Valriera

To be fair at his age and career, I’d only want that too

Made a difference tonight. DeSmith looked like shit

There’s what Bob did there and then there’s the shitshow of goaltending out west lol

3 pts, hits, everything, amazing so far, keep it up kid

Amazing performance by the team again, but this time it’s the way they overcame this atrocious refereeing. I love this game, have watched it all my life, have watched most playoff games all my life. Richie and I have been harping on this all year - this is the absolute worst year for hockey refereeing EVER. By a huge margin. Honestly it impacts the ability to enjoy the game because you have no idea what’s allowed and not allowed on a night to night basis. It goes both ways, tonight and last game were not the caps got away with murder type things. Absolutely not - the officiating has been terrible both ways, both games, and it’s routine this year. It’s so sad because it overcomes a gutsy performance by the team, an amazing performance by Mika, and all we will be remembering this game by is when Panarin had to reverse hit Oshie to prevent the fifth instance of violence this evening, and happened to knock him out of the game. It’s sad. Inconsistent refereeing is what leads to games like soccer where half the game is about playing the referee and you think “oh, that won’t happen in hockey.” It can, and that’s exactly what tonight was, just two teams trying to game powerplay out of referees and then being dirty when they can. And the referees let both teams get away with it. Frustrating.

Just do the same thing and be physical - they are small, we are tall

People who evade taxes by donating to their own charity aren’t breaking any rules either, doesn’t make it acceptable. This is an easy fix which is that the salary cap applies in the playoffs too. Problem solved. in other news it doesn’t matter what either team does since their goalies suck shit. Does any team in the west want to win? You will need a goalie who doesn’t let in wrist shots from the blue line. Yikes.

The oilers scored three PPGs on the exact same play

To be fair the face is punchable

lol nobody out west playing goal so far. Brutal tending in Nashville v Vancouver too.

Rempe’s mom was here to watch him play for the first time today Legend.

We do too

Props to the team for coming to play a complete game today. Well done.

Rempe first star, not even close

No idea when the last time that happened but this has been a textbook game 1.