Pre-Game Talk: I Have No Bounce and I Must Scream

[Mr Kot]

Since we cannot bounce, we instead will be listening to Forest Night Fever from ths smash hit video game Vampire Survivors, until the next game.

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[K1984]

On GYB they were taking in conventional wisdom - “They’ll come out strong against Utah after this garbage road trip, they’ll be mad.”

Makes me nervous only because almost any time that the Oilers should, theoretically be motivated to play well due to any number of factors they do the opposite and embarrass themselves. As we all know; they struggle to learn lessons the first time.

I have this as a coin flip. We’ll either win by 3-5 goals, or win/lose by a goal in a game we play like complete idiots. We’ll see which door they choose, and with this group it is absolutely a choice.

 

[Mr Kot]

On GYB they were taking in conventional wisdom - “They’ll come out strong against Utah after this garbage road trip, they’ll be mad.”

Makes me nervous only because almost any time that the Oilers should, theoretically be motivated to play well due to any number of factors they do the opposite and embarrass themselves. As we all know; they struggle to learn lessons the first time.

I have this as a coin flip. We’ll either win by 3-5 goals, or win/lose by a goal in a game we play like complete idiots. We’ll see which door they choose, and with this group it is absolutely a choice.

I was kind of worried when they did well in December. Normally, December is the rough month. It seems they are entering a cold patch, but it could easily turn around with a win.

 

[Drivesaitl]

On GYB they were taking in conventional wisdom - “They’ll come out strong against Utah after this garbage road trip, they’ll be mad.”

Makes me nervous only because almost any time that the Oilers should, theoretically be motivated to play well due to any number of factors they do the opposite and embarrass themselves. As we all know; they struggle to learn lessons the first time.

I have this as a coin flip. We’ll either win by 3-5 goals, or win/lose by a goal in a game we play like complete idiots. We’ll see which door they choose, and with this group it is absolutely a choice.

What is GYB? I googled it and came up with nothing hockey related.

Agreed I don't know how the team comes out of this. I mentioned in the other thread team probably has the flu or something. Nuge had it first, seems to always have something first. Could be going around the club now.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

What is GYB? I googled it and came up with nothing hockey related.

Agreed I don't know how the team comes out of this. I mentioned in the other thread team probably has the flu or something. Nuge had it first, seems to always have something first. Could be going around the club now.

Got yer back podcast.

 

[Oilhawks]

On GYB they were taking in conventional wisdom - “They’ll come out strong against Utah after this garbage road trip, they’ll be mad.”

Makes me nervous only because almost any time that the Oilers should, theoretically be motivated to play well due to any number of factors they do the opposite and embarrass themselves. As we all know; they struggle to learn lessons the first time.

I have this as a coin flip. We’ll either win by 3-5 goals, or win/lose by a goal in a game we play like complete idiots. We’ll see which door they choose, and with this group it is absolutely a choice.

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

 

[rboomercat90]

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

Didn’t they also run out on a large bar tab in Calgary on New Years Eve during the Ethan Moreau as captain era? Not just losing games on this day that this team has had a problem with, lol.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

Happy Birthday! The whole world celebrates your Bday. heh. The other side is everybody doing something other than giving you Bday gifts. Had friends that were born on Christmas and felt ripped off. Only one present.

Utah played today. Oilers would have to f*** up to lose tomorrow. Please don't lose to Team No name.

 

[walktheboulavard]

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

NYE baby; we'll aren't you special lol. Must have been ages since last time they won in NYE but happy birthday in advance bro: Here's the music last time the Oil won in NYE:

 

[Drivesaitl]

Didn’t they also run out on a large bar tab in Calgary on New Years Eve during the Ethan Moreau as captain era? Not just losing games on this day that this team has had a problem with, lol.

About the only good story line in that one is the bar tab came up postgame and not pregame. I've seen worse.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Wow this is sooooo much worse than I imagined

For those that aren’t chart inclined, this is Skinner’s advanced metrics basically reduced down to a percentile.

So the danger metric is Skinner’s SV% (or GSAx, it could be I’m not sure) at low, mid and high danger shots. Rebound control is probably just the number of rebound shot attempts against, although PuckIQ might have a proprietary stat for that.

The dubious stat is GSAx since it’s calculated by everyone differently.

But basically at all strengths Skinner is in the 24th percentile of NHL goalies this year. The most astonishing stat is easily him being in the 6th percentile of low danger SV%. Bruh that is f***ing brutal.

