Agree with you on Perry and Skinner (hard not to), but I'll stick with my assessment of McDavid. Not firing pucks with the same velocity and authority as he did a couple years ago. Just like most of last year.
RNH has been trash so far this year. And that's coming from a big fan.
A beautiful post. He’ll be tooting his own horn and reminding everyone for the next five years that he identified Yamamoto as less than. Big deal. But when it comes to all the other many over the top ridiculous player evaluations he has posted repeatedly here (and been dead wrong about), he will say nothing or claim he ‘re-evaluated’. Like I don’t expect Jeff Skinner to maintain this level of game through the entire season, but why make a dozen venomous posts about how bad the guy is before he’s even played a real game for the team? Oh wait, I know. Attention.
He will. While being completely solid defensively. I don’t see the need to revise history, we all saw what Broberg did in the playoffs. Well, except Bowman, who knows if he saw.
Something they could try to fix is how often McDavid and Bouchard are on the right side of the ice. Teams get to overload that side and leave RNH by himself but getting the puck to RNH so far this year hasn't amounted to anything.
At even strength RNH is credited with 1 more high danger scoring chance than Travis Dermott so far this year...
Not convinced those stats are all they are shaked up to be. Nuge has stepped into a few plays this season getting a shot away, not necessarily on target..
Not actually what I was saying. The question with Skinner is will he play an honest 200ft game. He's fine around the net. The goals will come. So will a lot of GA. Been his career story.
Honestly this game is as meaningful as preseason. It’s like an auto win when we play Nashville lol
They also moved a static Draisaitl around and into mid-range centre slot to show new looks away from the obvious Predator killer one time. Showing more looks with the PP breadwinners Draisaitl, Bouchard and McDavid is a good thing. McDavid stirs the drink and he's been largely perimeter and overhanding the puck without driving shots on net. His strength is a penetration game with speed which hasn't really clicked yet. Predators were highly aggressive with their PK in neutral zone and extending into the Oilers end.
What was RNH’s excuse when he was on McDavids line, or his excuse on the powerplay
Where’s the evidence that nuge is hurt
You mean shoot at 18% and get dominated in every other metric?
Watching the games? he was hurt first or 2nd game with a big check. Then more recently he had been highsticked and was looking for chiclets while going to the bench bleeding. He missed some and then came back. Nuge doesn't appear to have the highest pain threshold.
I thought McDavid was at least skating better last night as well. Wishful thinking that his shot is just rusty from spending over a year not really being able to shoot. His faceoffs have also rebounded which is a good sign from a strength perspective, imo.
Feels like a guy boosting stuff for guys in their building, I actually was wondering if they broadcast might have got him canned lol
Exhibit A as to why preseason means jack shit.
I had to watch a recorded version of the game in full, but I did catch a few minutes live when it was stated that at the time the hits were 18-3. When I watched the replay I noticed one shift where the Oilers had three hits in about 15 seconds.
Umbridge was with people making sweeping claims based on some preseason games that mean absolutely nothing at all.
And Taylor Hall!
Felt like the first game that we controlled, and it was the first game we were leading for much of it. Against Philly we came back against a pretty bad club. The Nashville win was a better sign of the club turning a corner. I guess Dallas and Carolina games tell us where we are.
He isn't solid defensively lol very soft and weak.
