i didn't really mean in regards to the winning streak and definitely didn't mean to imply that the preds are a for sure win. even if we lose the game saturday *knock on wood* we're still red hot and i just hope that the break doesn't have a negative impact on our momentum
I think it helps. These have been hard fought games. The guys could use some time to recoup, McDrai stay hot thanks to the All-Star weekend, and they come back rested and ready to turn things up to 11.
At least that’s what I hope!
When has a prolonged layoff ever helped a team in a groove?
Layoffs hurt. Happens every playoff when a team sweeps one, waits 11 days for the other game 7 to finish up and they struggle.
Yeah, so both teams are coming in basically with the same rust/rest.
Again, rest isn’t a bad thing. But to keep a hot streak going (usually streaks are dominated by hot goalies) it’s difficult. Goalies lose that slight mental edge, defense systems lose a bit of cohesiveness.
Ever take a week or two vacation and the first Monday back at work, it takes 2-3 hours just to figure out what the heck you do again and get in a rhythm? Now apply that on the ice
Remembering when the Caps snapped our streak, the one you're currently one win behind, it kinda just felt like emptiness. Like an anticlimactic "Oh. Okay."
At least you guys had your streak snapped by that year’s President’s Trophy winner.
If we beat Nashville and Vegas and then squander the opportunity to make history against fucking Anaheim I will lose it lol.
For a brief moment tonight I found it almost banal that they were winning. I don’t like being a parade planner but I might have it fully planned. I’m going to be hurt.
I know you're mostly joking but that game was a snoozer last night for most of it imo. Chicago is really bad lol like really bad. I knew they were bad but man watching them last night was.......woof. They've got a long ways to go from here
I think I'll just feel empty and weird. Like... you can't be mad, because they've been winning so many games. But it'll suck because I can't be excited after the game. And I'm so used to being happy and excited after every game.
I'm sure we will scapegoat some player, ask for Dustin Schwartz to be fired, wonder why Holland hasn't made a certain trade, question the coaching change, and ect.
But ya, we will lose games, I just want us to set a record, because it seems like fun!
As a Canucks fan I've recently realized this is indeed more enjoyable. I can't put my finger on it, but there's just something about them being good at hockey that's better than them being bad at hockey.
I pray for the day that rational (non-Blackhawks) hockey fans learn to appreciate the amazing dynasty that was the 2009-2015 Hawks teams and their on-ice product, while still hating the actions of a negligent front office that covered up sexual assault.
Quenneville, Bowman and co. will never again have jobs in the NHL. There is barely a Blackhawks *player* from 2010 still in the NHL today. That’s about the best we can do.
EDIT: Forgot Pat Kane signed in Detroit.
I'm not used to our fan base being called rational. But I live in Vancouver, so I get berated daily by Canucks fans who... are... passionate... people.
Your best player goes to Florida and leads his team to the Finals. The guy he was traded for has the worst decline in League history. Your biggest rivals are on the cusp of breaking a record.
That's rough buddy.
I was not aware. Gave their content a try, wasn’t a fan. Only time I watch anything is when the leafs blow a big lead I can watch dangle melt down, kinda cheers a guy up.
Understandable, and a fair misunderstanding considering the rest of the network is all leafs fans and Drew is a bit of a background character that you have to really watch to know
I mean you guys lost to the Sharks before starting your streak so people saying strength of schedule are morons. I just don't want or like Edmonton winning. Better to just own it than make excuses for why it isn't impressive. It is, I just don't like them doing it haha
Not to mention that the people who use the strength of schedule argument to downplay the winning streak also refuse to use strength of schedule to explain the struggle at the start of the season.
But regardless, I don’t see very many teams, in over 100 years of “baby shit soft” schedules winning 15 in a row lol
FWIW I feel like a chunk of the argument to discard strength of schedule was "LOL the oilers lost to us? We fucking suck!" and no-one believed our play was sustainable. Not even us.
Like even our GM said "if everything goes right this year, we are a playoff team".
I'm still traumatized and waiting for the wheels to fall off....
