Kamus
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“Our” board???? Please explain?You come onto our board claiming McDavid is leaving after losing game 3 in the SCF. Why not find a hobby? Or touch some grass.
“Our” board???? Please explain?You come onto our board claiming McDavid is leaving after losing game 3 in the SCF. Why not find a hobby? Or touch some grass.
I'm not sure if I can last 10 seconds.That's still ten minutes you'll have watched.
I took a break from hockey from 2018 up through the two COVID seasons, so I went back to read what people were saying about Nurse during that time, and...it hasn't changed much. The consensus seemed to be that he (still) had a low hockey IQ and was eating up major minutes but not really making a positive impact, and that the team was essentially a defensive sieve without Klefbom. In 2020-21, Nurse finished seventh in Norris voting, but the Oilers really only played six other teams that season.
It doesn't seem like Nurse was ever a genuine top-pairing D-Man in a normal NHL regular season and that his contract, because of all the limitations it places on the Oilers, might end up being the most destructive in league history, since it almost forces the team to give him major minutes so management doesn't look as idiotic as they actually are for signing someone who isn't even a legit second-pairing D-man to one of the most lucrative contracts possible. Also, it forces him to stay in the top-four, hindering the second pairing for as long as he's under contract and also preventing us from being able to afford additional defensive support or needed depth forwards (not benchwarmers like Ryan, Carrick, and Grandpa Perry).
Furthermore, Skinner's horrific play gets blamed on Nurse, when in reality they're as effective together in preventing our success as McDrai and Ek-Bouch are in achieving it. Nurse is a 6th D-Man on a good day and Skinner is a headcase who belongs in the AHL.
Ken Holland, Stuart Skinner, and Darnell Nurse are the three biggest reasons, in that order, why the Oilers didn't win a Cup this year or last. I have zero respect for the idiots who blame Draisaitl or McDavid in any way whatsoever for our current predicament. They have been willing this team farther than any other two players could go with Skinner in net and Nurse eating up 20 plus minutes a night.
We'd have at least one more Cup by now if they hired Bill Zito in 2019 (like we almost did!) instead of an old man primed for retirement whose only good moves for us were due to his son playing armchair GM.
I think that's already happened.
I also said this for a while. I don't want to see Nurse in the Oilers silk ever again. If he was a UFA I wouldn't sign him to a 5 million contract. Lets get the chant Nurse sucks going at games so he demands a trade.Just for funzies...who was the poster who called my take an embarrassment when I posted this guy is a #5-6 at best many moons ago?
Care to step up and discuss this further as to why you thought this guy is legit ?
I specifically cited how bad this clown is in the playoffs, and he just keeps proving it over and over
I'd be embarrassed to know that I defended him right about now
He doesn't have the brains for that.Lol
Maybe "Darnell Nurse might be a good 2nd line winger"
Most people don't know the rules and just regurgitate shit they heard someone say in a different context.Because I got into a Facebook arguement on what nurses contract looks like on a buyout I’m gonna share this here
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Unless you think Mcdavid and Draisaitl are gone in 2 years and the oilers are relocating while getting a new expansion team the Idea of buying out nurse is disgusting
1 leg, half a hip and shrooms.I'm not sure if I can last 10 seconds.
I just got off the phone with family. Trying to cheer them up and all we can do is recount Darnell's 'puck luck.'
I swear, unless it's revealed that he was playing through the entire playoffs on 1 leg and half a hip, he's dead to me.
Because I got into a Facebook arguement on what nurses contract looks like on a buyout I’m gonna share this here
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Unless you think Mcdavid and Draisaitl are gone in 2 years and the oilers are relocating while getting a new expansion team the Idea of buying out nurse is disgusting
I don’t get it, nurse has somehow gotten worse with less responsibility and minutes with the addition of ekholmAnother game where Nurses pair did everything they could to lose the game. While Broberg definitely made some of his own mistakes, you can distinctively see how much Nurse hurts his partners
ANOTHER puck coming around the net with nothing but daylight, he reverses it for no resson back into a covered Broberg. That kicked off one of Fla most dominant cycles and chances.
Not to mention countless more poor passes to Broberg that left him scrambling to get pucks w/ pressure all over him
Nurse is one of the worst dmen in the NHL. That's not an exaggeration.
The addition of Ekholm, the internal growth of Bouchard and Broberg. Kulak stepping up every playoffs. Really not sure what's going on with Nurse. He's getting worse every season and playoffs.I don’t get it, nurse has somehow gotten worse with less responsibility and minutes with the addition of ekholm
Just enough is mandatory for the next two games. Or minimum.He was a disaster last night and he's not good enough for the contract, but all they need is "just enough" for, hopefully, 2 more games. He won't be a world beater, but just good enough to help this team over is all they need.