if oilers can’t win with a 8.5 mil drasaitl and 12.5 mil mcdavid and 4 mil Bouchard, I can’t wait to see what the 14 mil draisaitl, 17 mil mcdavid and 10 mil Bouchard do!
Post-Game Talk: Oilers get ducked:
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Boner Pills
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Ducked in the ass.
Not sure I believe the tired from too much hockey with going to the finals excuse, but with the low GA in January, I think having to play perfect Stanley Cup defense every single game to mask the goaltending can be very tiring. Then we see the completely giving up that we are now when a turd goal goes in. Why should I try if my co-worker doesn't have to.
Not sure I believe the tired from too much hockey with going to the finals excuse, but with the low GA in January, I think having to play perfect Stanley Cup defense every single game to mask the goaltending can be very tiring. Then we see the completely giving up that we are now when a turd goal goes in. Why should I try if my co-worker doesn't have to.
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I've watched exactly 5 full games this year. I normally don't have a way to access them and honestly, it's for my own good. I'd rather use my spare time to watch movies. What an embarrassing franchise. Last year was probably as good as it will get during the McDrai era unless we do something about our goaltending. It hasn't been at an acceptable standard in years.
tardigrade81
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We look worse than Trumps hair right now. It's insane
BertMcDrai
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That was ugly...and it's not on the goalies...just poor play and non existent defensive awareness...sure it would be great if a goalie steals a game and I want a replacement for Stu for longer now, but this was poor execution from everybody in front of the goalies and the goalies matched this level.
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This is a sad, broken group of underachieving individuals.
They are not a collective team.
They have no group chemistry. They’re all feeling sorry for themselves versus wanting to support their teammates and help them achieve.
They are not a collective team.
There are some concerning leadership issues in that room.
They are not a collective team.
They’re not even an above average group of individuals. They won’t fix the players’ issues with TDL changes.
LA, VGK, COL. whoever they face in round 1, the Oilers won’t make it past game 5.
They are not a collective team.
They have no group chemistry. They’re all feeling sorry for themselves versus wanting to support their teammates and help them achieve.
They are not a collective team.
There are some concerning leadership issues in that room.
They are not a collective team.
They’re not even an above average group of individuals. They won’t fix the players’ issues with TDL changes.
LA, VGK, COL. whoever they face in round 1, the Oilers won’t make it past game 5.
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Here is the vast majority of our “secondary scoring”. Not only is our goaltending atrocious but we are back to square one where we have some of if not the worst secondary scoring in the league. That wont win you many games.
Janmark - 1 goal in last 48 games
Brown - 1 goal in last 30 games
Podkolzin - 1 goal in last 18 games
Arvidsson - 1 goal in last 16 games
RNH - 1 goal in last 12 games
Henrique - 1 goal in last 12 games
Kapanen - 1 goal in last 11 games
Hyman - 1 goal in last 7 games
Janmark - 1 goal in last 48 games
Brown - 1 goal in last 30 games
Podkolzin - 1 goal in last 18 games
Arvidsson - 1 goal in last 16 games
RNH - 1 goal in last 12 games
Henrique - 1 goal in last 12 games
Kapanen - 1 goal in last 11 games
Hyman - 1 goal in last 7 games
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I’m mostly annoyed that there is zero situational awareness and a complete lack of playing as a team.
You lose 4 of 5 on the road in embarrassing fashion, barely hold onto the one win, and they all think they can play firewagon hockey, treat the puck like a hand grenade in the neutral zone and not have to hustle back or cover.
If your goalie is scuffling, that’s not the time to abandon him.
This has gone on all season with goalscoring and shot metrics papering the cracks.
When is this team, and coaching staff going to adapt anything , the league has figured out your systems and knows how to apply pressure on entry and forechecking our exit to ugly turnovers and get open looks on our flustered goalies. Watch our goals against yesterday and see where our skaters are, on the ice and relative to each other, would send a bantam coach into a conniption fit.
Not to mention playing for Corsi and xG is not a winning path in the postseason. Think goals have dried up now, opposing playoff defenses are tougher, and a sieve at the back even with a new goalie is a path to getting embarrassingly swept in the first round.
If Knoblauch is safe for now due to his ties to McDavid and Jackson, how about letting Coffey go back to his dealership and get an assistant in to get these guys defending as a unit. If a bad team like the Ducks can keep shots to the outside and give the goalies a chance so can the Oilers.
You lose 4 of 5 on the road in embarrassing fashion, barely hold onto the one win, and they all think they can play firewagon hockey, treat the puck like a hand grenade in the neutral zone and not have to hustle back or cover.
If your goalie is scuffling, that’s not the time to abandon him.
This has gone on all season with goalscoring and shot metrics papering the cracks.
When is this team, and coaching staff going to adapt anything , the league has figured out your systems and knows how to apply pressure on entry and forechecking our exit to ugly turnovers and get open looks on our flustered goalies. Watch our goals against yesterday and see where our skaters are, on the ice and relative to each other, would send a bantam coach into a conniption fit.
