Refreshingly, I’m not surprised. I expected this. At this point you have to be an idiot to expect the Oilers to take anything other than a ho hum entitled mindset into a new season.
First line was a joke across the board. Nuge was a disaster, Hyman sucked, and McDavid flatly refused to shoot the puck, and set that tone early throwing a chance away early off the rush. This can’t happen again this year with him. Shoot for f*** sakes.
Second, third and fourth line were more or less ok by this games terrible standard.
Every single defenseman in the lineup was a joke tonight. I’m certain the narrative will be that it’s all Dermott and Emberson’s fault, but Darnell Nurse was a f***ing joke tonight. Pinches, does nothing, creates a two on one, goal. Puck rims around the wall, and rather than simply cut it off, he lets it rip by while nicely nestling up to a zero danger Jets player. Goal. This idiot should be playing no more than about 14 minutes a night afaints easy matchups until he proves he can play at this level again. Hopefully the media doesn’t wait until the conference final to call him out again so that he might wake up for a week or two and play with some f***ing pride.
Skinner is a slug. Get your fat ass off the goal line and challenge the shooter for f*** sakes.
Can’t wait until January 1 when this team decides their season starts. Until then it’s going to be a ridiculous roller coaster for no reason other than once again this group of clowns can’t find any way whatsoever to bring the minimal acceptable level of compete and focus to start a season. I swear to god if these jackasses shrug this off again….