Frankly Hockey's Frank Seravalli (4/27/26)
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What is the current situation of the Oilers in the playoffs?
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Good afternoon, everybody. Bryn Griffiths sitting in for Bob Stauffer. He and the Oilers just arrived about an hour ago, and they're settling in. reacquainting themselves with their families and thinking a little bit about game number five, which is coming up tomorrow night, a little bit after 8 o'clock at Rogers Place. And they are in trouble here. There's no denying that. I'm telling you this anyway because I'm supposed to. You clearly know the text line is available to you at 780-451-8800. It's the Ashley Fine Floors text line. You can find the new floors you've always wanted at 143rd Street and 111th Avenue, or you can head to ashleyfinefloors.com for more details and more information. The showroom, by the way, is open Monday through Sunday.
The other thing I've got to tell you about is you can find us on X. Here are the handles, at OilersNow, at Bob underscore Stauffer, and at Aidan Ganim underscore. Hey, listen, we're also on Instagram too, okay? It's Oilers underscore Now underscore. Right now, though, we've got to bring somebody else in because we're getting it all today. 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. We probably should make one. And based on the way that the ducks were celebrating that, hey, maybe we should call this a goal. So that was one part of it, which then impacts the next part of it, which is that. the league has typically always relied on a very clear image. Now, I think logically, we could probably conclude, and even the most hardcore diehard Oiler fan would say that
unless that puck is shaped differently than just about every other one, or there's some kind of odd parallax angle from the camera that distorts the image that that is probably likely across the line. Yeah. We've been able to guess at that before. And typically the NHL, doesn't go alongside there's been other reviews that have happened over the years that people have been complaining about the notion of putting a chip in the puck and and in the goalpost to finally once and for all determine is the puck completely across the line or not so to have all these things come together at once and have the league say that this was conclusive i think that's the part where they Because it felt like their process that they've had for years was kind of chucked out the window, even though we can logically agree that that's correct.
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