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WCSF: Vegas Golden Knights (P1) vs. Edmonton Oilers (P2) (VGK Lead 3-2)

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Eh, is fine. A pretty bad game for the Oilers, but they still were in it. They'll eventually humble the Knights!
 
Vegas looked really good through 2. Not sure they can sit back like that in the 3rd and nurse the lead against a potent Oiler team, but that's why they play the games. First Oiler loss in regulation in a long, long time.
 
Meh, Edmonton, Florida, Toronto and New Jersey all lost game one last round. No one is out yet.
 
I don't think the essence of "playoff hockey" has to do anything with like, "oh the whistles are gonna go away!" or "its just tougher hockey!" Because evidently, you can't stop the Oilers PP and they are going to get PP chances (and they're a pretty tough and nasty team in their own right). I think the real thing that has sunk them in the past, and could sink them against a deep, defensively sound, very well coached team like Vegas, is that teams can really plan for them. There's a reason that when Edmonton gets knocked out, they run into a 4-0 wall.

In the regular season, its play one team one night, get on a plane, go play another team another night. You dont get that sort of strategic scouting or planning around specific players or schemes in the regular season. Just look at how goalies get figured out as series go on - Canucks only beat the Blues in the bubble because they had Binnington completely and thoroughly scouted.

Tonight, they just completely neutered Edmonton in the last 10 minutes. Edmonton had no organized, structured way to respond, and tried to force individual plays super hard which might work in the regular season when theres less matching up, but it will absolutely not work in the playoffs where the entire team has been watching your tape for a week straight.
 
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Sub 890 goaltending
RNH can wake up whenever he like.
Desharnais need some bird eye view
Woodcroft can resign
 
Not even mad.. better team deservedly won tonigjt.

Lots of homework to do for Woody and Co
 
McDavid should be given a lot more credit than what he is not being given. He is so difficult to contain that 2 or 3 Vegas player end up collapsing on him, to the great benefit of his teammates, especially Draisaitl. A lot of open ice where McDavid is not. McDavid had a huge positive effect on that game.
 
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MessierII said:
LA gives the oilers fits because they have two selke caliber centers to match up against Leon and Connor. They also squeeze the life out of their offense with the 1-3-1. Knights have no one to match up defensively they need to try and outscore the oilers who are the highest scoring team. Also their goaltending is even more sketchy than edmontons. Some of our guys played with Brossoit they’ll know his tendencies.
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Lol 5 vs 5 Edmonton is done. Maybe if they get 10 PP per game they might have a chance.
 
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EdJovanovski said:
King Eichel shows McDavis who’s superior yet again. Absolutely dominated him all night.
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In what way has Eichel ever been superior to McDavid? He signed his ELC contract first, but besides that.

Love hearing the ignorant takes after game 1. Oilers came out flat and the Knights had a strong game and deserved the win. Expecting the oilers to rebound next game.
 
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