Pickard To Start 👀
Sources: #Oilers plan to start Cal Pickard against #Canucks in Game 4 on Tuesday night.#LetsGoOilers look to even up the series with Pickard backstopping them in what would be his first career Stanley Cup playoff start.
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— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) May 14, 2024
by dmonator
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Damn they upgraded mid series
We’re good at scoring on our first shot, let’s do that lol
Oh Ya!!! We’re gonna put Demko back in then!!!!
If this goes bad early for Edmonton, and it very well could, we may see jerseys hitting the ice -again- before this game is done.
Not sure I have ever seen a team roll the dice like this in a game 4.
Predicting a full meltdown tonight and the boys to come home 3-1.
Feast!!
Let’s light his ass up. We’re coming back to Vancouver up 3-1.
Hopefully he doesn’t pull a silovs lol
Desperation play by Oilers. They pulled their starter who was a big part of the 16 game win streak and now they are going with a guy who got the 12 wins in 23 games.
The Oilers play differently in front of Pickard, similar to how Canucks are in front of DeSmith. I don’t think they fully trust their goalies, so it’ll be interesting if they stay back to support Pickard more.
Hopefully this opens up more chances for the Canucks.
Bold move. Lots of pressure to put on a journeyman goalie who last played a full game on April 18th.
Good. Oilers are frazzled. Pepper him.
BRING IT.
This is friggin’ amazing! Kris Knob is doing the opposite of EVERYTHING he did during the regular season to be successful. 1. Trusted his starting goalie; 2. Trusted his bottom 6 with minutes.
If we could just find a way to get ole knobby to bench McDavid and DrySaddle… hmmmmm…
we dont do well against backup goalie.
i sure canucks planned the oiler could switch goalie.
[Bieksa explaining what our game plan should be tonight](https://youtu.be/DH_cHGzEfag?si=F2pAnsCh-51D3om6)
Panic move and a bad one
Pickard’s 4 starts vs playoff teams this season:
4 GA, .875 SV% vs Florida (L)
5 GA, .872 SV% vs Florida (L)
3 GA, .889 SV% vs Dallas (W)
5 GA, .844 SV% vs Dallas (L)
cant wait to hear all the, canucks only won because oilers have to use their backup excuse
if Pickard plays the way he did in the regular season (putting up perfectly average numbers), that would have been enough for Edmonton to win the first few games. However, part of the reason Skinner’s numbers look *so* bad this series is because we barely shoot, so anything he lets in (even if it’s on a high danger chance) will plummet his save %, so hopefully we can do the same thing here haha.
I like it when *our* backup is the only secret weapon
Canucks with 40 shots plus.. shoot every where … lets see
He might do well or he might do just as bad, we really won’t know until game time!
Gotta take advantage because now they’ve lost all faith in skinner.
I think if they even got average goaltending, it might be a different series so I’m a little concerned haha. We are good at making backup goalies look elite.
Mentally different from Silovs in that Silovs was forced in and had no expectations along with lack of experience. He wasn’t expecting to be better than Demko or Casey. Just go out and play. In Pickard’s case he is expected to be an improvement or at least in his mind since they have the choice to put him in over a healthy Skinner. It could work out and he is a beast but it’s certainly not the same circumstances. It’s a lot of pressure.
The Oilers have three problems right now: an over-reliance on their first line, a struggling defence, and sub-average goal-tending. A lot of people are pointing fingers at Skinner, but his defence hasn’t really helped him either, and they cannot play McDrai for close to 30 minutes each game and maintain that pace.
They might have addressed the goal-tending issue, but the other two problems remain. As everyone knows (or should know), Tocchet doesn’t care for “high volume” shots, but for effective shots. On that metric, the Oilers had a 8-9 lead in the last game. On the shots that matter, Pickard will be tested.
To hear the Oilers fans on their sub, having their starter yanked after 15 shots, and now going with their backup just saved their series. We’ll see. I think that we’ve seen the best of the Oilers to this point, and it isn’t good enough. Go Canucks!
Who cares – play hard boys – doesn’t matter who’s in net. Play hard