 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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| GabbyDugan wrote on Wed, 24 November 2021 09:58 |
Pretty futile to put much positive spin on that performance. Leia and RDOF touched an all of the visible positives in that game Hoping it was a one off. Dallas played well, but were not here to compliment the Stars.
I don't know if offering the officials glasses would make any difference. I'm sure any of them needing corrective vision measures wear contact lenses (hopefully when they are on the job.)
The forwards didn't generate very many SOG's.Ryan, Foegle, Perlini, Kassian, Yamamoto, Sceviour,Nugent-Hopkins all with zero shots. I get annoyed when fans yell "shoot" most of the time, but making too many cute passes isn't very productive either.
What's with all the left side D getting hurt? Klefbom and Nurse already missing and now the rest are getting banged up at an alarming rate.
Might have been the poorest performance I've seen from Bouchard. Can't pin the loss on him, but that was a game that much was expected of him.
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I agree with you on the left side. Losing Klefbom for probably good is a tough pill to swallow. You draft the guy, develop the guy, go through all the pain you tend to get from Dmen in the early years as they develop and mature as NHL dman. In a lot of cases, once they hit 25/26 they have grown enough, have enough strength and have enough games and experience to where they are at the start of their premium years with the 25/26 - 32 being their premium years. Klefbom is 28, almost missed 2 years already plus had this issue before and how he's probably done. So the Oilers got robbed of the premium hockey from him.
Then this year, they lose Nurse and Koekkoek in the same game. So their #1 and #3 best left shot guys. Now they may have lost their #2 last night. So 3 left guys in a span of a week. Pretty tough to replace 3 guys at the same position all at once.
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