GDT: SCF | II | "Brick Breaker" | Oilers @ Panthers | 6.10.24 | 6:00PM | SN
- Thread starter Soli
- Start date
- Status
oXo Cube
Power Play Merchant
Try Broberg - Nurse you cowards.
Glad Ceci is sitting but Perry also can't come out of the lineup soon enough.
Glad Ceci is sitting but Perry also can't come out of the lineup soon enough.
Heavy Dee
Registered User
- May 29, 2005
- 9,892
- 8,457
About putting in Lavoie or Borgeault. Borgeault can barely play in the AHL and putting Lavoie into a SC Final over Carrick, Ryan or Gagner makes zero sense.
Perry is miscast playing with Foegele and Ryan No Hit McLeod. You scratch McLeod and put Carrick in with Perry and Foegele and now you have an effective grind line that can actually forecheck instead of seeing their speedy centre cower in fear and swing wide on every check he should be making.
It only took the coaching staff and management 3 years to see what the fans saw
I agree- but asking Broberg to babysit Nurse is a confidence destroying task for a young player
Jimmi McJenkins
Sometimes miracles
StoveTopStauffer
Registered User
- Apr 6, 2012
- 5,914
- 1,962
Carrick is in the line up already and Brown - Carrick - Janmark is actually an effective line.
Gagner is garbage and Ryan didn't even look fast against a slow ass dallas stars.
Dieseloil
Registered User
- Jul 31, 2016
- 972
- 1,001
Shouldn’t Nurse be The Guy for puck movement? He shits the bed and Ceci get’s canned. At least Ceci isn’t lazy and braindead. Together they are absolute crap though.
McJadeddog
Registered User
Yeah, its not great, but its a LOT better than Nurse/Ceci. It is passable by the numbers.
VD/Nurse is essentially the same as VD/Ceci (in extremely small mins) and the same as VD without either of them. Nurse without either of them is quite good (guessing these are the Kulak mins mostly), Ceci by himself is a tire fire, as is Nurse/Ceci. The big takeaway is that Nurse/VD is significantly better than Nurse/Ceci, almost 20 points better in fact.
The Nuge
Some say…
That hit on Bennett was an important message to send. Everyone knows Bennett threw the hit on purpose so it’s good Kane let him know he wasn’t being sneaky
He had Bear outletting the puck for him
This. That line makes zero sense and hasn't worked. Perry plays down low and McLeod is scared of contact. Foegele loves losing puck battles like it's his virginity
LTIR
Registered User
- Nov 8, 2013
- 27,598
- 14,810
Still pissed about those two and their idiocy costing two goals. Regardless, hopefully, FINALLY, the experimenting with tweedle dee and dumb is over. Desharnais, quite honestly, is also struggling defensively and getting caved in his own end. But the common denominator in both Ceci and Desharnais is f***ing Nurse. As another poster quite rightly posted, I can't even believe a f***ing $9.25 million player is having to get sheltered at this point in his career. FFS. No wonder he was rated so highly amongst his own NHL peers as most overrated.
Draisaitl, Bouchard, Nuge, Hyman, and Kane if he is in, have to be far, far better as well. Hyman and Nuge in particular were invisible. Kane wants to insist on playing, well contribute something offensively. Great, you're hitting and you're one of the few forwards doing so. But you are more than that. I really dislike the entitled mentality that you deserve to be in just because you're one of the vets, especially if you're in the top 6. Be better, do better Kane.
Don't f***ing make low percentage pass attempts if it's not there. Play in straight lines, go to the net and get traffic there, pay the price. It's the cup finals and you guys may not get here again. Mcleod is at this point a lost cause, guy bails at even the slightest hint of pressure and more often than not, the puck is turned over at one of the blue lines and FLA turns it up quickly for a chance. Can Skinner please not let a goal in the first 10 shots? FFS.
These clowns had better win tonight or it may well be over except for the tears. So be focused right off the start, drill the details game over and over and be prepared to play.
**edit** I should also mention that Perry should come out. He is invisible out there, I don't give a damn if he's yapping on the bench -- he hasn't contributed at all on the ice, the most important place to be a factor. Even Gagner would be more noticeable out there at this point.
