Pre-Game Talk: North Side Story: Jets @ Oilers

[Weitz]

Sure hope the team and the fans don’t take it as lightly as they did to Chicago.

I expect it to actually be fairly close. Probably oilers in 6.

 

[bellagiobob]

Don’t get my thread locked.

Sorry, It's what I'm trained to do.

 

[snipes]

Oilers in 5. McDavid with 14 points, Drai with 11.

Schmiddy plays lights out.

The Jets don’t have the D core to hang with our speed and have struggled all season against it. Need to be all over them early and often.

 

[McRpro]

Oilers in 6. Gonna be very interesting to see how RNH does this time in the playoffs. He better not lay another egg like last time.

 

[jukon]

Destroy Pionk...

 

[Drivesaitl]

Time for Nuge and Yamamoto to bear down. If they get going I think we have a good chance to come out of the North.

I just changed my answer from 5.5 - 6games..

 

[jukon]

Oilers in 6. Gonna be very interesting to see how RNH does this time in the playoffs. He better not lay another egg like last time.

Yeah he was such a dud last time. He only had 8 points in 4 games. Sheesh, no wonder we lost the play in round.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Koskinen will not play unless Smith absolutely implodes or gets injured.

I am not so sure about that on B2B nights, especially if there are 2 sets of them home and away as is rumoured to be and we are up by a game or 2.

 

[Llamamoto]

Oilers in 6. Gonna be very interesting to see how RNH does this time in the playoffs. He better not lay another egg like last time.

He had 8 points in 4 games during the play-ins last year.

 

[Cloned]

I am not so sure about that on B2B nights, especially if there are 2 sets of them home and away as is rumoured to be and we are up by a game or 2.

He won’t play unless there are extenuating circumstances.

 

[snipes]

When are we playing?

 

[Stoneman89]

Some of you better not get too cocky. Remember the Hawks last summer......

 

[Drivesaitl]

Winnipeg Jets "tough playoff opponent"....


2-8-0

Only two W's coming against Calgary and Vancouver, and both shutouts. I cant find the last time Jets won a game when their opponents even scored a goal..

edit; I looked it up. The last time the Winnipeg Jets won any game in which their opponent scored a goal, was April 15, they were 2-9 since..

 

[Drivesaitl]

Some of you better not get too cocky. Remember the Hawks last summer......

Hawks were a 3 time SC champ team with severl core players still there. The Edmonton Oilers were still dangerous in 1992 years after the dynasty. That kind of thing happens.

jets have never won anything outside of the WHA.

 

[McRpro]

Yeah he was such a dud last time. He only had 8 points in 4 games. Sheesh, no wonder we lost the play in round.

I actually wasn't even thinking about that play in round. Only the 2017 'normal' year.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Some of you better not get too cocky. Remember the Hawks last summer......

We were also coming off a multi month break. Very very different situations

 

[CycloneSweep]

I actually wasn't even thinking about that play in round. Only the 2017 year.

Yes he was younger, less experienced. The playins count for playoffs according to the NHL and he has 8 points in 4 games. So his most recent playoffs he found some success.

 

[snipes]

We were also coming off a multi month break. Very very different situations

Exactly. The Stars sucked in those “exhibition” games in the bubble before the bubble playoffs began and they went to the SCF.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Exactly. The Stars sucked in those “exhibition” games in the bubble before the bubble playoffs began and they went to the SCF.

100% and any of our momentum and stuff vanished. This is a team that tends to get better as the season goes on. Having that cut and starting again boned us.

 

[McRpro]

Yes he was younger, less experienced. The playins count for playoffs according to the NHL and he has 8 points in 4 games. So his most recent playoffs he found some success.

Stupid NHL. Stats count as playoffs....but the Oilers didn't qualify for the playoffs somehow. I guess a separate, anomalous play in stats line would look pretty dumb though.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Winnipeg Jets "tough playoff opponent"....


2-8-0

Only two W's coming against Calgary and Vancouver, and both shutouts. I cant find the last time Jets won a game when their opponents even scored a goal..

edit; I looked it up. The last time the Winnipeg Jets won any game in which their opponent scored a goal, was April 15, they were 2-9 since..

I hope the Oilers don't see this. We don't need another Chicago series.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

He won’t play unless there are extenuating circumstances.

I hope not but if we have 4 games in 6 days and all 4 of them are B2B I can see Tippet playing Koskinen in one of them to give Granpa Smith a rest.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Stupid NHL. Stats count as playoffs....but the Oilers didn't qualify for the playoffs somehow. I guess a separate, anomalous play in stats line would look pretty dumb though.

I consider it us making the playoffs. We were 2nd in the division when play stopped. We made it.

RNH and McDavid looked great but goaltending let us down and the defense was a little shaky.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I hope the Oilers don't see this. We don't need another Chicago series.

You mean stats that don't even match up?

Chicago was on a tear at the end of the year and was one of the best 5v5 teams in the league after New Year's. They also beat us 2/3 of the games if I remember right.

Winnipeg we have beat a bunch this year and they have sucked lately.

I don't know why you bring up the Chicago situation as it's nothing even f***ing close to this one

 

[Drivesaitl]

I hope the Oilers don't see this. We don't need another Chicago series.

Well I'm not on the ice playing the games. Just a fan, I can't fathom fear of the Winnipeg Jets. I chalk it up more to most people here not used to seeing the Oilers win much.

The Oilers learned their lesson last play ins and have had their most positive season in decades since.

I mean hey, you can approach every day assuming incoming disaster if you want to.