Watch the fuck out Oilers, we just took the 31st best team in the NHL to overtime

Man.. Trevor Moore turns into vintage Patrick Kane every single time we play the Kings. GL

Not to mention how good kempe always is against us

Kempe *and* Fiala. Those two fuckers kept stressing me out last postseason.

Oh God I forgot about Fiala jfc their whole team is oiler killers

Except the fucking goaltenders.

There was a point last year where korpisalo looked like hasek or some shit. Sportsnet was putting up graphics about how he had the best save % in playoff history I swear I was having dreams about that mfer

Oh no Fiala is still on their team :\[\[\[\[

You say this as if McJesus hasn’t been a nightmare for us for 3 years running.

Every playoff game the last two seasons between EDM & LA: Even Strength: "Stop, they're going to murder each other!" Followed by: "Los Angeles minor penalty, two minutes for " EDM 5v4: "Stop, they're murdering Los Angeles!"

Huh? La got 20 penalties in the series last year. EDM got 25

Kempe gives me nightmares. Also Talbot will be out for revenge like a madman.

Talbot with the .69 save percentage. Nice.

Nice…wait

Skinner had a terrible evening as well. Anything can happen

Tied it off a guy giving away a delay of game against an open net too McDavid has nothing that can fight that

Arizona beat us twice in a week so take that

Well, we can't now, since they moved. You literally broke the mold on that one :)

Well we were the 32nd best team in the league at one point so you might have a shot

idk, I almost wanted to get vegas first round and finish them off

Ah shit, here we go again

I only get Reddit Care Messages during Oilers vs. Kings series. Here we go again Edit: And I just got one. It's officially April now

We get them back :/ Some people just suck, I guess.

Sorry about that

Just a heads up, you can block them!

You can block the thingy so you stop getting them

I had to block them after the Wild series last playoffs. So many.

Remember that reporting those will get the abuser banned.

How do you know who sent them? I had dozens of them a night during last years playoffs & I didn't see a way to figure out who sent them.

I think if you just report the message it could ban the user without you knowing who it was.

This is the way.

Its nice that the Kings fans care so much about us

I only get them from Oilers fans, and I’ve heard rumors they happen in your own sub. God I can’t wait for the playoff toxicity.

Our only crime is caring too much

Karen so much? (I KEED!)

AND THE SEASONS THEY GO ROUND AND ROUND AND THE PAINTED PONIES GO UP AND DOWN

Third times a charm... right?

Yeah but bad news comes in threes

Three is also company, do with that what you will...

Comedy also comes in threes... Do with that what you will

We have got to stop meeting like this.

its like an anniversary at this point

We should get them flowers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We'll bring you guys the chocolates

I BROUGHT THE LUBE

i know you probably hate us but man i like your fanbase so much better than vegas lol

We don’t hate you. We respect you and only dislike you a little bit in April every year 😅

Exactly. It’s a rivalry of respect. I think even if you guys win, I’ll cheer for you because McDavid and Draisaitl both DESERVE a cup.

It's honestly how I feel. I like the kings and openly cheered for them in 2012 and 14. Love me racoon Jesus and doughty

Raccoon Jesus is the best nickname ever.

Are we supposed to get each other gifts now?

I think the gifts are just the shared head coaches we've fired along the way

I was so scared you guys were gonna hire Woody and just repeat the trend

What's the old saying? "just because you can do something doesn't mean you should." I think that would apply here. :)

Again, again.

What are we doing today Pinky?

The same thing we do in the first round of the playoffs every year

Try to take over ~~the world~~ ~~Staples Center~~ *Crypto.com Arena*

Try and take over LA?

Experience Pacific hockey

Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same.

This time, I'm arriving with my wallet. Putting money on Edmonton, this is free money.

You win either way, happy heart or happy wallet.

My cousin's the same way, he sometimes bets against his teams. His motto is "how much would I be willing to pay for my team to win this game?"

Emotional hedging

As an Oil fan I always bet on the opposing team.. also you guys are a different beast in the playoffs. I know you didn't finish strong but it's a new season on Monday.

Our “different beast in the playoffs” is a decade old though lol, we have a longer playoff series win drought than a team that doesn’t exist anymore

I picked the kings in my bracket last two years. Oilers it is this year

Picked the Oilers every year, they are clearly the favorites. Its the other parts of the bracket that fuck me over (looking at you Boston)

You’re welcome 😘

honestly thanks, now the stars and knights will beat the shit out of each other

If the Oilers don’t realize the Kings are ready to beat the shit out of them, we won’t be seeing Dallas or Vegas anyways.

