[GDT]: Canucks vs. Oilers-The End, Part 1-Saturday, April 8th, 2017 7 PM PST

[Qwags]

WHO?

WHERE?

LINEUP: SEDIN-SEDIN-GOLDY

                BAER-HORVAT-BOESER

                CHAPUT-SUTTER-BOUCHER

                SHORE-MOLINO-MEGNA

 

                EDLER-STECHER

                TANEV-SBISA

                TRYAMKIN-HUTTON

 

                MILLER

                BACHMAN

LAST MEETING:

Remember my friends, the night is always darkest before the dawn. The end is in sight. Thank God.

[Ghostsof1915]

 

[AlwaysACanuckFan]

A game where I predict Boeser scores another goal, while making a beauty of a pass on Horvat’s goal, while Molino scores his first NHL goal. 

[73 Percent]

1 hour ago, The 5th Line said:

Oilers are in the playoffs and we are in 29th place....  The end of an era.

 

They were an absolute joke of a franchise for the last 10 years, four 1st overall picks in 6 years and now they have McDavid, it's just not right.  I love witnessing greatness and I always cheer for the legends but I will never be able to cheer for McDavid as long as he wears an Oilers uniform and it pisses me off. Same goes for Matthews and the Leafs, screw them all.  

The only hope I have is if I stay loyal to the Canucks we'll get our mcdavid/Mathews one day.

[Nicklas Bo Hunter]

We lose and mcdavid hits 100 points on the season please. 

[alfstonker]

As I don't think one or two places make much difference - see last year's fiasco, I'm going for the win, if we hit the ice running.

So for me this could go two ways. A physical Oilers team tattoos our lightweight players into the boards OR we use our speed to go past them. (I know we don't have anyone with McDavids speed but the rest are not particularly fast)

 

Option one - The "A&E" option, we get banjoed 6-1

Option two - The "Hey look Ma, top of the World" option we win 4-2.

 

 

[dura_mater]

The Oilers have (almost) nothing to play for.  I smell a win for the Canucks coming up.

[73 Percent]

1 hour ago, alfstonker said:

As I don't think one or two places make much difference - see last year's fiasco, I'm going for the win, if we hit the ice running.

So for me this could go two ways. A physical Oilers team tattoos our lightweight players into the boards OR we use our speed to go past them. (I know we don't have anyone with McDavids speed but the rest are not particularly fast)

 

Option one - The "A&E" option, we get banjoed 6-1

Option two - The "Hey look Ma, top of the World" option we win 4-2.

 

 

The say we dropped to second last  I ran the lottery 10 times

 

 

 

We picked top 3 once. 

 

 

I too have a feeling this format bites us in the ass again. 

[19naslund19]

46 minutes ago, dura_mater said:

The Oilers have (almost) nothing to play for.  I smell a win for the Canucks coming up.

yeah not much haha...oh wait maybe there are a couple things:

 

1. 1st in the division sill up for grabs (though a bit of a longshot as Ducks hold fate there). What does this mean? A 1st round against a wild card team vs playing the 3rd place Sharks in Round 1
2. if they stay is 2nd place in the division and get the Sharks then they are playing for home ice advantage against those Sharks. 1st playoff spot in 10 years and they have home ice advantage...again I would say its kinda worth fighting for haha

 

these are important things my friend and hardly "almost nothing"

 

Now depending on what happens with the other teams I can see Sunday as a "rest game" for the Coilers, but again that is their barn so they will be up for it and I wonder if we are playing Bachman in the last game of the year? Miller will start tonight as last home game of course.

 

[Sugar baby watermelon]

McDavid gets 3 pts tonight to move to 100 pts on the season.  Goldy and Boeser score to keep it respectable.

[CaptKirk888]

Glass half empty: Canucks sweep coil this weekend, finish 27th, drop to 7/8 in draft

 

Glass half full: Canucks sweep coil this weekend, finish 27th, win lottery and pick 1st.

 

Drink responsibly my friends

[Pete M]

1 hour ago, 19naslund19 said:

yeah not much haha...oh wait maybe there are a couple things:

 

1. 1st in the division sill up for grabs (though a bit of a longshot as Ducks hold fate there). What does this mean? A 1st round against a wild card team vs playing the 3rd place Sharks in Round 1
2. if they stay is 2nd place in the division and get the Sharks then they are playing for home ice advantage against those Sharks. 1st playoff spot in 10 years and they have home ice advantage...again I would say its kinda worth fighting for haha

 

these are important things my friend and hardly "almost nothing"

 

Now depending on what happens with the other teams I can see Sunday as a "rest game" for the Coilers, but again that is their barn so they will be up for it and I wonder if we are playing Bachman in the last game of the year? Miller will start tonight as last home game of course.

 

I agree, Oilers want home ice and need another win...they also want to go into the playoffs on a winning streak. These games matter to them. I predict that the Oil will win both by playing the Canucks physical.

[Nicklas Bo Hunter]

2 hours ago, dura_mater said:

The Oilers have (almost) nothing to play for.  I smell a win for the Canucks coming up.

Mcdavid is on the hunt for 100 points. We will lose this one then win the next one when they rest their players

[appleboy]

The odds say we don't get into the top 3 whether we are 29th or 27th.( It is a crap shoot) So I look at this as trying to move up from 8th to 5th. If all you think about is a top 3 pick then you may be disappointed. If we stay at 29th we have a guaranty of 5th and anything above that is a bonus.

[Bo fan]

Hope Lucic is easy on our players

A win for the oilers

Goals from Shore, Goldy and Bo

[Sedintwinpowersactivate]

Remember "The Shift" by the Sedins against Edmonton?  Those were good times!  Sigh!

[NHTyrany]

Time show the home fans you are worth watching next year. Please don't let the Polluters push you around. I predict a close game and an OT win.

[appleboy]

Has anyone heard whether Baer is playing tonight. He did not finish the last game.

[ItsMillerTime]

7 hours ago, The 5th Line said:

Oilers are in the playoffs and we are in 29th place....  The end of an era.

 

They were an absolute joke of a franchise for the last 10 years, four 1st overall picks in 6 years and now they have McDavid, it's just not right.  I love witnessing greatness and I always cheer for the legends but I will never be able to cheer for McDavid as long as he wears an Oilers uniform and it pisses me off. Same goes for Matthews and the Leafs, screw them all.  

Those guys will be the reason they will win the cup if they ever do. No Mcdavid = No cup.

[pluralsight]

I think the biggest question at this point of the season, is why is Sutter still on the powerplay?