Written by Graeme on Thursday, Could twenty second, 2025
It was fairly the opener for the Oilers-Stars sequence yesterday.
The Oilers had a 3-1 lead going into the third interval, they usually appeared – I feel the phrase could be snug. Stars hadn’t appeared like they had been threatening in any respect, and if something it appeared just like the Oilers had been going to pile on.
They appeared so snug I didn’t thoughts lacking a little bit of the sport whereas I received prepared for mattress. So contemplate my shock once I completed the bedtime ritual, received in mattress and turned on the sport to see it was 3-3! Then earlier than you knew it, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3.
An absolute rout.
What the Oilers have going for them at the very least is it was because of the lack of a penalty kill unit, so 5 vs 5 at the very least they need to be ok with.
Ought to be an attention-grabbing Sport 2.
Talking of Sport 2s……….
Hurricanes vs Panthers Sport 2
Scott: The Panthers scored the first 2 targets of the sport and didn’t look again and took residence ice benefit away from the Canes.
Bobrovsky continues to be nice within the playoffs making 31 saves for the win. There was one level the place the Panthers didn’t get a shot on objective for greater than quarter-hour.
You could possibly inform that the Canes had 5 days off between video games as they appeared a bit rusty. The Panthers had 48 hours between their motion.
Now that the Canes have taken their first loss at residence in the course of the postseason I’m curious to see how they reply. Additionally the Panthers scored twice on the powerplay and the Canes had allowed solely 2 of them throughout all the playoffs.
The Panthers appeared nice and the Canes now should attempt to get residence ice again which goes to be robust.
Panthers win incl OT
Graeme: Ooof – Carolina, what was that? The factor is the metrics had been strong for the Canes, they usually total performed properly. Freddie simply utterly shit the mattress after trying good all playoffs, and Bob did his job.
So nothing has actually modified from my unique sequence opinion. The Canes have the goaltending. If that fails, they normally have the offense to make up for it. They created quite a lot of possibilities towards Florida however simply couldn’t rating sufficient to make up for it. It occurs.
I’m superb going again to Carolina right here based mostly on that final sport. Though I don’t know if there’s really any VALUE in it – it might be an -EV play really – however hey it’s what it’s.
Nevertheless this can be a vital sport for them with the ECF hoodoo flying over them. In the event that they don’t get this one within the bag – they’re in deep, deep, bother as Bart Simpson would say. Man how is that for a “present my age” reference. I bear in mind being so jealous of my mates in class who knew each phrase to Do the Bartman. My mind simply doesn’t operate that means – I spent hours and hours attempting to study it, to no avail.
That’s the identical silly mind that’s going with the clearly -EV Canes incl OT.
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