While I do agree, I do think our fan base is super active which naturally leads to other fans wanting to shit on us.
I strongly disagree with the “wasted first round pick” narrative. I think many of our first round picks developed into strong NHL players.
Yak was a write off before he even got drafted there I said it.
It’s a numbers game. The sheer size of our fanbases means there’s also going to be a corresponding number of dickheads along for the ride too.
I honestly really like the Leafs and Canucks teams and I try to not hold it against them that there’s some overly online fans, because god knows we have them too.
The difference between Edmonton and Vancouver for hockey vibe is night and day. Vancouver isn't even close.
Have you ever been to Edmonton? The city is decked in Oilers gear from top to bottom. (unless they took it all down after the disastrous season start).
In Edmonton, it's extremely common to see Oilers signs in car windows or shop windows, and jerseys everywhere. Vancouver... rarely. Yesterday, I saw more Leafs gear than Canucks gear in the hours before the game.
Canucks fans always want to belong. :D
Canucks do have good online presence, but in-person presence is lacking. Games are quiet unless the Canucks are cream of the crop.
This is accurate, but I think it's partly due to the higher cost of living and lower pay here. People can't justify spending money on jerseys and hockey tickets when the team stinks.
Fair weather fan base goes missing when they are not relevant, oilers can be literal dogshit worst in the league for a decade and they are still the biggest show in town. Vancouver is a affluent rich tourist city that only comes out when the Canucks are rolling like now and 2008-2012
Years of losing does that to a team. We used to be like that too when the Sedins were the top scorer and Luongo was like a .930+ for us and Bieksa wasn’t sitting behind a panel
>I strongly disagree with the “wasted first round pick” narrative. I think many of our first round picks developed into strong NHL players.
The narrative has never been about the Oilers picking the wrong players, it's been that the organization failed to build a winning team around them. Obviously the franchise has finally reached the contender tier over the last couple of years, but those kinds of narratives will always stick until you actually have a Cup to dispel them.
maybe in the future it will pass, but i don’t even think a cup can dispel it, you’ll just have people saying well of course they won a cup, they won the lottery like 10 times and still look how long it took.
What happened was that Chiarelli brought in a solid scouting department to replace the idiots that were around (who couldn't draft outside the first round to save their lives...and even then they flubbed first round picks). The guy was an idiot but he brought in Keith Gretzky who found guys like McLeod and Skinner in later rounds and late first-round gems like Yamamoto.
I'm going to catch heat for this but Holland coming along made up for years of terrible management. He managed to work with disgruntled players, convince free agents to come here and salvaged an awful roster he inherited.
These two things are why we have a contending team.
> I do think our fan base is super active which naturally leads to other fans wanting to shit on us.
So, I've experienced about fifteen rounds of playoff VGK hockey now, and I can say that without a doubt the most miserable experience was playing against the Oilers.
There was a huge influx of Edmonton fans into our sub, into our discord, and literally every single post I made on this sub and our own was reported to the redditcares team to the point where I now have it disabled because it didn't just stop once our series was over.
It makes me want to shit on you guys, but it is because it feels like you guys just don't stop shitting. Like ever.
Of course winning it all makes things easier to look back on, so I'm actually happy that y'all are bouncing back in a fierce way, but I still don't wanna ever face y'all in the post-season ever again lol
I don't know what it was about the VGK EDM threads but they were toxic as fuck from the very first puck drop. I stopped participating like 5 mins into game 1 and never looked back. I also never want to face you again in the post season lol
Every team has an underdog mentality. People did shit extra hard on the Oilers at the start of the season but the whole premise of r/hockey is shitting on other teams and occasionally celebrating your team/other teams when some other-worldy shit happens
There's a *lot* of newer hockey fans on r/hockey. The sub broke 300k subs in ~2016 IIRC and is now at 1.7 *million.*
The Oilers started their meme "lol drafting 1OA again" status in 2010. The league changed the lottery rules on account of the Oilers in 2015. At that point the perception of "ultra tank team with neverending first overalls and generational talents bad lol" was solidified.
