Post-Game Talk: Below average goaltending + below average finishing + below average defense = ugly losses

[TheSuperElite]

Stuart is truly the worst "starter" in the league

 

[lakai17]

.86 save percentage tonight. No pp goals against either. What happened?

 

[russ99]

Reports were that Katz was pretty angry before the deadline, we half ass our way through this road trip, may/e he’d do something?

 

[North]

This team cannot pay bouchard more than 8.5 the stupidity from this player is never ending.

I wouldn’t go that high.

I am trying to determine if there is an RD that we could trade him for that could cover some of his offense but be better defensively.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

 

[Heavy Dee]

This team is set back two years.

And Knobloch can f*** off.

 

[K1984]

2 and 97 have to start bearing down and managing the puck like professionals. Lazy, both of them.

Control what you can control. We have a shit goalie, is what it is. Can’t control that anymore. We can control passing decisions, we can control puck management, we can control going low instead of throwing everything f***ing blind and high, we can choose to shoot more often than defer, we can control our effort level.

All a joke. All of that was a constant among our best players. Wake up and lead for f*** sakes.

 

[Murphinator]

This team is garbage

 

[Oilhawks]

It’ll be nice when Stu Shitter is off the team, too bad he’ll sewer another playoffs

Mental midget clown

 

[NeverForget06]

Reports were that Katz was pretty angry before the deadline, we half ass our way through this road trip, may/e he’d do something?

Like what? No way they would hire a new coach - this is the team

 

[harpoon]

Sabres throw McLeod out for several big draws at the end there. And obviously to kill the penalty. He had three big shifts to close that out for the Sabres. Sigh.

 

[bellagiobob]

Bad tending. Way too many giveaways. PP that got worse as the game went on, passing it around for a minute to set up Drai for a shot that every person in the building knew was coming over and over again, a pathetic 6-5 to close the game, and another game wheee Bouch is dangerous at both ends of the ice. Just another embarrassing loss to a bottom feeder. Inexcusable.

 

[Zerotonine]

Another game where we lose while having the second best goalie in net. f*** Stuart Skinner

Second? We had the 3rd at best

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

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Textbook.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

Poogent-Slopkins never accountable for his shit play. Loses every puck battle. Softer than butter. I'd rather have Eric Belanger on this team than him.

 

[Messrules11]

Get rid of Nuge, Bouchard and Skinny, I can’t stand watching these failures play hockey.

 

[McTedi]

Bouchard sucks, get him the f*** out of here. Trade him in the offseason for an actual defenceman.

 

[Heavy Dee]

I think McDavid was yelling at Kbob for not calling a timeout. This happened as the team was leaving the ice.

Yep I seen that as well. Knobloch is a deer in the headlights.

 

[brentashton]

I think McDavid was yelling at Kbob for not calling a timeout. This happened as the team was leaving the ice.

Well, he ain’t wrong.

 

[McSpecial DraiBlend]

Stuart is truly the worst "starter" in the league

It's not close.

 

[OilerTyler]

2 goals against started with Arvidsson and Podkolzin being completely incompetent in the offensive zone.

Podkolzin didn't touch the ice again after his turnover leading to the (eventual) game winning goal.

Maybe Knob is starting to see how bad of a player he is.

 

[VeteranPresence]

It’s not often you can so clearly point the finger at one particular person for f***ing up an entire pro sports team for over an entire decade, but Dumbass Daryl Katz has managed to do just that.

This imbecile was gifted two Hall of Fame level players and has reached the finals once. Once. One time. Either Katz is an idiot for constantly hiring dinosaurs who do not prioritize goaltending and defense, or he is an idiot for telling said dinosaurs not to prioritize goaltending and defense.

We are never going to win with this mental midget as an owner, because he keeps hiring mental midgets to work for him. Until the media starts pointing that out and thereafter shames some common sense into his thick skull, we may as well resign ourselves to the inevitability of watching Connor walk and this team stumble into a new Decade of Darkness that will be worse than the previous one for all the hope and talent that was squandered.

 

[North]

I have to say yes the team made some mistakes, all teams do, the problem is all our mistakes end up in the net.

We’re never going to play a perfect game and if that’s what we need to do we’re doomed.

This has been the case all season.

Even shots that aren’t high danger, become high danger because Stu can’t make a simple save.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

that 6-on-5 was hilarious....not a single crisp pass, and maybe 1 decent flurry

 

[Salvaged Ship]

The piss poor goaltending and defense means this team has to score at least 4 goals or its almost a guaranteed loss. That does not win playoff games, you just lost to an awful team on a 6 game losing streak.