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OILERS FIVE-ON-FIVE GOALS (CENTERS) V DUCKS
- Leon Draisaitl solo 64 mins, 6-3 (67 pct) goals
- Connor McDavid solo 63 mins, 2-3 (40 pct) goals
- 97 and 29 together 22 mins, 1-2 (33 pct) goals
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 24 mins, 2-0 goals
- Jason Dickinson 30 mins, 3-1 (75 pct) goals
- Josh Samanski 28 mins, 1-1 (50 pct) goals
- The rest 18 mins, 0-1 goals
The five-on-five situation in this series is net positive (15-11) and the Oilers are actively trying to stay out of the penalty box. That will be difficult tonight, with the game in Anaheim and the officials worried about what they tell Corey. The stripes may well be California scheming as we speak. Is there a stick measurement rule that can be deployed? Perhaps a new fangled offside? Puck kinda overglass? Oilers need to stay out of the box and weather an early push if there’s any hope of serving duck under glass by midnight.
If Knoblauch can count on the Podkolzin-Nuge-Hyman line, and they looked good last game, then maybe maybe maybe the Glimmer Twins can rock the casbah at five-on-five.
The key? Keep McDavid away from LaCombe! Surely to God there will be a chance to double shift McDavid with (say) Savoie and Roslovic, right? I think it has merit.
On the Lowdown today, we’ll set the stage for another elmination game. Bagged Milk from Oilers Nation will be our feature guest, and we’ll get the view from the Anaheim side, too. Noon to 2pm, Sports 1440 and You Tube.
Annus horribilus terminus.
After being stunned by CBJ in 2019, the Lightning rebuilt their identity around discipline and playoff resilience for their next three runs … Oilers?
I enjoy your optimism.
No need to resign Roslovic – just a total ghost when games get tight.
Our PK is abysmal but was better with healthy Dickenson. I hope they bring him back. If Nurse isn’t traded this off season then bringing back Murphy is a must
Jarry is terrible and Ingram is mediocre. I’d jettison both and look for some young, hungry unheralded goalies toiling away in the minors (ahem – Dipietro was free).
No expensive UFAs (other than resigning our own guys) … make small bets on young guys who profile similar to Podz and Dach.
And fire the entire coaching staff and bring in Cassidy ASAP before another team signs him.
Yep, looking for hungry unheralded goalies …. sounda like a plan… for disaster.
As opposed to overpaid unmotivated goalies like Jarry?
Love it!!!
I’m goin to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.
I’ve been as uninvolved in this season as the team. It’s been obvious they had zero left in the tank since TC. Two deep runs to the SCF with tons of injuries. The team is just plain beat up and emotionally drained. They need a summer off in the worst way. Only thing I’m unhappy about is that they wasted a ton of assets this year on an obviously broken season. Better play was to admit reality, do your best with the existing roster, and create space to reload in the summer. That will be harder now with few assets.
Pk without mcdavid (he only average 00:18 min/g but that brief tine was clean)
GA/60 31.14
Mcdavid’s best series ever on PP was 2023 vw LAK
GF/60 26.47 (GF/60 11.41 this series)
Yeah….that is insane.
What else is there to say? Can we get to 600 posts?
Ha. Looks like mine was #600
Were the Oilers that injured? They did look injured. If so, the coaching staff determined that sitting Frederic would be more beneficial than sitting an injured player.
I’ll be reaching out to clarify that I am available for popcorn-eating duty next year at the low, low salary of 3.5M.
Will await their call back and the contract paperwork.
One thing to lose….another thing to get humiliated by the Ducks.
The Ducks 4th line is just comedy.
Young and up and coming offensive talent- no doubt.
Good at playing defence? Not a chance
Dostal might just be worse than Ingram
McDavid at no point in that interview says “it was on me. I had to be so much better”.
Brutal. Leaders say those words right now. WTF 97?!?
Leaders tell the truth. Feelings be damned.
Even strength
Hyman – 5
Bouchard -6
McDavid -7
#18 and #2 weren’t injured were they? It’s the coach.
Hyman just came back the last game.
Ek was super limited even if Bouch was healthy there’s were just to many injuries.
Hyman was certainly injured. KK said before seasons end is that it was something they were hoping would get better with rest but were unable to improve. He was on pace for 50+G/82GP before something injured, then there was a distinct drop off from around Olympic break and hasn’t ended.