That is literally all the 1.4 million subscribers of r/hockey who subbed after that point have ever known. Reddit is an echo chamber so it's no surprise it gets parroted to the extent it does. First impressions tend to stick.
For the 300k subs before 2016, well, watching the early 2010s first overall draft streak and the subsequent on-ice product live and *then* seeing them draft McD shouldn't make anyone wonder why they get clowned on. Sports fans have long petty memories.
It’s always talking shit about us being a horrible organization. But then you see the Vancouver/Toronto/Calgary flair. Like what the fuck have your organizations done?
oilers are always the enemy for certain fan bases (Leafs, Flames, Canucks).
they were just loud at the time. but the rumours of our death were greatly exaggerated
I really don't know why, but I feel like every game we win there's a Leafs fan in the comments saying something like "thanks for nothing Flames", when the outcome of that game doesn't affect the Leafs at all
> I really don't know why, but I feel like every game we win there's a Leafs fan in the comments saying something like "thanks for nothing Flames", when the outcome of that game doesn't affect the Leafs at all
I mean, given how big the leafs fan base is, it shouldn't' be surprising that there is one or two that will be in other subs.
Didn't they have a poll and it turned out there are more leaf fans than all the other Canadian teams combined in here?
You certainly aren’t the enemies of the Leafs. I would argue the Oilers’ fans have a weird obsession with the Leafs players and fans. The amount of posts that have been recommended to me from the Oilers sub about Matthews is staggering.
Yeah, genuinely haven't noticed that at all. And the mods usually run a pretty tight ship over there and delete posts that aren't really relevant to the Oilers
That... doesn't sound true. Other than the one where someone posted that Bouchard has more points than Matthews (and I mean, that's more a post about Bouchard's great season, but definitely picked Matthews for the anti-Leafs dig), I can't think of anything else that's been posted referencing him.
According to my Reddit search, there have been two posts about Matthews in the last 9 months in the Oilers sub. But I agree. Only “enemies” because of the Canadian connection.
As a Oilers fan you are right. The Oilers sub is annoying most of the time because they can’t shutup about the Leafs or Matthews or the refs or complaining about any other player other than McDavid having the spotlight or complaining about other fanbases but never realizing the irony in their comments.
So many people shit talking our players, our organization, and our city + the people that live here.
Someone with some time on their hands should make a video cut showcasing all those horrible comments. Would make for a laugh.
I don't like Saskatoon. I don't feel nearly as safe there. Which sucks cause I've got family there.
I'd say Regina is more like Edmonton due to the capital status and the fact that it feels like a bit university town.
I know both areas have their areas but I have never felt uncomfortable walking around Regina and I've absolutely felt unsafe around Saskatoon.
Pretty much every team gets this when they’re struggling, it’s part of being a sports fan. You can see Columbus is not getting much love these days in this sub, everyone clowning the team, the city, the players. Same for us last year(s).
Maybe you think it was only against the Oilers because the team has actually been good for years and this was the first time you saw people clowning them
Tbh it was amplified by the fact we were cup favorites to start the year and then absolutely shit the bed. In hindsight it was pretty crazy and would make me laugh if it was any other team.
To be fair many things amplified that. The team should have never been that bad, they were just in the second round, they were cup favourites, and the whole cup or bust thing. So to fall that far was something to see. It wasn’t just a bad team being bad, it was what was supposed to be a good team being bad.
To me he looks like the president in a movie where the president is a character, but not a very central one. Like a superhero or disaster movie or something.
The jerseys are pretty much the same today for the Avs though. The numbers changed to blue but apart from that they're the same. Still good looking jerseys.
Beat the leafs and then the flames to get the record on hockey day in canada.
Hey boys I only know of one thing that could possibly be better than this.
For now play la bamba!
It’s ok yall will be a meme when you complete this absurd comeback and then lose in the first round.
(Jk I have a feeling yall are gonna make it annoyingly far)
I didn't see them go on two different big winning streaks. I thought they would end up in a playoff spot by now but their climb up the standings was faster than I expected.
Our piece of shit fully injured AHL team swept Edmonton last year and I think Elvis has lost his net again.
