’s that Edmonton reporter that thinks cross checks to the face should result in the player being done for the season…

 

[ManVanFan]

Hyman's is worse imo, he's aiming high all the way

Everybody knows that Hyman won't get anything because of his up bringing.

 

[Bojack Horvatman]

McDavid is giving off younger brother f***ing with older and the older brother retaliates so goes crying to mom vibes.