GDT: Game #61: Oilers vs. Ducks - 7 PM - SN1

[tardigrade81]

I forgot @tardigrade81 is NOT in net

Man .... I legit am ready to start in net at this point. Not even kidding. It can't get worse than this. Holy shit

 

[Not Canada Drai]

Ahh body language experts have weighed in and Skinner is a douch as well. Give it a rest.

Thanks, I shall continue.

 

[MessierThanThou]

The old -3.5 GSAA period.

A standout even for this tandem.

But idiots will idiot, as we're seeing in some comments here.

 

[NeverForget06]

I just do not get the sense of entitlement with these clowns. Before this atrocious slide, they were in first place. Then they decide to put it in park, thinking they had it made, and have *completely* abandoned the principles of sound defensive coverage, play, being dialed into the details and prepared to play. They have been absolute jokes, losing to bottom tier teams booking tee off times for the spring and still turned in no effort when they should be comfortably beating these opponents.

Completely agree! Finally get to the mountaintop, put themselves in the position they've chased season after season - and then play their worst hockey in years

 

[Heavy Dee]

Someone throw a hood over Gibson and stash him in an equipment cage.

 

[AddyTheWrath]

Give me vitek vanecek at this point

 

[Not Canada Drai]

Seriously. You suck too.

Why?

 

[Oilslick941611]

Those 2nd and 4th goals can't happen at the NHL. Get a goalie Stan

they keep happening...its a team issue. Yes we need better goalies, but the team is also letting this happen with efforts like this. They are't committed to playing hard hockey, they are easy to play against, play soft and perimeter hockey. A new goalie doesn't help in games like this, or the Philadelphia and washington games. The answer needs to be in the room first, the players need to look in the mirror and decide if they want to win or not.

Its bigger than goaltending now.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

To bad we have the dumbest leadership group in the league, giving a team life by just passing it to them infront of our net.

Hopefully skinner yells at Leon when he got off the ice

 

[CupofOil]

The team gave up like 3 scoring chances.

Pickard is the biggest reason we’re down 3

They've been terrible. They also had a breakaway and a wide open chance of off a McDavid pizza towards the end of the period.
I don't know if this is a funk they're in anymore, they might just be not a good team. Goaltending sucks but a lot of other aspects suck too.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Any other serious organization would put their pride aside and grab a goalie.

 

[onetweasy]

Our entire defensive system has really fallen apart in the last 10-15 games. So clear that this team needs help on the back end and of course in the net

Have you ever played hockey when you don’t trust your goalie…

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.889
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.972
.500……

I wonder which game we won.

Fail to address the goalie spot and this franchise deserves all the blowback they get when we get bounced in round 1.

 

[LTIR]

Connor Brown, just a horrible f***ing hockey player with a Lame Donkey rush off ice, so slow its unbelievable, gets nailed with a hip check losing puck clean, Ducks reverse puck for oddman break almost score, then score immediately off faceoff for the 3-1 goal.

But due to Brown giving up the puck so easily like has happened so many times this season. get this useless turd off the ice.

Oilers playing like shit but that lame ass rush stood out to me.

Half a dozen other players have made just as bad if not worse mistakes this period including McDavid, Drai and Bouchard. Not sure if we can single out one dumdum this game. Pickard would be it if picking one.

 

[Shanahanigans]

Honestly I’m at the point where I don’t want them to spend any more assets at the deadline. This team is so far and away worse than last year’s team and has too many holes to fill. Vegas will eat this teams lunch. Shed some cap space and retool in the summer.

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

Man .... I legit am ready to start in net at this point. Not even kidding. It can't get worse than this. Holy shit

Legitimately I was kiddin for awhile but goddamn lol

 

[Tobias Kahun]

they keep happening...its a team issue. Yes we need better goalies, but the team is also letting this happen with efforts like this. They are't committed to playing hard hockey, they are easy to play against, play soft and perimeter hockey. A new goalie doesn't help in games like this, or the Philadelphia and washington games. The answer needs to be in the room first, the players need to look in the mirror and decide if they want to win or not.

Its bigger than goaltending now.

The teams effort is the reason the goalies not stopping unscreened shots that should be saved?

 

[McFlash97]

Its soo obvious the Oilers are missing players like Holloway, Foegle and Broberg against a faster younger team like the Ducks who are really quick down the center of the line. Our lack of young depth is showing up in this game. They have quick feet and hands and the Oilers slower lineup is unable to push them back to stay on the defensive. They give us fits. 2 of those goals were totally preventable

We dont have it this year. This is a badly constructed lineup. Thats on the 2 clowns.

 

[North]

This is embarrassing. Every player in that room meeds to wake the f*** up.

Are they trying to get another coach fired?

I know our goalies suck but the guys in front of them are matching their level

 

[FiveFourteenSixOne]

The sad thing is not how brutal our goaltending is, it’s how our management thinks it’s fine.

 

[Oilslick941611]

We are the Beatles in 1969, fighting and about to breakup, we need a George Harrison to bring a Billy Preston in to keep everyone on their best behaviour and spark creativity.

 

[McBeastMode]

What's David Ayres doing nowadays...

 

[CycloneSweep]

We had everything, the ducks could barely string a pass together until that goal.

The team needs a goaltender and needs it bad.

Yep. So people not remember this team when we had Talbot whose game was allowing the 1st shot on goal constantly. We would go on some heater in a game come out blazing with chances the other goalie makes a few good saves and Talbot would allow shots that were barely clearing attempts and then the team would crumble.

It’s hard to play when every shrug of a chance ends up in the back of your net.

This is a team that’s given up on their goalies.

Knoblauch has too. That’s probably why he hasnt pulled him.

 

[Murphinator]

Im glad I didnt start watching this

 

[CupofOil]

Ducks smelling blood around an oilers team that is looking slow as molasses. They're quicker everywhere jumping on pucks and what a good rising young club can look like. Not hard to watch this Ducks club.

That's exactly it. This is a low energy team that is also now older and slower after last season, the difference between this season and the last 2 is noticeable. That was their peak, the '22-'23 and '23-'24 season. This is now a team past its prime IMO.

 

[McTedi]

Thanks, I shall continue.

Must have a lot of hate to make nonsensical posts. The guy isn't even playing and you still rag on him.