Post-Game Talk: 1001 Reasons to Watch Hockey

[TheNumber4]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857287595543212057

Imagine if the solution to Ceci was Kulak all along.

 

[bellagiobob]

McJesus getting a little emotional talking to Gene. He’s just the best man, we’re so blessed to have won that lottery, so many great memories already. He epitomizes hockey for this generation.

Just a f***ing LEGEND

Connor is also a legend.

 

[Stoneman89]

I agree with you and I have been as critical of Nurse as anyone on here.
In the last 7-8 games Nurse has been much better.

Its been and long time coming and its really good to see because the team needs this version of Nurse and not the brutal version of the past few years. He needs to be a player that brings some real value to his inflated contract.

Here's hoping that he doesnt revert back to the liability was was before this season.

If Nurse can somehow show that this is not a mirage and actually be worth most of his massive contract and Kulak can continue with his out of body experience and play like a 2nd pairing guy consistently, that would be fantastic. Then we can "hide' various combinations of the leftovers on the bottom pairing so they won't get best up so badly.

 

[bellagiobob]

I forgot he plays for them. I don’t remember seeing him or even hearing his name all night.

He's finally off the fantasy can't cut list, getting to the point where one seriously has to look at turfing him. Invisible most nights.

 

[Stoneman89]

McDavid's achievment of 1000 points is monumental and incredible and he's going to get his points, but to me, the bigger thing overall is a turnaround in Nurse's game. That is a major thing that will improve our chances of getting a cup win.

By the way, Stamkos could have been at Goose Loonies the entire game, and I wouldn't have noticed the difference.

At the time, it was "how can they not keep an icon like that?". Now, in hindsight, a brilliant move, moving on from him at just the right time. Probably same for Vegas with Marchessault to a lesser degree. Vegas is cutthroat in how they do business but it works for them.

 

[VainGretzky]

anyone that has a stream for Tyson fight please DM thx in advance

 

[guymez]

If Nurse can somehow show that this is not a mirage and actually be worth most of his massive contract and Kulak can continue with his out of body experience and play like a 2nd pairing guy consistently, that would be fantastic. Then we can "hide' various combinations of the leftovers on the bottom pairing so they won't get best up so badly.

I couldnt agree more.
I am right there with you hoping for Nurse to prove that this isnt a mirage.
It just solves a major issue with the defence and allows the team to shelter the bottom pairing a little more.

 

[bellagiobob]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857561790739263820

 

[walktheboulavard]

What a game. And the 3 best buds from 2015 are all in on McDavid's 1000 point milestone. You just know it had to be written. That play still has be buzzing and dancing like

 

[OfCorsiDid]

He's finally off the fantasy can't cut list, getting to the point where one seriously has to look at turfing him. Invisible most nights.

In my fantasy league it's a 4 year-cycle keeper league. Stamkos wasn't kept for the first time since the league began this year. That's a pretty big shift.

Also one GM used a keeper slot on RNH, since then he's dropped him. Seems like a transition year imo.

 

[AM]

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.

When first class defense is stack the bodies in front of the net, you know the net is to small.