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WCSF Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers. (Series tied 3-3)

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Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers
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WetcoastOrca said:
Game 2 should be fun.
Curious to see how both teams respond.
I can’t imagine a worse possible start for the Canucks than a too many man penalty at the start but I expect the Oilers to come out flying. McDavid was pretty much a non factor and that likely won’t continue.
Canucks third line is the key advantage that they need to dominate again. Especially against the Nurse-Ceci pairing.
The coaches will make adjustments and we will probably see a much different game.
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Oilers Depth needs to put on their big boy pants and go to work.
 
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Huge comeback win from the Canucks who were unlucky to be down 4-1 - absolutely dictated the play. However, if the Oilers start drawing more penalties, that PP will be their x factor.

The Canucks have the superior depth and it showed - the star players were a little off but eventually came out to dictate the play in the O and D zone. If Petey can start putting the puck away or I dunno, if Mikheyev and Hoglander can quit playing like 4th liners, it's trouble for the Oilers. Nurse and Ceci got absolutely caved in - those 2 need their ice time limited but I just don't think the Oil have the depth to do that.

I expect the Oilers to come out swinging next game and Silovs will need to pull it together like he did in the Nashville series.
 
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Daishi said:
Oilers fanbase was delusional last year. But even this year after the LA elimination game I was told there's no reason to believe Skinner will shit the bed next series. Some people never learn.
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Don't get me wrong.. I like Skinner but his playoff history is bad. I wanted him to be the starter since it was his rookie year last year. I'd just prefer plan B not be Pickard or Campbell.
 
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Bertuzzzi44 said:
All tickets are quickly sold out, they’re reselling at almost twice the price.
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Retail on tickets was crazy high, $700 for any lower bowls.

Re-sell on game day was lower, $350-600. Which is still a lot of money for a corner lower bowl ticket.

Pearl Jam was the same, tickets retail were $900 for great floor seats but Monday tickets went for as low as $205 on the last day.

Things get busy on weekdays and ticket prices always drop.
 
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Laughing at the people earlier saying the Oilers will be more physical.... The Canucks may have Quinn Hughes but we have a 6'8 Giraffe, 6'6 Zadorov and 6'5 Soucy on the back end. Kane and Perry are tiny compare to them. Even Darnell Nurse the Oilers largest guy is only 6'4. You can hit Hughes but be prepared to get hit by the big boys.

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Grub said:
Laughing at the people earlier saying the Oilers will be more physical.... The Canucks may have Quinn Hughes but we have a 6'8 Giraffe, 6'6 Zadorov and 6'5 Soucy on the back end. Kane and Perry are tiny compare to them. Even Darnell Nurse the Oilers largest guy is only 6'4.
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Yep. It's this time of year when the stat watchers who rarely watch other teams play become ever so obvious. There are a lot of posters here who clearly haven't watched this Vancouver team all season and don't know a thing about the team.
 
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Lafleurs Guy said:
The Oilers got 14 shots and then stopped playing. Skinner deserves blame but the Oilers left him to twist in the wind for half the game.
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If the goals skinner gave up in the third were just good goals I’d agree. They were all easily stoppable. A 4-1 lead in the third should be insurmountable if your goaltender is at least mediocre. He was not.
 
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Zerotonine said:
Lol what did edmonton have tho 5 shots after the 4th goal lololol
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Yeah they really stopped playing, They played pretty good defensively overall but you can't just sit back for an entire 2 periods. You are just asking for trouble doing that. Maybe they got too used to playing LA who play the trap and sit back for 60 minutes whether they have the lead or not. Either way the Oilers overall just didn't play well and Skinner was even worse. The Oilers were trying to be the 1995 New Jersey Devils last night.
 
Happy with the result and the last two periods.
But the Canucks need to start the game a lot better than they did. Not sure if it was nerves but a too many man penalty in the first two minutes and way too many brain dead turnovers. Just can’t do that against an opportunistic team like the Oilers.
I think both teams have areas they’d like to clean up. It will be interesting to see the Game 2 adjustments as neither team played their best game imo.
 
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Cup or Bust said:
Yeah they really stopped playing, They played pretty good defensively overall but you can't just sit back for an entire 2 periods. You are just asking for trouble doing that. Maybe they got too used to playing LA who play the trap and sit back for 60 minutes whether they have the lead or not. Either way the Oilers overall just didn't play well and Skinner was even worse. The Oilers were trying to be the 1995 New Jersey Devils last night.
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also its a series, even if you are up 4-1 you still have to bring the physicality which they stopped mid way though the 2nd.
 
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TheBeard said:
If the goals skinner gave up in the third were just good goals I’d agree. They were all easily stoppable. A 4-1 lead in the third should be insurmountable if your goaltender is at least mediocre. He was not.
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What about the fact that 3 of the Oilers goals were easily stoppable in creating the 4-1 lead in the first place? The comments from a number of Oilers fans are pretty delusional. Canucks were outplaying the Oilers heavily from the start of the second when it was 2-0, then cut it to 2-1 before the Oilers scored two weak goals against the run of play. Yea the Oilers seemed to stop playing at 4-1, but they were already being outplayed before that.
 
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Cup or Bust said:
Yeah they really stopped playing, They played pretty good defensively overall but you can't just sit back for an entire 2 periods. You are just asking for trouble doing that. Maybe they got too used to playing LA who play the trap and sit back for 60 minutes whether they have the lead or not. Either way the Oilers overall just didn't play well and Skinner was even worse. The Oilers were trying to be the 1995 New Jersey Devils last night.
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Stopped playing or the other team took over?
I mean it’s not like the 4-1 goal lead occurred because the Oilers were dominating the Canucks. They scored 3 soft goals against a shaky rookie goalie. Canucks had lots of chances early on.
I thought overall it was a fairly even game but the edge to the Canucks as shown by the shot counter. Both teams had horrendous goaltending.
It looked to me that the Oilers have been reading too much of their own press clippings on how they are Cup favourites.
 
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WetcoastOrca said:
Stopped playing or the other team took over?
I mean it’s not like the 4-1 goal lead occurred because the Oilers were dominating the Canucks. They scored 3 soft goals. Canucks had lots of chances early on.
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The Canucks only had 24 shots and 3 or 4 awful goals themselves so it's not like the Canucks were creating lots of good scoring chances either. It was a low event game with lousy goaltending on both ends. The Oilers played a similar game against LA and only had 13 shots holding onto a 1-0 lead and they seemed proud of themselves to do it but it's a dumb strategy. You can't just stop playing halfway through a game and expect to hold on to leads like that.
 
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What about the fact that 3 of the Oilers goals were easily stoppable in creating the 4-1 lead in the first place? The comments from a number of Oilers fans are pretty delusional. Canucks were outplaying the Oilers heavily from the start of the second when it was 2-0, then cut it to 2-1 before the Oilers scored two weak goals against the run of play. Yea the Oilers seemed to stop playing at 4-1, but they were already being outplayed before that.
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It doesn’t matter if they were good or bad, Edmonton had a 3 goal lead. By that point the only thing they needed was mediocrity from Skinner. They didn’t get it. It’s harder to come back from that kind of deficit than it is to hold it.
 
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