GDT: WAKE UP, THE SEASON’S STARTED! Oilers v Black Hawks, 8 PM HNIC

Mr Kot · 2024-10-12T20:10:55-0400

harpoon said:
Over/under on the number of cheap plays by Maroon tonight?

yes

94 Oil Drops · 2024-10-12T20:13:49-0400

harpoon said:
Plus they have Hall back and healthy.

Over/under on the number of cheap plays by Maroon tonight?

Maroon plays for the Black Hawks now? He's quite the nomad.

McShogun99 · 2024-10-12T20:16:32-0400

On The Prowl said:
Skinner could have had the GWG, but Kulak shouldnt have backed in so much. Ill think about that play forever.

Foegele lost his man. I think Kulak was worried about the pass for an easy tap in. You could tell Skinner was playing the pass also and left a gap on his glove side. Pretty much a 3 man clusterf$&k that doesn’t happen if Foegele put more effort into skating back.

McShogun99 · 2024-10-12T20:21:08-0400

DaGap said:
So did stecher bang someones wife?

Coaching staff is obsessed with size on D. I guess he can’t defend because he’s under 6ft.

Mr Positive · 2024-10-12T21:00:14-0400

McShogun99 said:
Coaching staff is obsessed with size on D. I guess he can’t defend because he’s under 6ft.

Maybe they are saving him as the secret weapon against Calgary

Or maybe they prefer to let pairings play out rather than switching things up too quickly

Spawn · 2024-10-12T21:07:09-0400

T-Funk said:
Nurse sucks and his contract prevents us from putting him with anyone better.
He could accept coaching and work on his game if he wanted. Or he can zombie around the ice and flop in front of the net occasionally until retirement.

This team has nearly $7m in dead cap space due to mismanagement from the previous regime. Could have signed a mighty good D-man for $7m. We also spent $10m on middle six forwards on July 1 with Skinner, Arvidsson and Henrique.

Nurses contract isn’t the reason this team thought it was a good idea to run AHL/NHL waiver fodder on its second pair.

That’s squarely on past and current management.

Mr Positive said:
Maybe they are saving him as the secret weapon against Calgary

Or maybe they prefer to let pairings play out rather than switching things up too quickly

Except they already switched it up by moving Dermott onto the 2nd pair and Emberson down?

Mr Positive · 2024-10-12T21:10:25-0400

Spawn said:
Except they already switched it up by moving Dermott onto the 2nd pair and Emberson down?

To me the particulars of who plays where is not as important as who is there. I'd guess that in the flow of line changes we already saw Dermott have time with Nurse

KlefDown · 2024-10-12T21:26:28-0400

8 pm starts zzzzzzzz

Mr Positive · 2024-10-12T21:32:32-0400

KlefDown said:
8 pm starts zzzzzzzz

I feel pretty strongly that if they want the eastern time zone teams games to lead into the western ones, they should just start the eastern games at 6. 7pm and 7:30 should be the latest times for us out west. Don't let games go till 11, especially on work nights. I highly doubt that a 6pm start time is such a sacrifice to Eastern teams. It just seems like the eastern teams dictate a little too much and it actually costs the league

Tonight is not such a big deal to me

Edit: also a little earlier time might mean stars out west get more exposure out east. Again, it benefits the league

KlefDown · 2024-10-12T21:35:34-0400

Mr Positive said:
I feel pretty strongly that if they want the eastern time zone teams games to lead into the western ones, they should just start the eastern games at 6. 7pm and 7:30 should be the latest times. Don't let games go till 11, especially on work nights. I highly doubt that a 6pm start time is such a sacrifice to Eastern teams. It just seems like the eastern teams dictate a little too much and it actually costs the league

Tonight is not such a big deal to me

it would just make so much more sense, especially in the playoffs....so it probably won't happen

McShogun99 · 2024-10-12T21:39:25-0400

Spawn said:
This team has nearly $7m in dead cap space due to mismanagement from the previous regime. Could have signed a mighty good D-man for $7m. We also spent $10m on middle six forwards on July 1 with Skinner, Arvidsson and Henrique.

Nurses contract isn’t the reason this team thought it was a good idea to run AHL/NHL waiver fodder on its second pair.

That’s squarely on past and current management.

Except they already switched it up by moving Dermott onto the 2nd pair and Emberson down?

It’s death by a 1000 cuts. At his best Nurse is around 2 million overpaid but when you add in all the dead cap from buyouts and bonuses then that hurts even more. It’s Oilers luck to buyout Campbell then he goes into the player assistance program a few months after.

Spawn · 2024-10-12T21:40:29-0400

Watching other games and seeing goalies making difficult saves on chances against. What a novel concept. Maybe Pickard can do something Skinner couldn't last game.

brentashton · 2024-10-12T21:41:36-0400

brentashton · 2024-10-12T21:44:52-0400

Mr Positive said:
I feel pretty strongly that if they want the eastern time zone teams games to lead into the western ones, they should just start the eastern games at 6. 7pm and 7:30 should be the latest times for us out west. Don't let games go till 11, especially on work nights. I highly doubt that a 6pm start time is such a sacrifice to Eastern teams. It just seems like the eastern teams dictate a little too much and it actually costs the league

Tonight is not such a big deal to me

Edit: also a little earlier time might mean stars out west get more exposure out east. Again, it benefits the league

This time set up has been that way since 1970 or so when the Canucks joined the league. Games started at the night’s local time, say 7pm. When CBC went to broadcast double headers (1990s?) it was Toronto v whoever and western Canada v whoever. Caters to bother the TV and in arena crowd. San Jose can take their 2pm starts on Saturday and stick it. I like it this way.

yukoner88 · 2024-10-12T21:52:06-0400

brentashton said:
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Bring the energy tonight!!

Mr Positive · 2024-10-12T21:56:56-0400

We like to pile on Skinner but holy the Avs fanbase must be livid with Georgiev

But I have to point out that at least the Avs weren't as dumb as the Oilers by giving huge term to their gamble in net like we did with Campbell

JeffSkinner53 · 2024-10-12T21:57:47-0400

Not sure I'm a fan of playing Dermott over Stecher

Oilslick941611 · 2024-10-12T21:58:08-0400

Feels like a trap game.

brentashton · 2024-10-12T21:58:47-0400

Oilslick941611 said:
Feels like a trap game.

At 0-1? Have some faith brother.

RegDunlop · 2024-10-12T21:59:03-0400

94 Oil Drops said:
What is it with Browns playing in Edmonton? Dave Brown, Mike Brown, Connor Brown, (hopefully not) Josh Brown. That is a lot of Browns!

Don't forget Charlie in the DoD

yukoner88 · 2024-10-12T22:00:46-0400

This song sucks

Oilslick941611 · 2024-10-12T22:00:50-0400

brentashton said:
At 0-1? Have some faith brother.

I have faith. Im no doomer. Chicago on the 2nd night of a B2B I think some people here are taking it too lightly. Chicago is going to want this one as well.

yukoner88 · 2024-10-12T22:02:19-0400

Calgary sucks too

brentashton · 2024-10-12T22:02:20-0400

RegDunlop said:
Don't forget Charlie in the DoD

Yup
Again, poor drafting. We should have picked Woodstock or Snoopy.

JeffSkinner53 · 2024-10-12T22:03:01-0400

Nooooo not Singh

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