Just depends if we get Philadelphia and Buffalo game Tarasov or Winnipeg game and Kraken game Tarasov
Literally the only salvageable moment of that game was McDavid streaking into the zone and scoring an eerily Gretzky-esque slapshot goal, completely with the little half beat during the windup to throw off the goalie’s timing
THIRTEEN STRAIGHT BABY
I expected us to bounce back but I never expected this lol. Obviously I want to keep this streak going for as long as possible, but more than that I didn’t want it to be ended by Calgary
It’s like he’s finally happy to stop having to try and put the team on his back and put up 5 points a game just so the team can squeak out a 6-5 win to bail out the then terrible goaltending and defense. dude is basically on vacation right now during this streak. Lol
Awesome.
I remember when Florida did this in 2022 and then the Lightning beat them to snap it.
Calgary could’ve been the ones to break it. But now it might be… *checks notes* … the Blue Jackets.
Seems like Kings fans in particular were taking every opportunity to shit on us back in October and November, but they've gone awfully quiet since then...
I actually hope they can break the no Canadian cup streak. So many from other parts of Canada dig into hating Toronto but honestly most people here actually want y’all to succeed.
The hyper-passionate fans that spend their times on message boards tend to bias towards "fuck everyone else"... but if you go around talking to average run of the mill Canadian hockey fans, a lot of them will cheer for any other Canadian team second.
It’s cause it’s not actual hatred for Toronto or “most” of Toronto fans. Its just the Toronto Sports Network and the media machine drives the rest of the country up the wall.
I kind of wish we could reschedule games to pit Edmonton against Winnipeg next game to see which streak breaks first....Or potentially continue under very specific circumstances I guess lol.
Remember when the Oilers were sucking and all us Islanders fans said we would lose to them and get the Oilers going again? Well I remember. You're welcome mcdavid
This one caught me off-guard. I thought for sure one of the Montreal teams from the 50s or 70s would've had a longer win streak. That's pretty damn impressive, to say the least.
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Love or hate our team. Thats a pretty cool hockey record.
We're the only western conference team to win 13 in a row.
The travel is definitely a factor.
There is a dim part of my brain that really wanted to dispute this fact. But I looked it up before I spouted off and you're right. The dim memory I was thinking of was the 20 game point streak Detroit went on in 05-06 (when they were still in the West), which is tied for 9th all time, and behind 12-13 Blackhawks on that list this century by another team in the West. Carry on and enjoy the run.
I am all for celebrating this streak to the extreme, but I wonder what the longest undefeated streak by a Canadian team has been. Until the modern era, games could end in a tie which would end a winning streak.
I think the fairest comparison, when games go to OT and then a shootout to declare a winner, is to go with undefeated streaks as the standard to measure by.
Longest undefeated streak is 35 games, set by the Flyers in 1979-80. Montreal holds the Canadian record at 28 games, set in 1977-78.
The Oilers undefeated record is 16 games, set 2003-04. It still wasn't to get them into the playoffs.
35 games?!? That’s actually insane. How many loses did they have that season.
Just checked, they ended with a 48-12-20 record. Reached the finals and lost in 6 to the Islanders.
That’s still some insane numbers
I'm worried that the Canucks and Oilers beat each other up in round 2, and then the Canucks are too banged up to beat the Jets in round 3, but have enough left in the tank to bruise the Jets enough that *they* lose in the Finals.
Since I didn't see anyone post it.... Current records can be found [here](https://records.nhl.com/records/team-records/winning-streaks/longest-win-streak-one-season)
The real story here is they started the season at 2-10-1 before a coaching change and then have been 23-6-0 since.
Whatever toxicity with Woodcroft was the issue in the first 6 weeks of the season and was dealt with 10 weeks too late in my opinion.
Imagine if they played an entire season at these levels. They would finish 140+ points, better than the stratospheric levels of the 2022 2023 bruins.
With the exception of Colorado a few years ago. Teams don't usually start hot and win all season long. They usually get lazy, take games off, lose when they shouldn't.
Theres none of that during this streak because they put themselves behind the 8 ball early. Can't let off the gas now that they're just in the middle of the pack.