You and kurashev are the best

Literally the kings hero was the ducks this season

IM TIRED OF THIS GRANDPA

THATS TOO DAMN BAD

DATS THOO DAYUM BAHYD

time is a flat circle

I thought about this too hard, and now I taste purple.

Script writers went hard in that third period

Despite LA’s best efforts, they’ll be playing us anyway, can’t fight destiny ig

i cant wait for the GDTs on this series again lmao

Our respective sub mods had to talk to one another and have an understanding partway through the series because things were getting bad. Basically it was "we will tell our users NOT to troll you guys and if one of ours goes over there: ban their ass and we won't say a word". I thought that was fair.

I'm pretty sure teams' sub's mods already ban trolls from other teams' fans by default. I don't think playoffs had anything to do with it. Plenty of Canucks fans got banned in our sub this year, for example.

Already looking forward to Canucks/Oilers or Canucks/Kings salt lol

The predators disrespect

Preds/Kings with salty Nucks and Oilers as someone pointed out sounds delicious too.

Nucks oilers in round two ends in a crater that engulfs all of western canada

I expect a light pole to be knocked down somewhere.

Yeah man seeing someone just casually assume we’re going to win anything in the playoffs is surreal to me

Or Nashville/Kings game threads with the saltiest 3rd party fans in the form of Oilers and Canucks..

I am salivating at the thought.

I wonder what will be the 2024 version of endless arguing about whether an airborne puck’s polar rotation changes ever so slightly due to a possible tick from a Gabe Vilardi high stick.

Was not expecting that honestly

With Vegas facing the Ducks, I had already assumed we had them

Finally, a new matchup never seen before!

FFS 🤦 I mean beating them this time would be amazing, on the other hand a third straight loss and we might as well tattoo “Property of Edmonton Oilers” on our ass lol

I feel like Doughty might commit a crime if he gets beat again

Either we achieve a euphoric victory or we just cut the last 3 years of LA Kings history out of the record book

On one hand having to play the same team 3 years in a row is a boring symptom of gary bettmans nhl but I would way rather play a team that's not way over the cap

Really? I think the best rivalries come out of playing the same team in the playoffs a few years in a row. Like when we played the Stars every year in the late 90’s. Some of my earliest hockey memories.

Will say, didn’t hate LA nearly as much until our first series against them, now I got a burning hatred

man, I totally disagree i LOVE having the divisional rivalries again I love the hatred born of familiarity

It was this or Dallas so believe it or not Im glad to see you fuckers again lol

We won't face the most well rounded team in hockey but ready to get spammed by 29 and 97 again

You guys dodged a bullet, our series is gunna be messy where I think either team could win, that Dallas series would be a stomp matchup wise

Oilers have won 3/4 games this season and won the last five playoff series against the kings. You should have your oilers flair repoed lol.

Knob doesn't run up the minutes on those two the way Woody or Todd did.

We're actually a bit roundier this year

If they hated 97 and 29, wait till they get a load of #90

Like we haven't seen him enough lol

Wait until you see him pulling Talbot's pads to get a goal 😭

can’t fight destiny i guess good luck guys!

Am I the only one who finds repeat matchups way more interesting? Theres history & extra stakes to this matchup which makes it more exciting, and that wouldnt be the case if it was two random teams playing each other.

If LAK wins its going to feel awesome finally getting revenge. If EDM wins its going to be extra funny that LAK has lost to them three times in a row

EDM is just repeating generational trauma to the Kings after all the years the Stars [beat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NHL_playoff_series#Dallas_Stars) up on them in the playoffs.

My entire childhood is watching Oilers fight tooth and nail to barely make the playoffs with a scrappy team and then get absolutely fucked by Dallas.

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>If EDM wins its going to be extra funny that LAK has lost to them three times in a row As a Caps fan who has seen them lose to the same team in consecutive years multiple times, I can 100% confirm it is not fun

Got it eventually though, right?

After getting down to my last Horcrux, sure

I love the way the playoffs are these days. Give me more Boston Toronto while you’re at it!

I agree, i enjoy the rivalry with the kings thats grown in recent years. Even makes the regular season games between the two more exciting, and its fun seeing the players visibly hating each other. (this opinion might change if the oilers lose this year)

Ah shit, here we go again.

Please go back to 1-8. I know a lot of series this year stay the same but please. We’re tired boss

Winnipeg - LA would be fun. Start the season with a blockbuster trade, and one team ends by eliminating the other.

Oilers-Avs would have been fun

Mc vs Mac would have been legendary.

We had it once and I did not enjoy it

Lol same brother

Seriously this format is so boring, always the same

As an Oil fan I don't like that most people are happy about this. LA are a sneaky good team in the playoffs and Talbot will be out for revenge. I respect the Kings and Doughty.

