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Re: Review: Columbus @ Edmonton (Game #49) [message #817309 is a reply to message #817304 ]	Thu, 26 January 2023 12:29

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tardigrade81 wrote on Thu, 26 January 2023 10:45

RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 26 January 2023 15:42

Begin my rant as I was pissed last night and still pissed this morning.

Made the drive with my son from RD last night as we got given company tickets yesterday. The highlight of the trip to the game was the donair we got on Jasper for supper.

First NHL. Game time said 7:30. At 7:30 they just started cleaning the freaking ice after warm up. Game actually didn't start until after 7:50. Get your S together NHL!!

This is the first time I have seen those 3rd jerseys live, they suck. I don't mind the blue and the orange strips are OK but the logo looks like a 6 yr old who loves space stuff drew it up. I think the first version of them came out 20 yrs ago and the team looked like that team from 20 yrs ago by their play when the Oilers were a mediocre team at best. Get rid of those jerseys because that logo is cursed!

The entire top 6 didn't give a crap last night. I don't know if they forgot they had a game yesterday or were all hung over but that is one of the worst games I have seen the Oilers top 6 play in a long time. Not one of them could make a 5 ft pass. They had 27 give aways!!! And it's not because Columbus is this amazing defensive team. Columbus is awful. Like really, really bad. They did NOTHING all night yet won because the Oilers were that sloppy with the puck. The amount of times McD and Leon of all people missed passes, dropped passes to no one, threw the puck wildly to no one or tried cross ice passes that had ZERO chance of being completed was ridiculous. Pathetic puck management from pretty much every forward.

Individual forwards. I thought Leon was awful. Just looked like he didn't want to be there and was just off. Nuge same. Both were bad. McD was marginally better but that's being nice. I thought of the top 9 regulars, Janmark was OK and so was Hyman but both handled the puck like a grenade. McLeod, he can be good at time. He was a non factor. Going into the playoffs, they need to upgrade a bottom 6 center spot. McLeod isn't ready to be a top 9 center full time. Not in the playoffs. Kostin too quiet. Foegele was meh.

Best 3 forwards were Holloway, Ryan and JP. Holloway was buzzing. Ryan for a older guy, man he gives you what he has and he can finish when given the chance. If he was their extra forward next year, I'd be OK with that.

JP. This was a game that showed exactly the points his lovers and haters bring up. For the record, I thought he had a good game. He seemed engaged, physical not only with laying hits but using his huge body to create space for himself and make plays like he should do all the time. He was good at disrupting plays with his big body and long stick and that ability was on display on the Ryan goal as he played a big part in that. So I am sure his supporters and I have seem some on twitter were dancing in the streets yelling SEE! The bad. My god, the guy can not finish. If he had to score a goal to save his life, I don't think he could. He had 3 GRADE A point blank chances and couldn't cash. You give those 3 chances to most of the other forwards on the team and they probably score at least 1. A credit to him to getting into the spots but my god he needs to work on his finish. I have never been a big supporter but I am not a hardcore hater that thinks he's useless. I see both sides. He does things well that can help your team but those things are not worth 3 mill due to his lack of finish.

Defense. I thought Kulak was pretty good. I thought Nurse was OK. I thought Desharnais, Broberg and Ceci were meh, not bad but not good. I thought Barrie and Bouchard were brutal, Bouchard especially. Bouchard was awful with the puck and some of his decisions were mind boggling. Barrie a bad mistake on the one goal.

Skinner I thought was good for most of the game. Made a couple of big saves but wasn't really tested a ton with very good chances. I didn't like the second goal, I am not sure how/why he didn't cover that. The winner was terrible on him. A 40+ ft wrister. I don't know if he was screened but it hit him in the glove. I am not pinning the loss on him as the team sucked but that's a game where the team didn't have it at all and then to pile on, he gave up a couple of rough goals in my opinion.

Full marks to Korposalo. He made some unreal stops. He stopped probably at least 5 or 6 shots that on most nights are goals. That isn't me saying the Oilers played well to generate those chances, it was more that Columbus is sooooo BAD, the Oilers could play like hot garbage and still get those chances.

Brutal game. I wish I had mine and my sons, especially my sons as he will be tired at school for the late night. I wish I could submit an invoice for my gas money as it was a waste.

Well summarized.

Still can’t believe that save Columbus goalie had. Save of the year nearly. We should have won that game

Nah, they *could* have won that game. If you have 25 giveaways as a team, you shouldn't win anything. A good team would have blown them out.

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