So either he dropped off a cliff or he will
have time to recover with a proper off season and rip it up next season.
Hopefully with a longer off-season they’ll be healthier next year.
Well get a better idea shot injuries in the days to come.
Jaw dropping
Against the Ducks – especially so
If KK is gone there is no way on earth that Jeff Jackson should continue with this team.
Things were damn near normal until Paul Coffey hired Jeff Jackson to undermine Holland.
Jackson hired Knoblauch, Jackson hired a GM after he signed everyone and blew the cap, Jackson blew the cap that saw Broberg and Holloway leave,
Jackson was brought in to resign McDavid and he farted up the cap and McDavid only signed for two years.
Bye Jeff, enjoy Burlington.
Holloway, sure.
Broberg was gone, baby gone.
That’s true. I lose no sleep over Broberg.
But I detest how the whole thing with Jackson came to fruition and how so many in Edmonton media cheered on the C-Suite interference.
Compared to what?
Thought Connor’s interview told it like it is
What did he say
He said they haven’t been able to get it together all season. (At least, that’s how I heard it)
That was not acceptable play. The coach’s job is managing the team play
Completely disconnected and that was a theme all season. A lot of folks blame the players, I don’t buy that
The players gave it all they had. Previously the elite talent dragged them to finals. This time they couldn’t. The lack of coaching, again, has been clearly exposed
Next season is a new thing. Gully had the Stars cratering 5v5, yes missing Hintz. Hmmm
They need to replace the whole coaching staff. It’s going on to what 12 Connor seasons. At what point do they learn details and make it a non negotiable?
Agreed.
However…
Suggest viable alternatives.
Specific courses of action are not Scungili’s specialty.
Are they yours?
No you just always speak in very high generalities and whenever you’re pressed you just stop responding.
Id love it if you offered more detailed ideas. You just don’t really that’s all.
Is this the second time you’ve gone down this road? I’m starting to think you’re Pretendergast hassling with a different name
Not in good faith but being a keyboard warrior and general prick
So tell me how you are different and commenting with detailed specifics that you are asking for?
An old school rule of thumb I adhere to:
Don’t get bent out of shape by nitpicking posters who have egregious spelling mistakes in their usernames.
Knoblauch is a green coach. Two finals yes but why did that happen and then this? Some players being injured means the whole team can’t be organized?
The team they lost to hired a top guy. Other teams canned decent guys just because someone more bonafide popped up
Any other org would hire Cassidy maybe the Oilers will
I completely agree. KK is also responsible for his assistants. No cohesion. Cassidy and DeBoer have more experience. Laviolette. I don’t know, either, but overthinking a coaching hire for years, when there are experienced NHL options is a choice
I enjoyed that third period. Loved that there was push until the final seconds. Glad they pulled the goalie and went for it.
Now, a summer off. They deserve it.
And from what I’m reading, so do the good people of Oilerville.
Last game for Darnell Nurse in an Oilers uniform
Nurse was one of the best Oilers
He’s still not 9.25 good. Not close.
Need to get him off the payroll and use the money on better forward depth.
Realistically, Nurse would be worth at least $7MM in an open market. The cap pain (retention) and/or the quality of assets the Oilers would have to ship out (from a limited pool) to move him means it’s likely not his last game. As weird as it sounds, I think the team is better off strategically with him staying.
Tough. They battled but it wasn’t their year. Happy off season, everyone.
Agreed.
F*** — there are a lot of things I dislike about the Americanization of sports. Cheerleaders, at a hockey game! The military connotations, and I say this as a veteran.
7/32 teams are based in Canada. The game has long been Americanized given the predominant market.
Edmonton had cheerleaders for years. US markets continue to do so.
Should Canadian teams not honour their veterans?
None of this is saying I agree/disagree with any premise above, but I honestly don’t understand anything you posted.
I think that’s the last game for McDavid in an Oilers uniform. I hope I’m wrong but I just can’t help but put it all together.
One more year.
McDavid is at peak value right now.
With the surge of the rebuilders, next year will be tougher than ever.
Go away
McDavid wasn’t able to stay on the right side of the play in the defensive zone all season … that’s on the player, but at some point it’s also on the coach when there is this much lack of accountability.
