GDT: Oilers Vs Campbell's cat. - 5PM - SNW

[Ibanez]

Pickard probably about to drop that hot .820

Still the right call to give him a game, though.

Crazy how thats probably still more than Campbell would give us

 

[Ritchie Valens]

IIRC Burke fixed Dubnyk.
He now works for Vegas. Just our luck



Maybe desperation kicked in. Team without answers and just praying McDrai magic again

Dubnyk credits new puck-tracking technique for sudden resurgence

In the midst of his best season as a pro, Devan Dubnyk is crediting more than just a change of scenery for sparking his remarkable turnaround.The goaltender adopted a new technique last summer called Head Trajectory that significantly changed the way he tracks the puck.Dubnyk explained the...

www.thescore.com

I found it...it's head trajectory Steven Valiquette taught him during the offseason before he went to AZ. Valiquette is doing analysis on TV now, should snag him to replace Schwartz.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Well she’s gone, in a better place now. She went peacefully.

Kick some ass, Oilers.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Dubnyk credits new puck-tracking technique for sudden resurgence

In the midst of his best season as a pro, Devan Dubnyk is crediting more than just a change of scenery for sparking his remarkable turnaround.The goaltender adopted a new technique last summer called Head Trajectory that significantly changed the way he tracks the puck.Dubnyk explained the...

www.thescore.com

I found it...it's head trajectory Steven Valiquette taught him during the offseason before he went to AZ. Valiquette is doing analysis on TV now, should snag him to replace Schwartz.

Cool idea!

Summer goalie camp offers a different type of training - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

The way the game of hockey is played is ever-changing and so too is the way athletes are being trained.

globalnews.ca

CIRCA 2013 "The camp is run by Tri-City Americans goalie coach Lyle Mast and Edmonton Oil Kings goalie coach Dustin Schwartz."

Schwartz worked with Mast at Optimum Reaction Sports and was an early proponent of the Head Trajectory tracking methods. Both have ties to U of Alberta hockey. This panacea was a big reason Schwartz was hired to replace Chabot: Why fire Chabot now?

 

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Dubnyk credits new puck-tracking technique for sudden resurgence

In the midst of his best season as a pro, Devan Dubnyk is crediting more than just a change of scenery for sparking his remarkable turnaround.The goaltender adopted a new technique last summer called Head Trajectory that significantly changed the way he tracks the puck.Dubnyk explained the...

www.thescore.com

I found it...it's head trajectory Steven Valiquette taught him during the offseason before he went to AZ. Valiquette is doing analysis on TV now, should snag him to replace Schwartz.

That works. Anything to punt him.

 

[tfwnogf]

Sweet, we are going back to the garbage 11-7

god not 11-7 again, that shit is wack

 

[bone]

last time Pickard made an NHL appearance his team lost 11-2 and he had a .692 SV%.

so

For sure. That said, I'm not sure you can read much into that single game as it was into the last couple weeks of a season where Detroit had already packed her in and in the middle of a 2-10-3 run and Pittsburgh was fighting for playoff positioning.

Conversely you could look to his prior start when Detroit still was in the hunt at .500 in January where he held that same Pittsburgh (who was 27-10-7 to that point) to 2 goals on 38 shots for Shootout win.

Ultimately, there's nothing that can be gleamed from his last 5 years of NHL stats since his starts have been so few and far between that there isn't really anything to go by.

Am I confident he can be average? Not at all, but his game in the AHL seems to have been progressing a bit the last 3 or 4 years that it's possible the guy that is showing up today is better than the guy who lost his NHL job after having a setback in his 24 year old season taking over as starter on a terrible Colorado team. The drop from his 23 year old season to 24 year old season is not unlike Skinner's 25 year old season that he's working on right now.

And since we're comparing him to Copley, Pickard's actually had better AHL numbers over his career than Copley despite having a few poor seasons after he first got stuck down in a longer term situation.

 

[Vagabond]

I fooking hate the 11-7.. especially since the bottom 6 are finally starting to perform with slightly more ice time. This team pisses me off.

 

[Soundwave]

This is true and its exactly why the team needs to do the one thing it can do without having to deal with the cap restraints.
Stop cheating for offence...back check like it means something.
Stop leaving the middle of the ice open.

Doing those things only involves sweat equity.
Its completely doable....right now.

I dont know about anyone else but I would sure like to see what this team could accomplish by being harder to play against.

Does anyone actually try to coach that kind of system?

And let me explain what I mean by "coaching" ... it isn't just "well I told the players to do that". No that is not good enough, not even close. Telling the players which kind of system that are playing is only the *beginning* of your job as a coach. Anyone can do that.

