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Sources: #Oilers plan to start Cal Pickard against #Canucks in Game 4 on Tuesday night.#LetsGoOilers look to even up the series with Pickard backstopping them in what would be his first career Stanley Cup playoff start.
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— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) May 14, 2024
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Damn they upgraded mid series
Weâre good at scoring on our first shot, letâs do that lol
Oh Ya!!! We’re gonna put Demko back in then!!!!
If this goes bad early for Edmonton, and it very well could, we may see jerseys hitting the ice -again- before this game is done.
Not sure I have ever seen a team roll the dice like this in a game 4.
Predicting a full meltdown tonight and the boys to come home 3-1.
Feast!!
Letâs light his ass up. Weâre coming back to Vancouver up 3-1.
Hopefully he doesnât pull a silovs lol
Desperation play by Oilers. They pulled their starter who was a big part of the 16 game win streak and now they are going with a guy who got the 12 wins in 23 games.
The Oilers play differently in front of Pickard, similar to how Canucks are in front of DeSmith. I donât think they fully trust their goalies, so itâll be interesting if they stay back to support Pickard more.
Hopefully this opens up more chances for the Canucks.
Bold move. Lots of pressure to put on a journeyman goalie who last played a full game on April 18th.
Good. Oilers are frazzled. Pepper him.
BRING IT.
This is friggin’ amazing! Kris Knob is doing the opposite of EVERYTHING he did during the regular season to be successful. 1. Trusted his starting goalie; 2. Trusted his bottom 6 with minutes.
If we could just find a way to get ole knobby to bench McDavid and DrySaddle… hmmmmm…
we dont do well against backup goalie.
i sure canucks planned the oiler could switch goalie.
[Bieksa explaining what our game plan should be tonight](https://youtu.be/DH_cHGzEfag?si=F2pAnsCh-51D3om6)
Panic move and a bad one
Pickard’s 4 starts vs playoff teams this season:
4 GA, .875 SV% vs Florida (L)
5 GA, .872 SV% vs Florida (L)
3 GA, .889 SV% vs Dallas (W)
5 GA, .844 SV% vs Dallas (L)
cant wait to hear all the, canucks only won because oilers have to use their backup excuse
if Pickard plays the way he did in the regular season (putting up perfectly average numbers), that would have been enough for Edmonton to win the first few games. However, part of the reason Skinnerâs numbers look *so* bad this series is because we barely shoot, so anything he lets in (even if itâs on a high danger chance) will plummet his save %, so hopefully we can do the same thing here haha.
I like it when *our* backup is the only secret weapon
Canucks with 40 shots plus.. shoot every where … lets see
He might do well or he might do just as bad, we really wonât know until game time!
Gotta take advantage because now theyâve lost all faith in skinner.
I think if they even got average goaltending, it might be a different series so I’m a little concerned haha. We are good at making backup goalies look elite.
Mentally different from Silovs in that Silovs was forced in and had no expectations along with lack of experience. He wasn’t expecting to be better than Demko or Casey. Just go out and play. In Pickard’s case he is expected to be an improvement or at least in his mind since they have the choice to put him in over a healthy Skinner. It could work out and he is a beast but it’s certainly not the same circumstances. It’s a lot of pressure.
The Oilers have three problems right now: an over-reliance on their first line, a struggling defence, and sub-average goal-tending. A lot of people are pointing fingers at Skinner, but his defence hasn’t really helped him either, and they cannot play McDrai for close to 30 minutes each game and maintain that pace.
They might have addressed the goal-tending issue, but the other two problems remain. As everyone knows (or should know), Tocchet doesn’t care for « high volume » shots, but for effective shots. On that metric, the Oilers had a 8-9 lead in the last game. On the shots that matter, Pickard will be tested.
To hear the Oilers fans on their sub, having their starter yanked after 15 shots, and now going with their backup just saved their series. We’ll see. I think that we’ve seen the best of the Oilers to this point, and it isn’t good enough. Go Canucks!
Who cares – play hard boys – doesn’t matter who’s in net. Play hard
Man, if the Canucks can pepper him and rattle his confidence too, imagine how rattled their entire team will be.
Iâd like to think they are one Lidstrom-Cloutier centre ice goal away from implosion. Probably just wishful thinking, but imagine.
quick someone go sign the borg
Proceed with caution. Cockiness has a way of backfiring. Remember how cocky Oilers and Preds fans were when we started playing Silovs. Let’s just play our game and get pucks on the net.
Let’s hope this guy doesn’t pull a Silovs
We are in their fucking walls
If this doesn’t work out, do they go back to Skinner? His confidence has to be completely shot at this point.
Bawahaaaahaaaaa!
Oilers online complaining that the Canucks are only ahead because of goaltending is hilarious. Our Vezina boy is dead and our backup got hurt, and you’re hard done by?
We need to get way more shots on net than the previous 3 games. Hopefully Oilers playing more defensive in protecting their goalie allows us to be a bit more on offence.
Itâs free real estate
i don’t know what skinner even did wrong in the last game. who is stopping those boeser shots? boeser was left completely wide open with all the time in the world. it’s in no matter what goalie. maybe that lindholm goal?
boeser -> lindholm ‘tip’. extremely hard save.
boeser left wide open by connor mcdavid with all day to rip it and hits the perfect spot. impossible save.
boeser in front. extremely hard save.
lindholm goal (maybe could’ve had it?)
i didn’t understand skinner being pulled at all.
Pickard has played for a bit, any notes on him?
Edmonton is fucking rattled.
Toast your waffles, Oilers fans
We will crush his spirit as we crushed Skinners.
No freebies
We beat a vezina finalist last round, Iâm not worried about pickard lol
Oilers in shambles and the Canucks ready to go to war on behalf of Soucy? Going to be a good one tonight
It doesn’t matter who starts for them cuz it doesn’t change the way we play. Saros was excellent in the last series but ultimately it was team defense that made the difference.
We have shown adaptability, resilience and a bond that special teams showcase. We continue to play our game (to the best of human emotion influence) and itâs worked. Our game, one game at a time. Doesnât matter whoâs in the pipes. Play team defence, use our team speed to counter, keep possession over lottery shots. They are a team at the heart of that word. Itâs been a joy to watch. This is just another chapter in their story. Go Canucks Go.
I hope Brock gives him the old âhat tricks on Oilers goaliesâ treatment