Post-Game Talk: Oilers lose late to Vegas

[CycloneSweep]

it's an excuse but the Stanley cup hangover is real....they all collectively look disinterested and just going through the motions
making dumb plays cause they play with ZERO intensity, from the goalie on out
they can't score cause they play perimeter hockey, looking for the easy goal

maybe this is the game that shocks them and wakes them up but I doubt it

The cup hangover is bullshit.
The team that actually won the cup, is currently second in the league.

 

[McAsuno]

Warren Foegele has more goals than every member of this team not named Draisatl.

Kulak has 3 goals. That's more than majority of our f***ing players right now. Literally embarrassing.
Hey guys, I just saw Kulak put his stick and tape right on ice and got a tipped goal as a reward. Why don't we try that?

Naaaah, let's just keep dumping the puck in and then skate around doing nothing until we get back on the bench.

 

[BlackDogg]

Oilers are just one big messy situationship.

Can they progogue the season?

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Yeah no. We have valuable assets but they also happen to be the most uncomfortable ones to trade.

Our prospects are shit. RNH is at his lowest value. None of this gets you anything of worth.

 

[Shathar]

I was just playing ball with my dog and did the splits. Pretty sure I did it better than skinner and didn't have 3 feet of space under my nuts. I also got up faster. Also, I"m 57.
That was mean. I'm getting frustrated.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Skinner!

Which one?

Neither.

Throw Bouchard in the woodchipper.

Our prospects are shit. RNH is at his lowest value. None of this gets you anything of worth.

I don't think you're getting uncomfortable enough with what he is saying.

 

[Cloned]

Can they progogue the season?

I’d take a filibuster at this point.

 

[Ibanez]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854380356524507234

Cough “skinner” cough

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

The cup hangover is bullshit.
The team that actually won the cup, is currently second in the league.

so you think they're playing with intensity?

 

[McShogun99]

Skinner is the anti-clutch.

 

[McAsuno]

Cough “skinner” cough

This blowhard sees nothing wrong with our goalies with his brilliant coaching.

 

[Ibanez]

This blowhard sees nothing wrong with our goalies with his brilliant coaching.

He has a punchable face too

 

[nexttothemoon]

Maybe don't send down a couple players that might inject some fire and enthusiasm into your lineup instead of dragging out the same useless can't-score-and-never-will squad out there game after game after game.

SHAKE UP THE f***ING LINEUP and make some players accountable.

Team can't just count on getting a few pts here and there against the shittier half of the teams in the NHL and expect to still be contenders at the deadline. That cap space won't mean anything if they play like this and can't get some decent effort and determination going vs teams that are actually decent.

 

[VeteranPresence]

The hope is that we just are terrible early in the season. Maybe the switch will flip and at least it isn't as bad in the standings as last year

Except actual winners don’t do this:

Florida first 15 games after their Cup- 9-3-1 so far
Vegas first 15 games after their Cup- 12-3
Colorado first 15 games after their Cup- 9-5-1

Cup hangovers are just an excuse- it’s bad management, a historically bad goalie coach, a flawed roster and some rocks for brains players at key positions who are sinking us (along with the usual crooked officiating, but until the team calls it out, they deserve to suffer).

 

[ArthurAnyMoreDonuts]

Fantastic effort by Bouchard on the game winning goal. Theres no way we're going to pay this guy $10m a year, right? This team also needs a full practice of shooting drills. Half of these players would miss the ocean right now.

 

[Cloned]

Our prospects are shit. RNH is at his lowest value. None of this gets you anything of worth.

You don’t need to trade for a superstar. You just need an actual bonafide top 4 defenseman and/or a starting goalie.

 

[McAsuno]

Utter dog shit, holy f***.

 

[aspin3]

We have no identity. We aren't fast anymore, we aren't a rush team anymore, we aren't physical, we don't play with any energy, we aren't a volume shooting team from everywhere, we don't generate any quality looks in the o zone. We are just a perimeter team that can't really generate any good looks almost anywhere in the ice unless it's a perfect passing play.

Our 4th line are 40 year old has beens. Why is Derek Ryan a regular in this team? 37 years old who gets tossed around. Imagine this team with an energetic 4th line that forechecks and hits and gets the team riled up. Instead we have a 37 and 40 year old skating around 3 steps behind the play and with how bad oir pk is now Ryan is not bringing anything there.

 

[Ibanez]

Skinner is the anti-clutch.

Anti good

 

[The Panther]

Just saw the highlights of this one... Yikes.

(Yawn) People on here blaming Stu Skinner again. Skinner is an NHL-average goalie and has been great in 4 of the past 5 games. PIckard was bad last game and in one other game, but has been better than one might reasonably expect. Goaltending is the least of the Oilers' problems.

First priority is -- got to score some goals. They can't score on home ice. They got two in this one: One was a lucky deflection by a guy who literally never deflects a puck (Kulak) and the other was a lucky-bounce gimme.

 

[Cloned]

Utter dog shit, holy f***.

Those North Stars were one of the worst teams of all time IIRC.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

You don’t need to trade for a superstar. You just need an actual bonafide top 4 defenseman and/or a starting goalie.

Yeah that’s not happening. But don’t worry, cap space is on the way!

 

[BlackDogg]

Utter dog shit, holy f***.

This is firable territory for personall.

 

[TKB21]

Yeah no. We have valuable assets but they also happen to be the most uncomfortable ones to trade.

Could seriously make a stronger team with one of those unpopular trades…

 

[oilers4life5]

I agree we need a goalie. It’s easy to say, who is your actual target that fits in our cap situation.