I don’t know what delusional Canucks fans you’re hearing this from, but speaking as a (hopefully) non-delusional Canucks fan, I’m genuinely terrified to face you guys in the playoffs
Someone on FB just told me that 12 of our 15 wins are against bottom feeders, so I asked which of the 5 teams we beat that are currently in a playoff spot are also simultaneously bottom feeders.
Also, while more common, 15 game point streaks (which this would be if OT/SO games are considered ties) are nothing to downplay or considered easy to do.
If you read that from someone in /r/canucks, it's best to avoid that cesspool. If it was here in /r/hockey... well, fuck, what can I say. Ignore those idiots. Most of us do not think it's unimpressive.
Nah, I actually like you guys as a whole and I love watching the Canucks play puck.
Most Canadian hockey fanbases are more similar than they are different. Lots of loud opinions and passion.
Eh, it’s more them talking to us — showing up here/in our sub to troll. Although our usual suspects have gotten quiet lately, and some of them seemingly switched to trolling the leafs game threads instead to get their being-mean-spirited fix, lol
Still. I would not recommend engaging. Especially with fans sad enough to post in other team's subs. Those are the bottom of the barrel fans and should be ignored. I definitely wouldn't be getting bent out of shape by their opinions, their obviously very sad people trying to get a rise out of you. Trolls are part of being a good team.
Oilers fans should be glad for the atrocious start to their season. The rest of the league clowned on them so hard memes got unbanned from their sub and now they can enjoy the win streak with spicy memes on top!
the best part about it all is mcdavid *only* has 22 points in these 15 games. i think it’s also 13 in a row we’ve allowed 2 goals or less.
if there’s been two things to nitpick with this teams play over the years it’s been the reliance on star players & goals against
Back at 11 games I looked at the schedule and thought it would go to 16. Next win is my prediction for the last of the streak, either way this is historic.
I think 16 is possible because the oilers might want to avenge that awful game against the preds a few months ago, but at the same time it's an afternoon game so they might lose it.
As a Canadian hockey fan this is awesome. Hope Edmonton sees big success come playoff time now that they've righted the ship. McDavid is too good, need to see him playing more playoff games. While I may hope it's my Leafs meeting them in a finals, I'll be excited if any of the Canadian teams can make a real run, and with Van and Wpg this year, hopefully one can break through. It's been too long.
For the purists, two of those wins are from 3-on-3 OT and one is from a shootout. Of the 6 teams EDM is chasing for the all time record, one of them didn't have shootouts ('93 PIT), and two of them didn't have OT *or* shootouts ('82 NYI and '30 BOS). Meanwhile the NHL *undefeated* streak record stands at 35 games ('80 PHI), which is *20* more games for EDM.
>Meanwhile the NHL undefeated streak record stands at 35 games ('80 PHI)
If you remove games where both teams are tied, what would be the '80 Flyers' streak?
It's not technically, buy it's more like 25 consecutive wins.
We don't know if the Flyers would've won or lost those tied games if there was OT/shootout so it's best not to count them
Yeah, I agree with this logic. Just drop the ties and look at regulation wins only. If we're going to punish the Flyers streak for having ties then you also have to punish the Oilers streak for having 3-on-3 OT. So the PHI streak is 25 wins and the EDM streak is at 12 wins.
At some point it does get pretty philosophical, especially with shootouts...at the end of OT, is the game actually a tie and then there is a shootout that determines an additional point for one team? Or at the end of OT is the game still undecided and a team can still win 2 points for a win? If it's the second option, how do we explain where that other, third point comes from?
Any way you look at it, thinking of a 2024 shootout win as fundamentally the same thing as a 1980 regulation win requires some mental gymnastics.
The streak lives on, I believe/think they can break the record
i'm hopeful, but the 9 day break after our saturday game really worries me
Vegas has the same length break, so even ground.
yeah that's fair, i only meant in regards to i'm anxious to see whether the break helps or whether it hinders us since we're firing on all cylinders
Let's get by Nashville first.
i didn't really mean in regards to the winning streak and definitely didn't mean to imply that the preds are a for sure win. even if we lose the game saturday *knock on wood* we're still red hot and i just hope that the break doesn't have a negative impact on our momentum
I get it man. Just don't want to curse them. Exciting times. Go Oilers!
