TSN Hockey reporters Ryan Rishaug and Farhan Lalji discuss the pressure that the Oilers and Canucks are facing for Game 7, the mood around each club ahead of the big contest, and which final adjustments each team may make.
I want EDM to win, but many things are more important than hockey, namely health. Best wishes to Boeser. He seems like such a cool dude. Hoping he recovers properly. Humanity, before competition. Best wishes, Brock. 🍻
Oilers fan here, I wish each team could play their best lineup tomorrow, no good when injuries keep good players from key moments. Get well soon Boeser
@donmackie6086 yup hes out. Canucks are cooked. its been a great year. i hope they upgrade this team and cut the dead weight. Ilya Mikheyev needs to go!
Oilers fan here... anything could happen and I wouldnt be surprised. Skinner worries me if he gets off to any kind of a rocky start.... the Oilers have got to bring the hits.. they seem to stumble unexpectedly at so many turns with intermittent "let downs" all over any given series ~ urgency cant be missing right??!
If Skinners lets in 2 shaky goals early on, they need an instant goalie change and put Pickard in. Else they will chant Skinnnnnner and it goes downhill from there and team will play worse with Skinner in net. Pickard proved he can win and play well and if he goes in 2nd period after they're down 0-2, there's not much pressure on him because he's not the one who let in the 2 goals, therefore he might play even better. Thats my opinion, I'm okay with Skinner playing after his last win but 2 shaky goals or 2 goals on less than 15 shots, you have to pull him out
The Oil do seem to have more of a sense of urgency, we can’t afford to keep everyone next year or two. Bouch and Hyman are due 8 figure raises, McD and Leon’s contracts are almost expired and several players are playing themselves onto the market. 10 million is a deal for those first two
At the start of the season, Edmonton was the top Canadian team pick as a potential Stanley Cup winner. Vancouver was picked to be lucky to make the playoffs. Who has the pressure on them?
@@nrdifyhe made like 7 saves through screens.🤣 He they didn't get many SOG but many were well set up and had a screen. For the 15 SOG they looked good maybe one or two freebees that were shot right at him
@benjaminaxselholm missing the play offs? They were one of the first to clinch a spot? When are you talking about. . And who listens to analyzists. Nuks smacked oilers all season? Lol.
Oilers face the most pressure easily. They have been supposed to be the next best thing and like Toronto have been wasting that potential. Vancouver has really done nothing for a decade and seems to have found themselves and rebuilt the line-up on the fly. This is pretty good for a team that has missed eight of the last ten years and missed during the canadian division. Their best performance was when they snuck in through the qualifying round in 2020. They have won a round and could beat the Oilers without their starting goalie. It is all gravy.
Preasure on canucks since they don’t have their top players Brock and demko. Silov is getting tired mentally and physically. Prayers on Broeser for speedy recovery 🙏 May the best teams win 🏆
This series has been fantastic to watch especially not being a fan of either team. I think the most pressure is on the Oilers, as they’ve been saying, cup or bust. Looking forward to this game!
I had seen, going into the 2023-24 regular season, among Canada's NHL teams, the: - Leafs and Oilers qualify for postseason play via finishes in top-3 divisional spots, which those teams would end up doing, although shaky goaltending, including from Stuart Skinner and Ilya Samsonov, didn't help in the early going - Canucks, Jets and Sens as potential playoff teams as at best I had seen each team finish not better than 4th in its division, with my predictions for the: -- Western Canadian teams turn out to be wrong because they would join the Oilers and Leafs with finishes in top-3 divisional spots -- Sens turn out to be right as they would finish 2nd-last in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference - Flames and Habs finish out of playoff spots but between the two teams, the Flames finish higher in the standings, something that would happen albeit narrowly at 81 points to 76
@@Justinchin1604 You mean Oilers right? Canucks were never last place, they were always at the top. Pressures on them to win because no body expected Oilers to even make it to playoffs with their bad start.
I think the Oilers should be the ones under pressure, the last several years we the fans were told "this is the year" not so with Vancouver. I don't think many expected the Canucks to be almost winning the West when you consider the drama from the last 2 or 3 years.
