Oilers at Kings, G76 2024-25

by Lowetide
  • On the road to: VEG, SJS, LAK, ANA (Expected 2-2-0) (Actual 2-0-0)
  • At home to: STL, SJS (Expected 1-0-1) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • On the road to: WPG (Expected 0-1-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • At home to: LAK (Expected 1-0-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • On the road to: SJS (Expected 1-0-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • Overall expected results: 5-3-1, 11 points in 9 games
  • April result: 2-0-0
  • Current record: 44-26-5, 93 points in 75 games
  • Skinner-McDavid-Hyman (searing offensive potential)
  • Frederic-Draisaitl-Arvidsson (This line could be a monster)
  • Podkolzin-Nuge-Brown (Nuge and Brown have great chem)
  • Janmark-Henrique-Perry (No Country for Old Men line)
  • Ekholm-Bouchard (the best pairing in years when they’re on)
  • Nurse-Walman (B Flat, watch for the changes)
  • Kulak-Stecher (Stecher has outplayed Emberson)
  • Pickard/Skinner (Pickard has been the better goaler)

You may also like

4 9 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
184 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Gerta Rauss

Calgary scores late in the 2nd and early in the 3rd to draw even with Vegas at 2

15 min remaining

OriginalPouzar

Brochu with 22 saves through two as the Condors will take a 1-0 lead to the third (Attard on a clapper from the point).

Some mayhem as the 2nd period ends – Hunter Drew, some 6’2/215 pounder drops them and starts throwing them on Caggiula – he ate at least one hard one.

“Clown Move” – Ryan Holt.

OriginalPouzar

Condors take advantage on the PP, Griffith and Dineen with some nice skill up high and Hamblin bangs home the rebound of a Dineen shot for a 2-0 lead.

Dineen with a bad blueline play on the PP and the shortie breakaway cuts the lead and a few minutes later Brochu with a tough one as he is beaten clean from the point.

Tarkus

Summarizing!

Yet another multi-point game for Wakely with 1 + 1 as Barrie closed out the series with a 6-3 win.

Akey was not a resoupient.

OriginalPouzar

Dermott is sick which is why he’s not on the trip.

Holt says there have been a couple of arrivals that have joined the team – won’t “leak” who though……

Todd Macallan

Imagine Damien Carfagna is one. He mentioned to Bob earlier this week the plan is for him to sign an ATO and get over to Bako for the rest of the season.

OriginalPouzar

I’m hoping Connor Clattenburg is another.

I’ve given up on Munzenburger joining this year (and maybe ever).

Funnybird

Lots of great teams to beat to win the SC. Looking like the Oilers are going to be 3rd place in the Pacific so I would prefer the Oilers get Vegas in the first round. Time for a first round change up and, like the Flames in 86, crazier things have happened.

OriginalPouzar

Brochu with his 4th straigth start tonight.

Massive back to backs in Tuscon starting at 8.

Lineup as decimated as ever. Dermott did join the team but it seems is no longer with the – Kemp, Brown still out as well.

LMHF#1

Serious question + statement that will be taken by some as inflammatory:

How do people watch basketball and take it seriously?

The end of a game is the most gimmicky non-sport BS you could ever have the misfortune to watch.

90s fan

I am a basketball fan, coach, former player. I assume you refer to the fouls done at the end? Or in the NBA all the fouls and never ending timeouts?

I guess every sport has oddities that kind of just normalize when you are in it, or watch it for long enough.

For what it’s worth, FIBA doesn’t have as many timeouts available for end of game tactics. Also in NBA, guys are allowed an extra foul.

LMHF#1

Fouls and timeouts and the game essentially being a different sport at the end.

Absurd way to decide a wonderful game. A classic, fast paced, strategic battle turns into gimmicky junk. It is sad.

Foul with enough shot clock to end the game should end the game. And under a minute should first lead to extra shots, then automatic points.

And maybe 1 TO per half that must be used before the final 2 minutes.

Harpers Hair

I gave up watching it when I realized the outcome of the games is so often decided in the last 5 minutes.

The rest of the game was a waste of time.