If management doesn’t bring in a coach who is going to demand that the the star players commit to 200 ft hockey … then they should just trade McDavid to some US team where he no longer has to carry the pressure of a whole city (and sometimes a whole country) on his back 24-7. Somewhere where doesn’t have to live up to the standards of all the living legends that are still around the team. Somewhere where he can just enjoy playing hockey without the Cup or bust mentality, score highlight reel goals and pass the puck into the net, and then bow out early in the playoffs and have nice long summers to recuperate and chase more scoring titles in the regular season.
So he was injured, as were the other top 3 goal scorers on the team, and he’s going to pack up and leave after 1 bad series?
TBL on verge of 4 straight 1st round exits.
Carolina hasn’t made it to the SCF in this era.
Dallas joining Edmonton with less injuries and less playoff wear.
Florida the only team I’m assuming that have won more series than Oilers over the last 5 playoffs?
McDavid being traded would be more of a re-tool than a rebuild, with Bouchard and Draisaitl and others on board. The team that he would hypothetically be moved to would have to give up a top 6 C, probably one who is strong 2-way, and an upgrade on D (maybe Nurse would be his McSorley).
Point is, short of TBL, FLA, DAL, COL, MIN, CAR, MTL, BUF, any other team minus the assets needed to acquire him would be worse off than EDM is.
And many of those teams don’t need him, I’m afraid to say. Most of them didn’t have problems scoring or winning. CAR could try if they don’t get over the hump, maybe the only one of those teams who is dying for a superstar. DSF likes to tell us how much cap space ANA has, not sure how much he’d like going there. If he wants to win, going to teams that are projects, like SJS, don’t make sense either.
Anaheim doesn’t need him…they’re already the goods and have significant centre depth coming.
With Celebrini and Michael Misa the Sharks don’t either.
LA, Carolina and the Rangers might be interested.
That’s the point, numb nuts. I literally said that but we know you can’t read. A lot of these remaining teams are choc full of scoring depth, which would have to be depleted (or D or G) to bring in the biggest catch.
LA sucks and has very few assets EDM wants or needs. The ask would start with Kempe and Clarke, and he would have no one left to play with. Panarin not a playoff caliber player, Fiala, Byfield and Kuzmenko weak, and Doughty mediocre. Maybe they would need to take Jarry for one of their competent goalies. All those assets you like to tell us about are just magic beans.
NYR is in shambles. Shesterkin and 3 1sts for Jarry and McDavid is what it would take. JT Miller is a shitbag and I have no clue why Connor would have any interest in going there.
CAR is the one, but Rantanen wasn’t alone in his lack of interest in playing there. TBL could put together a good package (product and coaching) and another first round exit may be a catalyst, but they too have had an unfair share of injuries. DAL possibly but that would require Heiskanen and a top 6 F. Their GMs probably don’t catastrophize.
McDavid to SJ for Misa, Dickenson, Ravensburger and multiple first round picks. Connor can join Celebrini in another 1-2 punch, and the Oilers can restock and remain competitive for another decade with 2 other superstars remaining to lead the way. Flip Jarry for Nedelkovic, and take on Couture’s contract if they can get some assets back.
I doubt Mike Grier would blink now.
He has the makings of a contender, $42 million in cap space, a prospect pool in the top 3, and 2 first round picks.
He’s much more likely to spend time and assets on shoring up his defense,
Put McDavid on the market and the bidding war would be insane. For a team like SJ that needs stars to sell tickets, Grier wouldn’t have a choice but to offer up the kitchen sink, his best young players and probably one of his children to connect Celebrini with McDavid.
In that scenario, Grier would have to show McDavid he’s all in. Trade remaining 1sts for goalie/D, spend to the cap, coaching upgrade. Even then it could be years before he makes it deep in the playoffs
ANA are getting bounced 2nd round. They are far from the goods.
We’ll see.
They’re playing with house money now.
When you factor in their young stars, voluminous cap space, stellar prospect pool and top rate coaching staff, they might surprise.
You may recall I told ya’ll to keep an eye on the Ducks many weeks ago.
They’re just getting started.
Not really. They beat a hobbled team with goaltending as porous as theirs.