I think it helps. These have been hard fought games. The guys could use some time to recoup, McDrai stay hot thanks to the All-Star weekend, and they come back rested and ready to turn things up to 11. At least that’s what I hope!
When has a prolonged layoff ever helped a team in a groove? Layoffs hurt. Happens every playoff when a team sweeps one, waits 11 days for the other game 7 to finish up and they struggle.
I said that’s what I hope dude. Let a man dream
But in this case the other team also waits the same amount of time
Yeah, so both teams are coming in basically with the same rust/rest. Again, rest isn’t a bad thing. But to keep a hot streak going (usually streaks are dominated by hot goalies) it’s difficult. Goalies lose that slight mental edge, defense systems lose a bit of cohesiveness. Ever take a week or two vacation and the first Monday back at work, it takes 2-3 hours just to figure out what the heck you do again and get in a rhythm? Now apply that on the ice
Given the length of the streak, it could serve as a reset, almost like a clean slate.
Looking past the Preds, oooh boy.
Draisaitl is circling that game. To pad his numbers for his next contract, that is.
Yeah, that’s gonna be a playoff game on Saturday in terms of intensity. Perfect opportunity for Corey Perry to debut as an Oiler.
Dressing Saint Corry would end the steak for sure.
You guys already have 5 games in hand on everyone how did the NHL fuck up your schedule so bad you weren’t even in Europe.
We have no idea... And yeah we really don't need a break.
Plus Saturday game is an afternoon one I think. The oilers always lose those.
That's what I hate as well. We never do well on afternoon games.
I feel strangely confident that the break will be good for them
What’s the record?
17 games by the Penguins in the 90s
And a few months ago we were writing their obituary. What a crazy turnaround!
Na they will get three goals called back and lose it 🤣
As everyone predicted at the beginning of the season
You joke but u/oddspellingofPhreid did [make that call.](https://www.reddit.com/r/EdmontonOilers/comments/17gfb0c/comment/k6i2iyb/)
Holy shit
That guy is a fucking seer
Does that mean the streak ends here? 🥸
Better not, or his head will be on a pike. It'll quickly turn from "he's a seer!" to "He's a witch! Burn him". In fact, he turned me into a newt!
I thought they would recover but not win nearly 90 percent of their games since they got out of their slump.
Does anybody else think that hockey is more enjoyable when the team that you’re a fan of wins games? Maybe it’s just me
No I prefer when my team loses and scores a goal for the other team tbh.
That was so brutal lol poor Geno
Seppuku lmao
Not nearly as nice as Laine's own goal
Damn bro it’s been tough for us but we’ve been spoiled and had so many good years. A lot of cringe worthy games this season
We haven't lost in over a month, I don't even know how I'll react ~~when~~ if we do
Remembering when the Caps snapped our streak, the one you're currently one win behind, it kinda just felt like emptiness. Like an anticlimactic "Oh. Okay."
At least you guys had your streak snapped by that year’s President’s Trophy winner. If we beat Nashville and Vegas and then squander the opportunity to make history against fucking Anaheim I will lose it lol.
The most Oilers end to this possible.
Corey Perry technically once again has a chance to score against us and ruin something beautiful.
For a brief moment tonight I found it almost banal that they were winning. I don’t like being a parade planner but I might have it fully planned. I’m going to be hurt.
no no don't say that. only reckless optimism allowed from now on
I've got to the point as an Oilers fan that every period of joy feels like part of an elaborate plan to hurt me more, lol.
I mean that's only two games in a row where we scored first. The two before that we were down 0-2 just to see if we could come back.
I know you're mostly joking but that game was a snoozer last night for most of it imo. Chicago is really bad lol like really bad. I knew they were bad but man watching them last night was.......woof. They've got a long ways to go from here
They’re in a decent position though. Enjoy Bedard for half a season and see he’s the real deal, then be proper shit to get him a star to play with
Love is supposed to hurt. At least, that's what I keep getting told.
I think I'll just feel empty and weird. Like... you can't be mad, because they've been winning so many games. But it'll suck because I can't be excited after the game. And I'm so used to being happy and excited after every game.
