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 OilFans
Messages: 1558
Registered: February 2006
Location: Edmonton
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Login To Make Your Prediction2022-23 Regular Season| Monday, November 7, 2022 | Edmonton 4 @ Washington 5 | Loss | | Monday, December 5, 2022 | Washington 3 @ Edmonton 2 | Loss |
Home Record: 0-1-0 Road Record: 0-1-0 Overall Record: 0-2-0
Home / Road Goals For: 2/4 Total: 6
Home / Road Goals Against: 3/5 Total: 82021-22 Regular Season| Wednesday, February 2, 2022 | Edmonton 5 @ Washington 3 | Win | | Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | Washington 3 @ Edmonton 4 (OT) | Win |
Home Record: 1-0-0 Road Record: 1-0-0 Overall Record: 2-0-0
Home / Road Goals For: 4/5 Total: 9
Home / Road Goals Against: 3/3 Total: 6 |
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2262
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
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Just win baby.
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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Anyone hear if Yamo is playing? I saw he was playing up in practice.
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Adrean
Messages: 46
Registered: January 2006
Location: Calgary (for work, not th...
No Cups
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It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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Skoobz
Messages: 334
Registered: January 2006
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I love the simple pleasure of swearing at Ovechkin in Ukrainian.
"[It was] really cool to throw on the Oilers gear, the gear that I want to play the rest of my life wearing. It was pretty cool to put it on. With all the history, it was a lot of fun." - Connor McDavid, July 1, 2015
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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I am looking for Skinner to have a better game compared to his game in Washington giving up 5 goals. I also thought his game against the Habs was OK but not great. I didn't love the rebound he gave up on the second goal. I am not a goalie but I am pretty sure you aren't supposed to leave it right in the slot like that if you are controlling rebounds properly. I didn't love the 3rd goal either. 5 on 3 PP but it wasn't him and Ovie or Weber teeing it up on a one timer. This was a rookie dman who got the puck dusted it off and gave Skinner time to be set and see it and he just beat him flat out with a wrister.
On par with the goaltending in November mostly with Skinner. It's been not bad but not great.
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smyth260
Messages: 1081
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 09:34 |
| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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Eh, our best two players have been healthy all year. Good teams have to overcome injuries. Bruins have lost only 3 games despite missing McAvoy and Marchand for half of their season.
Clean house or bust
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:07 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 09:34 |
| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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Eh, our best two players have been healthy all year. Good teams have to overcome injuries. Bruins have lost only 3 games despite missing McAvoy and Marchand for half of their season.
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Marchand missed 8 games.
I don't follow the Bruins but I don't think they have been missing 4 of their top 9 forwards all at once.
Yamo was banged up out of camp and has missed 12 games.
Kane has missed 11 and counting.
Foegele has missed 5 and counting.
McLeod has missed 4 and counting.
Bruins missed 1 guy, not 4. Injuries happen, teams have to deal with it but missing that many guys out of your top 9 is pretty tough and the Oilers have hung in there.
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:07 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 09:34 |
| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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Eh, our best two players have been healthy all year. Good teams have to overcome injuries. Bruins have lost only 3 games despite missing McAvoy and Marchand for half of their season.
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Oh man. Imagine if THAT happened.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Adam
Messages: 7175
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:22 |
| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:07 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 09:34 |
| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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Eh, our best two players have been healthy all year. Good teams have to overcome injuries. Bruins have lost only 3 games despite missing McAvoy and Marchand for half of their season.
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Marchand missed 8 games.
I don't follow the Bruins but I don't think they have been missing 4 of their top 9 forwards all at once.
Yamo was banged up out of camp and has missed 12 games.
Kane has missed 11 and counting.
Foegele has missed 5 and counting.
McLeod has missed 4 and counting.
Bruins missed 1 guy, not 4. Injuries happen, teams have to deal with it but missing that many guys out of your top 9 is pretty tough and the Oilers have hung in there.
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McAvoy, who scored 56 points from the blueline last year, has missed 13 of the Bruins 23 games. That's a more significant loss than any of ours. I'd argue that 8 games of an 80-point player in Marchand is also a more critical loss than maybe all four of those guys you mention.
The point is correct - good teams adapt and deal with injuries. Those guys only account for 11 of the Oilers goals on the entire year (Kane 5, McLeod & Foegele 3, Yamamoto 0) so while they leave a hole, it's not like they were filling the net or a real key to the success we've had in portions of this season.
The team still seems to entirely rely on McDavid and Draisaitl to win games for them. It's frustrating. I was pretty impressed by some of the things I saw out of Woodcroft last year, but he seems to be retreating to his inner McLellan or Tippett. He's struggled to adapt, and he's been stubborn at times refusing to make changes. He's got to be better. I think he's having Campbell-level struggles.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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sandman88
Messages: 18
Registered: November 2022
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Oilers win
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smyth260
Messages: 1081
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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Yeah and what about the Bruins best defenseman only playing 10 of their games thus far. They still managed to win the most games without him. Take a look at the Avs injury list if you really want to see a team with the injury bug.
Oilers have both goalies, 5 of their top 6 forwards, and virtually all of their defenseman available. There's no injury excuses for this team. Every team has to deal with losing guys in a physical sport.
Clean house or bust
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Goose
Messages: 1098
Registered: October 2006
Location: Vancouver
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| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:34 |
Yeah and what about the Bruins best defenseman only playing 10 of their games thus far. They still managed to win the most games without him. Take a look at the Avs injury list if you really want to see a team with the injury bug.
Oilers have both goalies, 5 of their top 6 forwards, and virtually all of their defenseman available. There's no injury excuses for this team. Every team has to deal with losing guys in a physical sport.
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This made me curious, so I went googling to find out which teams had the most games lost to injury, and found this cool site:
https://nhlinjuryviz.blogspot.com/2022/10/202223-team-injury -breakdowns.html
Includes the cap hit in the chart showing most time lost, which is a cool idea, but also a bit flawed. If you click on Full Injury Listing at the top, it breaks down the calculation for each team.
Any way you look at it, the Oilers having lost 32 games to injury (as of Dec. 1 and not including Tyler Benson), is pretty minimal.
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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Leafs have been missing near all their D, Avs have been missing a crap load, injuries happen. Loser mentality to blame injuries. Good teams prevail.
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