Draisaitl, Bouchard, Nuge, Hyman, and Kane if he is in, have to be far, far better as well. Hyman and Nuge in particular were invisible. Kane wants to insist on playing, well contribute something offensively. Great, you're hitting and you're one of the few forwards doing so. But you are more than that. I really dislike the entitled mentality that you deserve to be in just because you're one of the vets, especially if you're in the top 6. Be better, do better Kane.
Don't f***ing make low percentage pass attempts if it's not there. Play in straight lines, go to the net and get traffic there, pay the price. It's the cup finals and you guys may not get here again. Mcleod is at this point a lost cause, guy bails at even the slightest hint of pressure and more often than not, the puck is turned over at one of the blue lines and FLA turns it up quickly for a chance. Can Skinner please not let a goal in the first 10 shots? FFS.
These clowns had better win tonight or it may well be over except for the tears. So be focused right off the start, drill the details game over and over and be prepared to play.
**edit** I should also mention that Perry should come out. He is invisible out there, I don't give a damn if he's yapping on the bench -- he hasn't contributed at all on the ice, the most important place to be a factor. Even Gagner would be more noticeable out there at this point.
Last edited:
94 Oil Drops
Copa o Muerte
With the way Broberg is looking, I'm betting he will replace Ceci this off season. Would certainly be the ideal scenario.
Carrick is a placeholder as Kane is not practicing but is playing. I expect Henrique to be center between Janmark and Brown and not playing LW with 29. The Henrique line was arguably our best line through 2 periods before KK stopped playing them in the 3rd so he could double down on the Stack Line.
Gagner and Ryan are both better options than a rookie with 7 games NHL experience and a rookie with no NHL experience who struggles at the AHL level. You dont f*** around with inexperience at this time of the year. You set rookies up for success, not failure and putting them on this stage with this spotlight you are getting at best an ineffective player and at worst a player who crumbles under the pressure of the moment.
frag2
Registered User
- Mar 8, 2006
- 19,665
- 8,659
Guy is too slow and only has 1 move...bank it off the glass to the opposing play at the blue line, still in our zone
TopShelfGloveSide
Registered User
- Dec 10, 2018
- 19,931
- 28,883
You win on goals, not expected goals, chances etc.
For the playoffs, 5v5 GA/60
Nurse/Ceci pairing 4.3. Ceci without Nurse 1.1
Nurse/Dehairnais pairing 5.1. Dehairnais without Nurse 2.3
Nurse/Kulak Pairing 3.5. Kulak without Nurse 1.7
Ceci has a GF% of 25% with nurse, 60% without him. Kulak is 25% with Nurse, 60% without. Deshairnais is 22% with Nurse, 37% without.
Its not that Ceci is any great shakes, just that whomever Nurse plays with, goals go in at an atrocious rate. His has been on the ice for 58% of 5v5 goals against despite only playing about 30% of the minutes.
Shanahanigans
Registered User
- Jun 16, 2011
- 2,516
- 2,591
Nurse-Kulak were really good in games 4,5,6 vs Dallas, I don't know why they went away from it. I suspect its because of Florida's forecheck, asking Kulak to handle that in 2nd pair minutes on his backhand side vs the best forecheck in the league is a lot. I still think they should try it though, Vinny is better than Ceci but he hasn't been able to meaningfully succeed in 2nd pair minutes.
Jimmi McJenkins
Sometimes miracles
Both were absolutely cheapshots from Kane, no question. Both players hit don't deserve the benefit of the doubt on any of this. It's the finding out part, they tend not be fans of.
Mez
Registered User
- Nov 16, 2017
- 11,544
- 15,282
Bryanbryoil
Pray For Ukraine
- Sep 13, 2004
- 87,758
- 38,175
I personally would leave the rest of the lineup as is and sit Foegele for Kane. Kane-McLeod-Perry for our 3rd line.
Despite my 3rd line misgivings, Oilers win 3-1 tonight.
Jimmi McJenkins
Sometimes miracles
- Status
