Sooooo how about Evan Bouchard's defense last night

[WillTheThrill]

Apparently Bouchard makes Team Canada? Ya right, not even as a #7D. He would be a huge liability for Team Canada if he does make the team.

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Hopefully they take a defensively responsible player like Tanev over him!

 

[v00d00daddy]

He’s really talented.

I just don’t get him shutting off his effort level. How do you get so far with that mentality?

 

[Galactico]

On any other team he is a 50-60 pts PP specialist. Even a past prime Tyson Barrie was among the scoring D in the league in EDM. Hopefully they give him his 11M/year.

 

[Norwegianoiler]

Poor as these highlights are for Bouchard, it must be said that we have an interesting question on our hands. During last season, the Oilers were a win away from the Stanley Cup. Yet, all their defensemen save for Ekholm are terrible at almost everything. Their forwards are one dimensional and have next to no defensive acumen. Their goalie is among the worst in the league pretty much always. It seems that we have been deceived. The Oilers did not in fact come this far, because they weren't good enough. I am starting to suspect they didn't even make the playoffs last year. "Discuss".

 

[King In The North]

What's the plan, fire Knoblauch?

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Poor as these highlights are for Bouchard, it must be said that we have an interesting question on our hands. During last season, the Oilers were a win away from the Stanley Cup. Yet, all their defensemen save for Ekholm are terrible at almost everything. Their forwards are one dimensional and have next to no defensive acumen. Their goalie is among the worst in the league pretty much always. It seems that we have been deceived. The Oilers did not in fact come this far, because they weren't good enough. I am starting to suspect they didn't even make the playoffs last year. "Discuss".

Lots of teams make the SCF one year and flame out the next. But nice effort.
As for discuss? They have a generational player and an elite sidekick who can overcome a lot of deficiencies in the lineup. Can they drag them deep into the playoffs by both having yet another historic post season with an even worse supporting cast?
Discuss.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Poor as these highlights are for Bouchard, it must be said that we have an interesting question on our hands. During last season, the Oilers were a win away from the Stanley Cup. Yet, all their defensemen save for Ekholm are terrible at almost everything. Their forwards are one dimensional and have next to no defensive acumen. Their goalie is among the worst in the league pretty much always. It seems that we have been deceived. The Oilers did not in fact come this far, because they weren't good enough. I am starting to suspect they didn't even make the playoffs last year. "Discuss".

Did you not see McDavid literally put up numbers only Gretzky has?

 

[57special]

Offensively talented Dman who puts up big numbers is poor defensively?

I'm shocked, shocked, I say!

 

[Sniper99]

He’s really talented.

I just don’t get him shutting off his effort level. How do you get so far with that mentality?

He just needs to go back to what he was doing last year cause that worked a ton for him. Whatever this shit hes doing so far this year aint it.

Then again, the whole team looked really lost even though they were outshooting the Habs by quite a bit at one point but once that first goal went in they looked helpless. The PP's last night, they were standing around doing f*** all. Last year Bouchard was in "shoot first ask questions later" mode. This year when someone drops it back to him. He seems to hesitate too much.

If hes really asking for 10 million Bowman should just show him clips of all his screwups this season and say "10 million huh? thats cool, here's 6"