[Second Round] Vancouver Canucks (P1) vs. Edmonton Oilers (P2)

[Rubik]

 

 

 

Game 1 - May 8 (7 PM PDT / 10 PM EDT) - Edmonton Oilers @ Vancouver Canucks

Game 2 - May 10 (7 PM PDT / 10 PM EDT) - Edmonton Oilers @ Vancouver Canucks

Edited May 6, 2024 by Rubik

[Breadnbutta]

Canucks in 4. Nashville gave us a good defense lesson.

 

Edmonton can't play defense we will shut them down.

 

Our 3rd stringer is better than their starter.

 

SWEEP

[Bounce000]

Refs be like 

 

 

[Chickenspear]

I can't wait to hate Edmonton even more.

[Miss Korea]

A fantastic breakdown of the various systems used by both teams.  In short: give the puck to McJesus (down low) or Huggy (up high).

 

 

 

[Jess]

My brain says Oilers win this in 5 or 6, but my heart bleeds blue and green, so I'm voting for Canucks in 7.

[Coconuts]

Oil in six

[Sapper]

This should be a great series .... The NHL doesn't give a shit which of the 2 Canadian teams wins so we.may actually see decent officiating 

 

Oilers will score 2 to 3 per game ..... We need EP and a few others to show up this series as defense and goal tending alone won't best the Oilers like it did with the Preds 

[Fanuck]

Need to exploit Edm suspect defense and pressure the goalie who's playing well.  Won't beat Edm by setting NHL record for least amount of shots in 2 rounds.  Stay out of box and commit to their system that got'em here.

[Rekker]

Just want to say how cool it is to see this threads heading. Second Round Baby!

[Toni Zamboni]

[Rip The Mesh]

I truly think the Canucks take this in seven; I'd say six but I know some of the players are a bit fickle. None the less, odds or no odds we'll win. 

[Mando27]

My blind homerism says Canucks in 5, but we are missing our starting goalie.

[AlexanderM]

 

[Morgan 33]

2 minutes ago, Mando27 said:

My blind homerism says Canucks in 5, but we are missing our starting goalie.

 

We don't need him, we have Silovs.  Canucks in 5.

[g_bassi13]

I think we match up pretty well against the Oilers. I see a lot of pessimistic people, but it's also not like this is an Oilers team that has a history of deep playoff runs. 

 

The Canucks are pretty good at taking a team and dragging them to their level, even if they're as high octane as the Oilers. It'll obviously be way more open than the Predators series, but that goes both ways, and the Canucks have shown the ability to explode offensively, even if they did most of that at the beginning of the season.

 

The Oilers did look really, really good against the Kings, but the Kings barely had any business being in the playoffs anyways. I'm going to say Canucks in 6, because there's something to this team's ability to grind things out. It especially bodes well over a best of 7 series. They won't go down easy.

[Alflives]

Empties have spoken: Canucks in 5. McWhiner Baby cries all summer. So much crying. 

[hockeyville88]

Probably going to have to watch on mute if Harnarayan is calling the games

 

Hope it's skill on skill, well officiated, and clean 

[Rip The Mesh]

Oilers depend so heavily on just 3 or 4 players, is what makes me think Tocchet will take advantage of that.

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Edited May 4, 2024 by Rip The Mesh

[Rip The Mesh]

For the record;  

[Trebreh]

Canucks in 5.

 

once we frustrate the two whiners they will start throwing hissy fits.

 

our sleeper agent Kane will make sure we get a lot of stupid penalties from the oil.

[Ilunga]

1 hour ago, Breadnbutta said:

Canucks in 4. Nashville gave us a good defense lesson.

 

Edmonton can't play defense we will shut them down.

 

Our 3rd stringer is better than their starter.

 

SWEEP

 

Oilers can't play defense ?

 

So far their PK has been perfect. 

12 from 12.

 

And as for their offense, PP 9 from 20. And if you count the fact that Dubois and Doughty were only back on the ice for a few seconds after their penalties, it would be 11 from 20.

 

As for regular season, they allowed only 14 goals more than we did.

And scored 15 more goals than we did.

 

I do believe we can win this series however we are going to have to start scoring more. 

And play disciplined hockey.

 

The Oilers are not going to be easy beats.

 

 

 

[40yrfan]

If Petey can find some room in this series, and we stay out of the box are chances are good.

[King Heffy]

Canucks in 5.  Edmonton still has absolute trash on their blueline and a captain with severe character issues.  The Oilers are not a good hockey team and they're about to get exposed.

[gwarrior]

Hey, McDbag and ballsack!!!!!! Come at us!!!!!!! Don't sing it!!!! Bring it!!!!! Let's fucking go!!!!!!