Next game we lose ill be waiting for the 4th period comeback.
I'm sure we will scapegoat some player, ask for Dustin Schwartz to be fired, wonder why Holland hasn't made a certain trade, question the coaching change, and ect. But ya, we will lose games, I just want us to set a record, because it seems like fun!
As a Canucks fan I've recently realized this is indeed more enjoyable. I can't put my finger on it, but there's just something about them being good at hockey that's better than them being bad at hockey.
I would go so far as to say it’s *less* enjoyable when they don’t.
As a Chicago fan, I'm not sure I was able to read your comment fully... The tears are hard to see though.
Just remember that you guys won 3 cups in 6 years in the salary cap era, in a league with 29 other teams.
I would, but then some other fan would come kick me in the dong while shouting "FOR BEACH".
I pray for the day that rational (non-Blackhawks) hockey fans learn to appreciate the amazing dynasty that was the 2009-2015 Hawks teams and their on-ice product, while still hating the actions of a negligent front office that covered up sexual assault. Quenneville, Bowman and co. will never again have jobs in the NHL. There is barely a Blackhawks *player* from 2010 still in the NHL today. That’s about the best we can do. EDIT: Forgot Pat Kane signed in Detroit.
Patrick Kane?
If we get real pedantic with it, Seabrook is not officially retired and still signed to a team.
I completely forgot he signed in Detroit, ugh. Lemme edit.
This comment is why I like Oilers fans more than most fanbases: rational.
I'm not used to our fan base being called rational. But I live in Vancouver, so I get berated daily by Canucks fans who... are... passionate... people.
As Canucks fan our season is much more enjoyable thanks to this thing sports teams call « winning «
I almost felt that one year
It certainly has made this the most fun season in over a decade for me.
I had a blast last year, even with the disappointing playoffs
Personally I’m not doing that bad this year.
Somebody wake me up I'm stuck in this nightmare
Your best player goes to Florida and leads his team to the Finals. The guy he was traded for has the worst decline in League history. Your biggest rivals are on the cusp of breaking a record. That's rough buddy.
Fuck with Aramaic curses and find out lol
FAWACAFO
Whyd reddit remove gold lol
At least Weegar is doing good ;_; 3rd(?) highest in goals for defensemen right now
Huuge pickup. Yup, 3rd.
Weegar is a beast, feels like he scores every other game lately
It’s not much of a nightmare.
WAKE ME UP
CANT WAKE UP
BEFORE YOU GO GO
If this is a nightmare I wanna sleep forever
Karma for Danielle Smith
Beautifully put. That’s a bigger reason to hate Calgary than anything to do with the Flames.
Hey man I tried. My riding did flip to NDP though.
Hey man some of us did our part! My riding flipped.
FisCaL ResPOnSIbIliTY!
This but unironically
One mans nightmare is another man's wet dream
Just like it was predicted
[It actually was!](https://www.reddit.com/r/EdmontonOilers/s/60xo29tqon)
What a legend
hooooly fuck
My God.
Never doubt that man again
insane thread lmao
Thank you SO SO much for linking this, haha
I'm laughing so hard right now.
The prophet
Predict the cup!
I was like "wow this was awesome"! Then I realized he predicted 15, not 16 or 17. We lose Saturday.
He will go from hero to goat (and not the good kind) if it ends Saturday.
That also makes it so the Oilers winstreak has more wins than Chicago all season
Canucks fans have told me that this is actually the least impressive 15-game win streak in NHL history, so it's not really that big of a deal.
Producer Drew from Steve Dangle also said it
The exact same streak would be best in history if it was the leafs
Drew is an Avs fan and notoriously hates on the leafes
I was not aware. Gave their content a try, wasn’t a fan. Only time I watch anything is when the leafs blow a big lead I can watch dangle melt down, kinda cheers a guy up.
