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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 3925
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
3 Cups
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| GabbyDugan wrote on Sat, 01 December 2018 14:37 |
....looks like no surprises in the Oiler lineup tonight...
https://www.nhl.com/oilers/news/morning-skate-report-oilers- vs-golden-knights/c-302480710
..."Lines at morning skate:
Draisaitl - McDavid - Chiasson
Caggiula - Nugent-Hopkins - Puljujarvi
Lucic - Brodziak - Kassian
Khaira - Spooner - Rattie
Klefbom - Larsson
Nurse - Russell
Gravel - Benning
Koskinen
Talbot"...
....a couple of random thoughts about the defense (and I realize the game on TV doesn't show all the nuances of the defense in a lot of situations but magnifies their mistakes when the opposition
has success against them)...
....Adam Larsson is playing okay, but he seems to be aging pretty fast....seems like all the tough minutes he puts in is wearing him down a lot...
....I'm probably the only one around here who hasn't given up on Matt Benning...I know he is struggling, but the kid looked pretty good a couple of years ago...still time for him to make something of his chances
.....as far as the forwards go, seems to me McDavid is trying as hard as ever and having some success but I think the best is yet to come for him....
....not especially worried about that third line, but they could use a break, as in an ugly or fluky goal....
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I have a suspicion that Larsson is still working through a bad back from last year, he looks really stiff out there, bad backs don't just disappear, you manage them, most times they manage you.
Benning. My hats off to you for sticking with Benning, loyalty is a virtue, but to me, he is missing fundamental ingredients, most importantly skating, he looks like he is skating in quicksand, feet go east-west instead of north-south, that Oiler skating coach (Peltier) should be fired for not helping him out for the last 3 years. He's 24, this might be what he is.
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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