I’d say the Oilers are facing more pressure because the Canucks are playing for pride. They have nothing to lose here since no one even thought they’d make the playoffs.
Pressure is for the Oilers for sure , they’re cup favourites at the start of season and playoffs. Huge expectations for that group. Obviously the Canucks will also have the home crowd pressure and internally they believe in themselves and know they can beat the Oilers when they play their A Game.
If Skinners lets in 2 shaky goals early on, they need an instant goalie change and put Pickard in. Else they will chant Skinnnnnner and it goes downhill from there and team will play worse with Skinner in net. Pickard proved he can win and play well and if he goes in 2nd period after they're down 0-2, there's not much pressure on him because he's not the one who let in the 2 goals, therefore he might play even better. Thats my opinion, I'm okay with Skinner playing after his last win but 2 shaky goals or 2 goals on less than 15 shots, you have to pull him out x
I wouldn’t even pay much attention to any TSN reporters. I’m not even sure why I’m watching a TSN video and I’m really not sure why I’m reading the comments. The vast majority of the people in the comments are deluded idiots who know nothing about hockey wearing rose-coloured glasses for their respective teams.
Ryan is our guy for Alberta, since TSN hates us and still talking about the Leafs long after they're gone. When the Leafs were in Round 1, they get a whole panel featuring Duthie, Lebrun, Masters, and Poulin. Other teams only get one guy (Alberta only gets Rishaug).
Probably the Oilers. McDavid's and Draisaitl's contracts are ending pretty soon, so the Oilers probably want to maximize their primes as much as possible. This is probably one of their best chances to win.
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The clearer question is, which team is more devastated by losing game 7. That would be the Oilers. Vancouver will not riot if lost. Edmonton though... They have been expecting a cup run for a long time now.
When I think of game 7s, the Canucks will face some pressure because of not having qualified for a conference final since their 2011 Cup run. The Habs qualified for a Cup semifinal in 2021 and, like those Canucks, qualified for a Cup final but also, like those Nucks, lost. Before I get into why the Oilers also have pressure to win a Cup I thought I'd compare them to the 2023-24 Sens and 2021-22 Habs after 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 82 respective regular-season games, with this season's Oilers with relevant win-regulation loss-OT loss-shootout loss records of: - 2-7-1-0 (5 points) vs relevant ones by the Sens and Habs of 4-6-0-0 (8 points) and 2-8-0-0 - 7-12-1-0 (15 P), putting the Oilers 5 behind the Sens (10-10-0-0) but 3 ahead of the Habs (5-13-2-0) - 14-15-1-0 (29 P), 3 P ahead of the Sens (13-17-0-0) and 14 P ahead of the Habs (6-21-3-0) - 24-15-1-0 (49 P) vs respective 16-24-0-0 (32) and 8-25-7-0 (23) ones for the Sens and Habs - 31-18-1-0 (63), 22-26-2-0 (46) and 10-33-7-0 (27) - 38-20-2-0 (78), 25-32-3-0 (53) and 16-36-7-1 (40) - 43-23-3-1 (90), 30-36-4-0 (64) and 19-40-9-2 (47) - 49-27-5-1 (104), 37-41-4-0 (78) and 22-49-9-2 (55) The 2020-21 Habs' team that'd finished 24-21-8-3 earned 59 points in 56 games and thus would've been that season on pace for 86 or 87 points but because they finished 4th in the North Division and what'd counted was the finish in that division, they qualified for postseason action, going all the way to a Cup final. Little would those Habs know their window for going for a Cup would indefinitely slam shut just months later. This season's Oilers won't have a 2020s Cup final appearance to fall back on should they lose game 7 of this month's Oilers-Canucks playoff series.
Obviously Oilers have all the pressure. They are cup or bust and Canucks don't have their all star goalie and best scorer on the team now that we are hearing. Hope he recovers quick and we can pull off a win.
