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Time of India
4 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Edmonton Oilers shut up the critics including one of Hockey's loudest voices
The Edmonton Oilers were called soft, one-dimensional, and counted out before the playoffs began. But now, they're proving everyone wrong with tough, smart hockey that has taken them to the Stanley Cup Final. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Even one of their loudest critics has changed his tune. The Oilers are no longer just skilled, they're strong, balanced, and ready to win. Edmonton Oilers quiet doubters and win respect from their harshest critic The Drop Episode 48 | Califournia Daryl 'Razor' Reaugh isn't just any voice in hockey. He's a freshly minted Hockey Hall of Fame media inductee and a longtime Dallas Stars commentator with a knack for bold, biting takes. For two straight seasons, he predicted the Oilers would be steamrolled by the Stars if they ever met in the playoffs. And this year, he doubled down before the series began, declaring on the Stars' official podcast that Dallas would 'flush them in relatively short order. ' Instead, it was the Oilers who did the flushing, knocking out the Stars in just five games with a lethal mix of grit, precision, and defensive mastery. Reaugh, to his credit, didn't dodge the fallout. Instead, he sounded like a man who had seen a ghost or rather, a team transformed. Appearing on The Ticket Top 10 radio show, Reaugh delivered what sounded more like admiration than analysis. 'The Oilers' elites all rolled up their sleeves and really did embrace blue collar work and responsibility and driven defending, McDavid, Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, Bouchard, all these a tough team to overcome,' he admitted. And the compliments didn't stop there. Reaugh noted how Edmonton's stars—Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Evan Bouchard—did more than just dazzle. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now They defended. They are disciplined. They didn't step on each other's toes, but executed with precision and unity, a rarity in a league often dominated by solo acts. That kind of buy-in isn't just impressive, it's terrifying for opponents. Reaugh's turnaround, while commendable, highlights a broader hockey truth: The Oilers are no longer a finesse-first, figure-it-out-later franchise. They're structured. They're balanced. And, most importantly, they're dangerous on both ends of the ice. Also Read: This postseason, the Oilers didn't just win games, they won back respect. And in doing so, they may have just silenced their loudest doubter, at least until the puck drops again.
Edmonton Journal
5 days ago
- Sport
- Edmonton Journal
'Almost perfection': major Edmonton doubter now raves about Oilers
Article content But after the Oilers flushed the Stars in five games, Reaugh has a different take, saying that Edmonton's best players dominated. On The Ticket Top 10 radio show, he said,'The Oilers' elites all rolled up their sleeves and really did embrace blue collar work and responsibility and driven defending, McDavid, Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, Bouchard, all these people. And they scored at critical moments. And they seem to have morphed into one of those teams who get their offense from the shadows a little bit, their depth. And they get sort of steel gate hard defending from their superstars. That's a tough team to overcome.' Reaugh continued: '(Dallas) just could not find their way through that Oilers team that played just phenomenal defence when they had leads. And they had to lead most of it…. The Stars just couldn't crack it…. It was like three games in a row chasing the score where they couldn't mount much of an attack against them.
