GDT: Game #42: Oilers @ Blackhawks - 5 PM - SNW

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

This game feels like watching the teams from a decade ago.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I say it every time and I don’t care, this guy does the American anthem the best.

Both renditions were awfully good. Credit. Better than the first period as it turns out. Ice looks awfully bad in Chicago.

Like the atmosphere and the organ though. Madhouse would be worth going to sometime.

 

[North]

Isn’t McDavid one of the guys who wants the tournament?

 

[McFlash97]

Neither are good enough to help carry a cup team.

We need Gretzky like performances from mcdrai to get back to the cup. Goalies will only let us down

Our management is hell bent in doing everything they can to get in McDrais way. From fn not matching guys like Holloway to never fixing thier goaltending problems to wasting assets to letting the division leaders leave them in the dust. This team is utter trash if you take just 3 guys out. It's historical levels of bad.

 

[K1984]

knob gonna put McDrai together against Chicago....LOL
throw the kitchen sink against the bottom teams...

McDavid is being neutered by being on that top line at the moment. Not sure if it’s him or his wingers or both that are causing it, but that line sucks.

If putting him with Leon who is actually driving play gets more out of him, then they need to do it. Top line is getting buried.

 

[FlameChampion]

controversial opinion:

if mcdavid is injured, he should skip the 4 nations to recover.

i kinda like it because that’d also stick it to gary for yanking the olympics from him.

I also know none of that will happen

Maybe hes just declining

 

[TheNumber4]

controversial opinion:

if mcdavid is injured, he should skip the 4 nations to recover.

i kinda like it because that’d also stick it to gary for yanking the olympics from him.

I also know none of that will happen

Gary never did shit for McDavid. On principle alone he should sit it out. Let the NHL market an ages Crosby. Who cares.

 

[Drivesaitl]

controversial opinion:

if mcdavid is injured, he should skip the 4 nations to recover.

i kinda like it because that’d also stick it to gary for yanking the olympics from him.

I also know none of that will happen

Send Connor Brown instead.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

If Jennifer Botterill has a stylist she needs to fire them.

Yesterday.

 

[Murphinator]

Yeah I havent been this pissed since the 0-3 start. What the f*** are the oilers doing. The Blackhawks are f***ING TERRIBLE

 

[Mr Positive]

Yeh some iffy decisions when he has the puck too.

I missed the first 10 minutes, I’ll have to take your word for it. I see some o-zone pressure, but again just generating shots, and not generating clean chances.

To be clear about Kap, I meant for the season and not this game

 

[TheNumber4]

If Jennifer Botterill has a stylist she needs to fire them.

Yesterday.

Worse blouse ever.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Send Connor Brown instead.

Bowman to Bettman: “You said send Connor. Didn’t say which one!”

 

[CycloneSweep]

Maybe hes just declining

We better hope that’s not true.

 

[Gnome17]

This part of the season is the worst grind and this team is known to not show up in games that feel like they dont matter, and they play down to bad teams. Wish they would cut that crap but its been years, they never will.

 

[TheNumber4]

To be clear about Kap, I meant for the season and not this game

Oh yeh I got that. I’m talking season too, but it also applies to this game

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Worse blouse ever.

Looks like wallpaper that belongs in a Chinese massage parlour in the 80s

 

[McFlash97]

Maybe hes just declining

Yes on pace for 130 points. Hes declining. Go away man. Love it when Oilers fans always point the finger at 2 guys when the team is running around. If they had the proper depth players McDavid wouldn't need to score 130 plus points every year so we could scrape to number 2 in our division.

 

[TheNumber4]

40 minutes should be all we need to beat the Hawks. So atleast there’s that.

 

[Pip]

McDavid is being neutered by being on that top line at the moment. Not sure if it’s him or his wingers or both that are causing it, but that line sucks.

If putting him with Leon who is actually driving play gets more out of him, then they need to do it. Top line is getting buried.

I’d throw Brown back on there. He’s one of the few guys winning battles out there.

 

[TB12]

This is a stretch that they could easily fall out of a playoff spot. Calgary only 8 points back with a game in hand.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Maybe hes just declining

Or he could be having a down year.

I don’t think he’s declining at 27.

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

If I don't see @tardigrade81in not for the 2nd I'm gonna be pissed off

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Or he could be having a down year.

I don’t think he’s declining at 27.

His decision making has been less than ideal as of late. The refusal to shoot is getting annoying.

 

[TheNumber4]

All this McD slander should translate to 3 points in the 3rd for him.