 

[Oilhawks]

Happy Birthday! The whole world celebrates your Bday. heh. The other side is everybody doing something other than giving you Bday gifts. Had friends that were born on Christmas and felt ripped off. Only one present.

Utah played today. Oilers would have to f*** up to lose tomorrow. Please don't lose to Team No name.

Thanks Drive! Yes, the "happy new year" and "oh yeah, happy birthday" was a thing, but eh, is what it is. Thankfully, the week between both meant that I didn't get entirely ripped off as a kid haha

NYE baby; we'll aren't you special lol. Must have been ages since last time they won in NYE but happy birthday in advance bro: Here's the music last time the Oil won in NYE:

Thank you brother! haha it feels that way but it was actually that crazy game vs the Rangers where they won 7-6. (Up 6-3 I think and made it close.) Yamamoto had a game that night IIRC. Maybe they won another time since, I could be forgetting

Either way, hoping to get a nice bday present from the team with a bounce back win

Didn’t they also run out on a large bar tab in Calgary on New Years Eve during the Ethan Moreau as captain era? Not just losing games on this day that this team has had a problem with, lol.

That sounds familiar...probably

 

[walktheboulavard]

Thanks Drive! Yes, the "happy new year" and "oh yeah, happy birthday" was a thing, but eh, is what it is. Thankfully, the week between both meant that I didn't get entirely ripped off as a kid haha



Thank you brother! haha it feels that way but it was actually that crazy game vs the Rangers where they won 7-6. (Up 6-3 I think and made it close.) Yamamoto had a game that night IIRC. Maybe they won another time since, I could be forgetting

Either way, hoping to get a nice bday present from the team with a bounce back win



That sounds familiar...probably

Rangers you say, well this year due to light speed and quantum physics and Einsten theory of space time continuum and my place as an observer, this is what McDavid does to UTAH but with Kesselring defending and Jaxson Stauber in net:

 

[Jumptheshark]

I can see this place going nuts with another lose

 

[Oilhawks]

I can see this place going nuts with another lose

 

[94 Oil Drops]

I'm still annoyed by that loss to the Ducks. The worst kinds of losses are the ones where we blow leads to bad teams. Hopefully we can win one more game before the year concludes.

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

Happy New Birthday @Oilhawks

You're the youngest of your birth year. That's kinda neat.

 

[Pip]

 

[Sethual]

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

Happy Birthday! Hope the Oilers new years resolutions are to be better hockey players

 

[alphahelix]

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Wow this is sooooo much worse than I imagined

For those that aren’t chart inclined, this is Skinner’s advanced metrics basically reduced down to a percentile.

So the danger metric is Skinner’s SV% (or GSAx, it could be I’m not sure) at low, mid and high danger shots. Rebound control is probably just the number of rebound shot attempts against, although PuckIQ might have a proprietary stat for that.

The dubious stat is GSAx since it’s calculated by everyone differently.

But basically at all strengths Skinner is in the 24th percentile of NHL goalies this year. The most astonishing stat is easily him being in the 6th percentile of low danger SV%. Bruh that is f***ing brutal.

84 on high danger chances? Bangin!

Kinda like Grant Fuhr. Small time shit dont mean shit.

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

I think they've won once ever on NYE. I pay special attention to this as it's also my birthday (meh). I don't exactly have a good feeling about it, for the above and also the NYE curse they seem to have.

Happy birthday my man

 

[TB12]

Happy birthday @Oilhawks !!

I hope the team gets you a goalie to tandem with Stuuuuu for your bday!!

 

[yukoner88]

I'm still gonna bounce

 

[oilers4life5]

Glad Skinner is in. Give him a real shot, it can’t hurt. Get him going to use him or dump him.

 

[yukoner88]

84 on high danger chances? Bangin!

Kinda like Grant Fuhr. Small time shit dont mean shit.

Talk about timing, I read this on the shitter

 

[K1984]

I'm still annoyed by that loss to the Ducks. The worst kinds of losses are the ones where we blow leads to bad teams. Hopefully we can win one more game before the year concludes.

Happy New Birthday @Oilhawks

You're the youngest of your birth year. That's kinda neat.

Still pissed at the Ducks game as well. It’s one thing to lose to a bottom feeder due to random event (hero goaltending, shit officiating, etc), but it’s another when you lose for no reason other than trash effort.

Losses like that are effectively a choice. If we simply chose to show up with a professional, focused approach we win that game no matter what. We chose not to though, which makes it that much more frustrating.