[News] Oilers lose AGAIN! The Florida Panthers have won the 2025 Stanley Cup

[3rd liner]

I drove by the self proclaimed ‘oilers central’ trolley 5 on my way home tonight hoping to laugh at some losers , but the rain and the bandwagon nature of oilers fans in Calgary meant it was pretty empty.

[3rd liner]

Pretty sure Stan bowman’s first item of business tomorrow is to make some calls to the world junior trial boys. Carter, how’d you like to be our starting goalie?

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by 3rd liner

Pretty sure Stan bowman’s first item of business tomorrow is to make some calls to the world junior trial boys. Carter, how’d you like to be our starting goalie?

I mean. We joke, but...

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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

If you're McDavid you probably question if the Oilers can actually build a winner around you and I think that's the real determining factor.

They've had 10 years of Draisaitl and McDavid now and you realistically can't expect more from the two of them.

They have combined for 2029 pts and 758 goals in ~735 regular season games, which is easily 1st and 2nd in league scoring in that time. (2.76 points per game combined)

They have combined for 291 pts & 96 goals in 96 playoff games. (3.0 points per game combined)

Yet they have a .577 points percentage in the regular season (15th in the NHL in those 10 seasons), have never won a regular season division or conference title, and have never won a cup.

If you're McDavid and Draisaitl you have to be sitting there at this point and genuinely questioning if you have any more to give, and questioning how the team can actually get better with the cap, prospect, and asset limitations they have.

No cap space
No prospects
No draft picks

And really you can't expect any of their stars to perform better. This isn't a team like Toronto where you feel like there is more to give because the stars have underperformed, you know with Edmonton that 97 and 29 have given it all they have.

Plus, with what we know about age curves, both players are in the portion of their careers where they slowly descent, meaning the rest of the lineup - that they have little capital to acquire - will need to pick up even more of the slack. Draisaitl turns 30 two weeks into the season for context.

Spoiler!

Via The Athletic

[TheScorpion]

And yet somehow Vegas has the Oilers ahead of Florida as the 2026 Cup favourites.

They never learn.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1935201251928719479

[EldrickOnIce]

If a verdict is not guilty, there is no question he's an Oiler.
And they deserve each other

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

And yet somehow Vegas has the Oilers ahead of Florida as the 2026 Cup favourites.

They never learn.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1935201251928719479

That's just drawing sweet Edmonton money

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https://twitter.com/user/status/1935185712015700215

[3rd liner]

Originally Posted by manwiches

Everybody wondering what Stan Bowman was writing

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He’s writing a reminder : ‘find out if anybody on my staff sexually assaulted somebody during the playoffs and if they did cover it up’.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Cole436

Yeah we’ve heard a lot about your “rock solid” sources over the years. Turned out to be absolute rubbish while you slandered and trashed Meredith Gaudreau for months.

So maybe let’s not do this again please.

Can you show me where I did that? Also, I was right. Confirmed by multiple sources. Gaudreau was going to sign with Calgary until a last minute discussion and change of heart. I never once trashed and trashed Meredith Gaudreau, I said she had a big part in his decision to leave, that's it. Saying something so utterly classless like that after what happened should be a sin bin for you but probably not huh? Absolutely disgusting.

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https://youtu.be/NHtNFaa2ne0?si=WmskqaiRC5yMsmAB

[3rd liner]

Watching the PVR of the final minutes and really appreciating the FLA fans serenading the grease pigs with ‘na na hey hey goodbye’! God bless you panthers fans!

[jg13]

was wondering where this loser was tonight "EDMONTONisNG" and saw he's in the sinbin. thank you mods for keeping this place clean.

[Poison]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I said it before and I will say it again, Connor McDavid is going home. His whole life he has wanted to win Cups in Toronto, the fact they have not broken that curse makes it even more of a pull for him. He did his best to bring a Cup to Edmonton and the team that drafted him and he still has one more kick at it next year. He has earned the right at this stage of his career now to go after his dream, to be the hero that comes home and breaks the drought. What is the draw to stay in Edmonton? Winning a Cup? That would be nice and I am sure he would love it but he will always be in Wayne's shadow there. Draisaitl? Sure they are good friends but when has being friends with teammates stopped a guy from moving on? His wife's restaurant? Big deal, she can open one in Toronto as well. Toronto is where he trains in the offseason with his actual best friend Austin Matthews, his family and friends are there, it's where he spent his whole life wanting to play. Have you ever seen Connor McDavid's Leaf memorabilia collection? It's impressive. The source I have for this is rock solid, he is going to sign with the Leafs.

This is so very very wrong.
Absolutely no way Pissy signed a new contract without Nuggs being on board to do the same.
Rock solid source for a player with another year left on his contract and his intentions. Give your head a shake lollll

[3rd liner]

Sorry watching on delay so way behind. They are just saying in the panthers room everyone gets along, there is no stratification or telling who the star players are.
Imagine the oilers star treatment room… hey plugs, don’t speak to mcdiver, pissy, Bouchard or Ekholm. They are having a private discussion…

[Locke]

I'm just so glad that it's over.

[sch19lks]

Originally Posted by Poison

This is so very very wrong.
Absolutely no way Pissy signed a new contract without Nuggs being on board to do the same.
Rock solid source for a player with another year left on his contract and his intentions. Give your head a shake lollll

McDavid might have told him to cash in while he can. I’m going home to Toronto, take the 14 shmil. We’ll see

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Happy Oilers elimination day

[Dion]

Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result

“Their forecheck was great, they tilted the rink,” said a sombre, frustrated Connor McDavid. “They were able to stay on top of us all over the place and we were never really able to generate any momentum up the ice. We kept trying the same thing over and over again, banging our heads against the wall.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...p-final-again/

[AC]

Originally Posted by Dion

Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result

No it isn't.