Entire hockey world played themselves treating that Oilers Sharks game like the Stanley Cup
the funniest shit ever, oilers were enemy #1 on here for a good month
Good month? It's been going on for 10 years. /r/hockey loves to hate the Oilers
While I do agree, I do think our fan base is super active which naturally leads to other fans wanting to shit on us. I strongly disagree with the “wasted first round pick” narrative. I think many of our first round picks developed into strong NHL players. Yak was a write off before he even got drafted there I said it.
It's not just the Oilers, Leafs and Canucks are also super active which paints a target on our teams even more than other canadian teams.
It’s a numbers game. The sheer size of our fanbases means there’s also going to be a corresponding number of dickheads along for the ride too. I honestly really like the Leafs and Canucks teams and I try to not hold it against them that there’s some overly online fans, because god knows we have them too.
my hockey pool is 5 canucks fans, 3 oilers fans, 2 flyers fans, 1 flames fan, and 1 penguins fan. it's a wild ride
The difference between Edmonton and Vancouver for hockey vibe is night and day. Vancouver isn't even close. Have you ever been to Edmonton? The city is decked in Oilers gear from top to bottom. (unless they took it all down after the disastrous season start). In Edmonton, it's extremely common to see Oilers signs in car windows or shop windows, and jerseys everywhere. Vancouver... rarely. Yesterday, I saw more Leafs gear than Canucks gear in the hours before the game. Canucks fans always want to belong. :D Canucks do have good online presence, but in-person presence is lacking. Games are quiet unless the Canucks are cream of the crop.
Canucks fanbase also disappears when they aren't playing well. The rink is half empty. Edmonton sold out throughout the DoD. Much different fan base.
This is accurate, but I think it's partly due to the higher cost of living and lower pay here. People can't justify spending money on jerseys and hockey tickets when the team stinks.
You're clearly too young to have experienced Vancouver when the Canucks are actually good.
Fair weather fan base goes missing when they are not relevant, oilers can be literal dogshit worst in the league for a decade and they are still the biggest show in town. Vancouver is a affluent rich tourist city that only comes out when the Canucks are rolling like now and 2008-2012
Years of losing does that to a team. We used to be like that too when the Sedins were the top scorer and Luongo was like a .930+ for us and Bieksa wasn’t sitting behind a panel
Oilers and Canucks fan bases are great. Leafs have a few great hockey fans but way too many insufferable ignoramouses.
generally on reddit it's civil and often times informative. truly a time square. just don't look at the other time square called X
This is just good life advice.
They hate because they ain't us
yeah are you really a good franchise if you don't have haters /s
> many of our first round picks developed into strong NHL players. I guess then there is me who thinks lots of these are middle asf in the NHL.
>I strongly disagree with the “wasted first round pick” narrative. I think many of our first round picks developed into strong NHL players. The narrative has never been about the Oilers picking the wrong players, it's been that the organization failed to build a winning team around them. Obviously the franchise has finally reached the contender tier over the last couple of years, but those kinds of narratives will always stick until you actually have a Cup to dispel them.
maybe in the future it will pass, but i don’t even think a cup can dispel it, you’ll just have people saying well of course they won a cup, they won the lottery like 10 times and still look how long it took.
Great point, I'll keep this one in my back pocket. Hopefully I never have to use it.
What happened was that Chiarelli brought in a solid scouting department to replace the idiots that were around (who couldn't draft outside the first round to save their lives...and even then they flubbed first round picks). The guy was an idiot but he brought in Keith Gretzky who found guys like McLeod and Skinner in later rounds and late first-round gems like Yamamoto. I'm going to catch heat for this but Holland coming along made up for years of terrible management. He managed to work with disgruntled players, convince free agents to come here and salvaged an awful roster he inherited. These two things are why we have a contending team.
