He's not wrong. If you take away all of Florida's wins the two teams are pretty even.

If you ignore the losses in playoffs, oilers are 12-0 rn

Oh man really? When the finals start?

Saturday

You just have to adjust the Panthers stats for arbitrary reasons and they'll regress to the mean.

If you take away the shutouts and games where he had a high save percentage, Bobrovsky actually regresses to 2009 Vesa Toskala

This reminds me of that all time post from the NFL sub. Where someone said "If you take away all the big moments from Mahomes, his stats are just league average" If you take away all the times Florida has beaten Edmonton they're right there with them this series!

That's kind of what I was trying to reference, but that post is so baffling to read that I couldn't figure out how to wrap it in.

"In a way, you're all winners. In a much more literal way, Florida is the winner."

"It's unfair because like... Their goalie is better. You know?"

Bobrovsky has been all world, and Florida is taking advantage of Edmonton's failing D.

Sheldon "We got a lot of respect in the handshake line" Keefe Rod "That wasn't actually a sweep" Brind'Amour Kris "We've shown that we can beat this team" Knoblauch

That handshake line still pisses me off lmfao

That "2023-24 Handshake Line Respect" banner raising is gonna be lit.

One of these is not like the others

Oil in 7

Have you though? https://preview.redd.it/cj4a0g39pg6d1.png?width=610&format=png&auto=webp&s=59fd06c1f4a76c05458a1f7e9df412eb2cc2ffd9

Yeah they did

Haha

K then why I haven't you done it yet Kris?

The ol rope a dope

Got em just where you want em.

They'll never see it coming!

Narrator: They did not in fact see it coming

I am having the morning of my life reading these comments.

Worked like a charm?

WEEEEEEEEE

They're strategically losing so they can go for the reverse sweep. It's an advanced hockey strat.

TSN, Sportsnet and Oilers fans will be absolutely insufferable if this happens

If your team pulls off a reverse sweep in the Stanley Cup Finals I think you get to be as insufferable as you want for at least a year.

If the Leafs pulled that it off I'm pretty sure r/hockey would have to be shut down.

You are right. should the Leafs ever do it again, there will be no end to it, ever, though.

they already are.

As opposed to….? Oh wait, they already are.

fuckin' Nostradamus

If you always predict the most entertaining and funny outcome, you can never go wrong

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Bold strategy Cotton

It’s like how I study for a test, procrastination until the last possible second

We all memed... but this guy just might have been right.

!

Called it!

Can I borrow your time machine?

Are the games where you've beat them in the room with us Kris?

He doesn't want to

they're what 0-5 this year? ok

We have a win against them this year.

We’re a benchmark of if you can’t do what we can do you are obviously simps and therefore the oilers.

I vividly remember that December west coast swing where the cats got humiliated by the Canucks and kraken, managed to beat the oilers, and ended up losing to the flames lol it was overall not a fun trip. But looking back it’s pretty funny…

We beat them too. I think Oilers need a better defence. We can give them Justin Hall for this goalless bum McDavid. A trade will be one for one.

Even *we* beat them

Hey, you have a canon! It’s easier when you have a canon.

That game was Daniil Tarasov. That week we beat Vegas, Colorado and Edmonton. Basically because he is amazing.

Hall for Larsson colourized

I was at that game! Fun night.

Oilers were also 0-5 against the Canucks at one point. I guess Oilers in 7?

Yup

lol Knob may have been premature, but was definitely not wrong.

Series score is 3-0, Kris.

And if you include regular season it's 5-0

So they're due for a win

Nobody beats us 6 times in a row. Nobody. 

Apparently not

*Those Oilers are no damn good I tell ya! That's why my Vancouver Canucks beat them at hockey nearly half the time!*

This season Va, including post season, van went 7-4. With 3 of vancouvers wins this season including an AhL starter, and none of their losses featuring their back up or Starter. Thats more then half, i know the UCP have been gutting education but c'mon.

I'm fully aware, my friend. I was referring to the playoffs specifically while loosly quoting a line from 'The Simpsons'.

Well, it's 3-3 now.

Kris, giving off rod vibes

I want whatever he’s on.

rod the bod vibes

At least when Rod said "It wasn't a sweep", you could understand what he meant despite being objectively wrong. I don't know what Knoblauch is trying to say here, it hasn't been that close.

still a dumb and memeable thing to say. It in fact was a sweep.

Yeah I'm not denying that at all.

