2017 WCQF: San Jose Sharks vs. Edmonton Oilers

[amato 3,210]

Sharks wasted all their goals in one game. No more left  

[Hockeymom1960 5,107]

Well, well, well, someone got spanked.  Where was the Oiler's golden boy?

Edited April 19, 2017 by Hockeymom1960

[NerveDamage 4,176]

2 hours ago, Hockeymom1960 said:

Well, well, well, someone got spanked.  Where was the Oiler's golden boy?

lol, the whole team was missing

Edited April 19, 2017 by NerveDamage

[BadgerBob 297]

3 hours ago, Hockeymom1960 said:

Well, well, well, someone got spanked.  Where was the Oiler's golden boy?

Getting the puck slapped off his stick by Thornton at center ice. What a beautiful game by the Sharks. Completely dominated. Pavelski's mohawk has magical powers!

[Dabura 12,207]

Oilers advance. Marleau's and/or Thornton's last game with the Sharks? Probably not, but it's a possibility. (Calm down, Kenny.)

The Western Conference's final four: Nashville, St. Louis, Anaheim, Edmonton. I don't think the Oilers are for real this season. The Sharks, despite being old and fatigued and injured, contained the Oilers' big guns and hit iron about 300,000 times.

As for the other three...it's looking like the conference is basically up for grabs. I give the Preds the slight edge, though. It took a few years, but David Poile has finally given Peter Laviolette a roster that can play Laviolette hockey, which is similar to Penguins hockey under Mike Sullivan, which can be hugely effective if you have the right personnel. Subban, Josi, Ekholm, Ellis is about as good a top four as you're going to get in today's league and it's perfectly suited for Laviolette hockey. The forward group is on the shallow side, but their top line of Forsberg-Johansen-Arvidsson terrorized the Blackhawks' top talent, skating them into the ground. And if Rinne is in that mysterious "zone" where a goalie gets impossibly hot in the playoffs? This might just be Nashville's year.

(Now watch the Oilers win the Cup. Because everything is stupid.)

Edited April 23, 2017 by Dabura

[GMRwings1983 8,794]

The league needs the Oilers to come out of the West.  Who knows when the NHL will be able to showcase McDavid again with him being stuck in the West in a small Canadian market.  This isn't the 1980's when Edmonton could play in the Finals every year.