Trying to find a replay of the game, even an NHL in 30 and sportsnet has decided it's time for blue jays in 30 on all channels. F*** you sportsnet. If the oilers had won it'd be the game on repeat for the next 72 hours. I'm so glad SN's favourite team lost.
I actually feel a bit bad for McDavid. If he goes to another team all is forgiven... he's given his soul to the oilers. He carried that team the whole season.
But he's a big baby for not coming to get the Conn Smythe. Is he crushed after the loss? Sure. But you're a professional making 12.5 million a year. Get your ass out there and be a professional.
Can we be super thankful Corey Perry and Evander Kane and also Darnell Nurse did not win the cup.
I actually feel a bit bad for McDavid. If he goes to another team all is forgiven... he's given his soul to the oilers. He carried that team the whole season.
But he's a big baby for not coming to get the Conn Smythe. Is he crushed after the loss? Sure. But you're a professional making 12.5 million a year. Get your ass out there and be a professional.
Who's he really hurting by not accepting that trophy though? Like what difference does it make. He has to go out and get his picture taken with Bettman next to it in the middle of panthers celebrating the real win on their home ice? And then bring it back into his locker room? It's not his fault a bunch of Canadian hockey writer dorks voted him the winner as a consolation prize that no real competitor in their right mind would ever want to accept, let alone make a big deal of. One of many reasons you shouldnt give MVP to a player on the losing team.
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Can we be super thankful Corey Perry and Evander Kane and also Darnell Nurse did not win the cup.
And also, 10# Derek Ryan. Thanks.
Incredible how tanned Ryan looks for a guy who lives in Edmonton. Clearly pretanning for vacation. Hope he and kilks have to go to Russia for future employment
There is no planet where the Oilers can run this back next year or the year after. Because when push came to shove it wasn't even McDrai but some absolutely amazing once in a lifetime performances from plugs like Janmark, Connor Brown, and Foegele. They had an amazing PK mostly due to those players as well. There is absolutely 0 chance such a PK will be repeated in any other year the Oilers make the playoffs. Not to mention Brown's bonus, Bouchard breaking playoff records and his contract renewal, and Drai's renewal.
This playoff run was a nightmare for Flames fans but I can happily rest easy knowing this was absolutely the pinnacle and apex of the McDrai Oilers.
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If McDavid wants to be a role model, or even if he doesn't, his station and position as a top player in the league, a position that Ron MacLean and Sportsnet and the league have bent over backwards to force him upon fans as a star, he then has the responsibility to suck it up and win or lose with class and dignity.
But, it's "hard", so I'll just avoid it and people will understand.
No, man up, especially given the spotlight that you've earned but also that the league has given you to be the next generation star.
JS Giguere came out on the road with Devils celebrating a cup to accept the Conn Smythe, do you think he was happy?
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If McDavid wants to be a role model, or even if he doesn't, his station and position as a top player in the league, a position that Ron MacLean and Sportsnet have bent over backwards to force him upon fans as a star, he then has the responsibility to suck it up and lose with class and dignity.
But, it's "hard", so I'll just avoid it and people will understand.
No, man up, especially given the spotlight that you've earned but also that the league has given you to be the next generation star.
JS Giguere came out on the road with Devils celebrating a cup to accept the Conn Smythe, do you think he was happy?
This is basically it, if you don't want to be the guy, that's fine.
Don't let them sell you as the guy or sell yourself as the guy and not show up to be it.
Can't say you are Jesus but when the wine is gone and only barrels of water left, you disappear.
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