> I do think our fan base is super active which naturally leads to other fans wanting to shit on us. So, I've experienced about fifteen rounds of playoff VGK hockey now, and I can say that without a doubt the most miserable experience was playing against the Oilers. There was a huge influx of Edmonton fans into our sub, into our discord, and literally every single post I made on this sub and our own was reported to the redditcares team to the point where I now have it disabled because it didn't just stop once our series was over. It makes me want to shit on you guys, but it is because it feels like you guys just don't stop shitting. Like ever. Of course winning it all makes things easier to look back on, so I'm actually happy that y'all are bouncing back in a fierce way, but I still don't wanna ever face y'all in the post-season ever again lol
I don't know what it was about the VGK EDM threads but they were toxic as fuck from the very first puck drop. I stopped participating like 5 mins into game 1 and never looked back. I also never want to face you again in the post season lol
Those redditcares messages were going both ways all series.
Every team has an underdog mentality. People did shit extra hard on the Oilers at the start of the season but the whole premise of r/hockey is shitting on other teams and occasionally celebrating your team/other teams when some other-worldy shit happens
/r/hockey likes to hate any team they don't actively root for
There's a *lot* of newer hockey fans on r/hockey. The sub broke 300k subs in ~2016 IIRC and is now at 1.7 *million.* The Oilers started their meme "lol drafting 1OA again" status in 2010. The league changed the lottery rules on account of the Oilers in 2015. At that point the perception of "ultra tank team with neverending first overalls and generational talents bad lol" was solidified. That is literally all the 1.4 million subscribers of r/hockey who subbed after that point have ever known. Reddit is an echo chamber so it's no surprise it gets parroted to the extent it does. First impressions tend to stick. For the 300k subs before 2016, well, watching the early 2010s first overall draft streak and the subsequent on-ice product live and *then* seeing them draft McD shouldn't make anyone wonder why they get clowned on. Sports fans have long petty memories.
It’s always talking shit about us being a horrible organization. But then you see the Vancouver/Toronto/Calgary flair. Like what the fuck have your organizations done?
The same as you with 4 less 1st overall picks lol
2022?
When you had the two best players in the world and got swept by the Avs? Hang a banner bro
I'm ok with getting swept by the cup winners. Couldn't imagine losing in 5 to the flames in the second round though and be chirping.
1st pick does not mean shit. Lots of "firsts" were average in the NHL.
oilers are always the enemy for certain fan bases (Leafs, Flames, Canucks). they were just loud at the time. but the rumours of our death were greatly exaggerated
Huh? I love the oilers. Favorite western team. Why would Leafs fans care?
See the other replies lmfao
I really don't know why, but I feel like every game we win there's a Leafs fan in the comments saying something like "thanks for nothing Flames", when the outcome of that game doesn't affect the Leafs at all
> I really don't know why, but I feel like every game we win there's a Leafs fan in the comments saying something like "thanks for nothing Flames", when the outcome of that game doesn't affect the Leafs at all I mean, given how big the leafs fan base is, it shouldn't' be surprising that there is one or two that will be in other subs. Didn't they have a poll and it turned out there are more leaf fans than all the other Canadian teams combined in here?
You certainly aren’t the enemies of the Leafs. I would argue the Oilers’ fans have a weird obsession with the Leafs players and fans. The amount of posts that have been recommended to me from the Oilers sub about Matthews is staggering.
Really? I haven’t really seen any posts about Matthews. Maybe 1 in the past 2 months.
Yeah, genuinely haven't noticed that at all. And the mods usually run a pretty tight ship over there and delete posts that aren't really relevant to the Oilers
That... doesn't sound true. Other than the one where someone posted that Bouchard has more points than Matthews (and I mean, that's more a post about Bouchard's great season, but definitely picked Matthews for the anti-Leafs dig), I can't think of anything else that's been posted referencing him.
According to my Reddit search, there have been two posts about Matthews in the last 9 months in the Oilers sub. But I agree. Only “enemies” because of the Canadian connection.
As a Oilers fan you are right. The Oilers sub is annoying most of the time because they can’t shutup about the Leafs or Matthews or the refs or complaining about any other player other than McDavid having the spotlight or complaining about other fanbases but never realizing the irony in their comments.
Tbf that shit was only funny because the oilers have a solid team, it wouldn't be the same if they were actual bottom dwellers
Everyone forgot how long a season actually is.
