Post-Game Talk: 1001 Reasons to Watch Hockey

[rboomercat90]

It's US Thanksgiving, so happy Thanksgiving to those Americans on the board, but the Oilers are in a playoff spot.

It's not a great spot but bodes well.

November 28th is US Thanksgiving.

 

[Ibanez]

I noticed that too. I wonder if something was going on in his personal life, I know he has a young kid so maybe now he's getting more sleep now that the kid isn't a baby anymore? Just a guess. Fatherhood can be rougher on some than others, Nuge might be going through that now. Just have to hope that Connor and Leon don't have their kids until after retirement

As someone with a one year old (14 months) I can attest to the fact that continued shitty sleep is simply awful.

It obviously gets better. But yeah this could have been a fact. Kids are great …. When they are sleeping well

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Good to see them pull it out after Nashville tied it late.

 

[MoontoScott]

Better that one than “your sixteen”. Always found it hugely creepy (but a hell of a melody). He still sings it at his AllStar Band concerts. He’s 84 years old. You just cant.

In fairness to poor Ringo, "You're Sixteen" was originally released in 1960 and sung by that rebel of all rebels--Johnny Burnette. It was a huge hit and so was Ringo's re-make in 1973.

Those were different times--When Paul McCartney wrote the hit "I saw her standing there" he said "Well she was just seventeen--a real beauty queen" and Lennon changed it to read "you know what I mean." You wouldn't get away with that today.

Yup, a different world but for the Oilers "It Don't Come Easy" should still be their anthem.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

November 28th is US Thanksgiving.

I did jump the gun.

 

[jesusbuiltmyhotrod]

Both of these games went to OT. Oh boy.

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Lack of finish and goaltending been the theme

 

[jesusbuiltmyhotrod]

Gotta stop bringing up Gretz. McDavid would have hit 3000 points in that same amount of games playing in that beer league

No he wouldn’t this isn’t how it works. If mcdavid was born back the. He would be a diff player. Using wooden sticks, a red line, training and coaching would be based on that time period… you cannot compare eras

 

[Slats432]

Just watched the highlights. If one of our players would have done what Sissons did and left a player (Nurse) wide open for an OT goal we would have wanted him shot into the sun.

 

[BlackDogg]

My only thing with it is I want to see how plays now that he hit 1000.

I hope there isn’t an emotional let down and that he gets 3 points or more against Tayronto.

That arena won't have seen anyone as swift since Taylor swift.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I put this post in the wrong thread.

The stats don’t accurately reflect the entire story. Teams have really done their home work and learned to defend what the Oilers want to do in the offensive zone, which is force the puck into the low slot. So teams just collapse on that area and it becomes a pile of bodies, legs, sticks and it’s almost impossible to find the puck let alone get a stick on it and get any sort of clean shot off. Even though they are counted as high danger because of where they’re taken from, the reality is most of them aren’t accurate at all and are just pucks being swept or hacked towards the net, they are pucks a 2x6 stood up on end could stop.

Teams aren’t worried at all about any sort of shots from the Oilers coming from the high slot or outside the home plate area because we almost never shoot from those areas ever, instead the team just passes it around endlessly or McDavid goes for a skate trying to open up a lane that defensively disciplined teams almost never give up anymore now that they know.

A perfect example of this was Nurses first goal last night. The Preds, including their goalie, started collapsing to the middle and weak side because they know the Oilers MO there is to either throw it across the ice, into the low slot or to skate it behind the net. Instead Nurse actually takes the ice they give him and easily buries it into the gaping short side hole because Wedgwood is already positioning himself down and towards the middle of the net expecting to be looking looking through legs for a soft puck in the bottom half of the net.

 

[rboomercat90]

I did jump the gun.

I only knew that because I spent 2 hours on the phone this morning waiting for Telus to talk to me. The recording kept telling me the long delay was because it was Black Friday today and they were having a sale. I didn’t think it was so I googled when US Thanksgiving was this year and discovered they were full of crap. I read your post five minutes later and got triggered, lol.

 

[brentashton]

I only knew that because I spent 2 hours on the phone this morning waiting for Telus to talk to me. The recording kept telling me the long delay was because it was Black Friday today and they were having a sale. I didn’t think it was so I googled when US Thanksgiving was this year and discovered they were full of crap. I read your post five minutes later and got triggered, lol.

Proof that sometimes when you act too quickly, mistakes get made.

That’s not directed at you.

 

[brentashton]

In fairness to poor Ringo, "You're Sixteen" was originally released in 1960 and sung by that rebel of all rebels--Johnny Burnette. It was a huge hit and so was Ringo's re-make in 1973.

Those were different times--When Paul McCartney wrote the hit "I saw her standing there" he said "Well she was just seventeen--a real beauty queen" and Lennon changed it to read "you know what I mean." You wouldn't get away with that today.

Yup, a different world but for the Oilers "It Don't Come Easy" should still be their anthem.

Better than Back Off Boogaloo.

 

[Stoneman89]

We had the 2nd best goalie on the ice AGAIN tonight!

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

We had the 2nd best goalie on the ice AGAIN tonight!

But being the better team helps sometimes too