This is how you get fired in the NHL

After 1,078 regular season games, Jeff Skinner finally scored his first career playoff goal after 15 seasons in the NHL. As D Smith was battling, but he was fighting a puck that was already in the back of his net. But wait, you may be asking, why is this Smith even in net? Last night, Pete Dbor panicked. There’s no other way to put it. Yes, Oddinger gave up two goals on the first two shots of the game. an elimination game, I may add, as the Stars faced a third straight conference finals loss. But were either of these Otter’s fault? He didn’t take that stupid high sticking penalty that led to the power play where he was left all alone with Perry in front. He also didn’t give up a breakaway 5 minutes later to Yanmark that left him literally looking like where are my guys? Neither of these goals were directly on him, but Dbor was rattled and the talk all series was how Dallas had to have a better start. And this was not it. So he called time and decided to pull the guy who was probably his best player of the playoffs. And not just that, it was how he did it, too. Jake was on his way out just to be yanked back in. And I don’t know, this was just brutal. He had to sit there next to Ray Ferraro talking about the whole thing as he had to feel for the man. This had a somewhat similar vibe to that Patrick Ross scenario from back in the day, but instead of being pulled too late, this was him being pulled far too early. Now, him and Dbor didn’t even look at each other coming out for the second. And yet, while this was all bad, it was the coach’s postgame comments that were far worse. And I didn’t blame it all on Jake, but you know, the reality is, you know, he’s lost six to seven games to Edmonton and status quo had not been working, you know, and that’s that’s a pretty big sample size. Talk about throwing a guy under the bus. In other words, I didn’t blame it all on Jake, but he freaking sucks and I don’t trust my number one guy. Now, remember, they just signed Auter back in October to an 8-year deal. So, you kind of have to wonder if these are the actions of a man ready to be fired because I don’t know how this relationship can be salvaged going forward. And don’t get me wrong, Dbor is a great coach. He’s been in the Western Conference Finals six times in eight seasons with three different clubs, but he just could not get the offense going in this series when they needed it. He had no answers for the Oil special teams. And in the biggest game of the year, like I said, he panicked. He puts in a goalie into Smith who hadn’t played in over a month. I mean, to have this short of a leash on one of the better net miners in the league, in my opinion, is nuts. Now, does Auter stop this initial goal that the Smith let in? Who knows? Or how about after the Stars finally did get going, Robertson first and then hints in the second on the power play to get within just a goal before just two minutes later, Connor freaking McDavid. I mean, what can you even say? Just a beautiful goal and the man is on a mission. But does Auter stop this one? Or how about the one that really put them away in the third? That was a lucky bounce. But I don’t know. Maybe he stops one of these three and his team either wins this game or at least has a chance to push it maybe to overtime or maybe he doesn’t. But either way, I think Otter earned the right to go down with this sinking ship after being in large part the reason they were here to begin with. All that said though, in the end it is the Edmonton Oilers who are for the second year in a row going to meet the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup final. The difference this year they get home ice advantage and they also touched the Clarence S. Campbell Bolt. I’m sure it’ll be a good series. Both teams are on fire heading into this. So let me know your predictions below. Thank you for watching and I’ll see you in the next one.

Last night as the Dallas Stars faced elimination against the Edmonton Oilers in game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, we witnessed a truly strange situation in the first 7 minutes of the game. The Stars gave up 2 goals on the first 2 shots faced from the Oilers as Pete DeBoer called time out. However, as the Oettinger and the Stars went back out, DeBoer angrily called back Oettinger and pulled him from the game. Again, in an elimination game. He chose to play DeSmith who hadn’t played in over month over his starting number 1 goalie in Oettinger. Now Oettinger hadn’t played amazingly, but the Stars as a whole hadn’t. Neither of the opening goals were Oettinger’s fault as Corey Perry scored on the powerplay all alone in front and then Janmark minutes later on a break away. It was extremely odd but worse than that, DeBoer completely threw Oettinger under the bus in the post game interview. In my opinion, this is absolutely a fireable offence but we will see what direction the Dallas Stars decide to go. As for the Oilers, they will now meet the Florida Panthers in the Stanley cup final for the 2nd year in a row! I cover it all in todays NHL hockey video.

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  1. My apologies for the lack of coverage during this third round. The NHL has been increasingly claiming videos again which forces me to focus more energy on working around their copyright claims than on trying to make quality videos I can be proud of. This gets frustrating and leads to it just not being worth it at a certain point. Just felt I owed you an explanation!

  3. Dallas has been overrated for years. They aren't championship material. They need to have a Florida moment of clarity. Winning in the regular season and winning a round or two just to get trucked while having tons of talent is worse than losing but making progress every year. Florida realized after the 2022 playoffs that winning a Presidents trophy and having scoring for years doesn't mean you're successful.

