Rishaug details the challenge the Stars present for the Oilers in the WCF
After getting by the Canucks in seven games in the second round, what kind of challenge do the Stars present for the Oilers in the Western Conference Final? TSN’s Ryan Rishaug joins SportsCentre to discuss
Why arenât they talking about how big of a challenge the Oilers are for the Stars?
Oilers have 4 of the top scorers in the playoffs. They made it to the conference finals with their Skinner playing .790 hockey, and McDavid had a subpar series against Vancouver and only had points in 3 out of the 7 games in the Van series and yet Oilers still advanced.
The ceiling for the Oilers is much higher than Dallas. If Skinner plays .900 goaltending and McDavid is on point, while the other player still continue to contribute as they did in the prior series, the Oilers are the more dangerous team.
Plus Oilers have their core and all their superstars in their primes now.
Although Dallas is more balanced and has 8 (20 goal scorers), they have NO superstars. Heiskanen would be the closest but heâs not a superstar at this point but a really good defenseman and he and Bouchard pretty Much cancel each other out.
Although Dallas is deeper, the Oilers have good depth as well.
The big difference here is Skinner playing consistently well and if the Oilers Superstars show up, then they are the much more dangerous team when compared to Dallas.
Oilers have had one of the easiest routes to conference finals ever playing a couple of cream puffs Kings and Canucks, while the Dallas Stars have had to eliminate the two previous Stanley Cup Champions. Stars should win this easily, 5 games.
They were lucky to beat Vancouver if the canucks had their top goalie and their top goal scorer on the ice the oilers would be golfing by now . Can you imagine if the oilers had to play their minor league goalie and conor out
Why do they talk about 5 old playoff series? The reporter said the last one was in 2003. There are ZERO players that were in the NHL in 2003. Its completely irrelevant data, but these useless stats are brought up all the time.
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Not a challenge at all. Those overrated frauds barely made it past the Knights and Avs who were running injured and incomplete rosters.
Oettinger is a bum against EDM, go look at his career sv% against them.
stars should beat the oilers in 6 or 7 games đ
Why arenât they talking about how big of a challenge the Oilers are for the Stars?
Oilers have 4 of the top scorers in the playoffs. They made it to the conference finals with their Skinner playing .790 hockey, and McDavid had a subpar series against Vancouver and only had points in 3 out of the 7 games in the Van series and yet Oilers still advanced.
The ceiling for the Oilers is much higher than Dallas. If Skinner plays .900 goaltending and McDavid is on point, while the other player still continue to contribute as they did in the prior series, the Oilers are the more dangerous team.
Plus Oilers have their core and all their superstars in their primes now.
Although Dallas is more balanced and has 8 (20 goal scorers), they have NO superstars. Heiskanen would be the closest but heâs not a superstar at this point but a really good defenseman and he and Bouchard pretty
Much cancel each other out.
Although Dallas is deeper, the Oilers have good depth as well.
The big difference here is Skinner playing consistently well and if the Oilers Superstars show up, then they are the much more dangerous team when compared to Dallas.
Oilers have had one of the easiest routes to conference finals ever playing a couple of cream puffs Kings and Canucks, while the Dallas Stars have had to eliminate the two previous Stanley Cup Champions. Stars should win this easily, 5 games.
They were lucky to beat Vancouver if the canucks had their top goalie and their top goal scorer on the ice the oilers would be golfing by now . Can you imagine if the oilers had to play their minor league goalie and conor out
The Oilers might win one game.
Skinner didn't bounce back…canucks didn't shoot on him…silly statement
Dallas is going downđ
Canadian team? This will be Too easy for Dallas to win. Dallas in 4.
Why do they talk about 5 old playoff series? The reporter said the last one was in 2003. There are ZERO players that were in the NHL in 2003. Its completely irrelevant data, but these useless stats are brought up all the time.
A Dallas fanboy!