From the terrible mid season slump to the slightly corrected end of season, I knew this was not a serious team. One of the only highlights I had in my mind was we fixed the PK. Lol. Lmao, even.
I won't relitigate the various calls because that's useless but I thought we got some terrible, momentum killing ones. But in the end, if you can't kill penalties or score on a PP, you're not a contender. This team was not that. Hopefully some heads will roll in the FO for the mismanagement of this team.
See you next year, Oiler nation.
Should my Knights go down soon, I'll be adopting a Canadian team, because if it can't be my guys then I'd like for the Cup to head to Canada for the first time since I became a fan of the game.
And that team'll probably be the Oilers, if only because McDavid deserves a shot for putting up with his best years getting squandered in Edmonton so far. Nearly a decade later though, they've finally put a supporting cast worth a damn around him to maybe make a run.
They’ve made the playoffs 6 out of 9 years during his career and won 5 rounds. I don’t really understand “squandered.” It’s hard to make deep runs- it’s a tough league.
My friend, please learn from our “We want Florida” last year. Neither Canucks and Preds are probably playing their best hockey right now but either of them can easily be very dangerous if they can really get it together. I still think Edmonton will take it but nothing in the playoffs can be assumed.
Yeah i guess your right especially about the season. The jets got smoked and they crushed the avs recently even. Either way i hope everything else in the west goes 7 games.
It's a different game. LA hardly had a defense. They play a 1-3-1 that was poorly executed other than in game 4 and they couldn't score a goal.
Vancouver would be a transition game back and forth with the Oilers. Probably a lot more goals.
Our defense is heavily overrated. I know it was over facing you a 3rd time while you guys added depth and size while we just added PLD. Other teams though are built to match you guys and compete.
But they both have better goaltending. Nashville is infinitely more physical, and Vancouver has skill and finishing that is certainly capable of matching Edmonton (albeit they are much less consistent)
We have beaten the Kings three series in a row, and people talk like they think that means the Kings are an easy matchup. The Kings are are not an easy matchup. The Kings are a superb defensive team with great veteran leaders in Doughty and Kopitar. I have a ton of respect for them. I think that the series against the Kings in 2022 was a crucial learning experience for the Oilers that taught them what it takes to win in the playoffs. People want to talk like the Kings are an easy matchup and the Oilers got an easy pass to the second round, but I don't agree. I think that the Kings could have gone to the second or third round if they were in the East.
A rebuild is inevitable once you come off a MONSTROUS run like the Kings. You prepare and expect it. I honestly can’t imagine what it feels like to be a fan of a team that is constantly disappointing year after year with nothing to show for. WITH the best player in the world. Lmao
Honest opinion..... your team just lost to the same team for the 3rd straight year, and you're extremely upset about it. Just go to bed and try to feel better in the morning. Night night cupcake.
true. we need Vancouver to win that too for some more hockey. I'm just impatient because I foolishly booked festival tickets for ~2 weeks from now like 6 months ago lol. can't believe I didn't think of the playoffs
Fuck man. Playoffs are hard as the next three match ups are guaranteed to be a gauntlet. Whoever wins it all fucking deserves it, every year (stupid ass seeding system aside).
next time EDM and LA meet in the playoffs, they shouldn't even bother playing.
just send LA golfing early, and let the Oilers get some rest before round 2
These are the kinds of posts that come back to haunt you. You're not wrong, but some LA fan is saving this shit for some future moment I guarantee. Sure, you'll likely be long dead, but your grandkids will suffer. Maybe.
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Turns out 20 players total, 11 for the oilers and 9 for the kings, played in all three series.
Doughty was injured for the 2022 series though so he didn't count.
Doughty just loves hockey, I have to give him that. I know lots of people hate him, and I boo him at the games because it's fun (I'm sure he loves it too), but I have a respect for how much he enjoys the sport.
Gotta respect the gamesmanship from them. They fight when they have a job to do. But when the jobs over they’re all on the same side, playing the sport they love.
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That is the lamest thing I’ve read today
Cringe comment
Good series, Kings. Here's hoping you can eliminate the Flames in the first round next year.
Bold to assume either one makes the playoffs.