Do you bench players when they don't adhere to the system?

Are you running game speed battle drills in practice to hammer home HOW to play that system well? Over and over and over again?

Spending 10 minutes on it in practice and then moving on to work on the PP or something is not good enough.

Just saying "this is our game plan" is not good enough as a coach. If you have zero accountability to the system and you spend close to zero time in practise working on it, then you have nothing.

Choosing the game plan and then getting buy in to that system is 80% IMO on the coach. That's your entire responsibility as a coach basically, because if it's not that, then what exactly are you even there for.

 

[brentashton]

This is still your dream.

Pay no attention to the Tiger chasing the..

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Wake up!

I don’t know what is happening…

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

This is still your dream.

Pay no attention to the Tiger chasing the..

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Wake up!

A goldfish sprouting from an earth like looking pomegranate eating a tiger whose puking up a tiger that is about to shoot a rifle at a naked lady who's hovering over a rock by the ocean.

Seems about as real as an Oiler defensive gem happening tonight.

 

[94 Oil Drops]

So who's making the fire Kris Knoblauch thread if we lose tonight?

 

[brentashton]

Honestly this is the biggest difference between this year and last year.

The Oilers PP outscored their mistakes last year.

They had garbage defense/goaltending to start the year, last year as well.

It is.

But the narrative has also been that the team production was too top heavy and that bottom six production needed to step up for the team to be successful. The bottom six have been one long fart again this season, coupled with a never expected drop in production from the top 6 and PP all at the same time.

Maybe if the team had better balance they could have weathered the storm more effectively earlier in the season when McDrai were cool. But when every aspect of the team was garbage at the same time it resulted in this.

 

[bone]

I fooking hate the 11-7.. especially since the bottom 6 are finally starting to perform with slightly more ice time. This team pisses me off.

Meh. With Lavoie in the minors now, it gets Erne out of the lineup, so I'm fine.

 

[Mr Kot]

Well she’s gone, in a better place now. She went peacefully.

Kick some ass, Oilers.

Sorry for the loss my guy

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

With 97 and 29 playing either injured, burnt out or both and misfiring badly right now, why ice a lineup that will rely on them more when the bottom 6 finally looked good last game?

The water here badly infects these coaches minds.....

We don't even have a Kassian to bang around with Tkachuk anymore.

I call 2:45 left in the first period when Bouchard makes his first major gaffe that results in a goal against.

Still I can never predict an Oilers loss so I will go 5-4 Oilers in overtime.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

I think a bunch of nothing happens and we lose 3-2 or something like that.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Well she’s gone, in a better place now. She went peacefully.

Kick some ass, Oilers.

Sorry to hear man.

 

[Hockeylife2018]

Does anyone have the stats on our win loss when we run 11-7? Everyone seems to hate it but I'm actually curious how we do compared to a 12-6

 

[BlackDogg]

I had a dream Pickard let's in 5 in the first period.

That wasn't a dream.

I dreamt Connor McDavid showed up to this game.

 

[tardigrade81]

Just win you f***ers. I don’t want A and W. Just do it without it. For Christ sake

 

[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

This morning my cat makes her final journey and a win would really make me feel better.

I’m sorry to hear that. I hope the good memories help heal the pain of your loss.

 

[Arpeggio]

Does anyone have the stats on our win loss when we run 11-7? Everyone seems to hate it but I'm actually curious how we do compared to a 12-6

Yeah I feel like we probably win more with the 11-7, I'm surprised everyone hates it.

 

[DavidHasselhoffsFist]

I had a dream Pickard let's in 5 in the first period.

Ban him
Lol

 

[bone]

With 97 and 29 playing either injured, burnt out or both and misfiring badly right now, why ice a lineup that will rely on them more when the bottom 6 finally looked good last game?

The water here badly infects these coaches minds.....

We don't even have a Kassian to bang around with Tkachuk anymore.

I call 2:45 left in the first period when Bouchard makes his first major gaffe that results in a goal against.

Still I can never predict an Oilers loss so I will go 5-4 Oilers in overtime.

Kane eats Tkachuks lunch unlike Kassian who Tkachuk usually just embarrassed.

Since Tkachuk mocked Kane in Game 1 of the playoffs, Kane went off for 5 goals and 6 points in the four games vs. Tkachuk and Tkachuk had 1 point. Kane had 83% of the goal share while both were on the ice.

Tkachuk has also lost every game vs. Edmonton since then going -8 over those 6 games.

I'm not worried that there is no Kassian to deal with Tkachuk as all he'd do is take dumb penalties.