Faisons cela! Le balado Cult of Hockey. Par les fidèles et pour les fidèles, ce soir avec Bruce McCurdy et David Staples. Ils profitent de la victoire 5-4 d’Edmonton contre les Kings de Los Angeles pour remporter la première ronde des séries éliminatoires de 2023.
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When RN-H, Kane, and Hymen start scoring watch out.
Kostin was a BEAST tonight… 3 points +3 and he played under 9 mins.
SO happy for Yamo to get the SERIES Winning goal… he was so snake bitten all series and just couldn't finish his Good chances… until tonight!
Korpisalo didn’t realize that Yamo’s shot went in the net. He threw his blocker at it and thought it went wide. He actually moves to his left to cover the post thinking that the puck is coming out the other side. He didn’t know until he saw his teammate’s reaction.
I like the Edmonton Oilers.
Kings were hammering Yammo at any chance they could get because he's an easy target due to his size. Some might even argue they were trying to seriously injure him. Yammo certainly got his revenge against all those cheap shot hits the Kings threw at him the entire series. Congrats to Yammo and big congrats to the Edmonton Oilers. Long live the Edmonton Oilers Dynasty.
So happy!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Greetings from Cologne
I believe there is people that are not fans of the Oilers that say Darnell Nurse is bad
Kinda sloppy, but the Oil overcame everything, and that's a good sign. Think Draper, McCarthy, Maltby. Great teams have heros throughout the lineup.
Non call on the Kane high stick and non call on Skinner getting hit in the trapazoid. After tonight LA is the second least penalized team of all 16 playoff entries. Off to Vegas with Vegas being the least penalized team after 82 games this season.
I call them the LA Dive Queens but Drama Kings is better. lol
Connor only got 2 points ~ he must be injured. Only 10 points in 6 games ~ What's wrong with Connor? why do they keep playing injured Connor? lol. ~~~Hart ~ Ross ~ Rocket and another perhaps? Pearson…
Bruce and David! Love you guys!!! Go Oilers!
A great series. LA played very well. So did EDM. Nuge-Hyman-Kane-Yama may have to play a bit better the 5mil men.
Bottom6 a great series & Kostin !! Great to get the win. Thanks for the PodCast.
OILERS!!!
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This was just the crucible series the Oilers needed to really mesh together. The Kings played a great game.
Great work from the boys. And thanks for the podcast guys!
poor podcast tonight you guys are all over the place
Klim Kostin really stepped up in game 6.
"people who know hockey think you're stupid"
David Staples
Is Kane healthy enough?
The legacy of MacTavish still remains strong. Draisaitl, Nuge, and I believe Nurse? All MacT picks…
Sure is hard to argue against Bruce most times. He points out things that I don't notice… I check it up, and sure enough, always turns out to be true.
Bring on the Knights! Who only finished first because of the Bettman point system.
Using the IIHF standing point system (3 for Reg. time W, 2 for extra time win, 1 for extra time loss, 0 for reg. time loss), we'd have some important changes in the playoff bracket and home ice advantage (pls point out any errors, I’m not an AI):
EDM: 45-5-9-23 > 154 pts, Conference leaders
VGK: 38-13-9-22 > 149
DAL: 39-8-14-21 > 147, Central leader
COL: 36-15-7-24 > 145
LAK: 37-10-10-25 > 141
BOS: 54-11-5-12 > 189
TOR: 42-8-11-21 > 153, third overall
CAR: 39-13-9-21 > 152
NJD: 39-13-8-22 > 151
NYR: 37-10-13-22 > 144
About their finish to the season, VGK had 5 of their last 10 games go into extra time. In effect, the NHL awards bonus points to both teams that don't get it done in 60. Anyways, another worthy opponent coming up.
Maybe try McLeod with Nuge and Hymes.
Despite his lack of impression on 5v5 so far, Nuge is one of the 3 core players on that PP.
