Playoff Game Thread: Edmonton Oilers (2-2) at Vancouver Canucks (2-2) - Game 5 - 16 May 2024 - 07:00PM PDT

Before the series started I was genuinely scared of what Perry was going to bring to this series. I'm really surprised he hasn't had much impact, like, he's not THAT old.

they had 5 powerplays and none of them were opportunities

Meh…at least we’re here.

Mcsad might have been our worst forward tonight. He should rip himself.

I'm grinning so bad right now

Lol my mom was chanting "WE WANT SKINNER!!" at the TV 😅 cause we can get more goals with skinner in net

GG. Hope things are ok for you.

Gg. Sorry for your sad reasons

They don’t play for a sunbelt team so he doesn’t give a shit.

I’m sure he’s crying into his millions

Bettman does not care

rofl

Just like how the oilers were supposed to wipe Vancouver?

People said the same thing about the winner of Nashville and Canucks going to edmonton

party pooper

Where to? Hope the weather holds up for ya

Guys just gassed from carrying the team.

In person. We are not all on twitter. Twitter brings out our worst

Habs and Jets fans are electric

Both the best, and the worst. Canucks twitter is the worst of humanity

They just looked tired. Maybe the minutes have caught up to them?

That might be because they've played so much no?

GG oilers, fully expecting them to flip the script and bring it to game 7

And it's about time. Not sure why he seemed shook for so long but I'm proud of his work tonight.

Solution? play them. longer!

Ngl they’re defending 1000% better with Pickard in net Vs. Skinner

so it makes sense. They’re essentially sacrificing a large part of there lethal breakout (EDM likes to “cheat” on Defense a bit and float high to really exploit that McDavid speed on the break) to get more bodies in the slot and keep the Canucks from really getting any easy high danger looks.

The worry here for them I think is if they leave Pickard and turn the series back into a “shootout”, Canucks have enough lethality on offense where it really turns into a battle of goalies on high danger chances, and you likely don’t want that duel against the nucks.

Oilers in a few Catch-22’s here. Can’t rest McDrai because the team can’t match depth, so you have to essential work the hell outta that core line

But then add in the goalie situation and how it impacts the flow of both teams “best systems” in a sense; Oilers don’t feel confident to go back into a shootout with Pickard…

They’ll probably do it for G6 tho, all or nothing so it should be a crazy goal game both ways if so.

TLDR; Oilers can’t go to regular Defense to offensive transition system because pickard would be left out like skinner was so they’re essentially forced to play Defense first or risk pickard getting his Confidence wrecked in a shootout style game

"perfectly balanced, as all things should be" that's hockey I guess

If the Oilers lose this series it'll be game #1 that they gave away. This is the first game where Vancouver looked dominant. Oilers did dick all. It's unbelievable for an important game like this. The stars looked sloppy all night.

Dude imagine getting power plays almost all year and being better on 5 on 5.

This is the irony

monkey's paw curls

And to balance it out, we keep Cole in the lineup

Chill out. Every team has nights like this. This one was important but the series isn't over yet.

Pickard played a HELL of a game. Gotta give it to him 

He's too busy working on his investment plan twice in one commercial break

You love to see it

He’s insane. He’s just insane.

Don't know about that. They're other lines started helping.

I’m sorry one person commented half of the oilers comments? Lol

Sportsnet as a whole

Bro Ian Cole has been responsible for 5 goals against us or something like that, including the OT winner by Edmonton, and you're sitting here calling this a lucky bounce? Get out of here lmao

Lucky™

Gotta be good to be lucky. Gtfo

McD looked gassed. But I’m sure he’ll be back with a vengeance.

I will literally fund a beer gun to be installed in your house if you just keep it going nonstop

🙏

Get this man some coffee and beer next game

He did his job, not one of those goals could be blamed on him.

In this economy?!

He was good. The first line didn’t show up.

Oh absolutely

Agreed. I see no reason for Skinner to be put back in.

Elite re-direct

I'm also obviously biased

Was thinking the exact same damn thing. So glad it hit the post 

Forsberg’s goal in round 1 was more of a kick than that, but to assume that would mean Petey’s kick wouldn’t have been called back would mean the NHL is consistent.

elite

After that NSH goal against us, it better not be.

Tocchet was a great hire for the lineup the nucks have

Pretty relatable tbh lol

Na man these guys aren't tired at this stage. It might burn you late next series or in the finals but not if they're overplayed a couple games. These guys are fuckin machines. They did suck today though.

Here I am!

The bad men can’t hurt us anymore

Love it

Fuck yeah we do

Hoping not

8th in GA/60 in the regular season if I’m not mistaken? You’re regurgitating what you’ve heard online if you can’t see the oilers are a much much better team defensively this year. Goaltending is still a question mark for sure, but this poor on defence narrative is pretty tired at this point. Tonight was not a good performance from the Oilers aside from Pickard, that’s what you should be taking away from this game.

Yup

The game was hardly a defensive or goaltending loss ... it was because the forwards didn't score.

We speak from experience.

It’s my money and I need it now

I hope you stub your toe

My favorite chant, for sure.