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Pre-Game Talk: Tomorrow is Saturday Night, and another BOA shall commence 8PM MT on HNIC/CHED

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yukoner88

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Morpheus said:
I’ve posted this before…and it is not photo shopped:
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I remember back in '98 when the Oilers were set to take on the Av's in the playoffs, somoene had a car painted in burgundy, and charged people X amount of dollars to let the take a few swings at the car with a sledgehammer.

This truck would be perfect for bringing that back
 
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K1984

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Mr Positive said:
I don't think the Flames are for real. I know they have a great record, and I do think they are a deep team, but this isn't that different of a team than the one from last year. They've had some great luck with injuries, and built steady chemistry from that. I suppose the real test is in the playoffs, but if the Oilers play their A game tomorrow, it should be an Oilers win.
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That team is, and really always have been for the past 10 or so years a team that rides the high of momentum when they get it.

When they get on a roll they will beat anyone, but when they stop they stop hard. As you said, they have had zero injuries and were truthfully the only team that had to deal with zero COVID attrition when dressing a lineup because their entire roster got it at the exact same time. They were also the first to have a major outbreak, so they got their entire roster back at the same time the rest of the league was taking players out of their lineup nightly for COVID.

I'll give credit where credit is due - they are having a great season. However, this year they might have had the most injury/roster luck that I have ever seen an NHL team have over this long of a time period, especially when you factor in COVID. They have been able to dress their full roster essentially every game other than one offs here and there.

Just as the Oilers have probably been handicapped 5-7 points (at least) by our f***ing brutal management decisions and probably 2-4 more by injuries, the Flames have probably benefitted by 4-8 points by simply having nothing at all bad happen to overcome.
 
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K1984

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McShogun99 said:
And he has already matched Benson’s career goal total in 1 game.
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Benson's legacy will be celebrating like he just scored the cup winning goal to make it like 7-2 in an utter embarrassment of a game.

I get it - fist NHL goal, but come on.
 
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A very cool picture of our Oil with Ben Stelter who is dealing with glioblastoma. From last night's game...
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K1984 said:
That team is, and really always have been for the past 10 or so years a team that rides the high of momentum when they get it.

When they get on a roll they will beat anyone, but when they stop they stop hard. As you said, they have had zero injuries and were truthfully the only team that had to deal with zero COVID attrition when dressing a lineup because their entire roster got it at the exact same time. They were also the first to have a major outbreak, so they got their entire roster back at the same time the rest of the league was taking players out of their lineup nightly for COVID.

I'll give credit where credit is due - they are having a great season. However, this year they might have had the most injury/roster luck that I have ever seen an NHL team have over this long of a time period, especially when you factor in COVID. They have been able to dress their full roster essentially every game other than one offs here and there.

Just as the Oilers have probably been handicapped 5-7 points (at least) by our f***ing brutal management decisions and probably 2-4 more by injuries, the Flames have probably benefitted by 4-8 points by simply having nothing at all bad happen to overcome.
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On the plus side, their 3 month immunity to the next Covid outbreak should be coming to an end soon.:D
 
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Louis Cypher

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Interesting they are starting MarkStrom tonight and playing Vlader tomorrow for the BOA.
 
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