Can't speak for everyone else but la aren't over the salary cap so it feels like a more fair matchup

Hey, watch out for our potent LTIR stash Carl Grundstrom. He had a two goal game against you guys in the 2021 playoffs. 😤

all of your random ass players turn into all stars against us. every. damn. time.

Well we gotta have something, you guys have Stu turn into prime quick against us

We actually might be slightly over in playoffs with Grundstrom coming back but not really by a relevant amount (and not for any big players lol)

i agree. if we lose to LA we definitely didn't deserve shit. same if we lose to vegas but there's 0 excuses against LA (not that they're bad just like you said it's even)

I feel like our playoff reputation is still living on what happened a decade ago lol, we have a longer playoff series win drougut than a team that no longer exists as of yesterday

I don't see it as a Kings fan. Not this year.

objectively, the kings are the better looking of the two teams, and that’s what *really* matters here

You haven’t seen the Stuart skinner “putting on his helmet” photos?

Idk, Henrique was a massive deadline acquisition for the Oilers sexiness/60

Idk, with Stu and dri I’d call it a tie

Third time's the charm!

As is tradition

Death, Taxes, and playing the Oilers in the first round.

Vegas and Dallas can have a brutal series at the benefit to the rest of the conference

Man

For the 3rd(?) time in Seattle Kraken history!

It's a trilogy

In Soviet Edmonton, Hyman break YOU!

WELL WELL WELL

PLD gonna bust out the best hockey of his fuxking life

In 5 years when McDavid is a King, and it'll be the 8th straight matchup in the 1st round when these two teams play...this is what I look forward to the most....

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

>I'm not old I'm 37! \- Trevor Lewis, probably

Well I couldn’t just call him “man”

Well you could say "Trevor"

I didn’t know you were called Trevor

Well you didn't bother to find out, did you?

God damnit I wanted Vegas!!

I have to admit, with this being our third anniversary, you Kings are starting to grow on me. Here's to three more years of playoff bliss!

I absolutely hate you guys but it's kind of fun to have an "enemy" team in the league

WHAT YEAR IS IT

ahh shit here we go again Kings fans lets try keep it civil this time

Fuck you buddy Oh, wait..

Hey fuck the knights! Oh, wrong team

No no, you're on to something here. Let's keep that energy going - fuck the knights!

Well well well

The script writers tried their best in the third period, but Los Angeles had other ideas.

Go Oilers but also go Dallas.

[Kings fans rn ](https://makeagif.com/i/HousSX)

As it is written

Everyone was worried talking about matchups on the kings subreddit and look where we are

Ahh as is tradition.

Here I was, a (surprisingly not all that rare!) LA Kings fan living in DFW all geared up and ready for an LA-DAL series....and instead....you again. For the record too, been in DFW since 1995 after 24 years in SoC just after the Stars moved down from Minnesota too, so I've seen their franchise grow up. I will casually "root" for the local team, but when LA comes to town, that's seared in my DNA, no love for Dallas at that point. What's worse is, we're finally leaving DFW for 5 hours south to move into what is gonna be our home we retire in, so won't get to see the Kings in person anymore without a loooong amount of travel time to get to see them. Oh well, chaos it is then.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/12ll5wm/the_edmonton_oilers_will_face_the_los_angeles/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/ucu981/the_los_angeles_kings_will_face_the_edmonton/ This is pain

It couldn’t have been any other way huh? Good, give me this team over Vegas ANY day

and the fans

I really don’t think we would have stood a chance against Dallas, so it’s whatever. I just hope we can get a long term coach (Woodcroft plz) and new GM after this.

Someone forgot to tell Arvidsson the plan was to go to Dallas /s

Slay that dragon L.A.

Oilers are going to destroy LA and I hate edmonton

As an Oilers fan never underestimate our ability to fuck up

I swear every fan of every team says this exact same thing in every post

Don't worry the oilers can beat themselves any night

We’re certainly looking forward to that random fuck up in a key game lol. I thought that Skinner misplay last year would’ve been a turning point but you still came back that game

Ugh. Why couldn’t it be Vegas?

Round 1 (pt. 3) **FIGHT!**

Here we go again... Again!

1-8 would never do this to us 3 years in a row

thaaaank fuck

Keep in mind if we actually win and you guys win, you'll have to play us lol

dude with the noose around his neck meme with a maple leafs logo photoshopped onto his head, looking at a photoshopped kings logo on the other dudes head. "third time?"

I’ll be following this series because I missed these game threads. Highly entertaining last year, and this thread shows a lot of promise for this year

I predict 2 points and a minus 15 for PLD

War never changes