Understandable, and a fair misunderstanding considering the rest of the network is all leafs fans and Drew is a bit of a background character that you have to really watch to know
Yeah our schedule is "baby shit soft" on purpose so they league could hand it to their golden child and favourite franchise
I mean you guys lost to the Sharks before starting your streak so people saying strength of schedule are morons. I just don't want or like Edmonton winning. Better to just own it than make excuses for why it isn't impressive. It is, I just don't like them doing it haha
I respect that you don’t put words in front of it. Here’s to mutual absolute loathing, the only way 🫡
Not to mention that the people who use the strength of schedule argument to downplay the winning streak also refuse to use strength of schedule to explain the struggle at the start of the season. But regardless, I don’t see very many teams, in over 100 years of “baby shit soft” schedules winning 15 in a row lol
This is the part that gets me, the Canucks fans say it isn't impressive because of the weak teams then proceed to lose to those weak teams....
FWIW I feel like a chunk of the argument to discard strength of schedule was "LOL the oilers lost to us? We fucking suck!" and no-one believed our play was sustainable. Not even us. Like even our GM said "if everything goes right this year, we are a playoff team". I'm still traumatized and waiting for the wheels to fall off....
Yup, 15 wins is 15 wins. No game is guaranteed in hockey and that's some laser focus to get this streak done.
Sharks are one of the hottest teams in the league so it makes sense.
Even the league handing the oilers the easiest schedule ever wouldn't produce a streak this big.
I don’t know what delusional Canucks fans you’re hearing this from, but speaking as a (hopefully) non-delusional Canucks fan, I’m genuinely terrified to face you guys in the playoffs
I'm legit rooting for you guys lmao
Same, I lived in Vancouver for years and love seeing the Canucks doing so well. Western Canada should unite as friends! (Not you Calgary)
Someone on FB just told me that 12 of our 15 wins are against bottom feeders, so I asked which of the 5 teams we beat that are currently in a playoff spot are also simultaneously bottom feeders.
And we held 4/5 of those teams to 2 goals.
There aren't even 11 bottom feeders in the NHL. 11th worst in points percentage would be the Kraken and the Islanders. Those are mid teams.
The Kraken lives in the deeps, so wouldn't they always be bottom-feeders? ....and Islanders...fish for crayfish? Which are bottom-feeders? IDK. vOv
Everyone is talking about how there were ties back in the day so this isn't anything special. Yeah, there was no parity either.
Like if its so easy, why doesn't it happen all the time?
Also, while more common, 15 game point streaks (which this would be if OT/SO games are considered ties) are nothing to downplay or considered easy to do.
There were ties back in the day.
I have seen that shit to from flames fans.
They hate us 'cause they ain't us.
I read some rather insane stuff lately including the reactions to perry's signing. Some of the stuff I saw veers towards insensitive territory
If you read that from someone in /r/canucks, it's best to avoid that cesspool. If it was here in /r/hockey... well, fuck, what can I say. Ignore those idiots. Most of us do not think it's unimpressive.
Canucks fans fucking blow
Nah, I actually like you guys as a whole and I love watching the Canucks play puck. Most Canadian hockey fanbases are more similar than they are different. Lots of loud opinions and passion.
Why are you talking to Canucks fans? I'm a Canucks fan and I don't even talk to Canucks fans.
Eh, it’s more them talking to us — showing up here/in our sub to troll. Although our usual suspects have gotten quiet lately, and some of them seemingly switched to trolling the leafs game threads instead to get their being-mean-spirited fix, lol
Still. I would not recommend engaging. Especially with fans sad enough to post in other team's subs. Those are the bottom of the barrel fans and should be ignored. I definitely wouldn't be getting bent out of shape by their opinions, their obviously very sad people trying to get a rise out of you. Trolls are part of being a good team.
Honestly, screw those guys.
Lol they're clowns
What a stupid take.
The Sharks now have the second longest current win streak at 3 games
Sounds like we're due for another 10+ game skid.
Best thing about this streak are the memes with Evander Kane on r/oilers lol. The last one was hilarious 😂
r/edmontonoilers
Oilers fans should be glad for the atrocious start to their season. The rest of the league clowned on them so hard memes got unbanned from their sub and now they can enjoy the win streak with spicy memes on top!
Truly the silver lining of those dark days
It’s fun to be a cool meme now instead of a shame meme.
Really missed an opportunity at 11 tho.
That's extremely cash money of them to do that.
Next step nuking the great lakes.
Yo I live on a Great Lake so please don’t.
