GDT: WCQF | G2 | "Encore" | Oilers vs. Kings | 4.24.24 | Rogers Place | 8:00PM | CBC/SN

[Zguy370]

How many more goals until we see Pickard?

Zero nada, he should start the 2nd!

 

[Pavel10]

Unreal the amount of shit that Skinner takes here.

I mean that's going to happen when you let in 3 or 4 goals every playoff game.

 

[DrDrai]

#2 was not played fairly well. Bouchard is waving at the puck instead of tying up Kempe's stick. Great play by Kempe, but made possible by terrible coverage by Bouchard.

He tips the puck, 99/100 times that goes into the corner and no one says a thing.

 

[I am the Liquor]

We need to score 5-6 goals.

In the second period

 

[CycloneSweep]

We need to score 5-6 goals.

We won’t tonight. This is a 4-3 game.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

The fanbase coddles Campbell too. Amazing stuff.

lol just making shit up. Buddy was getting blasted by Oiler fans in another league.

 

[Kirby]

Here’s my take on the goals:

#1 - Lazy play by Foegele flying the zone, a small touch gets it out and we aren’t talking about it, Kempe picks a corner, nice shot IMO.

#2 - Played fairly well, hand eye by Kempe is sublime, hate the guy but he’s their main weapon.

#3 - Absolute trash by the whole team, when you get back into the game with 2 minutes left in a period that didn’t honestly go that well for you and you decide to cheat in the O zone and then don’t cover the flanking player, so inexcusable, it’s the same shit they’ve pulled in so many other playoff games. Want to give skinner some blame, sure go for it, but it shouldn’t have even got to that point.

I would say Bouchard played the second goal horribly by swinging for the puck instead of just tying Kempe up, and while I agree with you the entire team was trash on the third goal (no awareness by VD especially given the fact he could see everything coming yet still vacated the middle of the ice), that is the one goal you would want Skinner to have given the circumstances up to that point.

The more these "fluky" goals continue to happen, the more likely they are not fluky but the result of horrible habits by our players.

 

[Despote]

A good goalie would usually allow only 1 goal from the chances Kings had.

Come on now, 1st and 3rd goal were easily saveable.

 

[elmeroil]

Canucks and Jets are horrible comparables. Vegas, Tampa, Colorado. Teams in the years they win have one thing in common- there is no drop off. It’s business every single game.

They're great comparables actually, all 3 teams haven't done much in the playoffs

 

[McShogun99]

Not getting a legit starter is the biggest error every GM has made during Mcdavids career as an Oiler.

 

[RegDunlop]

The fanbase coddles Campbell too. Amazing stuff.

Yet if it was Draisaitl you'd be fine with it and adding to it.

Skinner isn't even average in playoffs.

Bullshit
Don't throw me in with the whiners

There's not a player on earth that hasn't sucked the banana at times. I call them out but the 'he sucks' 'bench him' 'trade him' crap I don't get involved with.

 

[EchoesoftheEighties]

On the bright side, basically every goalie has been shit in the west so who the f*** knows what'll happen

 

[OddManRush]

Kenny Holland really got paid 25 million USD to run with Smith, Smith, Smith, Skinner, Skinner in his 5 playoffs as the GM hahaha

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

He tips the puck, 99/100 times that goes into the corner and no one says a thing.

You're forgetting the number of times a defenseman wouldn't even touch the puck. Poor coverage when you can just tie up the stick.

 

[Drivesaitl]

lol just making shit up. Buddy was getting blasted by Oiler fans in another league.

Its hiliarious somebody thinks campbell was being coddled. lmao. There were people here calling him a mental defective.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Not getting a legit starter is the biggest error every GM has made during Mcdavids career as an Oiler.

Holland can’t evaluate goalies

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

A little adversity is a good thing for these guys. Might have got cocky after that first game.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

I mean that's going to happen when you let in 3 or 4 goals every playoff game.

Yeah it’s not like Mike Smith wasn’t doing the same thing.

 

[rickysusedsht]

Alright we let them have fun now time to kick cali ass ...I want to see drew crying in the corner

 

[Zerotonine]

Kings gotta be felling good, no real sustainable pressure all game and 3 goals already and up 2

On a bright side that Kane perry duo is absolutely buzzing the last few games

 

[ManofSteel55]

Can we just start a "hate on Skinner here" discussion elsewhere so we can focus in the rest of the game here?

 

[Yablo21]

Oilers get it within 1 and then give up a breakaway to a defenseman(!) Within 30 seconds. Goal or not you ain't winning playing like that.

This exactly, team has no idea how to maintain momentum, there is no way Doughty should have been wide open like that.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

They'll get it back in the 2nd.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Bullshit
Don't throw me in with the whiners

There's not a player on earth that hasn't sucked the banana at times. I call them out but the 'he sucks' 'bench him' 'trade him' crap I don't get involved with.

So why not Skinner then. I'll wait for the answer.

People were simply critiquing Skinner and on playoff results thus far it seems reasonable

 

[CycloneSweep]

Its hiliarious somebody thinks campbell was being coddled. lmao. There were people here calling him a mental defective.

Yep. People just thought he was the wrong guy to send down cause he was objectively better than Skinner to start the year.