jjgallow Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 46 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. He's 37, doing what 37 year olds do....never seen a goalie make such a bad decision on which team to sign with though. Unless he had no choice. Oilers doing what they do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 23 minutes ago, jjgallow said: He's 37, doing what 37 year olds do....never seen a goalie make such a bad decision on which team to sign with though. Unless he had no choice. Oilers doing what they do... It amazes me that the book on an NHL goalie is, get it to the point, wrist it on net. He couldn't track Satoshi Nakamoto if he were laying in it. He was the same with us. Fails Trigonometry 101. lol Always felt that way about Luongo. Losing where your net is. Smith is on a whole other level. I cannot believe that an NHL goalie is so poor at angles. Alternatively, I love Rittich, lol. He typically makes that stuff look like a routine save and knows how to be positionally correct and and absorb pucks. Has Smith ever NOT given up a rebound? As the Hip says, "when it falls apart, it really falls apart". lol If you don't have a sound foundation, everything else can go south. And when you have a sound foundation and things go south, just keep relying on it. Easy to see just in breakaways/shootouts Rittich vs Smith. Smith's nickname should be the leaky tank. Holes everywhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carty Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 1 hour ago, jjgallow said: He's 37, doing what 37 year olds do....never seen a goalie make such a bad decision on which team to sign with though. Unless he had no choice. Oilers doing what they do... I have to disagree... I think Smith made a great decision signing with the Oil... Over the last 10 games Smith has played, he has the worst SV% of any goalie in the league that has had at least 5 starts... It couldn't be any better... Unless he gets even worse... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartbreaker Posted December 23, 2019 Report Share Posted December 23, 2019 On 12/21/2019 at 2:06 PM, Carty said: I have to disagree... I think Smith made a great decision signing with the Oil... Over the last 10 games Smith has played, he has the worst SV% of any goalie in the league that has had at least 5 starts... It couldn't be any better... Unless he gets even worse... That all said, I may have an unpopular opinion. I was really rooting for Mike Smith. I'd hoped that he'd hang up the skates at the end of last year, and stick with the team in some capacity. I really liked having him around. Seemed like a great personality, and may have been able to help out the boys. Love. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robrob74 Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 On 12/23/2019 at 3:30 PM, Heartbreaker said: That all said, I may have an unpopular opinion. I was really rooting for Mike Smith. I'd hoped that he'd hang up the skates at the end of last year, and stick with the team in some capacity. I really liked having him around. Seemed like a great personality, and may have been able to help out the boys. Love. as fans we see things differently. some hate the blame he placed on others. It clouds whatever else he did. Well more, his play was bad for a good while last year. I played for a team where we won championships, but the goalie would yell at us to get the Blockchainen puck out of the zone and called us a bunch of idiots. He’d praise ya when we did good. You get called out sometimes when making a bad play. Playing hockey is a critical thinking game. You take the good; you take the bad; you take them both and there you have, the facts of life. I am ok with calling guys out. Gotta let guys know when they’re not doing enough. Try harder. Is there enough try harder on the Flames? They’re professional hockey players, it’s going to be public and we see and know what they’re doing. Yet we want guys to be honest in interviews. I was against smith last year. Then he had a great playoffs. Sure he didn’t win many, but how many goalies were going to win those games against the Avs last year? Possibly, some stolen, but Smith was pretty close to doing that. It would’ve been a Festivus Miracle! I don’t think many goalies would’ve done any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 49 minutes ago, robrob74 said: as fans we see things differently. some hate the blame he placed on others. It clouds whatever else he did. Well more, his play was bad for a good while last year. I played for a team where we won championships, but the goalie would yell at us to get the Blockchainen puck out of the zone and called us a bunch of idiots. He’d praise ya when we did good. You get called out sometimes when making a bad play. Playing hockey is a critical thinking game. You take the good; you take the bad; you take them both and there you have, the facts of life. I am ok with calling guys out. Gotta let guys know when they’re not doing enough. Try harder. Is there enough try harder on the Flames? They’re professional hockey players, it’s going to be public and we see and know what they’re doing. Yet we want guys to be honest in interviews. I was against smith last year. Then he had a great playoffs. Sure he didn’t win many, but how many goalies were going to win those games against the Avs last year? Possibly, some stolen, but Smith was pretty close to doing that. It would’ve been a Festivus Miracle! I don’t think many goalies would’ve done any better. You can look at it a couple of ways. Smith made a lots of saves in rapid fire but would let in the last one. In other words a lot of rebounds. The killers were two OT goals. Neither was unstoppable. Neither were screened. So he was good. Sometimes