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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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It's like a pre-season schedule on acid. This season could be fantastic to watch or the worst thing ever.
This is fine.
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K.McC#24
Messages: 4526
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 23 December 2020 15:05 |
It's like a pre-season schedule on acid. This season could be fantastic to watch or the worst thing ever.
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Depends on what the scores are in terms of the Oilers. The first 15 or 20 games are going to be crucial.
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Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Most back-to-back games in the entire league. Bad season to have Mike Smith as one of the netminders...
"This team needs an enema!"
#FireLowe #FireMacT #FireHowson #FireBuchberger #FireHowsonAgain #FireChiarelli #FireMcLellan #FireBobbyNicks and...SIGH...#FireTheGretzkys
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 Kr55
Messages: 18056
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 23 December 2020 16:09 |
Most back-to-back games in the entire league. Bad season to have Mike Smith as one of the netminders...
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What is the deal with us and back to back games? like clockwork for us to be loaded with them.
And they can't even put some effort with so few teams to play and near limitless freedom to dominate the schedules of arenas to make the back to back games against the same team all the time. This league fails.
"The Edmonton Oilers are not where they should be right now and that is unacceptable. We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
-Kevin Lowe, April 2013
"Next year (15/16) I would forecast as another developmental year"
- #2, April 2015
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 13226
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 23 December 2020 16:41 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 23 December 2020 16:09 |
Most back-to-back games in the entire league. Bad season to have Mike Smith as one of the netminders...
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What is the deal with us and back to back games? like clockwork for us to be loaded with them.
And they can't even put some effort with so few teams to play and near limitless freedom to dominate the schedules of arenas to make the back to back games against the same team all the time. This league fails.
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The first three weeks and all of March are awful. 12 games in 21 days to start, 16 games in 29 days in March.
This is fine.
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WhoreableGuy
Messages: 1777
Registered: August 2006
Location: Calgary
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 23 December 2020 16:09 |
Most back-to-back games in the entire league. Bad season to have Mike Smith as one of the netminders...
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I don’t think a backup who went 12-3-4 with a .911 save percentage from the start of the calendar year into the COVID stoppage (pretty much the playoff drive) is the worry. We should be asking if Koskinen can just take the reigns and run with the majority of the games. The back to backs will make it that much tougher but to not have any sort of confidence in Smith is scary since he ended up outplaying Koskinen when it mattered.
The decision to start Mike Smith in the playoffs was based on his history (Best playoff save percentage of all time) and should have been based on Koskinen looking better during the mini camp before the play-ins against Chicago. That was a mistake. But I also wish they gave game 4 back to Smith as Koskinen didn’t really fare much better.
"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"
- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win
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