Oilers embarrass Penguins as ‘fire Hextall’ chants rain down in Pittsburgh

classybuzzFebruary 24, 2023

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Oilers embarrass Penguins as ‘fire Hextall’ chants rain down in Pittsburgh

“Not impressed,” spat the embittered Pittsburgh Penguins coach after the sport. “It’s a pathetic efficiency.”

“Are we gonna be joyful to play eight minutes?” he requested. “I’m not gonna be joyful to play eight minutes. What is going to these guys say if we take 50 % of their wage, as a result of they solely play 50 % of the time?”

These quotes got here after an Edmonton Oilers win in Pittsburgh — simply not this Edmonton Oilers win in Pittsburgh.

It was on the outdated Igloo in Pittsburgh, a bit greater than 17 years and a month in the past, {that a} legendary post-game rant was born. The ultimate rating was 3-1, the primary star was Shawn Horcoff — who scored all three Oilers targets — and the coach whose sarcastic, sardonic evaluation was one Michel Therrien.

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The Edmonton Oilers beat Pittsburgh six methods to Sunday on Thursday, strolling into PPG Paints Enviornment and embarrassing the Penguins with a transformed landing in entrance of 18,400 surly of us.

The Oilers surrendered a game-opening objective to Kris Letang at 1:05 of the opening interval, then hit the gasoline and left a plodding Penguins workforce in their mud, main 6-1 after 40 minutes.

The Penguins had 12 pictures by means of 40 minutes. To the bare eye, it didn’t seem they’d touched the puck a dozen occasions earlier than the second intermission.

“That’s the best way that we need to play,” stated Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who notched level No. 600 on a slick, 1-1-2 night time. “Not give them something. Form of choke them out as a lot as we are able to. That’s a ability workforce over there, so to carry them (down), to restrict their pictures and Grade A probabilities, is massive for our workforce.”

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Alas, after his workforce was sternly defeated in each attainable side of the hockey recreation, Sullivan was much less Therrien-esque, sounding extra just like the man who purchased a Blockbuster two weeks earlier than Netflix got here alongside.

“Tonight was a step backwards,” he stated. “Definitely … a step backwards.

“We’ve obtained to discover a method to get this factor going in the appropriate path.”

Look, there may be all the time going to be that recreation when your workforce simply doesn’t have it, and the opposite workforce is flying.

The Oilers can’t play a extra structured, centered workforce recreation than the one they executed Thursday, and individually, Connor McDavid was as on-point as he’s been in any recreation this season. He opened the Oilers scoring with a objective you’ve probably seen 10 occasions already, capturing from behind the objective line and banking a puck high shelf off of the title plate on Tristan Jarry’s again.

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From there, McDavid’s wheels — and the Oilers workforce pace — made the Penguins look outdated, gradual and really yesterday. It was Pittsburgh’s fourth straight loss and fifth in six video games, as they stumble down the stretch attempting to snag a wild-card spot out East.

“Clearly, once you lose just a few video games there’s a component of fragility that you simply’re involved about. … It’s human nature,” Sullivan stated. “Are we a bit bit involved about that? Certain. Can we discuss these issues? Completely. However on the finish of the day, professional sports activities isn’t for the faint of coronary heart. We’ve obtained to seize a maintain of it, mud ourselves off and get again into the combat.

“We simply obtained outplayed. They performed higher than us.”

Booed off the ice after 40 minutes, the Penguins performed this one out to strains of “Fire Hextall,” as Steeltown followers let their basic supervisor know what they considered the roster he’s assembled.

“It was a tough night time for everyone,” allowed Sidney Crosby. “We don’t like placing on a efficiency like that in entrance of them. They pay for his or her ticket they usually need to see higher. I perceive that. It wasn’t a terrific night time for anybody.”

The Oilers, in the meantime, tiptoed out of city with factors in 14 of their final 16 street video games, and wheel into Columbus the place the Thirty second-place Blue Jackets await for a Saturday matinee. Leon Draisaitl scored in his sixth straight recreation, and Devin Shore sniped off a pleasant feed from Jesse Puljujarvi, his first objective since March 17, 2022.

The phrases Therrien spoke that night time utilized completely:

“Tonight, it seems like mans in opposition to boys.”

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