great. But he wasn't the savior. Glad we moved on. And no he wasn't retiring. he wanted the starter spot here and starter money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robrob74 Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 1 hour ago, travel_dude said: You can look at it a couple of ways. Smith made a lots of saves in rapid fire but would let in the last one. In other words a lot of rebounds. The killers were two OT goals. Neither was unstoppable. Neither were screened. So he was good. Sometimes great. But he wasn't the savior. Glad we moved on. And no he wasn't retiring. he wanted the starter spot here and starter money. I dunno. Blaming a goalie for the Flames playoffs failure is a little I dunno. There’s absolutely no way the Flames should’ve won any of the final 4 games and yet they played their best game in the final game. I blame the players. I didht like Smith either, but I don’t think it is fair to place the blame on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 14 hours ago, robrob74 said: I dunno. Blaming a goalie for the Flames playoffs failure is a little I dunno. There’s absolutely no way the Flames should’ve won any of the final 4 games and yet they played their best game in the final game. I blame the players. I didht like Smith either, but I don’t think it is fair to place the blame on him. There are games every series that a goalie is the only reason a team wins. The first game was one that their goalie let in crap and Smith held the fort. Some of the other games could have easily gone a different way with a different goalie in nets. Game 2 was winnable. Mostly even and on the way to a victory with 3 minutes left. One more even strength save and we go up 2-0 on the series. Game 4 was a much better goalie performance and I am loathe to suggest he's the reason we lost. But the OT goal was underplayed. A flopping goalie is only good if he's always in position to make the save. If he's face first on the ice, he won't have much of a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 Let's face some facts. Smith as a season long starter is a disaster. 1 series, big whoop he played well in 5 games but we were over-matched regardless. Watching him leave was awesome. Rumours are he wasn't happy for Rittich's ascent and BT stated Rittich would always bow to Smith's wishes. I'd say the only thing Smith was for us, was in the way. How many wristers from the point that he can't track do we need to see? He moves to see through screens so then he's out of position on the shot trajectory. Goalie 101, have your angles down. You don't have to see it if you're where your supposed to be. Goalie 102, stop breakaways, sell something you know that you can take away. Dude sells 5 things at once, now they just make him move and slide it along the ice under him. Tbh, I'm not even sure what his strengths are when I watch him. Angles, no. agility, meh. Athleticism, meh. Rebound control, no. Fast, no. Anticipation, meh. I think his whole career was simply convincing people that he's good and it turned into name recognition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 And to take this back to the Oilers.... They suck defensively. Nurse is a goon, and looks to hurt not defend. As well and good, but somebody is always going to take you down. They are riding Costco the goalie becuause they realized Smith doesn;t have it. They played weak teams and he won enough to look like he was playing well. The numbers always suggested that would come back to earth. They are no different this tear than last. Riding McD and Drai helped convince some that a playoff was coming. Those two look burnt already. Costco will be what he was last year; small sample goalie. After that they have nothing. Next year they have to buy out Neal just to be able to afford to repsign Nurse and overpay Kassian. Nobody will take their crap in trade. Decade of Darkness 2.0 a comin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrumed Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 16 hours ago, travel_dude said: And to take this back to the Oilers.... They suck defensively. Nurse is a goon, and looks to hurt not defend. As well and good, but somebody is always going to take you down. They are riding Costco the goalie becuause they realized Smith doesn;t have it. They played weak teams and he won enough to look like he was playing well. The numbers always suggested that would come back to earth. They are no different this tear than last. Riding McD and Drai helped convince some that a playoff was coming. Those two look burnt already. Costco will be what he was last year; small sample goalie. After that they have nothing. Next year they have to buy out Neal just to be able to afford to repsign Nurse and overpay Kassian. Nobody will take their crap in trade. Decade of Darkness 2.0 a comin What's funny is Holland put the Wings in cap hell, the Oilers hire him to get them out of it. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross16 Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Honestly I think if you break it down, Smith wasn't even that great in the playoffs. Game 1 - Ok Game 2 - Good but not great. Didn't have to be Game 3 incredible Game 4 - Good Game 5 - poor. by no means am i suggesting he changes the fortunes. Flames lost the series as a team and the team should take the blame, but I am very thankful Treliving and Co looked passed the small sample size and the media buzz and saw the truth. Smith's playoff performance IMO was a microcosm of his regular season and proved to me the decline was there. He was inconsistent,more bad then good and 1 incredible game didn't change that. Writing was all over the wall and I love it was the Oilers of all teams who couldn't read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sak22 Posted January 14, 2020 Report Share Posted January 14, 2020 Spoken from a guy who is well respected by all opponents, fans and officials. Oh wait. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
