Pre-Game Talk: Rocky - Oilers v Flyers - Tuesday @ 8 PM

[94 Oil Drops]

4th straight game at the Edmonton Old Folks Home. 8 pm start too. I'm fully expecting another loss and I have to wake up at 4 am tomorrow.

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[TKB21]

Meh….

 

[Coffey]

My friend is inviting me to the game.

Wish me luck boys.

 

[Heavy Dee]

As bad as the 0-3 start is it’s the 3-15 stat that should be worrying people. We aren’t competitive at all by the second half of the game. Even last night we were tied after 2 periods only to give up 3 unanswered goals in the third period. We aren’t a bit of puck luck or a good bounce from turning this around. We are getting destroyed by every team we play. I’d be satisfied with competing at this point. We aren’t going to start winning any games until that starts first.

'It's only preseason' they said..

 

[stewy04]

Score more then one goal! Get more then one powerplay! Have a normal expected goals for and a normal save above expected! And we are ok......

 

[Valhallis]

8:00pm starts this season are great as there's no way I'm going to be able to stay awake until the end and watch them lose 6-1.

 

[Canovin]

Kostin with a 3rd team retaining would be a decent replacement for Kane until he comes back

 

[tardigrade81]

Meh….

This

It’s sad, but it’s hard to even be excited. Losing by a total of 15-3 in the last 3 games. Until they start playing with some energy and put up a fight it’s hard to even be excited

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Maybe Leon and Connor could show up for a game

 

[tardigrade81]

If the oilers would just suck up their pride, and give me a chance In net we honestly could be at least 1-3 right now

 

[MoontoScott]

My prediction for tonight is that we will have accrued a bit more cap space.

 

[Reasonable Oil Fan]

no problem, tonight things turn around for us.
We will win easily
5-0

 

[K1984]

How long before Nurse starts getting booed at home? I feel like he’s about a month away from getting the Tom Poti treatment.

Would be nice if the media could start as well.

I'm an hour through the GYB podcast after the Flame game and I don't think I've heard his name mentioned once. He was probably our worst player on Sunday, but that can never get talked about for some reason.

 

[K1984]

At least Tom Poti had a moveable contract.

Nurse is a huge problem.

The worse he plays the more movable that contact becomes.

He's currently playing like a $1M player, so if we retained half his deal and moved him we could upgrade to a legitimate ~$5M player in his place without using any more cap space.

 

[Stauf4Prez]

I want us to win so bad... but I couldn't say no the Flyers at 3.0.

I just want to be happy either way.

 

[Shanahanigans]

Our shooting percentage is 32nd in the league and our save percentage is 31st. At some point, those will normalize. The real issue is that the 2nd pairing is decade of darkness levels bad. None of the options brought in are as good as Ceci- he's ideally a #5 and we brought in a bunch of #7s. Nurse also looks worse than he ever has if that's possible.

One of the areas Mcleod excelled in was skating the puck out of the Dzone. He got Nurse/Ceci/Desharnais, all of whom are poor passers, out of trouble more times than we can count. Henrique has a lot of strengths but skating speed isn't one of them. Not having a speedy centre to alleviate the pressure has made Nurse and the 2nd pair as a whole look a lot, lot worse.

 

[GMofOilers]

Everyone so worried about our scoring but that’s not the problem, to win the last 3 games we would of needed 7 goals, 5 goals and 4 goals

I know we aren’t going to win with 1 a game but we def aren’t going to win any with scoring a average of 5 a game either.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I despise these late starts.

 

[North]

The worse he plays the more movable that contact becomes.

He's currently playing like a $1M player, so if we retained half his deal and moved him we could upgrade to a legitimate ~$5M player in his place without using any more cap space.

He has an NMC. He isn’t even earning half that contract right now. It’s also buyout proof.

There is very little in the way to make this contract moveable regardless of how he plays.

 

[K1984]

He has an NMC. He isn’t even earning half that contract right now. It’s also buyout proof.

There is very little in the way to make this contract moveable regardless of how he plays.

f*** you're right I forgot about the NMC.

For sure someone would take him at 50% off, but that team probably wouldn't get him waiving it.