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Edmonton @ Montreal (Game #39) [message #828742] |
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 tardigrade81
Messages: 2262
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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Ten I. A row!!!!! Hell yes
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watchman
Messages: 1412
Registered: October 2019
Location: River City
1 Cup
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Using Bouch from the middle as a compliment to Drai from the side has been missing from the OIL PP lately. And it shows.
Gritty play by SKINNER until the forwards figured it out. 
...this time, it's for real (isn't it?).
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2262
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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Leafs and Seattle next. Won’t be easy
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Kr55
Messages: 10769
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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10-0-0. Wild
Montreal, what a boring team. Along with their horseshoes and us just flubbing golden opportunities, they were in it more than they should have been. Great to grind this win out.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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Suomalainen
Messages: 900
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
No Cups
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Can't believe this team, this year has the all time franchise record for wins in a row.
97.
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smyth260
Messages: 1080
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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Extraordinary!!!
Not often an Oilers team has a record that the great one doesn’t. They should be very proud!
Keep it going!!
Clean house or bust
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Adam
Messages: 7174
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| smyth260 wrote on Sat, 13 January 2024 20:08 |
Extraordinary!!!
Not often an Oilers team has a record that the great one doesn’t. They should be very proud!
Keep it going!!
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And they took the record not from the 1980s Oilers, but for the Doug Weight-led 2001 team, which rattled off nine straight after a players-only meeting following a dreadful loss.
I believe it was Ted Green, who when asked why the 1980s record was only 8 regulation wins in a row said that that team couldn't go 9 games without finding themselves at a party...
Worth noting - the 1985 Oilers DID have a 9-game playoff winning streak. And between 1984-85, they had the second longest all-time playoff winning streak at 12 games (Penguins had 14 in 1992 and 1993). And they did have two other 8-game single-playoff winning streaks too - that team definitely buckled down when the stakes were highest.
It speaks to just how deep a hole the team dug earlier in the season that with a 10 game and 8 game winning streak in the last 21 games, we still are 14 points back of the Vancouver Canucks at the top of the division/conference.
Hopefully we can stay on this role...it would be nice if our offence returned too...these tight games where the other team's goalie has a career night are growing tedious!!
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| Adam wrote on Sun, 14 January 2024 14:24 |
| smyth260 wrote on Sat, 13 January 2024 20:08 |
Extraordinary!!!
Not often an Oilers team has a record that the great one doesn’t. They should be very proud!
Keep it going!!
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And they took the record not from the 1980s Oilers, but for the Doug Weight-led 2001 team, which rattled off nine straight after a players-only meeting following a dreadful loss.
I believe it was Ted Green, who when asked why the 1980s record was only 8 regulation wins in a row said that that team couldn't go 9 games without finding themselves at a party...
Worth noting - the 1985 Oilers DID have a 9-game playoff winning streak. And between 1984-85, they had the second longest all-time playoff winning streak at 12 games (Penguins had 14 in 1992 and 1993). And they did have two other 8-game single-playoff winning streaks too - that team definitely buckled down when the stakes were highest.
It speaks to just how deep a hole the team dug earlier in the season that with a 10 game and 8 game winning streak in the last 21 games, we still are 14 points back of the Vancouver Canucks at the top of the division/conference.
Hopefully we can stay on this role...it would be nice if our offence returned too...these tight games where the other team's goalie has a career night are growing tedious!!
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Games also ended in ties in the 80s. The Oilers have 3 Bettman points (2 OT / 1 SO) in this 10 gamer. Imagine how much more fun the NHL would be if teams could choke offense to death to guarantee a 1 point tie.
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: 7174
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Sun, 14 January 2024 18:29 |
| Adam wrote on Sun, 14 January 2024 14:24 |
| smyth260 wrote on Sat, 13 January 2024 20:08 |
Extraordinary!!!
Not often an Oilers team has a record that the great one doesn’t. They should be very proud!
Keep it going!!
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And they took the record not from the 1980s Oilers, but for the Doug Weight-led 2001 team, which rattled off nine straight after a players-only meeting following a dreadful loss.
I believe it was Ted Green, who when asked why the 1980s record was only 8 regulation wins in a row said that that team couldn't go 9 games without finding themselves at a party...
Worth noting - the 1985 Oilers DID have a 9-game playoff winning streak. And between 1984-85, they had the second longest all-time playoff winning streak at 12 games (Penguins had 14 in 1992 and 1993). And they did have two other 8-game single-playoff winning streaks too - that team definitely buckled down when the stakes were highest.
It speaks to just how deep a hole the team dug earlier in the season that with a 10 game and 8 game winning streak in the last 21 games, we still are 14 points back of the Vancouver Canucks at the top of the division/conference.
Hopefully we can stay on this role...it would be nice if our offence returned too...these tight games where the other team's goalie has a career night are growing tedious!!
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Games also ended in ties in the 80s. The Oilers have 3 Bettman points (2 OT / 1 SO) in this 10 gamer. Imagine how much more fun the NHL would be if teams could choke offense to death to guarantee a 1 point tie.
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Excellent point. The Oilers had a 15-game undefeated streak in 1984-85 that included 12 wins and 3 ties against the Kings, Capitals and Penguins (with rookie Mario). If there was then a 3v3 OT followed by a shootout - well - I like the odds of a team with Gretzky, Kurri, Messier, Anderson, Coffey on it more often than not.
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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NetBOG
Messages: 2948
Registered: January 2006
Location: Parts Unknown
2 Cups
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Vegas at 10 games over .500
LA at 9 games over .500
Oilers at 8 games over .500
Almost catching teams that many thought were uncatchable a few months ago.
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Jets4Life
Messages: 2
Registered: February 2005
No Cups
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Oilers did good.
Hellebuyck is the future
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inverno76
Messages: 2340
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
2 Cups
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| NetBOG wrote on Sat, 13 January 2024 23:02 |
Vegas at 10 games over .500
LA at 9 games over .500
Oilers at 8 games over .500
Almost catching teams that many thought were uncatchable a few months ago.
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Factor in 8 OTL for LA and that record doesn’t look so impressive.
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| inverno76 wrote on Sun, 14 January 2024 12:50 |
| NetBOG wrote on Sat, 13 January 2024 23:02 |
Vegas at 10 games over .500
LA at 9 games over .500
Oilers at 8 games over .500
Almost catching teams that many thought were uncatchable a few months ago.
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Factor in 8 OTL for LA and that record doesn’t look so impressive.
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Think of that as 8 points lost to a gimmicky skills competition, not 8 earned points.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Dragon_Matt
Messages: 766
Registered: January 2009
Location: edmonton
No Cups
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No, think of it as a game in hand and only 1 point back. :)
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