original hockeypriest Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 Does anyone know how I can find video of McPizzaface kicking Backs in the balls??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDeeds Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 On 1/17/2020 at 7:23 AM, original hockeypriest said: Does anyone know how I can find video of McPizzaface kicking Backs in the balls??? Try to find a youtube of game or find someone that can replay game(ie gamecenter) 7:02 remaining in 3rd according to Carty in GDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robrob74 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 Wow! Kassian got a3 year extension. He worth the 3.2 per year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, robrob74 said: Wow! Kassian got a3 year extension. He worth the 3.2 per year? Meh, that's Ferland money. Sounds fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross16 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 Holland drove the Wings into cap hell with bad contracts to players with “intangibles”. Seems to be well on his way to doing it in Edmonton now too. pretty bad contract IMO. Overpaid based on the fact he’s put up some numbers alongside McDavid. Guy has yet to crack 30 pts in a season (although likely will this season but again... McDavid). edit: it’s also a 4 year deal not 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 2 hours ago, cross16 said: Holland drove the Wings into cap hell with bad contracts to players with “intangibles”. Seems to be well on his way to doing it in Edmonton now too. pretty bad contract IMO. Overpaid based on the fact he’s put up some numbers alongside McDavid. Guy has yet to crack 30 pts in a season (although likely will this season but again... McDavid). edit: it’s also a 4 year deal not 3. He's not really there to score though. He's to make sure McDavid stays safe while not dragging him down too much. It's like Ferland here. He was on the top line to give Johnny some protection while chipping in while he can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cross16 Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 3 hours ago, The_People1 said: He's not really there to score though. He's to make sure McDavid stays safe while not dragging him down too much. It's like Ferland here. He was on the top line to give Johnny some protection while chipping in while he can. That wasn’t really Ferlands game and even if that is true committing that much cap space and term to that is a horrible idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 Every time McD gets hit, there is a big todo about it by the MSM. - Oilers have misex feelings about Gio hit on McD - Is it the right call not to have additional discipline for Gio What a whiny bunch of losers. A check is a check. D not allowed to check him, interference or not? McD is becomming like Hall, who skates at the edge of control, One rut or toepick and he's out for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersMan Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 hour ago, travel_dude said: Every time McD gets hit, there is a big todo about it by the MSM. - Oilers have misex feelings about Gio hit on McD - Is it the right call not to have additional discipline for Gio What a whiny bunch of losers. A check is a check. D not allowed to check him, interference or not? McD is becomming like Hall, who skates at the edge of control, One rut or toepick and he's out for months. Then what, does Kassian line become the 4th line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 31 minutes ago, CheersMan said: Then what, does Kassian line become the 4th line? It becomes a nothing line. Neal has crawled back into the woodwork. Kassian is mostly a plug, even playing with McD lately. He's useful, but not what I would consider a skilled player. The 2nd line of Nuge, Drai and Yamamoto is a funny one. Anyone that plays with Drai is going to get points. Nuge is competent, but not what I would expect for a #1 overall. Yamamoto is going to get more points, but I don't think he's a top 6 on any NHL team. Except one. I wonder how long it will be for Neal to hit 21 goals. Earlier it seemed like he would be there by December, but he goes for long stretches without a goal. He gets zero for 7 or more. He gets 3 in obe game afyer going 6 without one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmac70 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 So can someone explain why Drysaddle has not had his Hash Rate handed to him yet? The guy is a Blockchaining mouth piece to the media, he never shuts up. Constantly has Satoshi Nakamoto to say in the media, wow. Maybe its my ultra competitiveness but if it were me I would shove my hand down hs throat and make him choke on it, the guy is just as big a POS as Kassian. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 1 hour ago, tmac70 said: So can someone explain why Drysaddle has not had his Hash Rate handed to him yet? The guy is a Blockchaining mouth piece to the media, he never shuts up. Constantly has Satoshi Nakamoto to say in the media, wow. Maybe its my ultra competitiveness but if it were me I would shove my hand down hs throat and make him choke on it, the guy is just as big a POS as Kassian. Actually I respect Kassian a whole lot more, but that isn;t a lot. Kassian will usually walk the talk. Draisaitl is a puss. Don't know why he is able to walk in and score so much; he's about as speedy as Tkachuk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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