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[Jet]

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That's f***ing savage

 

[Buffdog]

You remember when people wanted us to get Armia back?

That's the first thing I thought when I read that

 

[Buffdog]

Skinner shouldn't take all the blame, that team doesn't play defense. Maybe McJesus and Drai should have taken a little less money and the Oilers would have the cap room to add some solid 2 way players . You know like Scheifele and Helly did for Winnipeg. Again i couldn't be happier to watch the Oilers crash and burn.

Or maybe they shouldn't have given Nurse 9M

That's an expensive pilon

 

[wpgallday1960]

What about Mac Voisin of M&M Meat Shops. Pretty sure he remembers.
*Takes a generous bite of delicious chicken pot pie*

 

[bustamente]

Oilers have McDavid for 1 more year and then have a tough decision to make, give him what he wants or trade him away. Sure the cap is supposed to go up but will it be enough to build a complete team around him.

 

[Jets 31]

Or maybe they shouldn't have given Nurse 9M

That's an expensive pilon

That Byfield goal was unbelievable, Nurse just played that so badly. As the kids say his controller broke.

 

[Jets 31]

Oilers have McDavid for 1 more year and then have a tough decision to make, give him what he wants or trade him away. Sure the cap is supposed to go up but will it be enough to build a complete team around him.

Bet Chevy could figure out how to do it.

 

[King Woodballs]

#inchevywetrust

 

[Huffer]

That's the first thing I thought when I read that

Myself as well. There are some on this board that just love to overspend assets just to make trades it seems.

Speaking about overspending....Can't wait until the Oilers re-sign Bouchard to something ridiculous. Somehow I think he's got good advanced stats, but I'm not a fan. IMO he's the definition of an empty calorie player. He'll put up some points on the PP, and he's going to somehow get 10M plus, but he doesn't help you win. Can't play defense at all. Give me 6 Samberg's getting 20 to 30 points a year over 6 Bouchards. (Better yet, 3 left hand Morrisseys and 3 right hand Sambergs if I'm dreaming lol).

 

[AnonoJet]

Laine's regression in full effect last night, he has no ice awareness and generally gets in the way most of the time. As for the pp he waits just inside circle waiting to unleash a shot that might hit the net but probably misses it.

I kept thinking “wtf has become of Laine” while watching that game. He looks done. Unreal

 

[Do or Die]

Yes, Skinner is bad......but the Oiler team D and PK, has been beer level bad.
Watching Nurse and Bouchard pairing.....brutal.

 

[Gm0ney]

I kept thinking “wtf has become of Laine” while watching that game. He looks done. Unreal

Laine's last play as a Jet was a clever fake like he was going to pass behind his own net for the Jets to regroup in overtime. He fakes to go back, the opposition forward covering him bites, and he turns it up ice and scores the OT winner. I think he was traded for PLD the next day. That was 4 years ago...

I don't know what happened to him, if anything - he was prone to strange funks, crises of confidence, back then as well. It's a shame.

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Skinner shouldn't take all the blame, that team doesn't play defense. Maybe McJesus and Drai should have taken a little less money and the Oilers would have the cap room to add some solid 2 way players . You know like Scheifele and Helly did for Winnipeg. Again i couldn't be happier to watch the Oilers crash and burn.

They made trade of the century for Ekholm. He was the Glue that held the whole backend together. Probably a bigger injury than losing the German or McDavid.

 

[Romang67]

Laine's last play as a Jet was a clever fake like he was going to pass behind his own net for the Jets to regroup in overtime. He fakes to go back, the opposition forward covering him bites, and he turns it up ice and scores the OT winner. I think he was traded for PLD the next day. That was 4 years ago...

I don't know what happened to him, if anything - he was prone to strange funks, crises of confidence, back then as well. It's a shame.

He has been completely unplayable 5v5 since 2019. In the past 7 seasons he has finished with a higher xGF% than 43% ONCE (in 55 games).

Given his very questionable maturity, I really think that he just shut down and decided to just do his own thing when the locker room got toxic in 2019. Players demanded something of him (YOU GOTTA MOVE), and the guy who had been told he was God's gift to hockey for most of his career wasn't having it. Add in some injuries and some documented mental issues, and he's just a wasted promise at this point.

He was drafted 9 years ago, and he's such a liability 5v5 that he doesn't see the ice even when his team needs a goal to tie it in the playoffs. Being that big of a liability 5v5 isn't explained by a lack of defensive hockey IQ. Kyle Connor, I think, tries most of the time but just doesn't understand what he's supposed to do defensively. Laine I don't think gives a shit unless he has the opportunity to shoot.

