The NHL Thread
For the 5 of us who post NHL stuff, here you go. Officially the season starts Tuesday October 11, although there were tw
In what world is there a florida panthers fan in Edmonton, Alberta?
nurse isn't the problem, but he's a mediocre/bad dman making $9.25m per season. it's horrendous value, and a problem. probably not much they can do about it at this point, but i'd be trying everything to dump him if i was edm
a bunch of former flames on the panthers, so probably a hater from calgary lol
yo maurice, stop playing your absolutely dogshit 4th line
As someone who appreciates saltiness and grudge all the respect in the world if a flames fan bought panthers gear just to troll the oilers fans at game 4. That’s just some A+ hate
But if that’s actually a panthers fan in Canada, none of the respect in the world
Please let this go 7
Lolololobobobobo
i like how they've just developed a whole new officiating standard in this series where no one is allowed to touch lil bitch boy mcbust
panthers are still up 12-10 on aggregate, whew
Feel like that was offside. Maurice probably didn't bother challenging just to fire up the boys more for next game.
plan the parade
Right now you can get -130 on the Panthers to win game 5, seems like free money.
game 4, 5v5 xg: 55% panthers
score & venue adjusted xg: 52% panthers
all xg: 55% oilers (4.62 - 3.83)
score: 8-1 oilers
ok so this was the weirdest game ever. i didn't look at the stats at all throughout the game, and after i was trying to guess what the xg was, and figured it'd be like 60% oilers, that they didn't dominate as the scoreline suggested. should have trusted my instinct more i guess.
the panthers were actually better at 5v5, the oilers did a lot of damage on the powerplay, bob and the other guy weren't very good in net, skinner was. on the xg it should have been like 5-4 oilers, again, very strange game.
best oilers xg: janmark 74%, henrique 72%, brown 69%, ceci 63%, kulak 60%
worst oilers xg: mcleod 21%, perry 27%, foegele 33%, nurse 34%, ekholm 37%
hey hey, mcdrai weren't horrible defensively in this one, for a change. nurse was though, he was the worst. and ceci was once again good. interesting. another good game from an oiler depth line, they'll need to keep it up if they're gonna complete the comeback. and skinner will need to be great for 3 more games also. i don't like their odds.
best panthers xg: rodrigues 78%, bennett 69%, ekman-larsson 69%, luostarinen 69%, reinhart 65%
worst panthers xg: lorentz 5%, stenlund 6%, okposo, 9%, lundell 43%, mikkola 43%
say the line, bart: lorentz and stenlund woat, okposo 3rd worst because he's forced to play with them. it's wild how much worse they are than everyone else. panthers' job for the off-season has got to be to find some 4th liners who aren't straight up turrrible. come on, it's not that hard. it's the easiest thing to do in the nhl, actually. get on it.
otherwise, they took too many penalties obviously (some were pretty bad calls, again), and the goalies sucked for a change. hopefully they don't freak out about the result and realize that they didn't actually play that bad, just need to tighten a few things up and then they can take the cup to south beach on tuesday.
12-12 in score and Oilers are +18 in shots over 4 games. Bob returns to human form, Oilers roll.
Number is up from -130 to -154, everyone betting Panthers. Let’s get that cup tonight.
8×7.25 for Hronek
Didn't see that high an AAV coming with max term
his regular season wasn't very good either. hockey ppl seem to think he's worth that much money, but looking at his stats, i don't get it at all. also the eyetest is meh. confusing
edit: dom says he's a #2 dman, micah says he's 3rd pairing. xg% certainly agrees with micah
Nicklaus factor.