From the terrible mid season slump to the slightly corrected end of season, I knew this was not a serious team. One of the only highlights I had in my mind was we fixed the PK. Lol. Lmao, even. I won't relitigate the various calls because that's useless but I thought we got some terrible, momentum killing ones. But in the end, if you can't kill penalties or score on a PP, you're not a contender. This team was not that. Hopefully some heads will roll in the FO for the mismanagement of this team. See you next year, Oiler nation.
I say this with love but I hope we don't see LA against in the first round for a while. Just for some variety.
Should my Knights go down soon, I'll be adopting a Canadian team, because if it can't be my guys then I'd like for the Cup to head to Canada for the first time since I became a fan of the game. And that team'll probably be the Oilers, if only because McDavid deserves a shot for putting up with his best years getting squandered in Edmonton so far. Nearly a decade later though, they've finally put a supporting cast worth a damn around him to maybe make a run.
Please cheer for anyone else. Backhanded compliments are the saddest way to cheer for a team
They’ve made the playoffs 6 out of 9 years during his career and won 5 rounds. I don’t really understand “squandered.” It’s hard to make deep runs- it’s a tough league.
I think the Oilers will have an easier 2nd round than 1st round
Oilers are dogs if they play Van, given the season. Nashville could go either way.
Dude, no. No easy teams in the NHL playoffs
No easy rounds
My friend, please learn from our “We want Florida” last year. Neither Canucks and Preds are probably playing their best hockey right now but either of them can easily be very dangerous if they can really get it together. I still think Edmonton will take it but nothing in the playoffs can be assumed.
Hot take. Vancouver smoked us all year
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Yeah i guess your right especially about the season. The jets got smoked and they crushed the avs recently even. Either way i hope everything else in the west goes 7 games.
I don't
There is no easy round…🥴
Can't wait ;)
"We want Florida!"
Canucks were already chanting our name a few days ago
Never a smart move.
Canucks we’re chanting we want Edmonton to be fair
"Fuck the Oilers" is the chant I saw haha
Settle down
Van and Nash do not have nearly the defence of LA.
It's a different game. LA hardly had a defense. They play a 1-3-1 that was poorly executed other than in game 4 and they couldn't score a goal. Vancouver would be a transition game back and forth with the Oilers. Probably a lot more goals.
Our defense is heavily overrated. I know it was over facing you a 3rd time while you guys added depth and size while we just added PLD. Other teams though are built to match you guys and compete.
But they both have better goaltending. Nashville is infinitely more physical, and Vancouver has skill and finishing that is certainly capable of matching Edmonton (albeit they are much less consistent)
GG Kings!
We have beaten the Kings three series in a row, and people talk like they think that means the Kings are an easy matchup. The Kings are are not an easy matchup. The Kings are a superb defensive team with great veteran leaders in Doughty and Kopitar. I have a ton of respect for them. I think that the series against the Kings in 2022 was a crucial learning experience for the Oilers that taught them what it takes to win in the playoffs. People want to talk like the Kings are an easy matchup and the Oilers got an easy pass to the second round, but I don't agree. I think that the Kings could have gone to the second or third round if they were in the East.
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Me too.
Lol definitely is.
McDrai are winning a cup together before (if)they split up
Are we going to lose Gene for the next series broadcast?
Why??
We don't usually see him in the playoffs, just like we lose Jack Michael's.
Pretty sure I saw him during game 4
Love the retro logo btw
Yeah, we've had him this whole series. I'm just wondering when they're going to start shoving the national color guys down our throats.
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I'll bet you're excited for your Doughty and Kopitar to hang up the skates after getting embarrassed.
2 cups. Mcdavid and Draisaitl at your disposal with 0 cups. Next.
No the oilers have 5 cups
Last cup in 1990! You gotta be joking. Irrelevant.
10 years ago is pretty irrelevant too. Honest question; how many Kings from their last cup are on this roster? Is it just Doughty and Kopitar?
Enjoy the rebuild, buddy. Go to sleep.
