Post-Game Talk: Welcome to the Boneless Oiler Ranch

[russ99]

The entire bottom six is an absolute gong show yet again. How does this team struggle to acquire depth forwards?

I know some of them were heroes last year but it was a small sample size.

Maybe you play a bottom six like a bottom six and not stretch pass pro Corsi deny entry nonsense that works with the skill players when they have good nights. I see no variance at all on how Knoblauch handles different player groups.

He’s looking to get schooled by a good coach who adjusts like what happened against Vegas.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Almost as if hiring a GM that hadn't been good in years was a bad idea.

We have our model of what kind of GM we want. They are the only kind we hire don’t you know that?

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Yeah that’s bullshit too, this team has fought back again and again against the odds. Colorado, Vegas, Dallas, etc all of them would fall apart if you subjected them to year after year of piss poor goaltending or an ancient Mike Smith as the best case scenario.

These guys have worked their ass off the last 2-3 years really coming back again and again from getting kicked in the gut.

This do nothing management should be ashamed of themselves.

and now they give up? yeah...f***ing losers

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

We have our model of what kind of GM we want. They are the only kind we hire don’t you know that?

Yeah, they love their nepotistic buddies. f*** 'em. They deserve no championships until they're all gone.

 

[RegDunlop]

Sending Janmark out to take the face-off on the 5 on 3 penalty kill was an atrocious decision too. Nuge and Drai were in the box and Henrique just got off the ice. Either call a timeout so that Henrique can go back out there or make McDavid take the face-off. I don't care that he's not a regular penalty killer, you can't concede the face-off in that situation.

Said the same thing sir.
Scratched last game to being leaned on to stop the bleeding. Unreal decision.

 

[McTonyBrar]

Too many of you focusing on the goalie issues but we aren’t scoring enough goals to win games. Even with a .920 1 to 2 goals a game doesn’t win you many games.

Drai is the only skater that came to play after the break

Oilers have scored 3+ goals in every loss except tonight. WE DIDNT GET GOALTENDING IN THOSE GAMES

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

How do you build a roster without an energy line? On nights like tonight (most nights recently, tbh) where the offence is struggling, how can you expect to regain some momentum if you’ve got nobody in the lineup that can throw a big hit. It’s not like we’ve got a goalie that can make a big save for an energy boost either. We’ve either “got it” or we don’t and the more we get into the season the more tired we look the fewer nights we “have it”.
Just a terribly constructed roster this year and we’re left to hope that some kind of life can be injected into it at the trade deadline.

This coach doesn’t value energy.

He is Dallas Eakins with a better roster.

“The perfect game is a no hitter.”

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Oilers have scored 3+ goals in every loss except tonight. WE DIDNT GET GOALTENDING IN THOSE GAMES

Congrats to the Oilers for getting a couple garbage time goals in Washington. They're shit offensively right now too.

 

[McTonyBrar]

Game was over as soon as Skinner let in that weak as shit wrap around goal that an ECHL goalie would have stopped. Team is tired of that shit, they’ve played a lot of hockey the last 15 months and having shit goalies this year was not part of the deal.

Arvidsson and RNH were certainly tired of it. They're reactions were yikes

 

[Soundwave]

and now they give up? yeah...f***ing losers

Yeah which team would do great year after year with back up goaltending. Name me one team in the history of the NHL that’s done that for 3 plus years. Most teams including Florida would have quit and given up down 0-3 in any series.

You can ask a team to keep doing this shit again and again, this year needed to be different with help for the big 2 especially but it’s the same shit over and over again. No run support, no help in net, nothing.

 

[guymez]

Wonder if this loss will trigger them to do f***ing something other than waste all our saved cap on a guy they decided to sit.
Kapanen should be waived, brings nothing that Skinner doesn’t.

Kapanen is one of the worst players on this team for managing the puck...and thats saying something.

Even though he can skate fast he doesnt come close to replacing McLeod

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Didn’t even finish this one and am not going to bother watching the last two games of this road trip either. They will lose the next two games by a combined score of 9-2.

 

[belair]

Kane is like the only guy who fits that description but half the board wants him traded.

I wanted him traded because I wanted to keep the young guys. Losing Foegele was going to hurt and it was clear back then. Then we lost Holloway.

Even last season where he scored 25, he looked awful. Can't pass for shit.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

That’s not what you wanna hear a few days before the TDL and you’re an apparent contender….. from your head coach.

I wonder where the leaders of the team are hiding but I guess it’s cyclical. They tank it every 16 months just like the sun rises in the east, and tune out their coach.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Maybe when they go back home, I’d be shocked if they put together a solid game on this road trip.

I don't even know then, like this level, they might have to fluke a win

 

[LeonDraisaitl29]

That’s not what you wanna hear a few days before the TDL and you’re an apparent contender….. from your head coach.

I wonder where the leaders of the team are hiding but I guess it’s cyclical. They tank it every 16 months just like the sun rises in the east, and tune out their coach.

You better figure it the f out soon.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

You better figure it the f out soon.

Might be time to face reality. We're a good team, not a great team.

 

[K1984]

Not sure how much room they have to make much happen.

I'd like to see Knoblauch get his head out of his ass and stop scapegoating J.Skinner, stop playing Podzinkin in the top six, press box kapanen etc. There are a lot of little things going around the team right now that are making everything seem worse due to players playing out of position in roles they aren't suited for.

100%

A headline scratch is disgustingly overdue. Bouchard is getting worse every game. He needs to sit.

He’s the poster boy for everything wrong right now. Half cocked effort level, dumb as f*** on ice play, horrendous errors he doesn’t appear to be bothering to address, and no sign at all it will turn for him.

Put his dumb ass in the press box and tell him he’s there again next time he sends a pass up the middle without looking. Then name a teammate of his who goes up next.

Should be 93 on the healthy scratch block next.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Yeah which team would do great year after year with back up goaltending. Name me one team in the history of the NHL that’s done that for 3 plus years. Most teams including Florida would have quit and given up down 0-3 in any series.

You can ask a team to keep doing this shit again and again, this year needed to be different with help for the big 2 especially but it’s the same shit over and over again. No run support, no help in net, nothing.

I don’t care if they had me in net
Giving up on your team f***ing loser mentality

 

[foshizzle]

Yeah, they love their nepotistic buddies. f*** 'em. They deserve no championships until they're all gone.

They f***ing waited until after July 1 to hire him too. Having a no GM and Jackson playing make believe had us bringing in Skinner and Arvy- 2 players who don’t fit in Knobs systems

 

[Messrules11]

KK won’t play him because he hits. If you hit, that means you’re chasing the game. KK wants players like Brown and Kapanen. Kane will be stapled to the bench or the press box.

It’s simply disgusting, for 100 years guys have been knocking the shit out of each other and along comes Knob thinking he’s smarter than everyone. I can’t get my head around how dumb this guy is.

 

[foshizzle]

You better figure it the f out soon.

Dude still can’t figure out his lines

 

[TB12]

I'm straight up not having a good time.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

They f***ing waited until after July 1 to hire him too. Having a no GM and Jackson playing make believe had us bringing in Skinner and Arvy- 2 players who don’t fit in Knobs systems

I still think back to how Bill Zito was someone they spoke to then the Oilers got all wet when Holland became available.

That alone might have cost them at least one championship.