I again will bet you on this (not past R2) if you are going to be confident with your keyboard. You have not once taken me up on the offer to back up the words.
Welp. Just ran outta gas. Too many injuries and to much mileage on the tires.
A good long break is what our core really needs to get over the hump.
Never seen McDavid play this badly. His skating improved since the ankle sprain but I can’t recall him fumbling so many puck, ever, let alone in the playoffs.
I don’t watch any other hockey teams play so it’s also a long break for me.
See you on the fall, faithful.
We’ll get em next year.
If Bruce Cassidy isn’t the Edmonton Oilers head coach by noon monday, this isn’t an organization serious about winning a Stanley Cup.
Cassidy or not they need to move detailed and fast to give time to integrate into the organization
Yep – no pissing around. KK is already dead coach walking. Go get Cassidy before he’s snapped up by another team.
When your best player is a -8 in the series, and your pk gives up 50% it’s pretty tough to win. Hopefully a long summer reset is what’s needed for this team to take the regular season seriously so they don’t need to push right through the 82 games and come in banged up.
Congrats to the Ducks for a perfectly played game – truly the cleanest hockey ever played
No /s tag? Kind of an amazing performance
At least they’ll play an American team next. Curious who the refs favour.
That’s pretty fitting ending to Knoblauch’s Oiler tenure, McDavid and Draisaitl out there for the last 15 minutes straight
Let’s be honest, the Oilers have been shit all season.
Coach Killers gonna get another one
If the players are playing through injuries, they’re not coach killers.
If the coaches have the team as a whole underperform over the course of a season, they are killing themselves.
McDavid single-handedly saved KKs job in December
McDavid’s goal share at 5v5 tells a slightly different story.
In December (not true)? Or for the regular season? The xGF-xGA was quite different and suggests that his line carried play but was outdone by luck and shitty goaltending, which appears true. Or there may have been other factors. Isn’t that the coach’s job to help the player figure it out? KK response recently to this discrepancy between xGF-xGA and GF-GA was “I don’t know why, maybe bad luck.” Same response as mine, but I’m not being paid to have the answers.
He’s been injured since game 2, which I alluded to as explaining why he’s not a “coach killer” if this performance has something to do with his ankle or whatever else is ailing him.
2026/27 is going to be Bowman the Younger’s stamp on this team.
It will be as informative as it will be interesting, and pivotal, for the fortunes of this franchise.
Agreed. Last year it was about trying to win with the players that were still there. This year it was about a reset.
It will be very interesting to see who comes back at forward.
It will also be interesting to see what trades he makes.
Every off-season matters, but this one even moreso given McDavid’s 2 year deal kicks in July 1.
1. Fire the entire coaching staff. Paul Coffey goes back upstairs.
2.Somehow move Darnell Nurse
3.Somehow move Jarry, bring in new pair of goaltenders
4. Hire coaches early enough so they can set up the systems, HC fills out staff.
5. HC meets the pkayers, outlines their system
6. Don’t overcommit to anymore silly contracts. With step 2 and 3 hopefully accomplished that would leave us roughly $32M in cap space (I could be wrong)
To accomplish this I have purchased a magic lamp.
You forgot to add somehow move Trent “Healthy Scratch” Frederic. At 8 more years for 3.85 million. Good luck with that magic lamp.
Like with Jarry, any move to get rid of him
at this point would be selling at the absolute nadir, and would result in key losses
I do not disagree with that. That is the issue, the sunk cap space and assets. To me this was the Oil acting like they knew something others did not with Frederic, and that does not even bother me that much, have confidence in your convictions. But….the assets traded to land him, while injured, were valuable. Then, almost to prove you did not make a bad move, you give him the 3.85 for 8. Why? I am not a hockey scientist, but I am pretty confident he could have been had for less after his disaster that was his performance last year, injured or not. He will never cover that contract bet, cap increase of not. The best you can hope for is that it is not an anchor. It is already an anchor.
You can’t get rid of Nurse without a D playing top 4 mins who is as durable.
Cap space is an asset but you can’t go into the season without 6 capable D men, knowing you will need 8.
Also, selling Jarry now would be the worst stock market evaluation. Dubas understood that.
One of Bowman’s Stamps is going to be an albatross for a long time.
Trent Frederic is something special.
I hope we have a new coaching staff next year.