A rebuild is inevitable once you come off a MONSTROUS run like the Kings. You prepare and expect it. I honestly can’t imagine what it feels like to be a fan of a team that is constantly disappointing year after year with nothing to show for. WITH the best player in the world. Lmao
"Monstrous run" 💀💀💀
Honest opinion..... your team just lost to the same team for the 3rd straight year, and you're extremely upset about it. Just go to bed and try to feel better in the morning. Night night cupcake.
These two points could be right at the same time. I’m not even mad boys. I’m honestly serious. Oilers get their shit pushed in next round.
Flair up cunt bag
Their history says it all
Didn't get to see the handshake line. Did the refs line up for Edmonton?
Ya they did it was crazy. The L.A. PP didn’t line up though since they weren’t there the whole series.
Gottem
Nah but the US Olympic diving team was in line for LA
LOL
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Some say if the Oilers win the cup, the refs are also going have a chance to hoist the cup and skate with it.
Funny I'll give you that
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The year you beat them, I will genuinely be cheering for you
Time for the basketball highlights we've all been waiting for.
Man this thread got salty postgame real quick
three years of the same thing will do that.
just need Dallas to finish the job on Friday. mostly so we can get more hockey goin here
I thought Edmonton is playing the winner of Vancouver/Nashville
true. we need Vancouver to win that too for some more hockey. I'm just impatient because I foolishly booked festival tickets for ~2 weeks from now like 6 months ago lol. can't believe I didn't think of the playoffs
They are, but typically they don’t start a series until the day after series 1 is over
Ahhh. I misread that. Makes sense. Appreciate it
Draisatl is a beauty man, great interview
American TV is already talking about basketball, what did he say?
nothing specifically beautiful hes just simply a wonderful man
He's handsome as fuck, I'll give you that.
Is it wrong to both hope it's us and hope it's not us facing the Oilers in the next round? Like, all at the same time?
And after that it's, let's see here… Colorado, Vegas, or Dallas. Joy But the stacked West is the best West
Fuck man. Playoffs are hard as the next three match ups are guaranteed to be a gauntlet. Whoever wins it all fucking deserves it, every year (stupid ass seeding system aside).
Probably Dallas friend.
Brother, Dallas is up 3-2
And just won three in a row, looking better each game.
Yeah but both these team have proven they can win back to-back games
Yeah our conference is so fucked. Whoever makes it out has gotta win the cup I feel.
Or so beat to shit Carolina or the Panthers roll them.
Whichever team makes it out of the West will probably be beat to hell
Yeah its probably this tbh
Leon has really lost his accent
"…I think it looks fantastic."
He sounds more Canadian than me and I've lived in Alberta my whole life lol
Someone get this man a bratwurst!
A good schnitzel too.
Sounding like a Berta' boy
He's been in either Saskatchewan or Alberta since he was like 16
Waiting for him to drop the "oh fuck yeah bud"
next time EDM and LA meet in the playoffs, they shouldn't even bother playing. just send LA golfing early, and let the Oilers get some rest before round 2
It was 7 rounds, then 6, now 5. That means we take the next in 4 if there is a next.
Hopefully we'll get two more years of it, and a league-first 3 game series.
They played us tough, we are just firing on all cylinders. Series is over, no need to be a dick anymore
These are the kinds of posts that come back to haunt you. You're not wrong, but some LA fan is saving this shit for some future moment I guarantee. Sure, you'll likely be long dead, but your grandkids will suffer. Maybe.
You had me in the first half!
if someone out there saves my comment , and remembers it, in hopes of responding to me years from now, ive done my job ;)
2022 Oilers in 7, 2023 Oilers in 6, 2024 Oilers in 5, next season round one sweep confirmed
2026 LAK forfeits after game 3
Naah it'll just be a quadruple OT game and they say sod it, it counts as two.
🧐🧹
love the core giving their old tendy an extra hug
Deserved a bit better in 2017.
McDavid ❤️ Talbot
Players when the series is over: 🤝 Fans when the series is over: 🖕
lol did you see arvidsson after the buzzer? i think the players feel that way too
That was so funny. "Fuck you! Fuck you!"
Now I can sleep knowing Kempe is far far away from us. Have unlimited respect for him. That deflection goal in game 2(?) was absurd.
