Just like the last game with all of the whining from Oiler's fans I don't want to hear excuses for this loss. Advice: Try holding a 3 goal lead for once. Advice
#2 : Try to actually kill off some penalties.
The Kings should have won this game. If they lose this series it will be because of this loss.
Bright side: Game 5 has always been and will always be the most important game in a 7 game series. Kick their ass in their own building should put this away.
jom
This. My mind wasn't on refs at all that game.
To me this loss is kind of a trade for getting a bit.. lucky in game 1. Wasn't ever gonna be that easy. I prefer the game 1 win (obviously) style of play over this weird thing we've developed THIS year alone I think where we destroy for 20 minutes then just kinda hang out in a hammock for a full 20 drinking mojitos, and let our goalie get wrecked, no matter it being Petersen, Quick, Copley, or Korpisalo. I will say last night he let in some softies and I'm concerned with his 1v1 abilities. I'm talking goals
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#5 . He might just be exhausted at the end of 3rd and OT, etc. Was unfortunate. I think Copley should play. I'd love to see him play a game or more in these playoffs, he deserves it. Korpi's been good though. IDK. 3-1 sounds a lot better than 2-2.
I couldn't sleep all night either, all I can hope is that our pride got hurt last night and this lit a fire under our guys. Let's go in there hungry and disciplined. Let's get this Kings in 6
I haven't slept any of the playoff games, lol. Though they end at 1:30 over here, and I'm amped, 3 hits, and my nights done.
I had a real **** day yesterday, we had opera tickets in Charlotte, left house at 9am for 2pm matinee, hit some random bone in the highway or something, blew a tire, sat there in dress clothes on the side of the highway trying to get the tire off, the lug nuts were stripped and I forgot my actual socket wrench kit at home since we moved I hadn't put it back in the car, so we had some lawn chairs on the side of the highway in the shade like a nice redneck vacation for a few hours for a guy to come with a damn drill, then drove 100 miles home at 40mph on the damn donut, then Kings lose. Bahumbug.
Kings in 6! Win game 5, bring it on home. 7 is too much, that building is too much to drag 3 out of I think. Though maybe we will have to.
Welcome to playoff hockey everyone. That game where you thought it was all in the bag is definitely when you realize just how emotionally overinvested in a series you can get. Sure they won 2 games prior, and you had carried small glimmers of hope that they could. This team took those small whisps of flames and turned them into a blazing inferno of a first period where you were dreaming of up 3-1 and starting to look at how the 2nd round was going to fit your rapidly expanding ego. None of that is bad, it's why we are fans. Unlike the players who benefit from keeping emotions actively pointed toward a tangible goal, we get to go freaking nuts. The wilder the ride the more it means to us. I won't get on any of those death traps at 6 flags, but Kings hockey? I'm a total sucker for it.
Game 5 is coming, we know there will be a game 6, we know that there's going to be an interminable break between those games (4 freaking days!!!). Basically clear your calendar of needing to use rational thought and big life decisions for the next week. We're all going to be a giant collective mess guaranteed.
Oh god I was looking at the Edmonton GDT after 1st; solely to laugh at the melting pot. I caused this. Maybe I wore wrong jersey, IDK. That's how playoffs work, right?
I'll have to go with The **** Show at the Crypto.
