TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss Kris Knoblauch’s first Game 7 win as a head coach, what’s next for the Canucks, and who has the edge between the Stars and the Oilers in the Western Conference Final.
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Stars gonna smash the oil, hate to say it but they have no shot. Should make for a fun series though, more than you can say about the nucks/oil series.
Dallas is stellar all around
Oilers was 0-4 vs Canucks in regular season, but beat them in playoffs. Oilers also never lost to Stars in the previous playoff meetings. Who wins WCF? Absolutely Oilers. Who wins Stanley Cup this year? Oilers!
Too many armchair GMs commenting here that just regurgitate what they hear from sports panels. This is the playoffs. Forget what happened in the regular season. Who is hungrier? We will see. Let's just hope it is good hockey without any dirty BS.
I’m so proud of Edmonton
DAL is going to give EDM a hulk hogan legdrop and a 1-2-3 pinfall by no later than game 6 lol.
dallas has better goaltending and scoring depth. any canadian hockey fan that wants to root for EDM, great.
just look at the reality of what EDM truly is: a heavily flawed p-off team.
cheers from southern ontario, canada 🍁
Sure Dallas has good depth but Hintz might not be available for the series. He's currently out day to day with an injury. That said the Stars are still good enough even without their #1 center.
As a Flames fan it was really weird to be cheering for the Oilers vs the Canucks. But now I'll be cheering for Tanev.
Edmonton barely beat a third string goalie and top 6 player out. No chance against Dallas
McDavid and co. looked tired after a month of playoff hockey. Inconsistent goaltending. Stars in 4.
Dallas in 4.
No one really believes Dallas can lose this series. We’re kind of playing with house money.
OIlers fan here…Dallas is a more complete team…. tighter and far more reliable. Edmonton has leaks everywhere…..Hard to trust a team that can surrender a lead as quickly as Edmonton. And they do consistently. The D core is simply a breakdown machine~ too many jaw dropping basic errors under pressure. Dallas can handle the pressure better…I hope this series goes 6-7 games.
Stars destroy Oil in 4
Watching how Edmonton moves the puck it pisses me off with all the skill the Leafs have and their game always looks so disjointed. Watching Mcdavid sometimes looks like Watching the Harlem Globetrotters out there….
When Duchene scored in 2OT he said that Avs have better top guys than Stars but they got gassed and Dallas can roll all their lines. Avs and Oilers are very similar teams.
Oilers in 6 or Stars in 5. All depends on Skinner/Oilers goaltending.
Dallas fans are getting too cocky with most of their teams running deep into the playoffs. Stars a good team but not foolproof
Dallas did a good job defensively all playoffs they played a full vegas team amd colorado hahaha they can take edmonton easy
Can't wait to see how Otter and Dallas handle the Edmonton offense. This is gonna be a great WCF
Oilers dont play 60 minutes… of the 4 teams left they are the weakest mentally IMO… most leaks on the ice as well too many basic breakdowns. I'd be shocked if they made it to the Cup round and more so if they won the cup. Dallas in 5 maybe 6.
Dallas in 6. One word …..goaltending
Dallas has a significant advantage. I expect the Oilers to push them, but it's Stars' year. Stars in 6
LETS GO OILERS!
Gotta give the Assistant coaches props to they also helped out lots too 🙂 they never seem to get enough credit its always the HEAD COACH 🙂
LETS GO OILERSSS
Dallas in 5.
Oiler fan but gotta give the edge to Dallas. As much as I would love to see the oil win the cup again I honestly believe the final will be Dallas Rangers with Rangers coming out as champs
Oilers offence is better…and they will need it…
Stars in 6 if that. Oil have zero goaltending.
oilers cup or bust
As a Canadian and a Toronto boy, it would be real nice to see Edmonton in Stanley Cup finals. Really hope this happens.
The Desharnais/Nurse pairing and the Kulak/Ceci pairing was a great move! I'll definitely give Knobs credit for that. Desharnais has grown immensely! He is elevating Nurse's game, and the same goes for Kulak elevating Ceci's game.
Dallas has a deeper team and obvious better goaltender. But as far as regular season goes, both teams are nearly identical in Regulation Wins, Goals For and Goals against. And this playoffs Edmonton has the top 4 point producers out of all teams, Dallas doesn’t have any in the top 10. Oilers are #1 in power play and penalty kill and Dallas are 11th in penalty kill. I don’t know how this will turn out but I don’t think it’s gonna be a blow out either way.
edmonton is a team with a lot of players from Ontario, the hockey capital of the world; ususally those teams do well in playoffs…their only disappointment is not being a Toronto Maple Leaf…
Oilers in 6
Like all playoffs it's anybody's win I think oilers are a more experienced team then Dallas the person that said it best was LA kings captain when they lost series Edmonton has changed from the team I was use to playing to a smarter experienced team that he has saw and this is Daugh the captain who has played oil every playoffs series last 4 years
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Dallas in 6
Stars in 4
It’s nuts that the oilers made it to wcf with Calvin pickard as there back just shows the year they are having
one thing the nucks wont have to worry about for a long time is goaltending
Dallas in 5 mark my words
This will be the first hard team the oilers have the play 😂 wild