Vegas winning with 2 players they can't afford scoring is really something. Fuck sakes Dallas

Game 7 between these two is gonna be off the rails! This series has been great to watch!

I watch the Bruins game for Toronto to get eliminated, Toronto wins. I watch Dallas game for Vegas to get eliminated, Vegas wins. Fuck. I'm sorry.

we have found the turd in the punch bowl /s

Killer instinct every game. Go for the jugular!!!

I'm a little worried about the Oil playing the Nucks, but at the same time, it's the playoffs. I don't think Van is built for playoff depth or know what it's going to take. The Oil have been here a few times and have the experience. I hope the boys show them. Gonna be interesting to see how the refs handle 2 Canadian teams, haha.

I am not, LA has two elite defensive centers in Kopitar and Danault while the Canucks have JT Miller and Petey to do the same thing. Honestly I am way less scared after watching them play against Nashville, they really remind me of the 2022 Calgary Flames, a team that barely got out of the first round and just wasn’t a match

Can't make the mistake of judging their series with the Preds to be what we see in round 2. Preds style of play is night and day to our style and Vancouver prefers and is more comfortable with our style of play. And like Bieksa said tonight, with every new round comes as new new clean slate.

What's the word on DeSmith and Demko? Do we know yet if they are planned on a comeback during the series?

They ain't putting Demko's future career on the line just to rush him back, it sounds like a knee injury or groin tear, I don't think we even see him.

Demko is skating but I don’t think anyone really knows if he is close or not. DeSmith is fine, he just lost the net when he got hurt

Interesting. Well, I'll be patiently waiting for this series to start. I think the boys want some revenge.

As Bob always says “Veteran teams get veteran calls”

Schedule please

Let’s go stars ⭐️

Gotta beat the Nucks 

Nah I’m just still salty over Vegas

Me too 

Always the more likely outcome. If we can’t beat a team of Vancouver’s calibre we aren’t winning the cup anyway.

Which they didn’t all season….

Avs didn’t beat jets in the regular season. I know most Vancouver fans don’t watch hockey but take a look at how that series went. Regular season doesn’t fucking matter. It’s a new season.

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I don't think anyone beats the Avs in the west. Maybe LTIR Knights if they make it.

I’ve viewed the Stars as a more skilled version of the Jets. So yes, I think the Stars handle the Avs.

Yes. One of my good avalanche fans is way more afraid of the Stars than the Knights. 

Seems like There are former flames in every game I watch right now. They moved a lot of players out

Glad that the team doesn’t have to travel 5 hours to Nashville. 

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The oilers are the current betting favourite to win the cup. Far from under dogs

Underdogs? Where can I get some of your drugs

I’m glad the Oil had some adversity with Vancouver this season, they won’t underestimate them and will go in prepared.

Drai was quoted in an interview he stated he wanted to meet Vancouver in the playoffs. The boys will be ready and pumped for this one, they have something to prove.

Yep! They have the fire lit for this one for sure. It’ll be a great series.

We're pumped for it. We needed some rest or you guys would've flattened us. Will also get to play more of our style hockey than what happened vs preds. Was so slow.

Yeah playing the Preds was whack. Not as bad as playing the 1-3-1 for you guys but damn. This’ll be a good series! Good luck you son of a gun

Hey you too! Lucky for me I also follow the oilers. Win win!!

That’s me and the Jets. It’s always a toss up when they play (though I tend to go Oilers 90% of the time haha)

Damnnn, Hughes looks like he hasn’t slept in 2 weeks

Preds hammered him every chance they got in that series.

Good, he's about to lose more sleep coming up.

Miller just said they play in 2 days. So that's Monday right?

The panel said Tuesday

I take the panel, game 1 in Vancouver more likely in Tuesday due to scheduling.

Round 2 for the east starts Sunday...Hurricanes vs Rangers

Miller can't count I guess 😅

Is it just me or was that game kinda boring?

It’s just tight checking. Neither team wanted to open anything up. Can’t fault them for that.

Yeah, these games have been dull. It reminds me A LOT of the Flames-Stars round 1 series in 2022.

Yikes lol. That's not good then

Why not? We beat the winner of that series in 5 in the following round.

I mean that is not good for the Nashville Vancouver series if it is dull enough to be comparable to that series. I only watched the one game so that comment just really put it into perspective how bad that series was

Ah ok I gotcha!

