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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| NCREDiBLE wrote on Sun, 26 February 2023 13:08 |
| welcometotheOC wrote on Sun, 26 February 2023 13:33 |
Yeah. My wife always says “taped” and I always call her on it, bec it bugs me after 15 years of it.
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Important thing is she’s doing it for you, a lot of the fellas wives couldn’t be bothered.
Let the little things slide!
On the game though with 2:56 remaining after scoring I thought for sure we were coming back. If we didn’t take off the first period, this was our game! Too much easing into the game or just taking off a period.
Need that fierceness to start at first puck drop!
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I paused the recording just before the 1st goal.. the moment where Nurse is standing still beside the net looking across the net (and goalie) at the guy with the puck in the opposite corner.. one BJ circling behind him to get into an open spot, as well as the 2nd BJ in front of the net, the most dangerous, who eventually gets the pass and tips it home for a goal.. with Nurse standing still covering no one.. and then reacting too late.. a second too long of puck watching.
I mention it because in that moment it kind of summarizes what I think is his biggest problem, the instinct to be aware of dangerous situations.. puck watching, head never turning to look around himself.. does it with the puck too.. fires it around the boards without 1st taking a quick look over the shoulder to see who's there.. friend or foe.. just head down and fires it.. creating an own end turnover too many times.
He's not our only D-man that has those moments, but he's our #1 and a veteran, so you need to expect tighter defense and better situational awareness. Unless he fixes that flaw in his game (as well as our other D-men) Oilers will need to score a lot of goals to win games (Campbell is another issue entirely). JMHO
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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