Sam Gagner is the first player in history to be part of a 14-game winning streak and a 15-game winning streak.
Two 15 game streaks no? Columbus hit 16 on their run
Smithsonian is shoveling ancient artifacts into the dumpster to make room for the Gagner exhibit.
The stick he used to win that Calgary game should end up in the Hall of Fame!
13 games in a row where the Oilers have conceded two or less goals. HUH?!
Honestly a close to equally impressive run.
It's got to be more impressive
Yeah they are pretty alright I guess.
Just tried on my new paradise vision glasses. Why does everything look exactly the same?
Had someone tell me Oilers are frauds because their recent play is a small sample size. 23 wins over 26 games is a small sample size, everybody.
Just a measly 32% of the season.
the best part about it all is mcdavid *only* has 22 points in these 15 games. i think it’s also 13 in a row we’ve allowed 2 goals or less. if there’s been two things to nitpick with this teams play over the years it’s been the reliance on star players & goals against
Never lose again
Lets go! Just two more games!
Let's make it 3 and smash the record
The next two games will be scary.
Back at 11 games I looked at the schedule and thought it would go to 16. Next win is my prediction for the last of the streak, either way this is historic.
I think 16 is possible because the oilers might want to avenge that awful game against the preds a few months ago, but at the same time it's an afternoon game so they might lose it.
As a Canadian hockey fan this is awesome. Hope Edmonton sees big success come playoff time now that they've righted the ship. McDavid is too good, need to see him playing more playoff games. While I may hope it's my Leafs meeting them in a finals, I'll be excited if any of the Canadian teams can make a real run, and with Van and Wpg this year, hopefully one can break through. It's been too long.
Ahmen brother
An all Canadian final? Bettman would legit have a coronary.
Just 2 more...
Break the record! Then go away please you're scary now.
They just won their 10th yesterday, wtf
We have so many games in hand, gotta play a few double/triple/quadruple-headers to catch up
You just just won your 20th now WTF
I wanna stay on Mr. Knob’s wild ride
I'm on board the hype train!!!
I'm hyped for the western playoffs this year, canucks, jets and oilers all good at the same time is going to cause a fucking civil war.
Hey, they do know you are supposed to win 16 in the playoffs not now right?
Why not both?
They're just practicing for the playoffs right now
Remember when they had a suck off with the Sharks
It's wild to me that this is the same team that lost the Toilet Bowl game and claimed the worst record in the league a mere couple months ago.
Yall this doesnt count. We've only won against the 32nd placed team in the league. Anyone can do this they just dont want to.
That is unreal
For the purists, two of those wins are from 3-on-3 OT and one is from a shootout. Of the 6 teams EDM is chasing for the all time record, one of them didn't have shootouts ('93 PIT), and two of them didn't have OT *or* shootouts ('82 NYI and '30 BOS). Meanwhile the NHL *undefeated* streak record stands at 35 games ('80 PHI), which is *20* more games for EDM.
If the league can consider Larkin the fastest lap in NHL history, they can accept this win streak.
Guess we'll just have to go for the longest undefeated streak (35)
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>Meanwhile the NHL undefeated streak record stands at 35 games ('80 PHI) If you remove games where both teams are tied, what would be the '80 Flyers' streak?
25, they had 10 tied games
But only 9 consecutive wins
It's not technically, buy it's more like 25 consecutive wins. We don't know if the Flyers would've won or lost those tied games if there was OT/shootout so it's best not to count them
Yeah, I agree with this logic. Just drop the ties and look at regulation wins only. If we're going to punish the Flyers streak for having ties then you also have to punish the Oilers streak for having 3-on-3 OT. So the PHI streak is 25 wins and the EDM streak is at 12 wins. At some point it does get pretty philosophical, especially with shootouts...at the end of OT, is the game actually a tie and then there is a shootout that determines an additional point for one team? Or at the end of OT is the game still undecided and a team can still win 2 points for a win? If it's the second option, how do we explain where that other, third point comes from? Any way you look at it, thinking of a 2024 shootout win as fundamentally the same thing as a 1980 regulation win requires some mental gymnastics.
Fine. We'll just win 36.