Pre-Game Talk: Leafs vs Oilers

[SprDaVE]

pain

 

[stickty111]

For safety it's the best call

 

[SprDaVE]

Saw a post on the Oilers board that I thought was fascinating:

Kampf, Kase and Bunting combined make less then Zach Kassian
Simmonds and Spezza combined make as much as Kyle Turris

We essentially have 5 of our most useful role players for the price of their 2 plugs. It's insane how bad the Oilers management has been at surrounding their stars with talent. Props to Dubas for being able to find these useful pieces at cheap costs

Almost like Dubas is pretty good at what he does... weird.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

pain

I should not know the names of officials. Incompetent goofs.

 

[ACC1224]

Are they considering cancelling tonights game?

 

[Anthrax442]

Cant wait to see Mikheyev tonite. Should add an element of speed

 

[Anthrax442]

Engvall Kampf and Mikheyev should be an interesting line and I like Kase with Matthews. Big chance for Liljegren to take a step and Holl will hopefully have a flashback to when he single handedly shut down McDavid, Draisaitl and the entire Oilers team. Another advantage is them not having Zach "makes every line he plays on better" Hyman. Looking forward to this game. All that said would not surprise me if the Leafs pulled a real stinker.

I think Matthewa should be able to be on a line with 2 complimentary players who are not stars like crosby

 

[ShaneFalco]

I should not know the names of officials. Incompetent goofs.

Thing is too, they can be horrible at their jobs and there seems to be no repercussions whatsoever

 

[justashadowof]

"Fairly clear": Kevin McGran, sports writer and epidemiologist.

 

[justashadowof]

Just saw that hit and reaction for Hyman's shoulder injury. Didn't look good.

 

[francis246]

pain

kill me now

 

[francis246]

Are they considering cancelling tonights game?

they probably should but probably won’t because they will not be able to make up these games without disrupting the schedule. I think they are going to play unfortunately! Hopefully none of our guys contract it

 

[Martin Skoula]

Almost like Dubas is pretty good at what he does... weird.

Remember that its actually a bad thing when we sign cheap players and is a symptom that we have no depth.

 

[LeafsOHLRangers98]

pain

Darnell Nurse incoming decapitation with no call.

 

[francis246]

the fact that Mcleod was positive should be a huge red flag

its not a huge red flag, it’s not even confirmed yet. If they run the tests and everyone else is negative and does not test positive they should be good to go

 

[34]

If they play Koskinen we should light them up.

Koskinen is terrible. The Oilers D is the worst in the NHL on top of that.

I really want to see the Leafs beat the Oilers badly. That fanbase is unbearable.

 

[Sniper99]

Are they considering cancelling tonights game?

news to me, I havent heard anything from the local edmonton media

 

[supermann_98]

Saw a post on the Oilers board that I thought was fascinating:

Kampf, Kase and Bunting combined make less than Zack Kassian
Simmonds and Spezza combined make as much as Kyle Turris

We essentially have 5 of our most useful role players for the price of their 2 plugs. It's insane how bad the Oilers management has been at surrounding their stars with talent. Props to Dubas for being able to find these useful pieces at cheap costs

Also these guys are mostly signing on discounts to boost their value, play close to home, play in the hockey mecca.

Who's signing on a discount to play in hockey Siberia? Chris Pronger's wife ain't much different than most hockey wives, they don't wanna live in -30 weather for 3 months of the year

 

[Sniper99]

they probably should but probably won’t because they will not be able to make up these games without disrupting the schedule. I think they are going to play unfortunately! Hopefully none of our guys contract it

Its probably the smart thing to do players are dropping like flies with covid lately and not just NHL, NFL i read had 37 players test positive throughout the league.

As much as I want to see us light up the Oilers and rub it in my friends in families face telling them to rename the arena Matthews' Place, health is more important at this time.

 

[Sniper99]

Also these guys are mostly signing on discounts to boost their value, play close to home, play in the hockey mecca.

Thats why Connor signed the length of contract that he did?

Please, its not that bad here. Been living here 40 years in March and survived. Got about 25 cms of snow here overnight. Didnt have to call in the army to help remove snow.

 

[AvroArrow]

Oh FFS Brad Meier, I'm imagining like 7 PP for Edmonton tonight, maybe 1 in garbage time for Toronto. That just made me really not wanna watch this game, why does this clown still have a job ?

 

[JT AM da real deal]

Are they considering cancelling tonights game?

I hope not .. there are gonna be much bigger issues in next couple weeks .. like provinces restricting large size crowds again til everyone has a booster shot .. and that one is gonna cause trouble with people who have paid for their tickets .. and many more players are gonna get COVID with new fast spreading strain so more games are gonna get postponed .. most people getting COVID now with OMICRON are fully vaxxed people

 

[SwollenGoat]

I hope not .. there are gonna be much bigger issues in next couple weeks .. like provinces restricting large size crowds again til everyone has a booster shot .. and that one is gonna cause trouble with people who have paid for their tickets .. and many more players are gonna get COVID with new fast spreading strain so more games are gonna get postponed .. most people getting COVID now with OMICRON are fully vaxxed people

Well the country is 80% with at least one vaccination so that would make sense, the severe cases and hospitalizations are still among the unvaccinated.

 

[horner]

Seney will score tonight

 

[ACC1224]

they probably should but probably won’t because they will not be able to make up these games without disrupting the schedule. I think they are going to play unfortunately! Hopefully none of our guys contract it

It’s been mentioned that they can use the Olympic break to make up games.
Regardless if games need to be cancelled there shouldn’t be any reasons why they can’t.