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Chapter 1: What is the current situation of the Oilers in the playoffs?
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We're getting a lot of talk about what happened on the call that won the game for the Ducks in overtime. Some people say, I saw it. It's 100% across the line. Some people say, what are you talking about? There's no way that's across the line. Some people are saying the referees are way out here. They're way out there. How can they even make that call? What's wrong with the league office?
Why can't they? It's coming from everywhere today. So it's only appropriate we get a guy who is a little distance from us, so might be a little more objective. And Frank Cervalli is joining us on the show today. Hello, Frank. How are you? Pretty good. How you doing, Brendan? It's been an adventure. Lots of text messages are just pouring in, obviously.
But, hey, when we talked earlier this afternoon before I went on the air, we said we don't want to be complaining. We'd rather be explaining. What is your take on what you saw happen last night? I'll just kind of preface it a little bit with the way I viewed it. I think it was kind of a system that went kind of wrong last night because I think they forced the referees to make a decision.
I don't even think they had any clue what they were doing, but that's the way it went. The league couldn't see it 100% over the line, so they didn't... Well, everybody saw what happened, but what's your spin on it?
What I'd say is that it was a departure from the norm in the sense that there's a few things missing. One was... The call on the ice, there really wasn't one. And it's almost like they got to the scorer's table and this review is underway and Toronto asks the officials, well, what was the call on the ice? And they kind of look at each other like, well, I don't know that we made one.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the controversial call in the Ducks game?
Now, the Edmonton Oilers got to shake it off. I think they did a pretty solid job from the clips that I heard out of the locker room after the game. They know that they have to now be focusing 100% on game number five. But I got to think there's going to be a little residue at the league level. The officials, I don't know how they feel about it.
Maybe they might have felt that they got a little hung out to dry on this one. But when you're standing right behind the net and you're not making any signal that that one's over the line or not, and you're making a decision 60 to 90 seconds later, and then the league comes back with what they did.
It just showed, I don't know, it was a total failure for me on the part of the National Hockey League and the way that rolls out.
Yeah, I don't think you're off base there. And I would say that, again, the process seems to have broken down. So now for the Oilers moving forward, the process is how do you defend better? Because that is what's really missing as the ingredient in this series. And frankly, you're not going to be able to win a Stanley Cup if the Oilers continue to defend the way that they have.
I mean, giving up 20 goals in four games is not a recipe for success.
It's amazing the Ducks, the way they played down the stretch, they weren't all that great. And so maybe somebody got a little cocky. I don't know. Can't say for sure. But what's really surprised you the most about the way the Ducks have played in this series?
Um, I think really just how they've been the aggressor that there hasn't been any deference in their game at all. Like for a team where, yeah, there's a few Stanley cup winners and guys that have have experience from John Carlson, Dallas, Kalorn, Mikkel Gremlins played a ton of playoff games, go through the list. But yeah,
To me, with all their young guys experiencing this for the first time, like, Cutter Gauthier doesn't look like he's backing down, and Leo Carlson certainly isn't either. And so you go through the whole group, and you're like, wow, this team that, yeah, they have a three-time Stanley Cup winning coach, and the attitude and comportment has all been very impressive, and
I mean, even take last night's game, for instance, the Oilers punched them in the mouth in the first just handful of minutes of the game in the first period. It would have been easy then to just kind of check out if you're the Ducks and feel satisfied. Hey, we were up 2-1 in the series.
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Chapter 3: How does Frank Cervalli analyze the NHL officiating process?
I'm just saying that even if they get there, the ride is going to be a lot more rough than anyone would have envisioned.
So watching some of the Duck players, and it's like, oh, wow. It's like they can't believe what's going on here. But now they've got to close a series against a team that I think has got to show some desperation when it steps onto the ice tomorrow night. This might be the hardest of the four victories. Well, it always is when you try to close out a series.
But it'll be fascinating to see how the crowd's reacting and how the Edmonton Oilers react. But it's tough to change things.
I'm more fascinated in the Oilers' reaction than the Ducks because ā Look, we know that this is a proud team and Connor McDavid as the head of that certainly is not going to go quietly into the night. But how will they manage the nerves? Because unlike the Stanley Cup final, obviously there's a ton of pressure, focus, and spotlight.
I think there's a whole different kind of pressure for this team with the enormous expectations that they've had. The potential of flaming out in round one, you know that at varying points for any team that's had a sustained period of success, that sometimes these things happen, you get it done, and you fall on your face.
But, man, I use the word unforgivable, and that's the one word that continues to stick out.
Some of the other series, it's been fun to watch Utah. I mean, there's another team I'm going, really, Vegas has played, I think, pretty well, but yet they're down 2-1 in that series.
They've been overwhelmed by Utah's speed. And, again, Utah has not sat back at any point. And they have some real meaningful depth and high-end skill. Like, they're not built all that differently than the Anaheim Ducks in that maybe they're not as big, maybe they're not quite as difficult to play against.
But when their top players are performing at a high level, they've got the talent to succeed. And so... That part has been a little surprising as well, that Utah would take on and succeed to this point against a Vegas team that entered the playoffs 7-0-1 under John Tortorella, and it's not just their first regulation loss that they suffered, but two in a row.
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