2024 Conference Finals

[stinky finger]

2 hours ago, Big Guava said:

The goal he scored looked like he was a grown man playing hockey with a bunch of 5 year olds in the back yard. He just made the entire Stars team look ridiculous.

In a game the Oilers had no business winning or even being in, he provided both offensive plays for them to score the only 2 goals they scored.

Yeah, the goalie I'm sure made some saves, but without McDavid, the Oilers would have been shutout.

So McDavid is great. Is that your point? A couple of highlight goals won't get it done against FL. 

[Big Guava]

8 minutes ago, stinky finger said:

So McDavid is great. Is that your point? A couple of highlight goals won't get it done against FL. 

It might. Depends on the situation.

I don't need to say McDavid is great. Everyone knows that.

What I don't think enough people realize is the dropoff from McDavid to #2, who might be his own teammate in Draisaitl is like the dropoff from #2 to #100.

He is THAT much better than the next closest player.

[stinky finger]

1 hour ago, Big Guava said:

It might. Depends on the situation.

I don't need to say McDavid is great. Everyone knows that.

What I don't think enough people realize is the dropoff from McDavid to #2, who might be his own teammate in Draisaitl is like the dropoff from #2 to #100.

He is THAT much better than the next closest player.

And yet here he is in his first finals. 

Edited June 7 by stinky finger

[LTS]

18 hours ago, Big Guava said:

The goal he scored looked like he was a grown man playing hockey with a bunch of 5 year olds in the back yard. He just made the entire Stars team look ridiculous.

In a game the Oilers had no business winning or even being in, he provided both offensive plays for them to score the only 2 goals they scored.

Yeah, the goalie I'm sure made some saves, but without McDavid, the Oilers would have been shutout.

That's how it works you know.  If you don't score goals you get shutout.  That said, if you don't score more goals than your opponent you lose. So if a team gives us 3x more shots than it takes then the goalie has to be given credit.

Because if the goalie stopped the same percentage of shots as the Stars goalie, the Oilers lose.

McDavid is the most talented player in the game. But, he doesn't possess the puck to keep the other team from having opportunities and he sure as heck fire did not prevent the Stars from shooting on net.