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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 3938
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
3 Cups
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| NetBOG wrote on Sat, 12 November 2022 15:31 |
#IBelieveInStu
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The guy just looks steady.. doesn't beat himself.. and one of the best traits I've noticed is it doesn't take much for him to freeze the puck.. which with the way the Oiler defense is playing is the best thing they can do.. get a complete re-set.. line change.. end any possibility of any fire drill.. and pizza deliveries.. Oilers defense (and some forwards) too easily get running around in their own end, lose position and it takes an entire shift to get it back to get a line change.
Sees the puck extremely well through traffic.
Foegle is smartening up.. passed up a good shot on a 2 on 1 with LD.. they talk it over.. and with game winner.. he takes the shot.
Holloway has the yips, needs more NHL games to settle down and start to play with flow.
Barrie.. glad we didn't trade that guy now.. Bouchard has not taken the next step that was expected, hoped for..
Was not expecting much from Janmark.. but he plays a smart game.. good stick.. positioning is good.. welcome addition to the PK.. decent size and tends to use it to retrieve pucks..
Kostin.. he was supposed be lacking defensively.. but he was decent.. and in the O-zone he played OK, got some chances.. OK speed.. great size, and uses it.. you can see where he could be a threat to create scoring chances. We'll see as he gets more ice.. but at first glimpse he's OK IMHO.
JP.. was the goat on the 2nd FL goal (should have stayed with the guy that dropped the puck back), but created the opportunity for the empty netter, retrieved the puck on the wall which sprung McD for the pass to Nooge.. a plus and a minus.. He skated miles.. great effort.
I might add this was a good test for the Oilers.. FL is a good skilled team.. but not that fast top to bottom.. Oilers tend to struggle vs. good skating teams (like Hurricanes).. speed kills in the NHL.
[Updated on: Sat, 12 November 2022 19:15]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
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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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