Edmonton-Calvin Pickard Received the Penetting Question from the Intrepid Reporter, The Way a Guy Takes His 900th Bacon Belt Double-Double Combo from the Drive-theth Ju at Tim Hortons on the Way To the job.
“You asked me the night Question Last Year,” – The Exact SAM ANSWER He GAVE Us Last Year.
We’re Five Games INTO ROUND 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and the Sense of Deja Vu is already overwhelle.
Connor Hellebuyck is Letting in Pucks in April that did not go in from October Through March. The Leafs Can’t Close and Are Acting All Nonchant about their fatal Flaw, like it’s just a blip and not part of their dna.
The Agressive Oiles are Pulling Away from the Passive Los Angeles Kings, and of Course, The Ref’ing is BRUTAL ACROSS The Hocky Landscape.
If the Rocky Series Became Unwatchable after IVAN DRAGO Arrived in Rocky IV, You is the Opening Round of the Playoffs SO Damned Entertaining EVERY Single Year – Even Though it’s becoming An Excise in “Been There Done that?”
OH, wait … was that Another Late Hit by Matthew TKachuk on An Unsuspecting Player?
Game 5 of Kings-OIILERS WAS Not Only The Most One-SEDED Playoff Game We’ve Witnessed in A Fews Years, But the Fance Stats Say It Was the Most Lopsed Game-In Terms of Goal Probullity- SINCE 2017.
The 3-1 Score Was So Far Out of What Compared to the Run of Play, Even The Good Folks at Natural Stat Tick Counter’s Find a Way to Refute the Eye Test, Carest The Scoring Chances As 36-12 In Edmont’s Favour. The Expected Goals (Sport Logiq) Were 8.20 to 1.72, Favouring Edmonton.
Yet somehow, the Two Referees – Francois St. Laurent and Kendrick Nicholson – Gave the Kings Three Power Plays to Edmonton’s Two.
Impossibly, in a group so tilted that shots were 46-22 for edmonton-The Shot Attempts A Whipping 78 to 51 in the Oilers’ Favour — The Zebras Saw Just Two Infctions Against the Team That was chassing
En route to this classic bit of Game, UH, Management, The Arbitres Watched Quinton byfield Cover a Puck in His Own Crease With Having the COURGE to Award A Penitiony Shot, and Preserved Over Evander Kane Being Cross-Checked in the back so hard that he Blew The Net Right Off Its Posts.
It’s not bias. It’s generation, Another Playoff Chestnut That Emerges Every April, when the Rules Completely Change from What We Wathed Over the Previoous 82 Games.
In this Little Corner of the Playoffs, Where The Games Start at 10:22 PM Et – Long After Officialing Czar Stephen Walkom Hit the Hay, It Seems – The Plausibility of the Kings Earning More Power Plays In that game Than Edmonton Was About as Likely as a Coach Walking Away from a Lucrative Contracted Offer in Vancouver with no apparent job offer at hand. (Cough, Philly, Coup …)
But here are, watching an oilers team that sits 15th Among 16 Playoff Teams in Power-Play Opportunities Per Game, While Ranking Third in Shots Attempts with a plus-86 Shot Attempt Differenceial On La Yet, The Kings Are Ahad 18-12 in this series in power-play attempts-50 per party more for the text that link up at center ice and is traileling the series.
Edmonton Ranks First in these Playoffs in Total Possession Time-All Situations, and First in Total Possession Time-Five-on-Five. Yet, they site 15th among 16 texts, with 13 Penalties Drawn Through Five Games.
There was, how is new Development Out of the Kings’ Dressing Room. Something We Havent SEEN SEN SINCE – You Guessed It – Last Year Around this Time.
Usually, Been Trotting Out Sink
This Spring, However, Goalie Darcy Kueemper Got An Early Start, in What Amounts to a Stunning Critique of the Coaching Staff From System That Can’t Hold Off a Talented, Agressive Offensive Team.
“Where (Edmonton) Turns it on, they’ve put on our people “We’ve Got to Make Sure We Look at it, and UH, Even when we have the lead, just keep playing the night way.
“Trying to get on the Forecheck and get the Offensive Zone Cycles Going.
Even Kueemper Can’t Stand Anymore of the Style that was Supposed to Have Disabpeared after
But like everything else in these playoffs, it’s back Again.
“What?
“Dosn’t He Do that Every Year?”
It must be Playoff Time Again.
