Post-Game Talk: Rebounding

[MoontoScott]

We haven't had that spirit here since...99

Excellent addition.....my compliments.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Make no mistake. 97 and 29 are the reason they won tonight. The team is fundamentally an extremely flawed. They need major changes to the surrounding cast to even have a chance in the playoffs.

AS illustration the team has 55goals.

McDrai alone have notched 23 of those. The D have scored 13. The rest of the forwards on the team combined have only 19goals. Among those 10 starting forwards thats 1.9 goals on average 1/4 into the season. A lot of floaters here. We have only superstar McD, superstar Drai , among forwards with over 3 goals. Its never been more pronounced what a disparity there is in scoring or how highly reliant we are on McDrai.

This should not be like this with any competent management.

 

[VainGretzky]

This is truly the fastest I have ever seen a 1/4 of a season go by

 

[Drivesaitl]

This is truly the fastest I have ever seen a 1/4 of a season go by

Its an age effect..

 

[TheGingaNinja]

Make no mistake. 97 and 29 are the reason they won tonight. The team is fundamentally an extremely flawed. They need major changes to the surrounding cast to even have a chance in the playoffs.

Take a night off Debbie Downer. Be plenty of games to roast them over.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Did Skinner play good?

I would like to see Josh Brown stick around. His toughness is much needed.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

Skinner only gave up 1 goal.

That last one was like 2 feet over the crossbar, im not counting it.

Yeah, that rule just confuses me. I'm not sure a high stick goal can get much higher than that one.

.931 save percentage for Skinner

Who the hell does he think he is ??

Well, he's trying his best Tardigarde81 impersonation obviously.

 

[TheGingaNinja]

I missed it too. Anybody?

At the end of the 2nd he took ,what looked like at least, a pretty clean hit that knocked him down to the ice. He got up and finished his shift, and didn't seem to be in any discomfort, so it's tough to speculate what the issue was.

Did Skinner play good?

I would like to see Josh Brown stick around. His toughness is much needed.

Solid, if unspectacular, low event hockey. Was all that was needed tonight, and he was up to the task. 2nd one shouldn't have counted, and the first one was almost unstoppable, so can't blame him for the goals against tonight.

Josh Brown hasn't been spectacularly bad as I had feared yet, but he still makes me pretty nervous out there.

 

[VainGretzky]

Its an age effect..

Yeah well slow it down please

 

[Ibanez]

At least one of them was.

Nice game

Oilers win the North again. heh. This game felt like going back in time to the North division season. Felt exactly like that. All OIlers and winning again. We beat the Sens 9X that year and frankly they didn't look any different tonight. Tough game for the Sens fans to watch. Entertaining club but they sure don't defend much. By miles this is the most open ice the Oilers have seen on the roadtrip.

Booch with the goal that every D dream of their whole lives. End to end rush, go through whole team, tuck puck in. Just perfect That good. You score a goal like that and know its probably the best you'll ever get. Slow clap, what a game from Booch and very important goal to get some positivity flowing back on the bench.

Thought Pods was decent in support on McDrai line. I'll credit KK, I wouldn't have done this but it worked against sens.

Emberson with probably his best game as an Oiler and I'm liking his play generally.

I still have major questions about most of the forward group.

I really liked Emberson tonight. He’s starting to hit more. I think we actually have a player here. We just need to keep being patient

 

[nexttothemoon]

Skinner only gave up 1 goal.

That last one was like 2 feet over the crossbar, im not counting it.

The NHL rulebook:

-Section F subsection U special provision: GaryScrewsOverTheOilers... reads:

"When a possible high stick results in a goal... a review shall take place... an order for pizza and drinks shall be placed during the 2 minute review process and the official ruling shall be "good goal on the ice" if the puck enters the Oilers net."

 

[bellagiobob]

They did show one. Looked like nothing though really

I wonder if Zach got dinged up a bit from that hit last night (that should have been interference) and then aggravated it tonight.

 

[MessierII]

Needed a response like that. Big test Thursday. Boys will be a bit gased and wild are scorching hot.

 

[5 14 6 1]

Watching the highlights Bouch got absolutely walked a couple times tonight, despite the three points

 

[Cloned]

Needed a response like that. Big test Thursday. Boys will be a bit gased and wild are scorching hot.

When we start winning against the Wild we’ll probably start losing to the Preds. That’s generally how these cycles go.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

The NHL rulebook:

-Section F subsection U special provision: GaryScrewsOverTheOilers... reads:

"When a possible high stick results in a goal... a review shall take place... an order for pizza and drinks shall be placed during the 2 minute review process and the official ruling shall be "good goal on the ice" if the puck enters the Oilers net."

