GDT: Game #50 - Kraken@Oilers - 7:30 PM MT - The Hotrod returns

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22-25-3______________31-13-3
Rogers Place, Edmonton Alberta
Date: Jan 27th, 2025
Time: 7:30 PM MT
TV: SN Radio: 880 CHED

Game Preview: (NHL.com)

PREVIEW: Oilers vs. Kraken | Edmonton Oilers

Connor McDavid will return from suspension on Monday when the Oilers host the Kraken at Rogers Place

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Season Series:
Jan 4th, 2025 - Oilers 4 @ Kraken 2
Jan 27th, 2025 - Kraken @ Oilers
Mar 22nd, 2025 - Kraken @ Oilers
Mar 27th, 2025 - Oilers @ Kraken

Oilers Lines:
Draisaitl-McDavid-Hyman
Podkolzin-Henrique-Arvidsson
Janmark-RNH-Brown
Perry-Philp-Kapanen

Ekholm-Bouchard
Kulak-Emberson
Regula-Stetcher

Pickard

Not On ice - S. Skinner (away for the birth of his second child, congrats Stu and his Wife!), Nurse (sick, might play), Klingberg

Oilers Stats

Kraken Lines:
Schwartz-Beniers-Kakko
Burakovsky-Stephenson-Njorkstrand
McCann-Wright-Tolvanen
Tanev-Stephens-Kartye

Montour-Evans
Larsson-Dunn
Oleksiak-Mahura

Daccord?

Kracken Stats

Pregame music:


OOT Scoreboard:
Kings @ Red Wings

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[PositiveCashFlow]

McJesus built my hotrod

 

[Canovin]

Perry getting double shifted

 

[Giggleplex]

 

[MessierII]

Weird lineup

Heard nurse is sick but might still play

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

If it was late, complicated or both I can see him being pretty exhausted. A solid reason to have a day off, congrats to the Stu Skinner clan.

Perry getting double shifted

They actually cloned him, so the other teams can lose their minds faster.

 

[Canovin]

If it was late, complicated or both I can see him being pretty exhausted. A solid reason to have a day off, congrats to the Stu Skinner clan.


They actually cloned him, so the other teams can lose their minds faster.

Anyone expecting kids should ask for a week off. That's just IMO

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Anyone expecting kids should get a week off. That's just IMO

I 100% agree, I don't know that these guys want to be away that long.

 

[Cerebral]

Why isn’t Jeff Skinner in the lineup?

 

[Duke74]

Why isn’t Jeff Skinner in the lineup?

Makes no sense to scratch him after he scored a key goal last game

 

[Oilhawks]

Scored some box tickets tonight. First game I've been to in a few years since I stopped buying power packs. Pretty stoked since Connor is back. Less stoked that I don't get to see Jeff Skinner, for better or worse, in Oilers silks, and wanted to see Klingberg but oh well.

Jeff Skinner getting scratched after a good game and scoring a goal is some headscratching stuff from Coach Garlic.

 

[Arpeggio]

I would've went with this:

Skinner - McDavid - Hyman
Pod - Drai - Arvidsson
Brown - Nuge - Janmark
Kapanen - Henrique - Perry

But it is always fun to watch McDavid and Draisaitl on the same line. I just feel like running those four down the middle makes more sense than trying to fit Philp into the lineup right now. Pretty easy to just bench Skinner and move Drai up if it's not working or they're down a goal.

 

[oXo Cube]

Kapanen and Perry have both been quite good also of late.

Someone has to sit. Could scratch Janmark I guess if you think Philp can handle the PK role?

 

[FlameChampion]

I don’t really get the line up choices honestly.

Sitting Jeff is just kinda shitty by coach/Management.

I would of sat Brown or Janmark personally.

Still don’t really like how much the team plays Leon and Connor together. Is it a good strategy against a team like Vegas?

 

[tardigrade81]

Welcome back McDavid!!

 

[Drivesaitl]

I don’t really get the line up choices honestly.

Sitting Jeff is just kinda shitty by coach/Management.

I would of sat Brown or Janmark personally.

Still don’t really like how much the team plays Leon and Connor together. Is it a good strategy against a team like Vegas?

The bottomsix really needs Janmark speed and his invaluable work on pk. Harder player to take out. Kapanen made some star moves in recent games. Not gonna take him out. Skinner has no niche roles on the club. Hes' established none.

My take is Skinner is on borrowed time here. Probably gets packaged going out on a TDL move. Really when the team scratched him on the mothers trip it was a major statement I thought. Unfortunately its one that Skinner had deserved.

 

[Cerebral]

Makes no sense to scratch him after he scored a key goal last game

I’ve generally been a big Knoblauch fan but some of the lineup decisions this season have been odd. Skinner admittedly did have some rough turnovers in addition to his goal but how do you not give him another game to try to get him going?

Likewise, I’m so sick of coaches going back to McDavid-Draisaitl on a line. We know it’s not a long-term strategy that works and Leon just put up 5 points in 3 games with no McDavid (which beats his season average).

We need to get Skinner going as we don’t have cap flexibility to do a ton of other moves. For better or worse, an improved Skinner could be one of our best “deadline” moves.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

This might be more of a trap game than the Buffalo game.

 

[FlameChampion]

The bottomsix really needs Janmark speed and his invaluable work on pk. Harder player to take out. Kapanen made some star moves in recent games. Not gonna take him out. Skinner has no niche roles on the club. Hes' established none.

My take is Skinner is on borrowed time here. Probably gets packaged going out on a TDL move. Really when the team scratched him on the mothers trip it was a major statement I thought. Unfortunately its one that Skinner had deserved.

I don’t disagree with anything you said. But I kinda feel for JS at this point. Even when he plays ok to good, he gets nothing. I don’t even really blame KK for not wanting to play with him. Just a miss by Jeff Jackson.

 

[Messrules11]

Dressing Philp and scratching J Skinner is baffling. Knob can be such a Knob.

 

[FlameChampion]

This might be more of a trap game than the Buffalo game.

Nah. We generally don’t play well against Buffalo for whatever reason. I think we will comfortably tonight,

 

[Oilers88]

Finally, the return we've all been waiting for....Alec Regula.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Hey Seattle, he's frustrated and you're in his way

 

[FiveFourteenSixOne]

So anyway...

Over the last two to three years, I've been a huge Nurse detractor, and highly critical of his play.

This year he's been our best defenseman.

I'm so stoked that he's finally bounced back into the player that earned his contract.

Honestly, this season he's been worth every penny.

 

[Old Boys Club]

not a fan of the lineup. As others have mentioned, why scratch Skinner after a good game? Why load Mcdrai?