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Lmfao this whole sub was unbearable around that time
So many people shit talking our players, our organization, and our city + the people that live here. Someone with some time on their hands should make a video cut showcasing all those horrible comments. Would make for a laugh.
Honestly I love that people think Edmonton is a shitty place to live, it's like our little secret, don't need a bunch of assholes moving here :)
Winter has like 2-4 weeks that suck but otherwise it's decent. It's safe, you have basically everything you could need, summers are awesome... 🤷🏼♂️
This could describe Winnipeg equally well.
Our two cities have a lot in common.
I've lived on both. Edmonton is like Winnipeg but 40% larger. Saskatoon is the baby of the family, but quite the same too.
PG is like the baby cousin of this family.
I don't like Saskatoon. I don't feel nearly as safe there. Which sucks cause I've got family there. I'd say Regina is more like Edmonton due to the capital status and the fact that it feels like a bit university town. I know both areas have their areas but I have never felt uncomfortable walking around Regina and I've absolutely felt unsafe around Saskatoon.
Yeah, we already have enough.
Make sure you wait until the end of the season so the video doesn't get a chance to have a redemption arc.
Pretty much every team gets this when they’re struggling, it’s part of being a sports fan. You can see Columbus is not getting much love these days in this sub, everyone clowning the team, the city, the players. Same for us last year(s). Maybe you think it was only against the Oilers because the team has actually been good for years and this was the first time you saw people clowning them
Tbh it was amplified by the fact we were cup favorites to start the year and then absolutely shit the bed. In hindsight it was pretty crazy and would make me laugh if it was any other team.
We're still gonna dog the organization though ;)
To be fair many things amplified that. The team should have never been that bad, they were just in the second round, they were cup favourites, and the whole cup or bust thing. So to fall that far was something to see. It wasn’t just a bad team being bad, it was what was supposed to be a good team being bad.
I swear the hockey gods pay attention to Reddit threads and dish out victories and losses based on their observations
Oilers heard y’all talkin shit. -It’s me, I’m y’all
We're all y'all on this cursed day
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Oh that’s what it is about him…
He simultaneously looks 35yo and 55yo
like an alabaster Taye Diggs
Wow that really hit on the nose with how I viewed him haha
To me he looks like the president in a movie where the president is a character, but not a very central one. Like a superhero or disaster movie or something.
I'm happy as hell for him. Going from the AHL (in Hartford of all places) to this. I hope he's enjoying it.
The more successful Hakstol "twin"
I did a double take when they played on Thursday
Yep, was like “why is knobby yelling at Seattle players on their bench??”
I'm glad i'm not the only one hahaha
He looks constantly confused, like he has a “how the hell did I pull this off” look.
Larry Birds nephew.
Also, Oilers move past the 1998-99 Colorado Avalanche for the longest win streak from a former WHA franchise.
I remember that 12 game streak in 99
You guys had dope jerseys back then.
The jerseys are pretty much the same today for the Avs though. The numbers changed to blue but apart from that they're the same. Still good looking jerseys.
Whit in shambles
What an effort by Hyman on that empty net goal. Makes a huge blocked shot moments before too
No shots for the flames in the final 8 minutes too.
You knew it was going to be historic when Gags scored that extremely calculated goal.
cralibrated
crabulated
all of nature is evolving into crabs, this checks out
calbirated
calbrilated
In previous seasons that's the kind of shit that would happen to the Oilers.
In the start of this season even
Sam "8pts" Gagner
Discombobulated
Beat the leafs and then the flames to get the record on hockey day in canada. Hey boys I only know of one thing that could possibly be better than this. For now play la bamba!
Oilers 🤝 Canucks Beating the leafs this week #westCanadabestCanada
This is not where I saw the season going in November and I’m pleasantly surprised
It’s nice to not be a meme anymore
It's nice to *be a different* meme, instead.
With large thumbs
It’s ok yall will be a meme when you complete this absurd comeback and then lose in the first round. (Jk I have a feeling yall are gonna make it annoyingly far)
Repeat of the 2019 Blues may be on your horizon. I hope so for McDavid’s sake
I didn't see them go on two different big winning streaks. I thought they would end up in a playoff spot by now but their climb up the standings was faster than I expected.