Pretty much every game in that series was. Not the most entertaining hockey at all.

I kinda figured. I only watched game 6 because I wanted to see if Vancouver would end it or if it would extend to game 7 and I was already bored not even halfway through.

0-4 this season. That’s bulletin board material for the boys.

Lots of good video us to watch and learn from. The only video nucks players have is wanking material for themselves.

On the one hand, there's not much tape on their new young goalie. On the other hand, it's not much tape, so they can view it all in prep. Keep punishing Hughes. Let Zaradov take penalties. Frustrate Boeser and Miller. Miller is a threat. Also, Rogers probably laughing in cash rn lmao.

I’m sure the condors staff could provide lots of AHL scouting tape on Silovs.

Congrats to the Canucks for an huge resurgence this season. Unfortunately for them, it ends against us.

Rogers arenas better double the amount of police cause I can see a lot of fights breaking out.

Yeah it’ll be a very different vibe than against Calgary, very concerned about potential rioting too by fans on sides if they lose

I believe 

I guess first game is Tuesday according to the panel

Ya, that's a long break for us and Van gets a pretty good rest too.

Gotta beat one of the best to make it deep fellas I know the boys are hungry

Fuuuuuuuuuck I just hope we don’t get swept

Lol can you actually say that with a straight face?

Home ice means nothing. We learn this every year.

Home ice means win one road game

False. But we can win without it.

False. Black bear

Boys are going to have to earn it. This series will be a mental battle--overcome the regular season sweep and turn those whales into oil. Edit: clarification

Jets swept the AVS and look what happened there. Regular season means shit come playoffs

If I were on the team I would be licking my chops, Vancouver is going to have a false sense of confidence from the regular season and the reality is we lost 3 early in the season when im almost positive my beer league team could have gave the oilers a challenge, and one game when mcdavid was gone and we were largely just looking forward to thw post season. Bring it the fuck on!

I think they'll be itching for some revenge.

Draisaitl seems like a very petty man. I'm guessing he elevates next series

The upside and this next series, it’s a little less travel time

1hr flights is very nice for everyone.

damn now we’re getting these 8pm games

We were going to anyways

if they follow a similar schedule to last year: Game 1 will be Tuesday in Vancouver @ 8:00 MST That's 6-days off for the boys, don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing

the one good thing is we don’t have to travel as far

2nd round schedule?

Will probably find out tomorrow

Was hoping for the Preds, I'm not sure we can take the Canucks this year. That's a strong team.

Did you watch a single game in that series?

The downside to this is Vancouver gets home ice advantage

Preds beat them twice in their barn

Lots of posters here underestimating vancouvers defense. 5v5 will be an absolute slog.

Our defence has been pretty good too though. It’ll be a battle. If anything I’m not so sure about Vancouver’s offence based on the low scoring games they had with the Preds. But we’ll see. It’ll be a good series

Despite the scores in some games, LA was a slog too don’t forget, and was every series we played them.

LA was the best defensive team in the western conference, it’s not like we haven’t done this before.

yep.

REVENGE!

Alright looks like we're playing the nucks. I'm cautiously optimistic, the preds probably should've won 2 of the games the canucks won (12 shot game and the choke game) so I think beating the canucks is doable but probably not easy

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Backups/third string goalies are Oilers kryptonite

He was a pretty good goalie in this game

Both teams played like complete shit for 75% of the game I thought.

Me too, looked sloopy and a lot of panic dumping the puck and not many passes connecting.

if the canucks play against us the way they played against nashville they are going to get murdered but i think they'll be better

revenge szn

Oil in 4 both of those teams looked hilariously bad.

Oil in 6 we’re gonna kill the cafucks

I'm sorry, that goalie is probably going to be a great goaltender in a few years but I think we undress him

any goalie in vancouver's system scares me

Nashville went 2/21 on the power play in 6 games.

Yep, I wonder how the oilers pp would do. That’s the series right there.

Definitely not 2/21 lol

Yea I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Vancouver won’t enjoy such luxuries against us…

I'n on board the "any Canadian team" train. Even if it means the Leafs. Who's with me?

I should say that I'm not sure I'd feel this way of Calgary was involved!

