Aiden Gannon

The Athletics' Joe Smith will join us.

They move on to the second round.

They'll face the Colorado Avalanche.

And then at 3.35, I have a conversation that I had this morning with Oilers radio play-by-play man Cam Moon.

We go a lot into what happened last night.

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Let's get into some audio here.

And, you know, this season for the Edmonton Oilers had its ups and it had its down.

But you never really saw any cohesion throughout the entire season or big stretch where, you know, they picked up a bunch of wins and they played like the team that we've been seeing the last couple of years.

And Knobloch had comments on that.

Now, the Oilers' offense five on five was phenomenal.

And for some chunks during this season, the defense was pretty solid as well.

The addition of Connor Murphy really helped that blue line kind of balance out a little bit.

But

the ducks had their number when it came to the offense whether it be on the power play whether it be shorthand they scored a shorthanded goal in this series or five on five the anaheim ducks had a much faster and ready to go forward core and nabla commented on that as well you know pretty much the story for most of the year we we just didn't defend well enough at the end of the season i thought we did a pretty good job at it um you know last four or five weeks i thought we dug in and

Ryan Nugent Hopkins has been here for all of it.

He played against Anaheim in 2017.

He is the biggest veteran on this Oilers' core right now, and he commented on losing.