Pre-Game Talk: Fragility

[Wretched Oil]

Knoblock complains he’s not getting any scoring outside of 97 and 29.

Keeps Connor Brown who hasn’t scored in 30 games and is useless.

Sits Jeff Skinner who scores, for an AHL player.

Proceeds to wax poetic about said NHLer.

Will give him maybe 8 minutes tonight

Sorry if that rubs you the wrong way Mrs Knoblock.

Sorry you're such a child about sports

 

[McDNicks17]

Honestly I'm surprised he got the call over Dermott.

I kinda like rewarding him with a cup of coffee.

He's been great this year. Basically neck and neck with Carrick for being the #1D down there.

 

[joestevens29]

Maybe he's saving himself for the playoffs, I sure hope that's the issue with several of them.

What I don't get is Perry, Podkolzin, Brown, Kapanen, and Janmark all could easily be off this Oiler roster any day with a simple waiver placement.

You should at the very least see these guys doing something positive every game. I'm not expecting our bottom 6 to be one of the more offensive bottom 6's in the league, but I do expect them to be given effort on a nightly basis.

I mean the whole team is playing bad, but there are a lot of guys that are UFA's or close to retirement. You'd think you'd see guys trying for a contract or to extend their career.

 

[Vagabond]

At least we get to see Kemp and Jones play.. I guess. Hopefully Jones is a heat seeking missile that hits everything in sight despite Knob being against it.

 

[brentashton]

What I don't get is Perry, Podkolzin, Brown, Kapanen, and Janmark all could easily be off this Oiler roster any day with a simple waiver placement.

You should at the very least see these guys doing something positive every game. I'm not expecting our bottom 6 to be one of the more offensive bottom 6's in the league, but I do expect them to be given effort on a nightly basis.

I mean the whole team is playing bad, but there are a lot of guys that are UFA's or close to retirement. You'd think you'd see guys trying for a contract or to extend their career.

Knoblauch hasn’t appeared to be big on accountability all season. Players haven’t been benched, sat out shifts, held out really at all, in his roster and ice time
decision making.

To me this is just more evidence that the players also recognize that accountability isn’t a thing here neither and they aren’t being reminded by the coach’s actions. Nobody is accountable, just floating through.

Like you say though, pretty shortsighted for guys doing this, in that it will have financial ramifications for some, on their futures.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Jeff Skinner scratched again…

I’m not sure I’ve seen a coach with this much contempt for a player on their roster since Dave Tippett refused to play DR.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Why dot they try Henrique on Draisaitl’s wing?

Problem is they don't have anyone else in the bottom 6 that can play 3C. You could move RNH there, but shuffling the two of them between the top and bottom 6 doesn't change much.

This is where Frederic should help. BOS often did use him as a centre, which means you can move Henrique up and slide a weaker link like Podz down.

 

[CycloneSweep]

At least we get to see Kemp and Jones play.. I guess. Hopefully Jones is a heat seeking missile that hits everything in sight despite Knob being against it.

Kemp is in the AHL

Problem is they don't have anyone else in the bottom 6 that can play 3C. You could move RNH there, but shuffling the two of them between the top and bottom 6 doesn't change much.

This is where Frederic should help. BOS often did use him as a centre, which means you can move Henrique up and slide a weaker link like Podz down.

They rarely used Frederic as center. He has taken honestly few faceoffs for most of his career. He was averaging under 100 faceoffs a year until last year where he took 300 and 200 this year. He has had abysmal faceoff stats. For comparison Henrique has taken 700 this year and Frederic hasn’t even had 700 over the last 3 seasons.
He doesn’t work well at center, his game is much better on the wing.

 

[Garbo Man]

Knoblock complains he’s not getting any scoring outside of 97 and 29.

Keeps Connor Brown who hasn’t scored in 30 games and is useless.

Sits Jeff Skinner who scores, for an AHL player.

Proceeds to wax poetic about said NHLer.

Will give him maybe 8 minutes tonight

Sorry if that rubs you the wrong way Mrs Knoblock.

Also keeps Janmark in the line up who has *checks notes* 2 goals this year

Sorry you're such a child about sports

Good contribution to the thread!

 

[Messrules11]

Habs are hot and Suzuki is on fire, our defence is depleted and Skinny in net.
Christ, this is going to be ugly.

 

[Stauf4Prez]

Habs are hot and Suzuki is on fire, our defence is depleted and Skinny in net.
Christ, this is going to be ugly.

Good thing MTL moneyline looks good tonight lol. Only saving grace.

 

[Oilers88]

Maybe it's related to their play lately, but wtf is up with the health of this team lately? A bunch of the guys looked ill before the break, but that was 3 weeks ago now. Is a bout of plague working its way through the locker room.

 

[K1984]

Good thing MTL moneyline looks good tonight lol. Only saving grace.

If I didn't have a self imposed prohibition about betting against the Oilers I would be absolutely hammering that tonight.

Odds makers don't know that we have refused to show up with any kind of acceptable effort against the Canadiens gong back years. That's before we even talk about the current performance of the team.

 

[bellagiobob]