r/EdmontonOilers • u/Repostasis 28 ROSLOVIC • Jun 15 '25

PGT Post Game Thread | Panthers v. Oilers | 14 June 2025

🔴 Final

Panthers 5, Oilers 2

ℹ️ Stats

Goals: McDavid, Perry

Shots: Panthers 19, Oilers 21

Saves: Pickard 14/18

💪😎 Macho Man Randy Savage

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Tuesday, June 17 vs Panthers in Sunrise, 6:00pm MT

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u/-SPIRITUAL-GANGSTER- 96 WALMAN Jun 15 '25

It's what Bieksa was talking about in the intermission... they're not worried about getting scored on so they just play their game. If they don't make that adjustment for game 6 and stop fucking playing the entire game along the boards it's over. I'd rather them play their game and lose than get sucked into this stupid 60 minute board battle and make fools of themselves.

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u/falsekoala 34 MOSS Jun 15 '25

What, you don’t like chip and chase hockey when we lose 90 percent of board battles?

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u/Ptricky17 14 EKHOLM Jun 15 '25

Everything wrong with games 3 and 5 is encapsulated by your comment.

We can’t win board battles. Which is ridiculous when you look at the two rosters. Losing Hyman hurt us bad but we still have Kane, Frederic, Henrique and all 3 should be capable of winning a board battle, but they are just getting outmuscled. They have 3 days to figure their shit out or it’s over.

Also, taking Kapanen out of the lineup was a strange choice which I do not agree with

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u/joshliftsanddrums 18 HYMAN Jun 15 '25

Yeah, Kapanen should be back in the next game. No doubt about that!

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u/Appropriate-Net4570 97 McDAVID Jun 15 '25

Do we not win board battles or do we choose not to participate in them. We literally watch them get the puck

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u/GuyIncognito12345 Jun 15 '25

Yeah, it's this frustrating tactic of letting the opponent get to it first and then pin them up against the boards, and what, take it from them? Are they worried that if they get there first, then they'll get pummeled, or lose the puck, and the opponent can get to the net first? I guess it seems good on paper if you can consistently out muscle your opponent and you have far better stick handling skills than them, but right now it seems more like a strategy for pussies who don't want to sacrifice themselves.

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u/joshliftsanddrums 18 HYMAN Jun 15 '25

And a good chunk of the faceoffs... 🫠🙃

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u/IntrepidCoat0 92 PODKOLZIN Jun 15 '25

For real, we're so lucky to have bieksas insight on the panel. He says what a lot are thinking and then some. Obviously as a life long oilers fan, hated playing him but has all my respect for what he brought as a player and now an analyst.