I wish this was a joke.

But I found that section.

I really liked Emberson tonight. He’s starting to hit more. I think we actually have a player here. We just need to keep being patient

He seems to read the play well and pretty solid at timing his hits.

Which leads to some belief that he has some hockey IQ.

 

[T-Funk]

Only saw highlights. I liked the high stick from the moon goal for Ottawa.

looked like much more effort this game.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Make no mistake. 97 and 29 are the reason they won tonight. The team is fundamentally an extremely flawed. They need major changes to the surrounding cast to even have a chance in the playoffs.

Imagine that, the 2 players that take up 25% of the salary cap are a big reason we win.

DId you think of that on your own?

Who told you?

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Watching the highlights Bouch got absolutely walked a couple times tonight, despite the three points

Well he was also the one doing the walking too. So a bit of column A, a bit of column B.

Evan Bouchard hockey.

 

[KlefDown]

happy with the W, will take half a step back off the ledge today

 

[Spawn]

Imagine that, the 2 players that take up 25% of the salary cap are a big reason we win.

DId you think of that on your own?

Who told you?

There’s a difference between being a big reason a team wins and being the only reason a team wins.

Right now McDavid and Draisaitl combined have scored more goals than the rest of the forward group. The performance from the other 10 forwards on this roster hasn’t been remotely close to good enough so far this season. To a man they are all underperforming what we need from them.

 

[Soundwave]

Make no mistake. 97 and 29 are the reason they won tonight. The team is fundamentally an extremely flawed. They need major changes to the surrounding cast to even have a chance in the playoffs.

Yeah they need to not have the lowest shooting % in the league. If that normalizes ... welp.

Believe it or not though, they actually have a better record at the game 20 mark again than the previous two Oiler teams right now

24-25 Oilers: 10-8-2 (22 points)

23-24 Oilers: 7-12-1 (15 points) finished 104 points

22-23 Oilers: 10-10 (20 points) finished 109 points

Also if they are going to pair McD + Drai at least let a struggling player pair with them, Podkolzin looked good there, players like Henrique and Skinner should be given a spot too ... we have an auto-confidence booster option, it's stupid to only let 1 or 2 players on the roster (RNH and Hyman) ever have access to it.

We need to get other players on the roster going. Let other people have some time with McDavid and also let other plays slot into PP1. You can't just demote players to the 4th line and think that works, which player has that ever worked well for here?

 

[Soundwave]

Also looks like 50+ goal McDavid is showing signs of re-emerging.

6 goals in the last 6 games, maybe it's starting to dawn on him to not try and force feed everything to Hyman.

Zach will come around, you don't need to be so freaking predictable, you're a 60+ goal scorer in this league, enough is enough.

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Big game from their big guns. Flipped the switch on a collective -13 by the Stack Five to a triple triple point games by McDavid, Draisaitl & Bouchard (+9 for the trio). Knoblauch 'rebounded' too with a solid lineup tweak to roll Podkolzen with McDavid/Draisaitl who delivered a hard, fast game. Skinner delivered a steady, low even game in net which this team needed.

A team high 23:05 toi by Kulak who has elevated his game and responsibility to gap fill the middle pair responsibilities lost with the Ceci trade. Emberson also with a steady night and team high PK toi with a unit beginning to stabilize. Liked Janmark's quick puck pursuit and pk game tonight too.

Early Bouch goal, a beauty, set the tone early and this team's elites pushed a big win tonight.

 

[guymez]

I didnt much like hearing that Knoblauch was putting 97 and 29 together for this game but it worked perfectly.
They (as they should) drove the offence and Podkolzin complemented them beautifully.

Really good to see RNH get a goal. Hopefully that gets him going.
Bouchards goal was a beauty. He was (as they say) dangerous at both ends of the ice.

The bottom 6 looked good as well.
Derek Ryan was a beast on the dot. Went 10-3.
Brown and Janmark were excellent on the PK which was perfect in this game. Both had just under 50% of the total PK time tonight.

The forwards were badly out hit by the Sens forward group (who play a physical style) 28 to 10 but 10 hits for this forward group is pretty good. Likely the best hit count this season so far.

On D Brett Kulak played the most at 5x5 in this game playing 21:19 and 23:05 TOI total.
Yet another excellent game from him.

Stu Skinners best game of the season. He looked calm in net and when he handled the puck.
Good game for him.

The team bounced back nicely from a bad game 24 hours ago.
Good resilience.

Hopefully Hyman is okay.