  5. 3 straight conference finals, 3 straight rather embarrassing losses for the team that finished in the top 2 in their division in the regular season all 3 years. At some point, the coach has to start taking responsibility for the team not being able to score or defend (or both). Other than the first game of this series where they won with 6 goals scored, they scored 0, 1 ,1, and 3 goals the next 4 games, respectively, which is not great. Also, only 5 of the goals they scored in this series were 5on5, 1 of them was an empty net (first game), and 6 coming on the power play – in contrast Edmonton scored 13 5on5 goals, had 3 empty netters, and 6 power play goals as well. They played better in every facet of the game

    Absolutely horrendous on both ends of the ice, especially when you were outscored 22 – 11 in the series overall, and I wouldn't say either goalie they put out there played poorly. And, with this interview and the fact he's flamed out in his last 10 playoff appearances with this team and others, I think he just fired himself with this nonsense excuse he just put out there if he wasn't on the chopping block already.

    And, to be honest, it's not like DeBoer had the best of rosters to go with, especially this year in particular. The left side of the defense was bad all year, and barring a relatively amazing end of the series against Colorado by Rantanen and going up against a relatively injured and poor-scoring (and with uncharacteristic poor goaltending away from home) Jets team, when they finally played the class of the conference, their offense and defense showed why they didn't belong in the finals, again. The obvious takeaways from the last half of the season and the playoffs are that the defense is suspect without Heiskanen which leads to fewer and poorer offensive chances, they don't play well offensively against quicker and more organized teams when they don't have the man advantage regularly enough, and the goalies are not elite enough to cover this up when they've been relied upon to do so since at least the middle of the season after the Heiskanen injury.

  6. McDavid is not someone any goalie wants to see coming straight for him and no defenders in sight, desmith isn't terrible he came from the pens but he struggles under pressure like the whole season on the line

  8. As much as i love what Pete has done for us, getting us to these conference finals. but he has to go, i've watched Jake grow since we drafted him and this is absurd. we need someone who can actually get this team together. Jake is our best player and Pete has to understand that.

  9. I disagree entirely. I'm with DeBoer on this one. In fact, I think his mistake was not having STARTED DeSmith instead of Otter. The simple truth is that Otter was not the same goalie this series as he was in the previous two. And that was a do or die game. Like he said, the status quo was not working. They needed to try something different. But maybe he didn't try soon enough.

  12. Do you remember how he blamed Fleury several years ago? And it lead to selling him to Chicago, year without play offs for Knights and Deborah was finally fired. There were wonderful times 😂

  13. Throughout the entire series that DeBoer was just constantly whining and crying in all post game interviews, he has not actually even bothered to look into the overall performance problems that the team has been PP merchant for the entire playoffs. So refs are calling fewer penalties and so "I'll whine about it and see if it helps" is not a good strategy at all.

  14. Calgary fan here, and we know first hand how excellent Otter is (2022 playoffs). This was a ridiculous move to pull Otter…..it mirrors a move by former Flames coach Geoff Ward. Cam Talbot got the Flames into the playoffs and was HOT….but it game 7 against Dallas on MAY 20 2020 the flames built a 3-0 lead and then TALBOT let in 3 NOT HIGH QUALITY goals…..SO the coach PULLED TALBOT and put DAVE RITTICH in net for the SECOND PERIOD …..Richter was ice cold, hadn't played for a while, so it was no surprise that he gave up 3 goals in the second period, so the coach put Talbot back in net in the third…..Calgary lost the game and the series that night…..WARD, rightly, lost his job…..

  16. DeBOER needs to be fired. Never once did I see him giving any other player static. Neither of these goals were Oettinger's fault. The only thing DeBoer does is scream at the referees and spend more time looking at his iPad than what is happening on the ice.

  19. I don't know why I used to have respect for Dallas and half ass root for them. Especially since I despise Benn. What a terrible organization.

  22. I like DeBoer. Hes a great coach and deserves a cup appearance. Not a fan of Jamie Benn though. He's got skill, no doubt, but he still acts like a goon from the 90's a lot of the time. That Winnipeg game where he threw a haymaker sucker punch at Scheifele, which luckily missed, was total meathead action.

