Pre-Game Talk: Back in Edmonton

[BlackDogg]

That kids going to be on suicide watch if the Kings get knocked out. The Oiler fan base lives rent free in his head.

I think it's a 44 year old kid.

 

[LTIR]

Unleash the Krassian!!

 

[walktheboulavard]

Everybody acting like it's elimination game. Take a breather folks. Oilers are the much more talented team. They just gotta show up and they can close this out in 6.

 

[Da McBomb]

 

[snipes]

Someone cutting onions up in here.

snipes jr. is around his age, he has a beautiful and wonderful loving family. Hard to even imagine what going through that with a child you love more than yourself is like.

 

[WaitingForUser]

Are we really though? This team hasn't proven anything.

Neither has LA in almost 8 years

 

[McIce Whole]

Come out strong strong tomorrow and take it to them right off the bat. Must win game and hoping Mcdrai pop off tomorrow

 

[enthropi]

Just don't forget to shoot the puck high like they did last game, and we'll be fine.

I'm a bit more confident because we don't see the slightest mistake compound into full-blown panic circus in the D-zone that was a trademark of the last few years of fail.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Just play the system that got you in the playoffs in the first place. Today Woodcroft said" There's no shortcuts in winning playoff hockey". So true....

 

[KCC]

After a pathetic effort last game, I'd be shocked if EDM doesn't come out like they are possessed. lol. You keep expecting them to revert back to EDM type hockey but Woodcroft is good at getting the team to rebound so we will see.

 

[ujju2]

Either McLeod, Nurse, Hyman and the much improved Bouchard start playing the system or we lose.

Weird choice of scapegoats...

 

[TypeSly]

This series should NOT be 2-2. Until this series is over, it still comes down to Smitty's poopoo in the first game. We can't just win game 5, we have to make a statement. We may not be able to win it in game 5, but we can certainly lose it, if we let them run all over us like they did in game 4.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

They've been there for Ben, now he's there for them. What an incredible young soul he is. Win it for Ben boys.

 

[Broberg Speed]

Weird choice of scapegoats...

Not at all. This is reality... we don't need LA to break down our team defense when these players do it on their own without any regards for the consequences.

When they blow their assignments, I mention the players most likely to do so, and more importantly the ones who make mistakes early on in a game, it leaves the rest of the players scrambling and missing their assignments. And this can happen for many shifts on ends. It's a cascading effect.

It's unfair to assign equal blame to players trying their best to play solid positional hockey to the selfish players, whom for whatever reason, don't play within the structured system Woodcroft is trying to implement.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

GDT is up.