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‘The best of Evander Kane in Game 4’: Rishaug on exceptional performance



What did you think about Evander Kane’s Game 4? How did splitting up Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl pay off? How important was this win for Stuart Skinner’s confidence? TSN Oilers reporter Ryan Rishaug joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss.

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  1. Whether it's Dallas, Florida or Carolina, the Oilers are going to f*cking destroy them. What's that song, is it by Dr. Dre? "I can feel it"….seriously, this is getting wild!

  2. Nuke-Nu-kane! That's what I say! This guy saves his best for the last (the playoffs) and it shows! He reminds me of a Hail Mary pass in football. Well, sort of.

  3. Kane is gonna be the key for them
    This year. Like kucherov was for Tbay a couple years back. Guys fresh. Also that puck never touched a skate.

  4. Was ridiculous when Kane got shoved into the Vegas Knights goalie by a Vegas Defender 😂 then they gave Oilers a penalty. Refs trying their best to help the Knights but they are a very bad team without the help

  5. "[Kane] said he was pushed in." – Rishaug, clearly after being instructed by Bettman to take the Vegas perspective in this series.

  6. Rishaug is blind – how in the world was that puck off the skate and secondly Kane was pushed. Guy never watches the games with his eyes open

  7. If Hill doesn't like contact with the Oilers, Why do the Vegas D continue to push them into their own goalie? I hated Corey Perry. I hated Evander Kane. But the instant they signed with the Oilers, my love has no bounds.

  8. Shoutout Knobs for always being the man when we all start to question him. He's a solid tactician, as much as we may disagree with him benching Jeff Skinner, the lines he has put together have been awesome for the most part.

  9. Kane is a one man wrecking crew. And Drai is really good in matching Eichel. Knob is genius in adjustments and knows exactly what to do when a game get lost especially in the playoffs

  10. Blaming Skinner is the easy way out. It's what people who only look at the stats do. In game three for instance, it wasn't Skinner who failed them. It was the team in front of him, who played like garbage. The only goal you could point at and put on Skinner is the first one, and even in that one, he made the initial save, but nobody cleared the rebound. You can always talk about the saves he could've made, but personally, I would talk about the plays the team in front of him could've made so that the save would never even have been necessary.

    This has been a thing with the Oilers for a long time. Just blame the goalie, when the real issues are much deeper and on players who the fanbase likes more. I didn't see anyone calling out McDavid after game 2, in which he was actual trash, up until that last play that won them the game. Or anyone calling out the entire team after game 3, when ALL of them were garbage for the entirety of it. If the team played in game 3 like they did in game 4, the series would've been a sweep, and it has nothing to do with Skinner.

  11. I'm German. Not a real hockey fan. But I lived 15 years in the Edmonton area. So yes. When Edmonton plays, I am interested. Living now in Panama, I can only watch the highlights. I still can't figure out why Kane got a roughing penalty. Well. The camera angle doesn't show if he got pushed into the goalie. But even if he was moving by himself. Where else should he go? He was moving forward. Should he "fly" over the goal? I still don't get the rules in hockey. In Fußball/Futball/ Soccer – that's just a accidental contact.

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