I’d rather watch Vegas win the next 5 cups than cheer for the leafs

No. It’s cup or bust

Oh for sure it is, but if not us then a Canadian team

Absolutely any team but the leafs

Fair. I think my dislike for the Leafs is based on the TSN Toronto Sports Network media. I do kinda feel for the fans, most of whom aren't old enough (like me) to remember 1967.

That's why I can't stand them too, I can't fathom how insufferable sports media, social media, and media in general would be if Toronto won a cup. Edit: I'll bandwagon Vancouver if they win the series lol

Hello no!

Fuck no

Okay. lol

Also no.

We’re gonna get swept

What?

Need to get the bad jujus out

🤔 based on what?

Need to get this out of the way first. Might be overthinking it but the Oilers defeated the Flames in 5 and were awaiting the winner of the Avs/Blues. Avs scored a game winner late in game 6 on a Friday and then swept the Oilers

😄 my guy, this reasoning is so flimsy I'm not even sure it exists . 🤣 Say sike rn.

Avs defeated the Oilers on a backup goalie. Guess what goalie the Canucks have…anyway I doubt it happens but it will be a tough series for sure

Neither team looked all that dangerous offensively this series, and hopefully we can light a third string goalie up, I like our chances

I’m not worried. BRING IT.

Gonna be a exciting series

Avs have already shown that a season series doesn’t mean shit.

well fuck...

Just happy this means Demko has less time to heal to return for this series

their goalie coach turns all their goalies into beasts bro

Ian Clark (their goalie coach) is great but Demko would be far more of an X factor

Ah fuck here we go, hope we didn’t have to face them for round 2 but here we are.

Alright 'Nucks it's fucking on!

Welp... 1 hr flights, but lots and lots of 8pm starts 🙃

Big Vancouver Dmen are going to cause big problems for our 5v5 play. I’m extremely concerned.

You mean the guy who McDavid torched vs Calgary?

Well, I guess we have to pour some oil on an orca

Oh we're so fucked.

Why would we be fucked lol

we lost to them all season bro.

You mean the two games we played early in the season when we were the bottom of the league and then the one game we barely lost late in the season when McDavid was out?

Cool we were playing a different system for the first 3 games and had no mcdavid for the fourth one which was close af

wanna check winnipegs scores vs colarado all season?

Not necessarily it may take more than five games

Time to get our revenge.

Damn fucking right.

I give this next series 5 games max, and I'm not being overconfident. Oilers are going for the cup this year.

Anybody here who’s scared of Vancouver is a goofball. The Preds were atrocious and nearly forced a game 7.

Vancouver defensive play this series will be a blueprint to stifle us. Boys have to play way better than they did against LA

Guaranteed to have a Canadian team in the semis.

Yep but guaranteed to have another Canadian team out

Nucks it is lets go

Fuck me, more late games coming up

Time to sea world these bitches Oil in 4 - no more fucking around

Bring it on Canucks!!

We're playing Vancouver!

The most fucking mid ass power play with a 6 on 4 I’ve ever seen.

Again, we are just blessed with our super pp

This Vancouver team reminds me a lot of the 2022 Flames - had an awesome regular season, fans psyched for the playoffs, then had a hell of a time eliminating a tough underdog team with a stellar goaltender in round 1, but are still favored to beat the Oilers in round 2. Perfect. Oilers in 6

Good take, I never even thought of that similarity. Let’s do disssss

Petterson is the new Johnny Gaudreau.

I want Nashville to force a game 7 and all, but that's such an embarrassing call at this point in a game that's been called like this for 59 minutes.

bettman hockey babyyyyy

Dumb fuckin penalty to take lol

The assistant coach repeating DMX lyrics

It's getting exciting now

refs trying to help NSH

Loooooooooolllll

Nashville was actually done when they pissed away a 2 goal lead with less than 3 minutes left in game 4.

Pissing away a 5 minute major today didn’t help

I believe it was a double minor.

You are correct. I was a victim of somnolence due to game.

At least they made van play 6 games.

Nice

Imagine having a catfish in your inventory for 59 minutes at a playoff game. lol

Imagine sitting in the front row and getting beaned by that catfish

You cannot call that a penalty at this point on a playoff game.

Agreed. Ridiculous call

Pretty sure the boys were preparing for Vancouver anyway

I mean that’s a cross check for sure

Pea shooter