Pre-Game Talk: Edmonton Oilers @ Ottawa Senators 19:00 EST

[Adrianopolous]

Another moral victory? will we play well and lose again?

How will Ullmark respond? Big test for him against McDavid.

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[SpezDispenser]

Tonight will be tough. Edmonton lost to one of the worst teams in the league last night, they're assuredly pissed off and they happen to have 2 of the best players in the world - and a Dman who needs a kick in the pants after a couple of terrifically lazy backchecks on breakaways.

I will be the eternal optimist and say it's time for Ullmark to show why he's been consistently one of the better goalies in the league. Don't overthink, just do what you've always done.

 

[Adrianopolous]

40% of the barn will the Oilers fans. It was at 35% last year but we will definitely see a bump after the run the Oilers went on last year.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Tonight will be tough. Edmonton lost to one of the worst teams in the league last night, they're assuredly pissed off and they happen to have 2 of the best players in the world - and a Dman who needs a kick in the pants after a couple of terrifically lazy backchecks on breakaways.

I will be the eternal optimist and say it's time for Ullmark to show why he's been consistently one of the better goalies in the league. Don't overthink, just do what you've always done.

The worst teams goalies made saves.

Can Ullmark?

 

[SpezDispenser]

The worst teams goalies made saves.

Can Ullmark?

Eventually...yes. But we need it now, obviously.

 

[Larionov]

One huge plus is us having last change, giving us the opportunity to put one of our top lines out against Josh Brown. We need to punish the Oilers mercilessly when they put that guy on the ice...

 

[Micklebot]

Save Low effort GDT tag for when a last min GDT is made (say within an hour of the puck drop), there's a Pre game talk tag for this kind of stuff, we've been fortunate enough to have some posters put in some effort to make a nice GDT, don't need to be discouraging that by making an early Low effort thread before they get a chance to put a traditional one together.

 

[DrEasy]

What new frustrating ways will the Sens find to lose the game?

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Oilers playing their 3rd game in 4 nights and their goaltending has been shaky to start the season. At some point we need to take advantage and grab some of these points. It can't just be about "the process".

 

[CornerStone61]

Oilers playing their 3rd game in 4 nights and their goaltending has been shaky to start the season. At some point we need to take advantage and grab some of these points. It can't just be about "the process".

Sounds like a job for the Slumpbuster Sens

 

[NyQuil]

Oilers were embarrassed in Montreal which means another loss for Ottawa.

Winning against Philadelphia was important.

 

[swiftwin]

It's also Edmonton's 3rd game in 4 nights, all on the road. I'm not so sure it's an auto-loss.

 

[StoicSensFan]

Going to this one, EASY W

 

[Senscore]

If Nurse was playing we'd have a chance

 

[Cosmix]

I am hoping for a win but not confident it will happen against the Oilers. The Senators must be very good out of the gate and continue to play a solid defensive game in all 3 zones to remain in this one. If they skate very well and put forechecking pressure on the Oilers D in the O-zone we could win, provided that the goaltenders don't muck it up with another poor performance.

Will the coaching staff take advantage of matchups given we have the final change? Let's find out!

 

[SpezDispenser]

It wouldn't hurt to come out and score two quick ones to at least fracture their backs.

 

[StoicSensFan]

If you're tailgating, look for the SUV blasting Prince.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

We always make a point about outgoalied, and while finishing plays a role in that, you also have to look at the style a goalie plays. Skinner sucks, but he excels playing against our style of offense, which is what really worries me. On the other spectrum, despite the Blues goalies being better than Skinner, they struggle against teams with our style of play, which is why we blew them out.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Bettman doing a presser in Ottawa, will be on pre game show.
Meeting with Mayor and Andlauer today, not sure if anyone else.

 

[milkbag]

What new frustrating ways will the Sens find to lose the game?

We haven't seen an unlucky bounce off a stanchion yet so I'm gonna go with that for this one

 

[OUT HOUSE]

Bettman doing a presser in Ottawa, will be on pre game show.
Meeting with Mayor and Andlauer today, not sure if anyone else.

Rip to our other 1st rounder

 

[Micklebot]

We haven't seen an unlucky bounce off a stanchion yet so I'm gonna go with that for this one

There was a really bad one in the flyers game but it didn't cost us, they dumped into the corner and instead of going behind the net, it seemed like it hit the hole for the camera in the corner and came right back into the circle close to the boards with the goalie behind the net.

 

[milkbag]

There was a really bad one in the flyers game but it didn't cost us, they dumped into the corner and instead of going behind the net, it seemed like it hit the hole for the camera in the corner and came right back into the circle close to the boards with the goalie behind the net.

Off the stanchion behind the net, into the back of Ulmark/Forsbergs leg, and then into the back of the net is what I'm calling. A true senators-level fluke

 

[Golden_Jet]

Rip to our other 1st rounder

I was hoping he’d announce we are getting our first back, like NJ, and will be last pick in first round.

 

[SensFanInMTL]