Have to
I hope all of the coaching positions are vacant tomorrow morning.
I would think Stuart is a prime candidate to get replaced.
Does Coffey come back?
Not one solid game in six.
Not a damn one.
Last one was not bad
Maybe 4 periods of good hockey all series?
20 minutes is not a game.
Well, injury, bad special teams, and a stubborn coach will do that.
It’ll be interesting to see the injury list. Hopefully we get an accounting.
Oilers seem slow. Not on top of the game, late to pucks, lots of incomplete passes.
They never seemed to be able to pull things together this season, except for 2 game stretches.
The biggest problem with the Oilers is they’re too predictable. The ducks have an AHL player shutting-down McDavid and outscoring him.
I would definitely get a shot on Viel in this scrum. A parting shot.
It’s been fun, y’all. Take care of yourselves out there this summer. Cheers.
Can’t even execute taking a pound of flesh
Pathetic
Lots to discuss, but the series was lost by a bad penalty kill and a middling, at best, PP. I rather they go out early this year. The team just didn’t have it in them for a long run, so the rest will be beneficial in the long run.
And substandard goaltending.
Well, the tending wasn’t great for sure, but that didn’t cause the bad PP. Much too passive.
It actually did. Ingram was bottom 3 at screened shots. Lateral movement rivaled Skinner in its speed, or lack thereof. Jarry is the best of the 3 by a country mile (when healthy and engaged). Deflections happen a lot in games – Ingram’s reactions/positioning were not good enough.
Dostal’s only strength was point/screened shots. And the Oilers still were at 50% PP efficiency for the last 4 games of the series
If by middling, you mean 29% (well above average for any regular season team), and 4/8 in games 3-6 (4/7 if you consider they used the 8th one to run out the clock)… then sure, it was “middling” – at the 3rd best rate of the 16 playoff teams.
PP couldn’t score at the right time early in the series. It’s not just the number of goals, it’s when. The series changes if they score just one in game 2.
You said the reason they lost the series is that the PP was “middling, at best.” Even top 3 PPs have odd nights.
McDavid had freshly injured his ankle that game, and in that one game, the PP cost them. I choose not to draw conclusions about the PP performance over an entire series, or to blame the series loss on a PP that was 50% but only received 8 chances in its last 4 games (compared to the Ducks’ umpteen)
Lots to criticize, PK and top players are fair game if they aren’t missing limbs or have them tied together with bits of twine
No, I did not say they lost the series because of a middling power play. I did say they lost the series because of a bad PK and a middling PP. I’ll concede that total PP goals were fine in the series, but when they are scored is equally important, and they couldn’t score when they really could have used one, while the Ducks were 50%….thus the “middling” comment.
Here’s some scraps for 42 and 92.
I wouldn’t blame them if they wanted to leave if the coach stays. Not one bit. This happened all year.
Seriously? McDavid out again?coach is blind
Threw in the towel with the goalie pull. The thing is, I think this team is better than they’ve shown this series (and all season). They just can’t get it together. I don’t know what the solution is. But I don’t think the coach does either
The 97 flub to end it. Fitting.
Man that was quite the performance
Too early to tell,
Window is open for now,
Off season looms.
10 seasons. NOTHING achieved.
The decade of darkness wasn’t hell. This is.
EN GA on ANOTHER McDavid turnover.
Lol
McDavids shift on that goal summarize his playoffs.
McDavid flubbed one is the quote of the series. Well it’s going to be a long summer.
McDavid must be seriously injured.
Why are the two best players this series not on the ice?
Goalie pulled already.
No 42 or 92.
So bad.
Extra frustrating to know that Dostal is not good at all. We just can’t get any forecheck and sustained pressure.
Have to admire the stones on Ingram, that was a ballsy pinch.
I don’t think I’d play McDavid at all right now. He’s that bad. Trying so hard but not capable of doing the things he usually can but still trying to.
Anyone get the feeling we’re watching a power struggle right now and for the first time it’s not breaking the Captain’s way?
No, we do not
Kap has disengaged at the wrong time
Rumour is Cassidy can be a prick and players turn on him after awhile. At this point I say hire the man!
Nice guys aren’t working. I wanted Edmonton to do what Vegas had the balls to do and get Tortz.
Theyve needed a prick for 10 years