POST-RAW | Kris Knoblauch 12.28.24

13 comments

1. Take the point and move on. Close game today, refs were blind and deaf.
   Still a very entertaining game to watch. This rivalry is as fiery as ever, despite the frustrating loss in OT.

2. I’d like to know why the ref didn’t stop play when you can clearly see Skinner is telling them his mask is loose and needs to be fixed.

3. Still infuriated the fact that Stuart keep saying to the refs over and over his helmet is loose and got ignored. Great game either way but come on man, the officiating gotta start being better.

4. Refs are the reason the game is getting harder and harder to watch. The fact they put someone life in jeopardy to getting hit in the head with the puck with a strapless helmet is downright dangerous

5. How to win more games? Trade jeff skinner for a 6th and get some cap space

6. McDavid and Henrique the two most un productive players, at least can’t blame it on Bouchard or Skinner.

7. The ref were very unaware of calls they should have made.

8. Out coached. #19 was a -3 and you have him on the ice during 3 on 3. Wtf.

9. "Everyone not playing to their best" I wonder if each team says that when they lose (Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres) just to mention those. Why can't a coach just say "they were the better team tonight and we sucked as f$%k" is that hard to say for a coach. I understand Oilers have apparently the best player(s) in the league. But there's still a possibility some teams play better than yours someday.

10. don't agree that you can't put it on Skinner and Bouch. Three goals we got were defensible, and Bouch had a big brain f..rt in the OT where he loses the puck in a corner instead of going behind our net, that gave the Kings the momentum, it was GAME CHANGING. Yes, McDavid's contribution was low, but Bouch had a bad one, Skinner as well.

11. Skinner in net, Bouch has a bad game. The pattern. How many more Oilers want Skinner gone? Skinner is the worst NHL goalie I have ever seen. Just terrible. Meanwhile, Pickard is in the top 10 NHL goalies???? Wtf? Henrique should have been benched early on. Wtf? Ard belongs on the 4th line waiting to be traded. Who is running this team? How are the players supposed to believe???

12. All I know is if I make 4 mistakes in 3 hours there is a good chance I don’t have a job the next day. Refs blow it big time on this game. First 2 King goals if the penalty got called 30 seconds before, Oilers on Powerplay and no goal for the Kings. That Overtime was a bigger joke. These kind of hockey games no one wants to watch.

13. Coach maybe should not have Henrique in the 3on3 – is he fast enough? But he is right that the refs were one-sided..