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Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31) [message #748823 is a reply to message #748820 ]	Fri, 06 December 2019 10:28

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CrudeRemarks wrote on Fri, 06 December 2019 10:25

Adam wrote on Fri, 06 December 2019 10:22

Kr55 wrote on Fri, 06 December 2019 10:00

PlusOne wrote on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:50

The month of December and specifically these early games will likely be seen as a turning point for this team.
I heard today they only play one team currently above them in the standings, the Blues. The rest are lower to middle class teams that a playoff contender should be beating.

If they struggle against the lower teams, as they did last game, and lose a handful we will all look back at this time and see where the season went wrong.

If they can come out of it with a large point percentage, the playoffs will all but be guaranteed, given the early season cushion they built. The good news is they have not had a real losing streak this year.

Hopefully the come out tonight with some proper effort and put the boots to the Kings.

They really really need to win this one. Ugh, if we manage to lose 2 in a row right now, we will have the exact same record that we had last year at game 32

http://oilers.ice.nhl.com/club/teamseasoncomparison.htm

Yikes, Dec was ugly after the mid-point last year.

This point was where the Hitchcock bump seemed to come to an end, eh? They had a few wins after he was hired...annnnnnd then just fell off a cliff. Any word on if any of our injured guys are back?

I'm curious why the Oilers recalled Cave rather than Benson, Yamamoto, or even Malone. Cave has 5 points in 16 AHL games this year, while Benson has 17 in 21. With two of our top six out, do we really need another "safe" borderline fourth liner? Worth noting, while the team may see Cave as more defensively responsible, he's also -11 in the 16 games on the farm and -5 in 38 Oilers games over this year and last.

Benson isn't lighting the world on fire, but the team needs someone with a pulse offensively, and I've never seen that from Cave (3-1-4 in 38 Oilers games, 4-5-9 in 61 NHL games).

Why would you call up Yams? Unless he's playing in the mini-game during the intermission?

He can skate at a pro level and has 5-6-11 in 16 AHL games this year. That's significantly better than Cave. He's also had some experience in the NHL, so isn't likely to come in too starstruck. He's generated shots while playing in the NHL previously - which is at least part of the battle. His NHL stats are marginally better than Cave's too - 1-4-5 in 26 NHL games - considering the gap in age, I think that's significant and projects MUCH better.

I am probably recalling Benson rather than Yamamoto, but I have Yamamoto over Cave every day of the week. You just can't put Cave with McDavid or Draisaitl and hope that he's going to do anything, where as I think with Benson and Yamamoto - while they're far from the ideal players there - they're not fish out of water.

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Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: OilFans on Fri, 06 December 2019 03:00
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: McDavid97 on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:25
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: Ragnarok73 on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:37
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: RDOilerfan on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:41
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: CrudeRemarks on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:49
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: PlusOne on Fri, 06 December 2019 09:50
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: Kr55 on Fri, 06 December 2019 10:00
Re: Pregame: Los Angeles @ Edmonton (Game #31)	By: Adam on Fri, 06 December 2019 10:22
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