 

[cbcwpg]

To be fair, Washington looks great too.

JMO, but not that impressed by Wash so far actually. Wash defense looks pretty leaky and they give the puck away in their own end quite a bit. Montreal is getting a ton of chances , they just aren't scoring on them. Wash has disappeared in the 3rd period in both games and it's only their goaltending that kept them from losing.

 

[AlphaLackey]

He has nobody to blame but himself, to be in the best league in the world you have to continually work on your game as opposed to having things handed to you. What could of been if he would of applied himself in the off season.

Wayne Gretzky had all the talent in the world. He also worked on it like an absolute madman from a young age. If one wanted to take the language often applied to gamblers, one could easily call him a degenerate hockey player, maybe even a hockey addict. But that's what it takes. Talent makes your time more productive, but no talent will compensate for no time.

Laine is good at one thing -- offence -- and he's not even good enough at that to be called on when his team needs one thing -- offence.

Just crazy.

 

[jokesondee]

Or maybe they shouldn't have given Nurse 9M

That's an expensive pilon

Me every time i think about Nurse's contract:

 

[Romang67]

Seems Avs fans aren't too thrilled about the Nelson trade at this point.

 

[AlphaLackey]

I see HF Oilers is ready to string Stu Skinner up by his knackers. Don’t blame them as provides about the polar opposite to clutch goaltending.

if by "clutch", you mean "clutching someone by the throat with both hands", then yes, Skinner is a clutch goalie

 

[jokesondee]

I kept thinking “wtf has become of Laine” while watching that game. He looks done. Unreal

At this point he's just a one trick pony PP specialist. He's just too much of a defensive liability turnover machine 5 on 5.

 

[Hobble]

Seems Avs fans aren't too thrilled about the Nelson trade at this point.

Wonder what could have been if the Avs kept Kadri. He seemed like a good fit. Did he just leave for money or was traded?!

 

[RustyCat]

Seems Avs fans aren't too thrilled about the Nelson trade at this point.

It seems like year after year notable trade target 'X' gets picked up by a contending team at the TD only to underperform. I am certainly glad Chevy did not sell the farm not only to have that happen, but to unbalance team chemistry as a whole.

 

[Jet]

Laine's last play as a Jet was a clever fake like he was going to pass behind his own net for the Jets to regroup in overtime. He fakes to go back, the opposition forward covering him bites, and he turns it up ice and scores the OT winner. I think he was traded for PLD the next day. That was 4 years ago...

I don't know what happened to him, if anything - he was prone to strange funks, crises of confidence, back then as well. It's a shame.

You remember everyone absolutely shitting on Wheeler and Scheifele for running him out of town? Maybe they had a point about him not giving enough shits.

 

[Romang67]

Wonder what could have been if the Avs kept Kadri. He seemed like a good fit. Did he just leave for money or was traded?!

Kadri got the bag. $7M per year for a while. No way they could keep him.

It seems like year after year notable trade target 'X' gets picked up by a contending team at the TD only to underperform. I am certainly glad Chevy did not sell the farm not only to have that happen, but to unbalance team chemistry as a whole.

Yeah, I liked Nelson as a target, but I did not like him at the equivalent of a 1st plus Yager.

 

[Jaytee]

Anybody here truly surprised at how the Oilers are doing?

To me, it looks like they've reverted back to their norm. Last year was the outlier for them, in my opinion; a not-very-good team that got hot at just the right time. What we're seeing now is the Oilers they way they're mbuilt to be - two superstars surrounded by a mostly adequate-to-mediocre team

Skinner shouldn't take all the blame, that team doesn't play defense. Maybe McJesus and Drai should have taken a little less money and the Oilers would have the cap room to add some solid 2 way players . You know like Scheifele and Helly did for Winnipeg. Again i couldn't be happier to watch the Oilers crash and burn.

I've been saying this for several years. Hockey is a team sport first, and in the salary cap era, it's almost impossible for a team with superstars to win the Cup, because the superstars take up too much of the cap. Combine that with management that has been incompetent more often than not for the past couple of decades, and you've got the Oilers.

I've been laughing all year at the chuckleheads (and there are so, so many of them) that said the Oilers were the favourites to win it all this year, because look how close they came last year.

What they failed to understand is that it was last year's Oilers team that was the anomaly. They generally are a much worse team than what they showed last year. They just aren't built right, despite having arguably the two best players.