We shall see considering that in game 6 Skinner only had to stop 15 shots but has been such a sieve that only in games 3 and 4 of the Kings-Oilers series did he otherwise have a save % of 90.0 or better. His was 93.3 during game 6 of this month's Oilers-Canucks series. Maybe if the Canucks test him, he'll wilt.
I think the blow out game could be the changer if oil come out like last game it will be there's to win they have so much more experienced goal scoring up front and they showed it in game 6 pressure will be on Vancouver Oilers are just a more experienced team in these situations
Canucks have been playing with house money after making the second round, oilers anything but the finals seems like a failure. I also don’t see either team making it through Dallas
Honestly... The Canucks will face more pressure because they are playing at home and failed to finish game 6. I am canucks fan but I am afraid tomorrow the odds are Oilers will win game 7. Anyway if the Canucks lost tomorrow I will not feel dissapointed given how the team went so far this season. its been a succesfull season regardless what happens tomorrow. lots of homework still during offseason to improve the roster and etc. Without Demko Without Bros... it's tough to win. I dont even expect the Canucks can passed 1st round let alone 2nd round.
so called media...referring to nurse being part of the "core" lmao, he is the epitome of a liability, the one thing you can count on, to make terrible blind outlet passes (usually straight to the opponent) horrible, stupid penalties. As a defenseman one of the worst defensively, and there is no upside, not like he's a goal scorer, or setup man.....I just don't get it, and I've said it many times...as long as he is part of the team they will never win a cup. That money is just insane, for what he has to offer?? And, what's worse, you cant rid yourself of him either-- no team in the league would take him for that money. So anyone else wanting to win a cup in Edmonton will have to demand a trade elsewhere in order to achieve said dream.....so sad
Pressure on oilers right now overall due to expectations but if you look at game for game you could say Canucks cause of the last game results and lack of effort , idk man i get so stressed being an oilers fan I already expect Edmonton to lose but over anything hope besser is okay
Pressures more on Canucks since its at Vancouver and because Oilers were once last place in the whole league. I think people forget that, Oilers werent even expected to make playoffs, so many people wrote them off until they had that long ass win streak.
His offense has stifled a bit because of Hronek’s drop off in play. I think they should split them up. Place Hronek on the 2nd, move Zadorov up. Put Myers on the bottom pairing with Cole and hope he has better chances to score.
Its a stupid question. Both teaam.will feel the enormous weight of expectations, with career implications hanging.in.the balance, , and significant personal pride on the line. If one simply had to pick one over the other, i guess I would say the Oilers simply because they have the real superstar power, in Mcdavid, and have been perennial playoff contenders with big expectations that fell short a few years in a row. They were picked by always every pundit to win this series. Nonetheless, the canucks will still be just as gutted by a loss as anyone can be. Players may live with these defeats and the regret for years and years to come.
Canucks need to shut down defensively grind this one out and bring it to ot. Just like the avalanche, after a certain point your superstars can’t keep skating then it’s time to bust out some fourth line heroics
Why would the canucks be facing more pressure? They weren’t even expected to make the playoffs, and yet they have a shot at the conference final. The oilers are expected to win the cup, and losing game 7 to the canucks would be an utter failure. Help me understand your reasoning?
@@brianw3749 I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. The Canucks lack Playoff experience and they are heading into possibly their last game of the season with Home ice Advantage. They should have closed out the series in 6 but didn't.
Home team always has more pressure. They have to peform for the fans and utilize last change effectively. Visiting team responds to what the home team throws at them.
Man I think Casey Desmith should get the start simply because he’s had the Oilers number all year and if Demko was healthy we’d be in the 3rd round already.
Oilers fan but that's an horrible take, Desmith is their back up #2 goalie, Silovs got them where they are in the playoffs thus far and been playing well except maybe the last game but that wasn't even his fault, whole Canucks team gave up trying after being down 2 goals. Also why would you do a goalie change on a game 7 when your guy hasn't play in like a month and your current goalie not even playing bad, its a lot of pressure... if they lose with Silovs, its like "ehh at least you got us far", if they lose with desmish it will be "damn shoulda put Silovs in"
First up - although I am a HUGE Canucks fan - thanks so much to both teams for making this THE series to watch. It's been awesome - maybe we need a Canadian League so we can get more of this instead of The Bettman's USA Bias League (31 years and no Canadian Champion - statistically impossible). Second - Canucks will respond and the other team will be leaking oil all night.
