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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Outside of the 7-1 game where the Ducks didn't show up, the Oil were largely outplayed. Pretty delusional takes from the media as well. Anaheim arguably should've had better fates in games 1 and 2, while the hockey heads were selling it like they were neck and neck.
What was it, something like 64-28 shots for the Ducks in the OT comeback? They earned and deserved the win, whether or not the refs helped them.
Riding inhuman endurance of a goaltender to a close series doesn't equate to being the deserving / "better" team.
Insane season from Talbot. Most tenders can't stay that sharp with that much of a workload. If he can't replicate it next season then a lot of warts will come to light next year.
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I guess Milan was mouthing off to the media that there shouldn't have been a 7th game and it should have ended in 6.
In the words of Fred Sanford "You big dummy". I hope the Oilers think that it was the reffing that did them in, and not the fact that outside of the 1st and 6th game they were pretty much outclassed by the ducks in every aspect of the game except for goaltending. And to give credit where its due, Talbot is the Oilers MVP not McDavid.
We saw McDavid fade out and vanish in the playoffs. He was lazy without the puck. He's got the physical game of a sponge, his defensive play was atrocious, and when he didn't get his lane to wind up, he was dust.
Just to prove it, here's a picture of Lucic, Eberle, RNH and McDavid taking a shift together
Frankly, its going to be tough for the Oilers. We know that Draisaitl is going to get paid, he might not get a offer sheet (But he could) but he's probably going to get on the far side of $7 million bucks. First because its Chia negotiating, and 2nd because the NHLPA is pissed at the NHL right now and there's going to be no free lunches.
Besides Draisaitl's contract, they right now have 10 forwards and 5 defensemen under contract. What's the Kassian deal going to look like? He's on a cheap deal now, but lets say that he gets $2.5 million and Draisaitl gets 7.5 million. There's 10 million bucks, at the same time, Russell is looking for a deal and he was oh so heroic last night, and according to Sports net a certified genius and a bonified stud.
They're going to have to replace that and either resign him at probably 4.5 million to get him to stay or look for someone that can play on that second pairing, because honey, Nurse is not that guy, A top 4 of Sekeras, Larrsson Klefbom and probably Benning isn't that great of a top 4, unless you have Talbot in net for 75 games a year.
so right now, the oilers have 15 million in cap space for next year.
You resign Draisaitl at 7.5 Kassian at 2.5, Russell or an equivalent at 4 and bring in JP and pray he's read at about a mil. So now your at the cap. but you have no depth and you have a 10 million dollar cap hit for McDavid coming up the year after as well, as Maroon, Nurse and Benning, who could add up to another 8 or 9 million (Maroon 4 or his replacement, Nurse 2.5 and Benning 2.5)
We'll just dump RNH and Ebs and Luch.
Yeah, in a cap world nobody is taking full hits for those guys period, if you want to move them be prepared to either eat salary or take back a slightly less noxious contract.
You see, as much as Sporstnet crows about them building something special.
The flawed bad drafting in later rounds, the insistence on drafting players with cool youtube videos, bad contacts, bad development and the addiction to high lottery picks has created a perfect storm of a short window followed by suck.
At the same time, the season of soft schedule, god like Talbot goaltending, no serious injuries and other luck factors won't last forever.
And while other teams are out signing free agents and improving their team, Chia will be standing there like a sad orphan dissembling the team that made a heroic one round victory that captured a nations imagination (not)
So in conclusion, after watching the Sportsnet crew sucking up to the Oilers and hyping things like Shoulder bumps and leadership phrases like "Lets Go", and not like "Lets Go you apes, do you want to live forever?!?" but "Lets go (I have to pee". And hearing hypocritical Oiler fans whining about officiating and league wide conspiracies to screw them, after chiding us for that behaviour I can only conclude with this one statement.
Hey Oiler's and Oiler fans you have something on your face.