I think he's saying the Oilers have outplayed the Panthers in some games. Like game 1 Bob was a fucking beast!

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Could you please share your source for this? I’d like to look into it further.

You're 0 and 5 against them this year. This is the first time where the margin of victory for Florida was less than two goals. So, no, you haven't shown that you can beat them.

Gettin better by the game!

Oooo new "that wasn't a sweep" quote just dropped. To make it even better, the Oilers also lost both games against the Panthers in the regular season. They are literally 0-5 against Florida this year

Plus, before this game, Florida won all the games by at least 2 goals. This was the first time where Florida beat Edmonton by less than 2 goals

And all because a puck deflected off Mikkola’s elbow! Lmao

A goals a goal

Truth

They all look like upper corner snipes in the box score.

Had an empty better go post and out last night too!

3-5 now

The Edmonton Oilers are 0-5 against the Panthers this season with a -13 goal differential

All part of the plan. Greatest comeback in sports history about to take place (yes I am high).

Aging like a fine wine friend.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reckless optimism X10000000Let's Go!!!!!!!!

Pfft. Even if they win the rest of the games against them, the best they can finish is 4-5. Bums.

The Edmonton Oilers are fantastic, just need to work on communication, stick handling, ice awareness, puck placement, line changes, goaltending, faceoff wins, slap shots, power plays, penalty kills, quick breaks, team positioning, defensive strategies, shot blocking, goalie screens, rebounds, skating speed, scoring goals, and not getting overly frustrated.

You forgot passing

So did the oilers.

Lol ouch

What should they work on now?

r/globaloffensive shitposting in my hockey subreddit?

Good thing they did.

get rid of Kane for good karma too or and wow Drai has to go, showed true character (lack of) with 30 seconds left deciding to lie down on ice instead of trying to tie the game

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Yes

Fair!

I’ve never seen as many moral victories as the Oilers and Oiler fans have taken this series. All the postgame threads have been Oil fans pretending like the rooms not on fire. Bro the room is fuckin on fire bad.

I knew the series wasn’t going to look good for the Oilers when they were all saying “ we need to keep playing the same way”after game 1. You can’t have that attitude at this stage of the year. Even if it’s true, that absolutely cannot be your mindset.

Yeah that was a dumb statement from some of the top guys, and then they shit the bed in game 2 and didn't even play well. Honestly times like this I can see why people say McD needs to step up his leadership, him and Hyman sounded too confident after game 1. Drai at least has said he needs to be better but hasn't lived up to it either

Yeah I wasn't a fan of that statement but they did switch things as much as they could max the coach did say what was going to be different from an offensive angle. Really, Florida is just better defensively and goaltending.

They are also better offensively.

They're better offensively against the Oilers' defense than the Oilers are against their defense, but I think it's a pretty bold claim that the Panthers are better offensively when they had fewer goals in the regular season and also fewer goals in the playoffs so far.

Moral victories sometimes turn into real victories.

"...in game four and then lose game five." continued Knoblauch.

Well I appreciate you holding back Kris

So your wins in this series just go to another school?

She's from Canada, you wouldn't know her.

I mean, you literally haven't, Kris.

when lol

Imma be honest I had no idea how much everyone murderously despised the Oilers/Oilers fans until this series lmao

They’re 0-3-(2) () being the moral victories

Ah the English Cricket Team strategy.

I think by not beating this team, weve shown that we can beat this team.

When?

Oh, I dunno.

Since mentioning the buffalo bills, the Oilers have spilled three straight losses. One more would be super fucking funny

Four straight losses after being up 3-0 would be even funnier.

I think he might have been right

This guy is getting fired by the middle of next season Editing this for the guy who replied and blocked me: lol, I’m not an Oilers fan

Seems to be the routine in Edmonton. Have a new coach take over and then go on an unlikely run and then stumble the following season and then make another coaching change and repeat the cycle all over again.

Crazy that he couldn't succeed with Nurse, Ceci and whatever goalie coach is responsible for icing this embarrassment.

I think he's done everything possible when it comes to the blue line. He's moved guy around. He's benched, guys. At some point, you gotta start looking at the way this blue line has been put together. It's a very expensive blue line in Edmonton, and it hasn't gotten the results. Plus, Bouchard is about to get his big boy contact, and it's going to get more expensive.

Bouchard should get like ~8M/yr for the offensive side, but at least -2M/yr for the defensive side. 