Rick kept talking about needing to play like a team and not as individual players and then Boeser gets “injured” with a blood clotting thing? Anemia? I have anemia and unless he’s gonna get cut on ice it’s not that bad. Rich people fighting and reporters embellishments makes for some interesting news
If Skinner plays well, Edmonton will win. If Skinner plays poorly, Vancouver will win. What Vancouver does in game 7 will have little effect on the outcome.
There will be keys for the winner to win this game including: - goaltending - scoring from enough top-6 forwards - depth scoring - potentially special teams Which team will come out on top? Who knows?
Mcdavid and drai always show up for these games, we’ll see what effort van brings. I have zero worry about the oilers putting in a good game, it’s basically all if skinner is good or dogshit.
its simple. If petey does not show up tomorrow, espeicially with boeser hurt and team needing the next man up mentality, this will all fall under petey
All the pressure is on the Oilers. They are supposedly Canada's team, the preseason hands on favourites to win the Stanley Cup this year. Anything less than parade in Edmonton this summer is a colossal disastrous failure. The fact that they haven't swept the Canucks this round had to be already a slap in the face to all the hockey experts who predicted Oiler dominance
Hughes is obviously hurt since game 3 in Nashville and what the Canucks are getting is what the Canucks will get. Both teams are hurting and will need the days off before the conference finals. Dallas has had the entire Colorado series to heal up...
When you have a Generational talent in year 8-9 of his career and burning off Precious Prime years with the entire world watching and you do not yet have a legit #1 Starting Goalie to help him become a Champion, ja man, you might be under a little pressure......its ALL ON EDMONTON....and we as EveryFans know it 100%......if the Oilers miss this year....big changes could happen even on an Ownership level. The Canucks are the Cindy-Team of 2024 for sure Brah....everybodys rooting for the Underdog baby.
Van's best goalie is out, their all star backup looks like he's out of gas. Their 'best' defenceman is stuck in orbit and can't seem to steal/take over any games like the other defenceman can. & now their leading goal scorer is out indefinitely. Is it safe to say the clock has struck midnight for Vancouver?
There is more pressure for the Oilers to win now since Boeser and Demko are not the lineup. I can see Oilers fan will be trashing the Oilers if they lose😂😂😂
Silov might have had the expectations of Latvia on his shoulders, but just the population of North and Central Alberta is far bigger, and the expectations of Oilers fans are probably much higher.
All signs leads me to believe and feel like it’s EDM tomorrow! They played well and have the capacity to bring a cup to Canada, You just feel It it’s not going to be Canucks night, Simply Canucks don’t have the experience or offense to take this game. It was an amazing season by canucks I didn’t expect them to go this far! Also I didn’t expect Pete to be this bad for last 25-30 games!
The pressure is on van, oilers have their roster showing up only weak link is goalie. Van hasn’t been consistent at all, most of their players are already ready to play golf.
See, I disagree, The Canucks should honestly feel no pressure. They've had a season in which not only did they scrape into the playoff, but they won their division. On top of that, They got past Nashville, and have defied virtually every 'impartial' statistician that predicted the oilers to win the series in 4 or 5 maybe 6 games. On top of that, they legitimately have a great chance at taking the series still. Personally, with the incredible weight of expectations on the Oilers, They really should be able to buckle down and play hard and come out with a win. Regardless of what happens, I don't see how they should be feeling pressure at all above just game 7 jitters.
Great another reason we needed to show up and to try and put the Oilers away before game 7. Now we're without Brock Boeser. Blood clot. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Way more pressure on Vancouver. This roster of theirs has 0 playoff experience together and they haven't been in these games / moments. The Oilers roster has WAY more playoff experience in big games, they're used to it.
I don't think you understand how pressure/expectations work. Generally if you have more playoff experience, you're expected to win. Hence more pressure.