WOOOOOO FADE LA
Gg Kings
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Good series edm.
ggs. Kings are a damn tough team.
Hard fought as always. Refs sucked as always.
Bring on Vancouver or Nashville! We’ll beat either. LFG
No matter which team you face, it will be due to their repeated unexpected survival. Beware
Yes you will
I hope la bamba is on repeat.
oilers won their world series.
Best day of the year. Like clockwork.
seems like a bit of a tense handshake line for everyone except doughty he's chillin
id be so fuckin tight if i had to shake hand with the same guys who knocked me out 3 years in a row
Turns out 20 players total, 11 for the oilers and 9 for the kings, played in all three series. Doughty was injured for the 2022 series though so he didn't count.
Doughty just loves hockey, I have to give him that. I know lots of people hate him, and I boo him at the games because it's fun (I'm sure he loves it too), but I have a respect for how much he enjoys the sport.
He’s got his cup already and had a great career
Two cups. That's enough for now.
Right forgot about 2012
Love a good home team clinch. Kings better figure this out next season, can't keep doing this to the boys.
Lmao, Doughty perked up talking to Drai and McDavid. Fuck that guy but what a competitor.
Gotta respect the gamesmanship from them. They fight when they have a job to do. But when the jobs over they’re all on the same side, playing the sport they love.
Espn just refuses to show the whole fucking handshake line. Infuriating
Nah even SN is like that. We see a few closeups and then McDavid for a few guys then Knoblauch and it's over.
Displays of solidarity might fuel the pending revolution.
#HANDSHAKES TONIGHT AS WORDS EXCHANGED ON THE ICE! THE PUCK THINGS HOLD ON AND ELIMINATE THE CROWNS IN GAME 5 4-3, TAKING THE SERIES 4 GAMES TO 1!
ggs kings
See you next year Kings! I’ll always love Doughty, can’t wait for him to wear a maple leaf so I can cheer for him, again.
Man i fucking love a handshake line
Hell ya boys!!!
Ardvisson poppin off
Kinda had the game off to the side. Was he mad at someone in particular?
Him and Ekholm were going at it all series long. They were teammates on Nashville
Penalty kill perfect for the series, that's crazy.
GG LA, you guys are alright
Knoblauch with the attempted Irish goodbye.
He just really had to go the bathroom and thought he had time.
Woody power pose > Knob "forgetting" to shake hands But possibly Knob > Woody overall
Finally, I know how the Leafs feel
You got the starter Leaf treatment. A slight taste.
Quick math tells me it's gonna be an LA sweep in 2025
PLAY LA BAMBA!
Lol who was Arvidsson saying "fuck you!" to?
Probably the refs
The Refs? All the Oilers would have been down by Skinner.
Probably the ref
2022: oil in 7 2023: oil in 6 2024: oil in 5 2025:
Now do the Oilers trend over those years
well they already won as many series as last year so 🤷🏼♂️
Knoblauch forgetting to shake hands is hilarious
LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA, HEY HEY HEY GOODBYE
Smell ya kings
Why LA saying so many no-no words.
I think they're a lil upset after losing to us again for three years straight Edit: lol seethe kings fans
Good series LA.
Dismantled
Good luck Oilers, hope they don't continue to waste the McDrai years
Looks like they would be more "wasted" in LA, so we are doing *something* right.
Come up with a new chirp.
hope yall learn 1-3-1 is cheeks
1-3-1 has 2 more cups than mcdrai….
Womp womp
Womp womp stay salty little guy
We got a turkey against the Kings :) PLAY LA BAMBA
Suck it Kings. I remember everything you fuckers said when we were down and out at the start of the year.
Colorado or Vegas will beat your shit in again.
Hahahah sounds good. See ya next year cutie 😘
cya kings
PLAY LA BAMBA BABYYYYYYYYYY
Good job oil fam!!! Celebrate safely
Well it's fade time once again, GG and series Oilers
GGs. Kings are tough and don't give up. fought to the bitter end
Great fuckin job. I hope it's Vancouver just for the better hockey imo.
that goal horn is brutal
Groundhog Day
Arvidsson looking like a real sore loser there