BertCorbeau
F*ck cancer - RIP Fugu and Buffaloed
Jason Robertson needs more credit .. 100 point pace (37 in 30 games) after missing the start of the season.
GDT: Around the League - 2021/22 PART III
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It's happening! But the Leafs aren't trading for him. They're getting him for free when he's a UFA
BertCorbeau
F*ck cancer - RIP Fugu and Buffaloed
Seath The Scaleless
Paledrake
Pavelski (age 37): 43 points in 38 games
Robertson: 37 points in 30 games (83 points in 84 career games)
Hintz: 32 points in 36 games (after an unlucky 1 point in 10 games to start the season)
That line is carrying Dallas and their otherwise inept offense.
Yup.
Having 19+ million tied up in Benn and Seguin are killing them right now. Those two just fell off a cliff.
Did you know that they interviewed Bill Zito before hiring Holland? Imagine how different, and probably better, the Oilers would be right now!
All eyes on Tippett, Koskinen, Holland with reeling Oilers in turmoil - Sportsnet.ca
“It’s unfair,” observed winger Warren Foegele, a former Carolina Hurricane who is living through his first three-alarm blaze here in a Canadian hockey city. “We win as a team, we lose as a team. It’s unfair to just blame one guy. We’re all responsible, all six guys on the ice.
“We’re a team, we’re here to win, and you just can’t be pointing fingers, saying, ‘It’s that guy’s fault.’ Or,. ‘It’s that guy’s fault.’ It doesn’t work like that. That’s not how you win.”
We don’t see Tippett getting fired any time soon no matter what happens Saturday night when the Calgary Flames come to town, a Hockey Night in Canada game that folks will watch from coast to coast like rubberneckers on the Don Valley Parkway. Nobody can avert their eyes from a good wreck -- and that perfectly describes these Edmonton Oilers -- but that doesn’t mean Holland is going to fire a head coach in the middle of the season for the first time as a National Hockey League general manager.
Why? Because it’s awfully hard to fire the head coach when his biggest problem is entirely the GM's fault.
Tippett hasn’t had starting goalie Mike Smith for more than handful of healthy minutes this season. It was Holland who set his team off to sail with this Smith-Koskinen tandem back in October, two old goalies on a three-hour tour. He’s the one who took the chance that has blown up in the Oilers’ collective face.
It’s hard even to watch poor Koskinen take the nets these days, as the oddsmakers make lines on who has less confidence in the six-foot-seven Finn. His teammates, or himself.
What the Oilers truly need is a new face in goal, with backup Stuart Skinner very likely to remain in COVID protocol through the weekend and Smith’s return set for some time next week, maybe. Holland spent his Friday knocking on the Philadelphia Flyers’ door about Martin Jones, while simultaneously trying to free Braden Holtby up from the Dallas Stars.
Neither is expected in time for the Flames game Saturday -- an evening that could become toxic if the hated provincial rivals roll into town and mistreat the Oilers the same way the Panthers did on Thursday.
But the Oilers are looking at the HNIC game as an opportunity. Hey, what choice do they have?
“It’s unfair,” observed winger Warren Foegele, a former Carolina Hurricane who is living through his first three-alarm blaze here in a Canadian hockey city. “We win as a team, we lose as a team. It’s unfair to just blame one guy. We’re all responsible, all six guys on the ice.
“We’re a team, we’re here to win, and you just can’t be pointing fingers, saying, ‘It’s that guy’s fault.’ Or,. ‘It’s that guy’s fault.’ It doesn’t work like that. That’s not how you win.”
We don’t see Tippett getting fired any time soon no matter what happens Saturday night when the Calgary Flames come to town, a Hockey Night in Canada game that folks will watch from coast to coast like rubberneckers on the Don Valley Parkway. Nobody can avert their eyes from a good wreck -- and that perfectly describes these Edmonton Oilers -- but that doesn’t mean Holland is going to fire a head coach in the middle of the season for the first time as a National Hockey League general manager.
