The_People1 Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 On 11/13/2019 at 2:54 PM, original hockeypriest said: 20 games in it is apparent that the Oilers were able to ride a hot start and a friendly schedule to mid November and still playing meaningful hockey...However, as the season progresses and teams concentrate harder on shutting down the 2 high end players and forcing the Oilers to make hay on the pp the wins are going to be harder to come by...I predict they will be outside of a playoff spot by Christmas and won't have a meaningful game after January. The Pacific Division is so weak, it's hard to see the Oilers not make the playoffs after this start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 7 hours ago, The_People1 said: The Pacific Division is so weak, it's hard to see the Oilers not make the playoffs after this start. It's amazing the goalies the Oilers have faced over the start of the season. They get a weakened AVS team, with a goalie who is a backup to a backup. Schneider for NJ. Varly for NYI. Hart at his worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 3 hours ago, travel_dude said: It's amazing the goalies the Oilers have faced over the start of the season. They get a weakened AVS team, with a goalie who is a backup to a backup. Schneider for NJ. Varly for NYI. Hart at his worst. No reason why this won't continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted November 15, 2019 Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 5 minutes ago, The_People1 said: No reason why this won't continue. The funny thing is that the Oilers have seen the best of Smith and Koskinen, while facing teams struggling or playing a crap goalie. When they play a competitive team or a decent goalie, they fold like a cheap suit. What I find really amazing is that McDavid and Draisaitl are scoring like it's going out of style, and they are still below 2 p/gp. Most games they seem to be scoring in droves. Nothing there to suggest they will slow down, but there has not been anyone scoring 160 points in.....forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebrewcrew Posted November 16, 2019 Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 Pacific is interesting Never count SJ out VGK I think is the best of the best ARI would have been a playoff team last year if COL didn't milk more loser points last year EDM has 2 high end players carrying the mail VAN has turned a corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjgallow Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 McDavid starting to look decent. When are they trading him to Las Angeles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 17 hours ago, jjgallow said: McDavid starting to look decent. When are they trading him to Las Angeles? They have 2 good players. They can't even separate them for a game. The onlty B2B games they get seem to be against a team that also played the night before. As long as Smith is on old man's reserve, they have a chance to keep winning at 50% or better. If you get a chance, watch the two penalties that Nurse drew last night against Eriksonm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjgallow Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 4 hours ago, travel_dude said: They have 2 good players. They can't even separate them for a game. The onlty B2B games they get seem to be against a team that also played the night before. As long as Smith is on old man's reserve, they have a chance to keep winning at 50% or better. If you get a chance, watch the two penalties that Nurse drew last night against Eriksonm I was once kicked by Dave Tippett. Ever since then the emotional trauma has caused me to be difficult on internet forums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 Without the 2nd highest scoring PP, EDM would be closer to the basement. They haven't made a lot of changes to the PP that was really bad last year, other than not having Lucic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 24 minutes ago, jjgallow said: I was once kicked by Dave Tippett. Ever since then the emotional trauma has caused me to be difficult on internet forums. Nah, you're a teddy bear. lol Disagreeable isn't difficult, just requires a few more grains of salt. Especially talking about goaltending. 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carty Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 3 hours ago, jjgallow said: I was once kicked by Dave Tippett. Ever since then the emotional trauma has caused me to be difficult on internet forums. He must have kicked you really hard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 5, 2019 Report Share Posted December 5, 2019 5-2 loss to the Sens. I think you have to give the Sens credit. Considering their roster, their record is pretty good. They certainly don't just rollover to anyone and they rarely get spanked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 5, 2019 Report Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, conundrumed said: 5-2 loss to the Sens. I think you have to give the Sens credit. Considering their roster, their record is pretty good. They certainly don't just rollover to anyone and they rarely get spanked. Instead of playing hard, they seemed like they felt this was a scheduled win. Some lazy play. I feel like the only thing keeping them afloat is PP goals. Goaltending is returning to the norm. Smith and Costco both starting to play like they did last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross16 Posted December 6, 2019 Report Share Posted December 6, 2019 23 hours ago, conundrumed said: 5-2 loss to the Sens. I think you have to give the Sens credit. Considering their roster, their record is pretty good. They certainly don't just rollover to anyone and they rarely get spanked. DJ Smith was a great hire for them I thought. I don't think he'd ever let a team get blown out haha. Leafs sure miss him too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 6, 2019 Report Share Posted December 6, 2019 37 minutes ago, cross16 said: DJ Smith was a great hire for them I thought. I don't think he'd ever let a team get blown out haha. Leafs sure miss him too. Same. Now all of the talk I hear is the resounding applause that he has that roster prepared for every game and competing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 Classic penalty shot... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 ^^^^^^ Gifted with a 5 on 3 PP and then a PS. And the fans whine about the refs missing calls and only giving them 4 or 5 PP's per game. The mighty rely on a PP and two players that have played the most minutes in the NHL among forwards. Neal has 4 even strength goals (well, not PP at least) and 2 even strength assists. And he's -17. Here's a nice goal from Dougie last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 12, 2019 Report Share Posted December 12, 2019 Koskinen trying to get a head start on a dump in, lol. Dude you only have to go 4 feet. bahaha. Here comes the shiny/shinny goaltending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted December 13, 2019 Report Share Posted December 13, 2019 On 10/15/2019 at 3:48 PM, The_People1 said: Neal is well on pace to 23-goals for the year. Let's check in after 34-games... 34GP 15G 7A 22PT -15 Eek, i might be wrong. Neal still needs 8-more in 48-games.... i dunno... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 Interesting observarion: Last season, through the first 34 games of the season, Edmonton had an 18-13-3 record, eerily close to the 18-12-4 record the team currently has. The 2018/2019 Oilers had 39 points compared to the 40 the 2019/2020 Oilers currently have. The team from last season would go on to gain only another 40 points through the remaining 48 games and finish 25th in the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjgallow Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 I've heard the Oilers have attributed much of their success this year to cutting edge visualisation techniques. Before every game, the team meditates on key motivators such as: "image you are playing for a respectable team" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 4 hours ago, jjgallow said: I've heard the Oilers have attributed much of their success this year to cutting edge visualisation techniques. Before every game, the team meditates on key motivators such as: "image you are playing for a respectable team" Image there's no people Living for today-ay-ay-ay eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjgallow Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 2 hours ago, conundrumed said: Image there's no people Living for today-ay-ay-ay eh? they have the "imagine no puck posession" part down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 Looks like Smith has turned into automatic loss. I've never seen an NHL goalie so poor at tracking wrist shots from the point. Like the Pens' first goal last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 43 minutes ago, conundrumed said: Looks like Smith has turned into automatic loss. I've never seen an NHL goalie so poor at tracking wrist shots from the point. Like the Pens' first goal last night. Expected and appreciated. They haven't changed much from last year and Smith is the new Talbot/Dubie/Insert Ex-Oiler Goalie. Even with the top two in points, they are still a failing team. 13m spent on about a dizen even strength goals. 6m on a #2 center with 2 even strength goals. I thought Backlund was killing us, but Nuge is supposed to be their go-to guy to shut down the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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