Statistics for Edmonton Oilers at LA Kings April 29st, 2023
Game 6 Oilers 5, LA 4
Oilers win first round series 4 games to 2
Kostin 2 Goals, 1 Secondary Assist (on Game winner and how he wasn't a star eludes me)
McDavid 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist (PP)
Draisaitl 1 Goal (PP)
Yamamoto 1 Goal (Game Winner, Series Winner), 1 Primary Assist
Bouchard 1 Primary Assist, 1 Secondary Assist (PP)
Desharnais 2 Secondary Assists
McLeod 2 Primary Assists (he was moving and WORKING all night)
Ekholm 1 Secondary Assist
Skinner 40 / 44 .909 Save %age (he had a broken stick gimme to LA yet still pulled out over a 900 save %age)
Three Stars (Sportsnet): Yamamoto, Draisaitl, Danault
Oilers LA Kings
Shots on Goal 26 44
Hits 22 32
Faceoffs Won 33 25
Power Play 1/2 2/3
Giveaways 10 3
Takeaways 6 6
Blocked Shots 18 11
Player TOI PP TOI: PK TOI: SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks GVA TKA
Bouchard 24:01 3:55 —- 0 0 0 2 1 2 2
Nurse 22:17 1:51 —- 1 1 0 0 2 1 0
Ekholm 20:47 1:23 1:03 1 1 2 3 0 2 1
Ceci 19:04 —- 1:01 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
Kulak 14:43 0:25 0:56 3 1 0 0 2 1 0
Desharnais 12:16 0:01 1:02 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Broberg 3:43 —- —- 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Draisaitl 27:21 3:08 0:01 3 1 0 0 1 1 0
McDavid 27:16 3:11 0:29 3 1 0 0 2 1 1
Kane 22:24 0:11 0:29 3 1 0 5 2 0 1
Nuge 16:05 3:02 1:51 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0
Hyman 15:44 3:06 —- 1 -1 2 1 1 0 0
Bjugstad 14:43 —- 1:10 0 0 2 3 2 0 0
McLeod 14:17 0:09 1:31 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Yamamoto 11:26 —- 1:31 2 2 0 1 0 0 0
Ryan 10:46 —- 0:40 3 0 0 2 0 0 1
Foegele 10:10 0:11 —- 4 -1 0 1 1 1 0
Kostin 8:44 —- —- 2 3 0 2 0 0 0
Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
Bjugstad 12 11 52.2
McDavid 11 5 68.8
Draisaitl 4 4 50.0
McLeod 4 1 80.0
Ryan 1 1 50.0
Nuge 1 3 25.0
Sixth and final game of the series. We had a lot happen in this one including a goalie broken stick (on Skinner of course because I mean it's the Oilers) that leads to a tying goal (easy one). Yamamoto getting the game winner. Klim Kostin with 2 goals playing under 9 minutes of time. Broberg playing under 4 minutes (complete waste). LA with a shortie after a breakdown during the second PP the Oilers got in the game (they scored on the first one so they were 50% on the PP tonight which actually brings their PP level in the playoffs DOWN, yeah, I know, something is kind of wrong when 50% on the PP isn't as good as you normally do). We were really winning the faceoffs. The LA selection of three stars is pretty much a crock. I'm sorry, yes, Leon had a fantastic game playing over 27 minutes (Connor did too) but come on, Klim Kostin with 2 goals and an assist (and that assist was on the game / series winner) and he gets no love from LA (probably as they would have won the game if he wasn't playing). A lot less hits by the Oilers in this one. Couple of days in LA to rest up then on to Vegas to begin round two. Take care all.
I am not an Oilers or Kings fan….but this makes the Oilers radio team even more embarrassing than they already are….. thinking the NHL rather see the Kings win than the Edmonton McDavid's…is psychotic
Terrible officiating. We can only expect more of the same against the knights.
Kings were such a tough out, good riddance!
I am still confused about the standard of officiating in these playoffs, unless the standard is that there is no standard?
Kostin made more of an impact in 8 minutes than RNH did in 6 games!! Why play him so little? Makes no sense!
3 goals from our fourth line? Wow! The Oilers are deep.
Desharnais had a great game with limited ice time.
Your wife plays on your men's hockey team with you? I love that. You should marry her.
Nurse made that clear off Kempe one handed leveraging his stick against kempes leg…that was a nice play that stuck out to me at the time…
Skinner’s stick actually broke.
The pass by Skinner was not risky, it was a sound decision to pass it to the D-man rather than force a face-off.
Skinner was the reason they won this game. His stick broke, you can’t blame him for that.
yeh oilers vs kings SOG's would suggest skinner was star1 lol
Is it just me or is nuge barely noticeable on the ice? He hasn't produced much
I don’t understand how kostin gets so little ice time in a game where the second line was way worse than any of the “fourth liners”
I thought Korpisalo really got way worse as the series went along. The oilers scored a lot of grade b/c goals in the last 3 goals.
Hopkins will get Better on offence!!! !!
I thought David’s analysis of Leon playing a complete 200 foot game was spot on. He’s dialed in. Love the big German.
Leon was playing 2 way tonight.
I thought Bouch had a good game. He was doing things that people usually complain he doesn’t do. Closing on guys, hitting, taking hits, staying focused, etc.
I was thinking the same thing as David about Nurse. I was thinking, You’re going way too deep. Just shoot it in! But it worked out. I guess as long as your teammates cover for you…. It’s all good. It’s a team game!
Nice analysis Bruce.
Imo the second line will rest up, get healthy, and come alive.
Just a flurry of comments by Johnny Eastside😉
"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." —
The obvious superiority at 5v5 and the 21 – 16 powerplay differential (Kings PP's vs. Oilers PP's) shows that the Oilers had to beat both the Kings and the refs. This series wasn't as close as it would seem, or at least it shouldn't have been.
I really like you guys, and I like when you have Kurt Leavins on but PLEASE don't have a series preview with the 3 of you. You had one 2 years ago and the Oilers were swept by Winnipeg. Then you had one last year and they were swept by Colorado.
Don't do it. Have Leavins on mid series if you bring him on.