Frankly Hockey's Frank Seravalli (5/25/26)
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We welcome back Frank Cervalli.
Hello, Frank. How are you? I was just thinking back to that romantic evening you and I had at Japanese Village. Just two absolute units sitting around by some hibachi table. It was fantastic.
You have such a way with words. Combined weight at the time, oh, let's say 450. How's that? Yeah, no. That sounds generous. Yes, it does. All right. Perhaps sometimes in life you go through certain things that provide you with a bit of an epiphany. and uh you know it's interesting with the edmonton orders because there's no debate that the orders were gifted from the gods not once but twice uh obviously getting conor mcdavid was an automatic but as it turned out leon drysaddle turned out to be pretty damn good too the orders have been as close as you can to winning the stanley cup but have not won the cup this year When they were vanquished in six games by the emerging Anaheim Ducks, people were, oh, don't give me any excuses about the injuries, and that's not a factor, and it's an inexcusable loss by the Oilers organization.
And there is a degree of truth to that. It was a very disappointing loss, and it cost some people their jobs. That said... We are watching a team that was unequivocally the best team in the National Hockey League during the regular season. They don't have Cale McCarr for game one and game two, Frank. Vegas wins two games in Denver, Colorado, which is hard to do when you're up at mile high. And then they get McCarr back. He still doesn't look right. And then McKinnon gets beamed with the puck yesterday. And somehow Vegas rallied from 3-0 down and come back to win the game 5-3. They're now 3-0 in the series overall. Does this just reinforce if the wrong guys get hurt, it affects things?
I don't know. I mean, I'm sure that's going to be a common refrain from the Colorado Avalanche if they lose, and it's going to be the easiest thing to chalk it up to. But since you made it about the Oilers to start and then somehow tried to turn it into what the Colorado Avalanche are doing as an absolution to it, Let me present an alternate reality for you, which is what it just further underlines and highlights how gigantic of a missed opportunity this was for the Oilers. I mean, the Golden Knights are sitting here with a 3-0 lead in the West Final, and the Oilers and Golden Knights were virtually indistinguishable from each other this year. They had an almost identical goal differential. Vegas finished two points ahead.
The Oilers won more games in regulation. The Oilers had a better home record and the identical number of wins on the road. Their goals against aren't even really that far off. Same save percentage? Same team save percentage? Yeah, I mean... So a lot of what we looked at this season was, okay, win the division, get through into the final four and see if you can give yourself a puncher's chance against the best team in hockey. And now the Oilers didn't even make it to face the Golden Knights.
Right. Yep, that's fair. Missed opportunity. No question about it.
Yeah, and so I don't look at the avalanche today and say wrong players heard at the wrong time. McKinnon in game three, McCarr before the series started against their war of attrition with the Minnesota Wild. I think some things that came back to bite the Colorado avalanche were
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:07
2
What insights does Frank Seravalli share about the Edmonton Oilers' recent performance?
6:07–12:25
3
How did injuries impact the Colorado Avalanche's playoff run?
12:25–15:02
4
What are the implications of missed opportunities for the Oilers this season?
15:02–21:48