Not to mention playing for Corsi and xG is not a winning path in the postseason. Think goals have dried up now, opposing playoff defenses are tougher, and a sieve at the back even with a new goalie is a path to getting embarrassingly swept in the first round.
If Knoblauch is safe for now due to his ties to McDavid and Jackson, how about letting Coffey go back to his dealership and get an assistant in to get these guys defending as a unit. If a bad team like the Ducks can keep shots to the outside and give the goalies a chance so can the Oilers.
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It's not just secondary scoring.
McDavid is tied with Kulak and Perry in 5v5 points in the last 27 games.
He's 160th in the league in that span.
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I believe there is some truth to this. We came one period from winning a cup and then Jackson proceeds to blow up a third of the roster, while neglecting the most important position of need.
Re-watching the first period on replay, some things that stand out
-they really did start out strong, but it had that kind of fake hyped up energy that started to fade. You can feel the momentum already start to shift before they got that first powerplay goal.
-Drai was bad last night, but an underrated aspect of why he was bad was the coach pairing him off with the two smallest players on the roster. The fact that Knob didn't breakup that trio after seeing how badly that line was getting overmatched after a few shifts is just a massive fail. It was especially bad on faceoffs where they had virtually no muscle to win secondary battles for the puck, which is absurd of the coach considering how many faceoffs Drai is expected to take
-Don't know what kind of injury Nurse has, but it's clearly of the type that makes it impossible to handle the puck. I was waffling between whether it was just a terrible pairing of him and Emberson, but the common theme was that he basically didn't get his stick on anything even when his own teammates were passing to him
-Teams have clearly scouted the Hyman/Mcdavid pairing after it was virtually unstoppable last year, lot of extra attention paid to shutting down those lanes they took advantage of last year. It would help if there was a 3rd player on that line that could provide an option for Mcdavid to outlet to with the available space, but RNH is useless, so everything goes to Bouchard(especially off the rush) who isn't the most natural at scoring. If only the Oilers had goal scoring left winger they could slot into the top six beside them
, they don't even have to be big, fast, or strong defensively, it's not like RNH provides any of those attributes.
-Ekholm just looks utterly gassed by the end of shifts. Whatever he was hit with just decimated his endurance by the looks of it.
-they really did start out strong, but it had that kind of fake hyped up energy that started to fade. You can feel the momentum already start to shift before they got that first powerplay goal.
-Drai was bad last night, but an underrated aspect of why he was bad was the coach pairing him off with the two smallest players on the roster. The fact that Knob didn't breakup that trio after seeing how badly that line was getting overmatched after a few shifts is just a massive fail. It was especially bad on faceoffs where they had virtually no muscle to win secondary battles for the puck, which is absurd of the coach considering how many faceoffs Drai is expected to take
-Don't know what kind of injury Nurse has, but it's clearly of the type that makes it impossible to handle the puck. I was waffling between whether it was just a terrible pairing of him and Emberson, but the common theme was that he basically didn't get his stick on anything even when his own teammates were passing to him
-Teams have clearly scouted the Hyman/Mcdavid pairing after it was virtually unstoppable last year, lot of extra attention paid to shutting down those lanes they took advantage of last year. It would help if there was a 3rd player on that line that could provide an option for Mcdavid to outlet to with the available space, but RNH is useless, so everything goes to Bouchard(especially off the rush) who isn't the most natural at scoring. If only the Oilers had goal scoring left winger they could slot into the top six beside them
, they don't even have to be big, fast, or strong defensively, it's not like RNH provides any of those attributes.-Ekholm just looks utterly gassed by the end of shifts. Whatever he was hit with just decimated his endurance by the looks of it.
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On the bright side... the Oilers are still the marginal betting favourites for the cup. Somehow, lol.
I thought they started the game really well. Although that giveaway to allow the breakaway on the Ducks' 1st shot wasn't a good sign.
Definitely seems like the offense relies on the perimeter too much. Way too many giveaways and not good enough goaltending.
The Oilers did however win on the deserve to win o meter for the first time since the break.
I thought they started the game really well. Although that giveaway to allow the breakaway on the Ducks' 1st shot wasn't a good sign.
Definitely seems like the offense relies on the perimeter too much. Way too many giveaways and not good enough goaltending.
The Oilers did however win on the deserve to win o meter for the first time since the break.
CantHaveTkachev
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Let’s hope they aren’t dumb enough to pay Bouchard 10M per year.
brentashton
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And here I am watching every game and pulling me hair out. I will probably die young, you will probably live long and prosperous....
CantHaveTkachev
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This is why I have said forever our need is a top 6 winger.
We literally can't score goals and we need to score to win games, it's how our team is built
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tardigrade81
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This. The entire team is a mess right now. It starts with the goaltending but the entire team looks flat since the break
We obviously can't change the coach, but the team needs something. They are not committed out there, defensively they are all over the place, lines keep changing, can't get a save, etc.....
I don't know how to fix this or what they need, but something needs to change.
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I think we need a moratorium on those. So sick of seeing them.
EDIT: Muffin shots, but also the "deserve to win meter".
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