Why? Because it’s awfully hard to fire the head coach when his biggest problem is entirely the GM's fault.
Tippett hasn’t had starting goalie Mike Smith for more than handful of healthy minutes this season. It was Holland who set his team off to sail with this Smith-Koskinen tandem back in October, two old goalies on a three-hour tour. He’s the one who took the chance that has blown up in the Oilers’ collective face.
It’s hard even to watch poor Koskinen take the nets these days, as the oddsmakers make lines on who has less confidence in the six-foot-seven Finn. His teammates, or himself.
What the Oilers truly need is a new face in goal, with backup Stuart Skinner very likely to remain in COVID protocol through the weekend and Smith’s return set for some time next week, maybe. Holland spent his Friday knocking on the Philadelphia Flyers’ door about Martin Jones, while simultaneously trying to free Braden Holtby up from the Dallas Stars.
Neither is expected in time for the Flames game Saturday -- an evening that could become toxic if the hated provincial rivals roll into town and mistreat the Oilers the same way the Panthers did on Thursday.
But the Oilers are looking at the HNIC game as an opportunity. Hey, what choice do they have?
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As one of the old time goalies (Sawchuk or Bower?) said "if you don't score more than one, we may have to settle for a tie".
notDatsyuk
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But he'd be stuck at 3C!
Imagine those 3 guys down the middle driving their own lines.
Mikheyev-McDavid-Nylander
Bunting-Matthews-Kase
Kerfoot-Tavares-Spezza
Engvall-Kampf-Simmonds
zeke
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But he'd be stuck at 3C!
He'd be a nice winger for matthews.
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Even KHL is having fun with the oilers
That's the team that Leo Komarov plays for.
I wonder if he had anything to do with it?
Oilers fans are calling Mikko Koskinen "Leako Lostagain" 
Such an interesting team to keep an eye on right now
Such an interesting team to keep an eye on right now
BertCorbeau
F*ck cancer - RIP Fugu and Buffaloed
Lots of focus on Edmonton but can we focus on Phili for one sec as they’re on the second 10 game losing streak of the season.
Woof.
Woof.
ULF_55
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What condensed game of Panthers-Canucks.
Really seemed like aggressive goaltenders, coming out pretty far at times ... trust in the players in front of them my guess.
Really seemed like aggressive goaltenders, coming out pretty far at times ... trust in the players in front of them my guess.
But who will be the 3rd guy on that line, we don’t have Hyman anymore
ToneDog
56 years and counting. #FireTheShanaClan!
Damn just saw this on the Isles board. I believe he was Justin Bourne's father-in-law and he was on Kypreos and Bourne show a couple of weeks ago. Too soon Jethro.
Clark Gillies, Hockey Hall of Famer and four-time Stanley Cup winner, dies at 67
Clark Gillies, Hockey Hall of Famer and four-time Stanley Cup winner, dies at 67
That Kevin Hayes contract might be one of the worst contracts in the league.
7.1m cap hit for another 4 years after this season is over. 3 goals, 9 points in 20 games. Yikes
Eternal Leaf
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Gotta put Mcdavid + Matthews on the same line. They would be unstoppable.
Just imagine McDavid setting up Matthews, Nylander, and Tavares on the PP. He's already impossible to stop with one shooting option (Draisaitl). Think about what happens when he has three quality shooters.
He won’t score another PP GOAL in 100 games, lol.Gotta put Mcdavid + Matthews on the same line. They would be unstoppable.
Just imagine McDavid setting up Matthews, Nylander, and Tavares on the PP. He's already impossible to stop with one shooting option (Draisaitl). Think about what happens when he has three quality shooters.
PromisedLand
I need more FOOD
did not get a chance to watch the game last night but saw this on twitter and found it really hilarious
Seath The Scaleless
Paledrake
Love me a stat that has Kase, Hornqvist, Gauthier, Atkinson, Simmonds and Coleman above Matthews and presumably McDavid, Draisaitl and Ovechkin.
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