Connor McDavid & Leon Draisaitl, along with the rest of the Edmonton Oilers, are back in the Conference Final for the third time in four seasons following their five-game victory over Vegas, while Dallas is into Round 3 for the third year in a row and fourth time in six years. Mikko Rantanen leads the playoffs in goals and points, and Dallas is looking to take advantage of home ice tonight in game 1! Austin Hockey has you covered with the projected lines, stats, keys to the game, players to watch, and more! #oilers #edmontonoilers #nhl
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this will be the hardest series for the oilers, while Dallas has already powered through some competition
Love these pre game reports, letās go Oilers
Nervous, excited, worried.
shake sum buns for round 3 austinnation
good morning
Ah yes… we meet again Austin Hockey. It's a rematch of last years WCF, this time for custody of Cody Ceci.
As for things to see? Both teams are bad at game 1s but both won their last game 1s. So that cancels out. I'm hoping for a big game from Wyatt Johnston or Jason Robertson to finally get in the groove. Hopefully Rantanen and Otter continue their stellar play and Miro looked great in game 6 and hoping to see that again. Depth has been a big factor for the Oil, but I think its the big guns who will show out tonight and to be frightened of tonight.
6-4 oilers. Dallas defense gonna feel the wrath of hyman, kane, podz, and kappy
Benn is scary on a psychological level. Kane won't even be phased by him and hope our guys set the tone on the ice like when they bullied Vegas.
Iām not worried for some odd reason last year I was
Recipe for disaster – long break, and game 1 lol – hopes arenāt very high, but would love for us to come out flying – feeling a podz goal tonight!
I am excited for the game
It's finally here! It seemed to take forever to get back to Oilers hockey. I've had enough of the Leafs drama š„“
Cāmon Oilers get a W!
This is going to be the biggest test for both teams, both have great offense, defense, goaltending (at least currently), and depth. Players to watch: McDavid, Draisaitl, and Skinner. I've been saying McDavid and Draisaitl for a bit now but it's because they have yet to really pop off. Stuart Skinner, average goaltending is all you need to do or atleast .890SV% š Oh and please get that powerplay going, it might be difference if it goes cold this entire series. Realistic score: Stars 5-2. Hopeful score: Oilers 4-1. Like you mentioned extended breaks are just brutal to this Oilers team, would love for them to prove me wrong tho.
Excited for this series to finally start! I like Podkolzin to score a goal and the Oilers to steal game 1 in a 3-2 or 4-2 win. Letās go Oilers!
Last year whenever you predicted the Oil to lose we won, letās keep that trend alive š
As long as we don't do what the Leafs did
I think Stuart just needs to hold the fort for the first 10-15min because the oilers usually come out slow and sad after a break
I think your seriously underestimating Esa Lindell. Heās a defensive beast. Go Stars
Remember guys, stars fans are the same people as Dallas cowboys fans.
You sound like sportsnet and tsn. Mcdavid has 17 points and your worried about him scoring goals? What about dallas shitty 3rd pairing? No one talks about how the oilers are gonna exploit that weakness bad. Its always oilers need this oilers need that. Like cmon canada we have the best team on earth why nit pick and create doubt. Idk about everyone else but im grateful for having a team like the oilers where everyone is built for the playoff like bouch. We could he the leafs and think the cup is already ours only to be met with reality. Edmonton is a breathing ground for playoff performers. If we cant keep bouch well Toronto theres your core piece, play offs beast. But Toronto will probably resign marner and tavares over getting a guy like bouch
just remember , when the 2 top guys get hypnotized by media into being self producing instead of taking their talent , speed, stick work and focused on scoring these things occur as a result of this focus.
1. all players tend to spend too much time trying to pass to connor/drai, then find themselves out of position . that causes , sloppy give a ways, other team using the fractured lane open to get into our zone unchallenged . and most times gives goalie bad cover and goals against .
2. Team and other lines get loose because of the precedent shown by top line as indicating that's the strategy or others have to scramble to get a goal to cover the sloppy goal against mishap .
3. by second period entire team is frustrated and makes mistakes and either ends in having to scramble to recover goals against or everyone takes the foot off the gas they wander around .
Connor doesn't need points , more then wants to win to get to finals Right ?
The media hypnotize connor and others as the strategy to get back to instead of dominating control using depth where we been unbeatable and winning . they trying to influence by distractions of ego vanity play instead of dominating, so they get more control so were sloppy and they beat or rattle us.
that's not cup winning team strategy .
LET'S GO OILERS !!!
Austin – youāre the only Canadian hockey sports talk guru saying Oil D is better than Stars (even considering bottom 4 pair). Stars bottom D while not big name have good performance and letās not forget how bad Nurse can be (last year we damn near ran him off the team).
Iām nervous as hell about Skinner against this years Stars team. Skinner has a very high beta in net and if he doesnāt play well we could be down deep fast in this series with an injured backup.
One thing thatās a positive is CMD gets 2+ points in game 1s and the Stars have a horrible game 1 record in the playoffs.
Stats donāt matter. Both teams are different and better this year and better than regular season and have gotten better thru out the playoffs.
Letās just hope the boys play smart and stay out of the sin bin. Stars PP is good this year whereas last year they were 0-14 (in 28 mins of PP).
Letās all not drink the coolaid too early. We were down 2-1 and down 2-0 in game 4 until the boys removed the boot off our neck.
There's video of Ekholm leaving the plane in Dallas. He's there.
Oilers are going to have to smash and crash, meaning Kane and Perry need to do what they can to make the Stars hate playing.
Iām nervous about Stew Skinner in the net despite two successful goaltending in the Vegas series when Pikkard was injured
Battle Of Two Oilers Bouchard and Ceci
Nuts, 7 days off lol
3:30
Letās be honest, itās all going to come down to what version of Skinner we see in net. Both top teams in the league, margins are already super thin as is