Zack Kassian Ragdolls Matthew Tkachuk 2020 BOA

🎥Sportsnet 📷Gerry Thomas

Just left Rogers. 🇨🇦 beat 🇫🇮 6-3 in the semi. Great game! Tons of seats left for tomorrow. $50 club seats! Watching a young DuPont and Team 🇨🇦 priceless. YEG, let’s show up for these kids. They’ve earned it! Go🇨🇦Go.

Great things ahead for 53. Let’s go Oilers. And have a Fantastic Folk Fest / Great Hlinka - Gretzky Cup weekend. Go Canada Go. 🇨🇦

Evan Bouchard: Undeniable chemistry with McDavid. 2026 top scoring D w/ 95 points. Led all NHL D in OT w/ 3 OT goals/6 points. 4th in Norris voting (top 5 twice last 3 years). #1 NHL D scoring past 4 years incl playoffs. 2nd highest D PPG NHL playoff history.

In Worlds QF in May, Ryan Lindgren left his feet for an illegal head shot to Evan Bouchard. Knocked Bouchard, Canada’s best D by a mile, out of event, risked serious injury, likely cost Canada gold. IIHF game so NHL did nothing. Who plays first shift against Lindgren?

Is it possible the Panthers just made a bad deal? They now have two players on their second line in the bottom 51% of the league in skating speed, as is evident on video for Brady. The two winger Tkachuks average almost 9 million each in cap space. More than Reinhart, Veraeghe, Bennett. Barring trades, Panthers have just $7M left with no goalies signed (and others). Was this trade more about show than substance?

Bouchard could have been lifting the Stanley Cup tonight. He stayed an Oiler despite a pending 12.5M offer sheet from Carolina. Had himself an historic season. Got shafted by Team Canada. Shafted on the Norris. But Oil Country thanks you. Next year, you, McDrai, and your Oilers gonna get the Cup.
We remember LOILTY.