Reja

The 3 pointers and foul calls for breathing on someone have wrecked the game. It used to be players fighting tooth and nail to get to the basket now you see more contact in Curling.

90s fan

I don’t watch NBA so much anymore… Who has time!? But lots of people think three pointers and analytics have made the game less exciting and too predictable.

I love watching guys drive to the basket, dishes, run through 10 screens to get open… I loved the days of Jordan, Kobe, Reggie Miller.

I even love guys like Steph Curry. But I think the problem is that everyone has become the same player. There’s not nearly the same diversity.

OriginalPouzar

Given the magnitude of the players the Oilers will be getting back (McDavid, Drai, Ekholm, Kane – all expected back healthy before the playoffs, except Kane, for the playoffs), I’m not positive a 2-0 win at home is an encouraging result for the Kings.

Oilers did not generate much but they also didn’t give up much.

Officiating seems a bit…. off.

Reja

L.A will have home ice and will be lucky to break even on the penalty calls.

dangilitis

Doughty left the game. Frederic took his pound of flesh. They’re not resting him like we’re resting Ekholm.

fishman

LA 4-1 PP chances. Typical.

SVR

Don’t recall many shifts for Frederic in the third. 7 minutes total ice time in the game. He was laboring out there most of his shifts, skating stride didn’t look right. He’s obviously as tough as they come, but it’s a nasty injury to come back from.

fishman

Yea he looked far from 100%. Wonder if they take him back out or let him keep playing through it????

SVR

It’s a tough spot now I think. It’s not likely to get better without resting it, but we are running out of time. I like Frederic plenty and hope he resigns. I also wish that the Oilers would have traded for a healthy player at the deadline.

Last edited 5 hours ago by SVR
90s fan

If the ankle is not good yet, then he should not have been playing! Granted, there’s degrees of “good”.

daniel
SVR

Thanks. Hopefully they just shut him down as a precaution

hunter1909

Oh well. I kind of expected this result.

Oilers go down to 6-3-1 in their last 10 games with 6 games left in the season to grab 7 more points to enter the playoffs on a positive note.

You can’t win them all.

dangilitis

The only thing we can judge is the penalty kill vs LA PP (even without Ekholm) – safe to say Oilers will have a distinct special teams advantage for the series

KnightRain

ffs. You guys celebrate that hard for an empty netter? Can’t wait to face these guys with a full lineup and paste em.

LMHF#1

Trying to win with a strategy that produces low scoring games with 29 and 97 in is unintelligent.

Trying to do so without them is insane.

OriginalPouzar

Focusing on solid defensive structure is insane?

Sierra

What strategy are you advocating for without McDrai? I don’t see the Oil having the horses w/o McDrai to try to win high scoring games.

cowboy bill

Pickard looks confident and plays the puck very well. He’s also made some saves I’m not sure Skinner would have made.

fishman

Agreed Picks with a strong game but Kuemper the better tender, advantage Kings.

Lewis Grant

We could have had Kuemper instead of Jack Campbell…

LateNightOilFan

Picks played well, unfortunate to not get some goal support. Probably how Kuemper felt when Stu posted his 1-0 shutout vs the Kings in January.

Shamus23

Apparently Kane is off to Bakersfield for a conditioning stint. That is great news as he would have had to agree to going. Good for him.
Add him, McD, Drai, Viking with this Frederic kid for the series with LA ( if Vegas doesn’t let them catch them). And I think the Oil beat them in 5 or 6. They just are not impressing in this game.

Lucid Oil

Oilers with 29 and/or 97 win this one.

OriginalPouzar

Apparently according to who?

This may happen in due course but I would be surprised if it was now.

Last edited 5 hours ago by OriginalPouzar
90s fan

Spector addressed the rumour and said it is not happening.

OriginalPouzar

It wouldn’t make sense now – it would need to be right at the end of the season.

Lucid Oil

Awful call

Tarkus

Evergreen post.

KnightRain

Gotta muck it up, fellas. Get to the net and get pucks to the net. We’re not gonna get back into this game by a highlight reel goal. Defencemen are gonna have to cheat for some offence. Be smart and make it count.

