What allowed Oilers to take over this series?

Edmonton Oilers eliminate the Los Angeles Kings in the first round for the fourth consecutive season on Thursday night. All four of the Oilers wins in this series had the Kings leading each time. After losing the first two games, Edmonton outscores LA 20-12 in the last four games as we welcome Frankie Curado back to the show. Yeah, it we’ve been talking about it a lot in this series. Every game this series, Edmonton a terrible start. Edmonton has to come from behind. Should Edmonton feel fortunate that the Kings just could not hold on to leads? They they shouldn’t feel fortunate that the LA Kings can’t hold on to leads. Although that’s a big part of it. They should feel like they were a resilient team and they found ways to work themselves back into games. But you talk about the Los Angeles Kings, like this was their bread and butter all season long, holding on to leads. When they had the lead after one period, they only had four losses in the regular season. After two periods, only one loss in the regular season. And there were a lot of moments where LA, they had control of games throughout the course of this series, whether it was game one with a four nothing lead and they almost blow that one and then a couple games later having a two nothing lead, a 3-1 lead. Like this was a constant theme for LA. And credit the Edmonton Oilers because they didn’t go away quietly. And of course, you’re never going to go away quietly when you have two of the best players in the world. But they managed to be a resilient team coupled with the, you know, firepower that they do have. Now, another year where the Los Angeles Kings cannot get past the Edmonton Oilers. I don’t know what you do at this point. Just just hope you never have to play the Oilers again in the playoffs. Yeah, we were talking about they’re a good team. They just cannot beat this Oilers team. And yet Edmonton from the start of the third period in game four, really right to the end, really looked like a dominant offensive unit. What allowed them to take over the way they did? They got depth scoring in a big way. And think about this. So now nine goals over the last two games of that series and not one of those goals came from 97 or 29. That really puts it into perspective that when this team is really clicking and everyone is contributing they are a dangerous team and the strength of their depth really showed here in the later parts of the series. Whether it was Darnell Nurse on the board, Zack Heyman, we saw Matias Yanmark factor in Connor Brown has been playing unbelievable hockey like really contributing using his speed. So, it’s not just, you know, the intangibles that the other guys are bringing. It’s the fact that they’re actually converting and producing offensively. And when you do that, like that just elevates what the big boys can do for that team even more. But, you know, in two crucial games, get nine goals. None of them were from McDavid or Dryidle. That really goes to show you how well things are going for the depth of the Oilers. We for years we talked about their lack of depth scoring and now they appear to have it. However, now they have to face a very tough Las Vegas Golden Knights team in the second round. What do they have to clean up against this Golden Knights team? A little bit of what we saw tonight where it can be loose at times, right? Like we see the Buchard nurse pairing. There can be uh a little bit of risk taken between those two guys. And so we saw some two-on-ones, we saw a breakaway. We can see that at times the Edmonton Oilers have a tendency to let their guard down and allow these plays towards the front of the net where you’re playing Vegas. That’s a different story. Like that is a team that feasts on these types of transition plays. Like that’s where they really make their living. And so it’s great that you’re getting the depth scoring. It’s great that you were a resilient team, but your opponent is going up a level now. And now you’re dealing with a team that is going to defend better. So, it’s going to make it hard for you to get your offense and you are going to have to make sure that you’re doing everything you can to not feed into that transition game. Remember the year Vegas won the cup like that was it was clogged up. There was nothing in the middle of the ice. It was hard for Edmonton to score at five on five. They’re likely getting another dose of that. So, don’t feed into the Vegas transition game, the Vegas offensive, you know, uh Vegas offensive game that they’re waiting and sitting there to to try and attack you with. Two years ago, the Oilers were eliminated by the Golden Knights in round number two. So, this is their chance at ultimate redemption. And Frankie is going to stick around because we still have to talk about game six between the Blues and the Jets. That’s what

The Oilers defeated the Kings for the fourth straight game and sent them packing from the playoffs for the fourth straight year. TSN Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado joins SC with Jay Onrait to share his thoughts on Game 6 and how Edmonton turned around the series.

31 comments

  2. What happened to the Kings ?? Game three the Oilers inserted Evander Kane, Trent Frederic and Calvin Pickard. Thats what happened . Size, physical play and better goaltending then they had got in games one and two.

  7. Where is all the LA in 4 people? Hearing nothing but crickets now?Mabey they where confused with oiler beating them 4 times? Mabey that's the 4 they where talking about?

  8. I'll tell you what didn't; The Refs. The Refs in this series were awful. At times it benefited the Oilers sure. But 90% of it was in favor of LA. I mean FFS they Flattened our goalie in front of the Linesman and a Ref and somehow didn't get a penalty FFS

  11. I didn't watch the series, but how do you mention a whole series and never mention the number one goalie once? Didn't skinner let in 11 goals in the first two? Was the goalie change not a factor at all? Just curious, but I thought letting in 11 goals was bad.

  15. Not sure why anyone thought the kings would win the series. Kings have played their style for last few seasons then in the playoffs they can't duplicate it.

  16. If the Oilers or Knights play as bad as they did in rd 1 , then they'll lose rd 2 . I give a slight edge to Vegas in net and maybe overall . Vegas in 7 JUST because !

  17. Vegas barely got by minnesota. EDM plays woth a decent pace and yeah so what edmonton has to lose a couple first to reverse sweep the team.

  20. The Oilers, plain and simple, wanted it more. They were prepared to play a series, not simply a continuation of the regular season. They averaged 5 goals a game over 6 games, allowing 4 (Apparently you can do that). They won 4 consecutive games, including all their games played at home. They refused to quit after two losses in Los Angeles, travelling back to Edmonton to snatch Game 3 and 4, and the series momentum. They beat the Kings in Game 5, in Los Angeles, despite Wil Ferrell and the Korean Harmonicists. And then they came back to Edmonton, and won Game 6 for themselves, and their fans. No rest, no let-up. And no ads, either. Thanks for posting.

  24. I notice TSN always have some sort of hate towards the Oilers never giving them props unless they have no choice to
    probably because McDavid isn't playing for Toronto maple leafs .🤔

  27. This is way more on the Kings for being clowns than the Oilers. Knoblauch didn't do anything special this series except sit back and watch Hiller self implode the team with his historically awful decisions.

  30. The Oilers had a mature capable Goalie who won 4 of 4 games,so he swept the Kings single handedly. If they ride Pickles like they did Roloson and a few others they could win it all. Knoblauchs line-blending all year long paid off and that meant he could just replace single players seamlessly anywhere to change how an entire line played or impacted the game, he bred regular season dynamic familiarity amongst the players. Reffs let a lot of penalties go the Oilers were committing especially Kane and Frederic and they cant expect that kind of break in Round#2, just keep Pickles in net and protect him so he doesnt get run over by the LVK. This feels like it could be the year a Canadian Team wins it, god forbid its Toronto we will never hear the end of that.

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