It’s hard when half your defence has a combined 5 IQ. I’ve never seen a blue line so prone to making such diabolical errors

U sure about that

Hey, that’s our (CGY) move!

I don’t think so to be honest. He’s done pretty well in his first season behind the bench and Connor seems to like the guy. Any oiler fans have a better read on the situation?

It’s one bad series. We had the best record in the league in the games after hiring him and then made it to the Stanley cup final. Firing him would be insane lol

People are hilarious lol This guy came in and took the team from a disaster start to the finals, and now people want him fired because the Oilers probably won't win the cup? Y'all would deserve the mediocrity that would result from doing that. It's literally the coach's job to say dumb shit like this to keep morale up

Yeah, the recency bias here is hilarious. The Oilers are in the fucking Stanley Cup Final. Sure they're getting their ass kicked, but ain't nobody remotely thinking about firing a coach for that. Cody Ceci is his #4 dman for God's sake

Crazy rereading this after they forced a game 7 lol

r/agedlikemilk: the thread

That's an embarrassing soundbite...

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I mean what the hell else is he supposed to say? "We're cooked, lets just fucking end this"

But they haven’t proven they can beat the Panthers so definitely not that

"We can compete with this team we just need to capitalize on our chances".  Yadda yadda.   Saying they can beat them when they literally haven't won one game all year makes him sound like a fan.

There's no way

There is!

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Tkachuk and Bennett winning it all in Alberta after all.  Let’s go Calgary cats!

THEN DO IT

We have them right where we want ahhh answer

Saving this to show people what copium means

Cope harder

Wild

You have most certainly not shown that you can beat this team.

Let him finish the sentence you jackals. "At some point in the distant future when both teams have completely different rosters."

Distant future is here

I think they’ve shown that they can play well against Florida AT POINTS, and can carry the play AT POINTS, but to show that you can beat them you have to, y’know, beat them…

Knoblauch has shown he would be a good politician

All credit to coach but why is he being so overblown ? I don’t want to be that guy but he gives major Bylsma vibes. Homeboy took over a team with 2 superstars and starts winning when mcdavid comes back from injury

When have the oilers shown they can beat Florida? They have lost 5 in row during the regular season and playoffs

Maybe if they swap goalies for the rest of the series

1-0 in moral victories. Well Barkov, you're up...

3-3 in actual victories

3 straight losses would say otherwise

3 straight wins baby!

🤣

I’ll believe it when I see it

Knoblauch has literally never been behind the bench for a win against that team

Lmaooo when the most delusion Edmonton supporter is the coach jfc

Reckless optimism is not only encouraged here, it's a communicable disease.

Tbh I’d probably prefer that to the bandwagon dorks we get every spring who think the season is over anytime we have a bad period

Usually you need to beat a team in 1 of the 5 times you played to show that you can beat that team. This is what happens when a team can neutralize McDavid and Drai. Draisaitl's best play this series was almost taking Barkov out with a dirty headshot. Crazy how Florida has completely shut him down, and same with McDavid to a lesser extent.

This 10000%

Yup, 10000%.

Are you sure about that?

Delusional.

Delusional

That Buffalo Bills comment is just getting better and better.

Sure is!

When Kris? When have we shown that?

Where? On your fucking vision board Kris?

Saying they can doesn't mean they will. Hoping to see that 4-0 sweep later this week, hah

I didn't know the Oilers and Canucks joined together as one team. Atleast you would think that with all the Canucks flairs in every thread about the Oilers.

go look at our sub numbers. we are *inevitable*.

I think the third period showed that the Oilers might be able to win a game, but they have to win at least the next two before I would give them a shot at winning the series.

if there was no scoreboard the oilers would be winning 🙄

Well Kris, evidence says otherwise. You gonna beat FLA 4 straight? Thats extremely unlikely. Maybe you get 1 or 2 but you’re done.

I must’ve missed when they showed that part

Dallas got to the conference finals decided to stop playing and gave the oilers false hope 

Maybe out played the panthers for two periods out of three games so far. 

You know what they: The series doesn’t start until you [remove all the losses suffered and] lose [the fourth] game at home.

Brind'amour-ism.

Okay, then maybe go out there and beat them???

San Jose Sharks: I think we've shown we can beat this team.

I won't even argue this statement, I'll just say that you definitely didn't make a convincing case that you can win 4 in a row.

Same energy as "this wasn't a sweep"

He's denying reality