Lucid Oil

Very little offensive push by the Oilers. It’s almost like we could use a couple of superstars….

cowboy bill

How much better can the Kings play?

dangilitis

Not at all. Kuzmenko is going to be a liability on the top line against McDavid or Draisaitl’s line

cowboy bill

Nice save Picks.

SKOilerFan

That will be all she wrote for this one. Not enough offensive talent on the ice to come back vs this team and Im sure the Oilers will not get more than 1 more PP.
I am not looking forward to this series the way this league prefers their games be” managed”

Tarkus

That was Nurse’s man who scored.

fishman

How is that not a crosschecking call on Doughty?

LMHF#1

Terrible effort by both #27 and #49. Should’ve been a nothing play.

OriginalPouzar

That was a hell of a rush by Fiala.

OriginalPouzar

I look forward to reviving McDavid PP zone entries next week.

OriginalPouzar

Quite the shift by Stech – solid rub out behind the net and draws the PP.

KnightRain

Holy hell, Stech!!! Great finish, buddy!!!

Tarkus

Even though Arvidsson gets knocked down whenever the wind changes direction, I do like that he shoots first and asks questions later.

LateNightOilFan

That was one of the prettiest non-first NHL goals I’ve seen, but the Oilers challenge was better.

KnightRain

How we gonna score if we can’t hit the damn net?

SKOilerFan

Well executed bail out by #2 there. Impressive to avoid all contact

fishman

Well he did waive his stick…..

OriginalPouzar

Janmark has really become efficient at transporting the puck through the neutral zone.

Tarkus

Actually Louie, I do care about taking someone’s 1st goal taken off the board if it’s an opposition player.

Dumbass.

And it’s off the board.

Last edited 8 hours ago by Tarkus
KnightRain

Sure didn’t like Perry’s snow angel, there…Bouch has to eat that puck, there.

delooper

If that was a valid first goal it was impressive. Being contested.

When I worked at Cornell I was in Mallott Hall for a few years. I wonder if Jeff is a descendent of that moneyed donor.

That’s the most impressive recalled 1st goal I think I’ve ever seen.

Last edited 8 hours ago by delooper
KnightRain

Good save, Picks. Bouch getting back did just enough to limit the shooters options. Effort counts.

hunter1909

After 1 period, Canucks up 5-1 versus the Ducks.

Statement game: “We’re not making the playoffs”

Reja

I expect another 2 PK this period before we see our 1st PP. The boys need to kill them off and then strike on our 1st PP

hunter1909

Oilers down a few players, namely:

1 – The best player in the world…
2 – Arguably the second best player in the world…
3 – Oilers version of Nik Lidstrom…
4 – Their toughest player by a country mile in Evander Kane.

Add all of this to the mix and Oilers stomp all over LA in any series. LA look like they would be the first to agree lol

Last edited 8 hours ago by hunter1909
KnightRain

Smart, low even period. Without McDrai, this is the perfect game type we need to play. Really happy with our defensive awareness, as shown by Janny on the backtrack. Suffocate these guys and keep up the physical play. We’ll get our chances.

DevilsLettuce

Oilers will physically beat the Kings into submission in a series.

KnightRain

This is the kings top lineup and they’re getting smacked around by our “B” team. Freddy and Jonesy being hard on them seems to make our less physical players step up. When we get Kaner and Eks back, it’s not gonna be fun for anyone we face.

OriginalPouzar

I would consider that a somewhat strong road period, in particular given the circumstances.

Oilers had the best chance (Hyman) and a couple others (Nuge rush down the wing, Frederick wrap) and didn’t give up much and killed the only penalty.

Gaz Gazzersson

Decent road period. Forcing turnovers, excellent.

fishman

Arvy throwing his weight around. Love it!

KnightRain

Seems Freddy wants to get into a fight to test that ankle, eh?

OriginalPouzar

Fredrick now impactful on his 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th shifts.

Nice quick wrap, hanging around the net.

KnightRain

Great awareness by Janny! That’s what I wanna see!

OriginalPouzar

Wouldn’t have minded Nuge shooting that coming down his offwing.

184
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x