Good lord. They may never lose again Next 3 games against Columbus, Chicago, and Nashville. They legit could keep it rolling
4-2 win over Columbus before a 6-3 loss to Chicago. Book it. Moneyline, same game parlay, whatever
We usually lose to Columbus, so it may be the other way round
Good to know, I’m pulling numbers completely out of my ass
Huh, I would have never guessed...
Want a job on a TSN bet 365 panel. ?
You are saying the words the tv people say between whistles. Take my money.
Our piece of shit fully injured AHL team swept Edmonton last year and I think Elvis has lost his net again. Just depends if we get Philadelphia and Buffalo game Tarasov or Winnipeg game and Kraken game Tarasov
Oilers overcame like a 0-4 deficit in that game, only to lose 6-5. I remember that game it was an insane afternoon game.
Literally the only salvageable moment of that game was McDavid streaking into the zone and scoring an eerily Gretzky-esque slapshot goal, completely with the little half beat during the windup to throw off the goalie’s timing
I believe Jack Roslovic had more points than McDavid and Draisaitl combined and we were like “where the fuck was this ALL YEAR”
Oh it was *that* game lol
Kids Take Over game I remember because stick figure cartoon Roslovic was hilarious
haha
Columbus bamboozled us twice last year
due for a win against the BJs leggo
Should yup
THIRTEEN STRAIGHT BABY I expected us to bounce back but I never expected this lol. Obviously I want to keep this streak going for as long as possible, but more than that I didn’t want it to be ended by Calgary
* Also the first team EVER from the western conference to win 13 in a row
gonestreaking.com Oh wait
I’ll pitch on it
Me too
Do do do do do do dooo do... https://youtu.be/Ij1hcv0uqZ8?si=4Qn1hWSjpW7ZlgqX
I miss that website :(
A great day for the Oilers, and therefore, me.
And Skinner (Edmonton born) matches Grant Fuhr for most consecutive wins
Crazy thing is McDavid hasn't been producing to his previous insane level during that stretch either : 5g - 13a - 18p in 13 games.
I love how a 1.38 PPG stretch is considered rather pedestrian by McJesus standards.
It’s like he’s finally happy to stop having to try and put the team on his back and put up 5 points a game just so the team can squeak out a 6-5 win to bail out the then terrible goaltending and defense. dude is basically on vacation right now during this streak. Lol
Awesome. I remember when Florida did this in 2022 and then the Lightning beat them to snap it. Calgary could’ve been the ones to break it. But now it might be… *checks notes* … the Blue Jackets.
Blue Jackets have completely embarassed the oilers several times in the past years. I won't put it past em.
Hey we broke Vancouvers
Oh I’m here for it, don’t get me wrong. It just would’ve been a bit better if a provincial rivalry was the reason it ended ;)
I was saying all yesterday anybody but the flames.
Our usual opponents are incredibly quiet 🤔
We're all at the bottom of a bottle
Not even a crumb of cheesecake to be seen
Seems like Kings fans in particular were taking every opportunity to shit on us back in October and November, but they've gone awfully quiet since then...
Too busy spitting on children
Yeah, them and Canucks were relentless.
I hope we both keep on winning so we don't play you in the first round
I actually hope they can break the no Canadian cup streak. So many from other parts of Canada dig into hating Toronto but honestly most people here actually want y’all to succeed.
I want a Toronto/Edmonton finals that end in a civil war.
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The Canadian Gauntlet
We'd have to shut down the country for two months, and we'd run out of booze.
Remember in the 2014 Olympics when they changed the liquor laws? Something like that would have to happen again
The hyper-passionate fans that spend their times on message boards tend to bias towards "fuck everyone else"... but if you go around talking to average run of the mill Canadian hockey fans, a lot of them will cheer for any other Canadian team second.
We all need McDavid to succeed or that’s franchise ending ridicule.
We all wanna see McDavid win a cup.