  24. Ok this is it. Yes it’s the go lies fault. Not only him. The teammates on the ice. But the goalie is to save. He didn’t. So please people stfu about it hahaha it’s the finals now. If you want an explanation of what happened is that this is hockey and shit happens. My team got there ass whooped. (Caps) and goddamn do I want Edmonton to win the cup. 🤷🏽‍♂️ it’s fucking hockey. Be a fan. If you’re a critic or hater. Go waste your time you dumbasses 😂😂😂

  26. Iono man. I think people are being emotional too in response. When you're down 3-1 in a series, and you lose all the time to a team, you cannot let in 2 goals on 2 shots. Period. This is the NHL, not beer league. A lot is at stake.

  27. I'm a 100% Floridian and Panthers Fan way over Lightning Fan. Even back when they had the Russian Rocket Pavel Bure! And although I think the Panthers are by a small margin a better team, have better depth players overall, execute better, are more physical, have a better Coach with better Systems, and lastly have a Cooler name, Cooler jersey, and Cooler colors….Unfortunately I'm afraid and disappointed to say I get the Feeling Mcdavid and Draisatle are not going to allow this opportunity to slip away this year. This will also determine whether or not Mcdavid decides to stay and sign long term extension in Edmonton.

  28. Dallas had scored just two goals total in the previous three games.

    The coaching staff possibly went into the game thinking that their only hope of winning
    was to have a tight, close checking, low scoring game because they didn't expect
    Dallas to get many goals in the game.

    After Edmonton scored two fast goals the coaching staff might have been thinking that
    the game is getting away from them fast and that they need to do something
    because if Edmonton gets another goal Dallas will never catch up
    given their recent struggles to score.

    And the coaching staff is probably thinking that if they don't do anything
    and Edmonton scores again they'll look like the MLB manager
    who left a pitcher in just to see him give up a home run
    and everyone will blame them for doing nothing and letting
    the game get out of reach.

    So I can understand why they pulled their number one goaltender so soon.

    But the comments later weren't well thought out.

    And it turned out that Dallas players did manage to get some goals
    so the game didn't end up getting out of reach.

    I doubt it mattered which goaltender was in for any of the Edmonton goals.
    I don't think either Dallas goaltender would have stopped any of the
    Edmonton goals.

  29. The pull itself wasn't the worst decision, I would have actually done the same thing if I was the coach . How he did it was the problem, that was mistake 1. The team needed a wake up call and that's usually the string coaches pull to do it. However I thought Oettinger would be back in at the start of the 2nd. The fact he wasn't was mistake 2 by Deboer. The comments after the game were mistake 3. Simply just say with the start the team had you were trying to spark them and leave it at that.

    Either hes fired or Oettinger will be asking for a trade.

  31. I hope coach gets fired, what a bonehead move trying to use the goalie as a scale goat. This is like everyone blaming luongo in the 2011 finals. The Canucks scored 8 goals in a 7 game series and somehow won 3 games? Yea goalies fault for sure. Similar situation here. The stars have to score some goals before they complain about goaltending.

  33. As a former goalie, I can honestly say I wouldn't be too happy with the coach, either. The Perry goal wasn't his fault. The breakaway is 50/50. It's partially his fault for not having his stick on the ice, but breakaways are generally a wash for responsibility due to the defensive breakdown required for them.

    I've had a lot of different coaches in my day. One of the best I ever had was trained at the olympic level. He watched me flub a puck, letting in, what can only be called the worst goal I've ever let in. A miss trickler I completely botched with a poke check. He pulled me. When I got the bench, he told me I needed to get my head in the game. That I was far better than what I'd just allowed to happen, then told me after the clock hit 10 minutes. I was going back in. I didn't get scored after that. He was letting the team reset as much as he was letting me reset. He had my respect before, but he earned it 10x that day. He didn't go easy on me, but he showed me he trusted me to do better.

  35. I'll admit the timing might have been brutal, but does everyone forget that Oilers pulled Skinner out of the playoffs for Pickard to come in and carry the team out of Round 1? And while the scoring was not there all series besides game 1, but where was Otter that past 3 games? Again not all on him, but definitely shares the blame. And all Deboer did was state the obvious, that is all.

  36. I understand why DeBoer pulled Oettinger, specially after letting 2 goals in on 2 shots. But they needed a wake up call. It almost worked too!! feels bad for how he called out Oettinger after the game which was totally uncalled for.

  38. Saying you don't blame it all on Jake but then saying HE lost the series instead of WE lost the series is just kinda bullshite on his part especially considering DeBoers ….'History" himself as a losing coach :/… just sayin.

  39. Not a word about Bourque high sticking penalty 1 47 into the game, that lead to a powerplay goal, good way to get off to a good start right Dallas. Not a word about that. I am a big fan about players controlling themselves in a game, penalties unless there good ones are terrible.

  41. Just want to point out that DeBoer has lost his last 6 conference finals, with three different teams. So maybe it's not on Otter

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