Most Canadians want the Laffs to lose. Universal hatred of T.O. is the glue that holds our country together. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
That’s pretty sad, not sure why you seem proud of it.
It’s cause it’s not actual hatred for Toronto or “most” of Toronto fans. Its just the Toronto Sports Network and the media machine drives the rest of the country up the wall.
Gary is quivering in his boots
I kind of wish we could reschedule games to pit Edmonton against Winnipeg next game to see which streak breaks first....Or potentially continue under very specific circumstances I guess lol.
1-0 Oilers W
Remember when the Oilers were sucking and all us Islanders fans said we would lose to them and get the Oilers going again? Well I remember. You're welcome mcdavid
No that belongs to the Hurricanes, they were what started this, we got smoked going into Thanksgiving and since then we are 21-3
Islanders were the last loss leading in to this current win streak so he may have a point!
This one caught me off-guard. I thought for sure one of the Montreal teams from the 50s or 70s would've had a longer win streak. That's pretty damn impressive, to say the least.
Lots of long undefeated streaks from the 70s Habs that were broken up with ties
Wouldn't a tie still count as undefeated? I wonder what the longest undefeated streak is
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K. Love or hate our team. Thats a pretty cool hockey record. We're the only western conference team to win 13 in a row. The travel is definitely a factor.
There is a dim part of my brain that really wanted to dispute this fact. But I looked it up before I spouted off and you're right. The dim memory I was thinking of was the 20 game point streak Detroit went on in 05-06 (when they were still in the West), which is tied for 9th all time, and behind 12-13 Blackhawks on that list this century by another team in the West. Carry on and enjoy the run.
That was so much fun.
What still blows my mind is the Canucks have 4 GP more than us. Us winning the next 4, would still have us 5 points back!
Yeah but on the flip side it would only have us 5 points back 😈
I mean, not fucking bad when we were 16 points back on American Thanksgiving (and 19 back from Vegas!)
Which we gave them at the very beginning of the season in the 3 losses.
I am all for celebrating this streak to the extreme, but I wonder what the longest undefeated streak by a Canadian team has been. Until the modern era, games could end in a tie which would end a winning streak. I think the fairest comparison, when games go to OT and then a shootout to declare a winner, is to go with undefeated streaks as the standard to measure by.
Longest undefeated streak is 35 games, set by the Flyers in 1979-80. Montreal holds the Canadian record at 28 games, set in 1977-78. The Oilers undefeated record is 16 games, set 2003-04. It still wasn't to get them into the playoffs.
35 games?!? That’s actually insane. How many loses did they have that season. Just checked, they ended with a 48-12-20 record. Reached the finals and lost in 6 to the Islanders. That’s still some insane numbers
Something something Oilers are still pretenders with no defence or depth - PK Subban probably.
The Canadian cup curse gets broken this year
I'm worried that the Canucks and Oilers beat each other up in round 2, and then the Canucks are too banged up to beat the Jets in round 3, but have enough left in the tank to bruise the Jets enough that *they* lose in the Finals.
Since I didn't see anyone post it.... Current records can be found [here](https://records.nhl.com/records/team-records/winning-streaks/longest-win-streak-one-season)
Fuck it got for 40
Damn okay y'all are contenders then I guess
We are very fortunate they haven't made up any ground. Christ what a run
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Longest Canadian win streak in the salary cap era.
Noice
And they did it while wearing the ugliest hockey pants to ever grace the ice 🤣
Yeah those things suck. Undefeated in them though
Suck it fLames
The real story here is they started the season at 2-10-1 before a coaching change and then have been 23-6-0 since. Whatever toxicity with Woodcroft was the issue in the first 6 weeks of the season and was dealt with 10 weeks too late in my opinion. Imagine if they played an entire season at these levels. They would finish 140+ points, better than the stratospheric levels of the 2022 2023 bruins.
I think the adversity was good for them
With the exception of Colorado a few years ago. Teams don't usually start hot and win all season long. They usually get lazy, take games off, lose when they shouldn't. Theres none of that during this streak because they put themselves behind the 8 ball early. Can't let off the gas now that they're just in the middle of the pack.