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 Skookum Jim
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Location: Burnaby, BC
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| Gator21 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2025 19:40 |
RNH questionable for game 3 
Also looks like Nurse and Bouchard will be reunited …don’t know if it feels so good
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I think the Nurse Bouchard pair won't be the final pairings..
RNH is worrisome though.
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Kr55
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Location: Edmonton
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| Gator21 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2025 20:40 |
RNH questionable for game 3
Also looks like Nurse and Bouchard will be reunited …don’t know if it feels so good
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Nurse has been in constant chase and panic mode in this series so far. Bouch has been pushing hard for offense and badly needs his partner backing him up. A Bouch nurse pair is a complete disaster waiting to happen.
Speaking of Nurse. It’s damn annoying how well Jones is playing in this series. Arguably Florida’s best D all playoffs, definitely their best this series so far. Somehow Nurse was able to use Jones’ deal as a comparable with Holland to get that 9.25M deal. Absolutely laughable comparison in this moment :(
Jones and Marchand, ugh, both the biggest gamers for Florida in the first 2 games. That was some solid LTIR scamming by Zito this year. Hopefully the hockey gods still have some sense of decency for the rest of the series.
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 Mike
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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| Gator21 wrote on Sun, 08 June 2025 23:40 |
Also looks like Nurse and Bouchard will be reunited …don’t know if it feels so good
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Oh god - please no.
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Skookum Jim
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 03 June 2025 12:03 |
Looks like we are trying something fun with the ice to enhance our home ice advantage :)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/article-ice-ho metown-rinks-oilers-stanley-cup/
Not sure if this is paywalled so here is the article.
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Home ice advantage will take on a whole new meaning for some Edmonton Oilers as they head into the Stanley Cup final.
Over the weekend, ice from the hometown rinks of six Oilers players was scraped into Thermoses, shipped to Edmonton and added to the Rogers Place ice sheet mix for Game 1 against the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.
Some came from the Magna Centre in Newmarket, Ont., where Oilers superstar Connor McDavid spent a few years with the York-Simcoe Express before jumping to the Ontario Hockey League at age 15.
Another donation was scraped from the Burnaby Winter Club in Burnaby, B.C., which forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins called home ice during his bantam years with the BWC Bruins.
Just north of Burnaby, ice from the North Shore Winter Club and minor hockey home of Evander Kane was also shipped to Edmonton.
Doing the scraping in North Shore was Kyle Turris, who spent the final two seasons of his 15-year NHL career in Edmonton before retiring in 2022.
“It’s just neat to have minor hockey rinks across Canada do this,” said Turris, who now manages the winter club, which he also considers his minor hockey home.
“It really unites our country through the game that we love the most and feel like we’re a part of the Stanley Cup.”
Rogers organized the project.
“When the puck drops at Rogers Place for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final, Canadians across the country can claim this is our ice,” said Terrie Tweddle, the company’s chief brand and communications officer.
“Hockey’s biggest stage should reflect where the game truly begins – in hometown hockey rinks across Canada.”
Turris said the Panthers, who crushed a city’s worth of dreams by beating Edmonton in Game 7 to win last year’s Stanley Cup, may have got better. But so too have the Oilers.
“I want them to have as much success as possible, so I’m really hoping they win,” he said, adding he wants to see Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner “silence all his critics.”
Skinner will also be getting a home ice boost for the final, as ice from Edmonton’s Confederation Arena, where he played bantam and midget hockey, was transported from the south side of the city to the downtown arena.
Ice also came from The Rink in Winnipeg, where Edmonton goalie Calvin Pickard practises in the off-season, as well as a rink in Hamilton to represent the hometown of defenceman Darnell Nurse.
Kevin Lowe, a longtime Oilers player, coach and team executive, compared the endeavour to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, when a Canadian ice maker hid a loonie, a nickel and a dime in the ice for good luck. The Canadians beat the Americans in the gold medal game.
“It’s another spin on that for sure,” said Lowe, who was part of the management group for the men’s hockey team in Salt Lake City.
“It never ceases to amaze me ... for smart people to come up with these kinds of ideas to really engage hockey fans across Canada.”
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I've played at the Burnaby Winter Club (I'm in South Burnaby).. cool to hear Turris is managing the place now.. and pulling for the Oil.. he played there, as well as RNH..
They should add a few drops of crude oil under center ice!
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Mike
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Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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Man - this is taking forever.
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Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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The Oilers made me forget how bad our winger depth is. Hyman wasn't even playing that well in the playoffs outside of some short spurts.
Perry our best winger says a lot.
D group was only good enough to get out of the West. Completely overwhelmed most of this series by Florida's forecheck. Nurse, Klingberg could barely make plays. Kling just lost trying to find a long pass that was never there. Nurse just head down with the ring arounds left and right, or an icing. Walman was super inconsistent game to game. Kulak had a hard job being moved around to try to stabilize at least 1 D pair.
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"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
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smyth260
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The coaches love for Frederic, Henrique, and Janmark has been a detriment all year and it looks bad here. Brown also looks like he should have sat for a healthy Arvidsson.
Or 11/7 might have been a good adjustment against Florida.
The same game happened 5 times in a row and coach didn’t figure out how to change it even a little.
Clean house or bust
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Gator21
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Location: Kelowna, BC
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| smyth260 wrote on Tue, 17 June 2025 21:49 |
The coaches love for Frederic, Henrique, and Janmark has been a detriment all year and it looks bad here. Brown also looks like he should have sat for a healthy Arvidsson.
Or 11/7 might have been a good adjustment against Florida.
The same game happened 5 times in a row and coach didn’t figure out how to change it even a little.
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Oilers rumoured to be closing in on 8 year $4M AAV deal with Fredric. Guy did jack shyt in the playoffs…not sure if that’s someone I wanna lock up until he’s 35
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Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Gator21 wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 16:07 |
| smyth260 wrote on Tue, 17 June 2025 21:49 |
The coaches love for Frederic, Henrique, and Janmark has been a detriment all year and it looks bad here. Brown also looks like he should have sat for a healthy Arvidsson.
Or 11/7 might have been a good adjustment against Florida.
The same game happened 5 times in a row and coach didn’t figure out how to change it even a little.
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Oilers rumoured to be closing in on 8 year $4M AAV deal with Fredric. Guy did jack shyt in the playoffs…not sure if that’s someone I wanna lock up until he’s 35
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To be fair to him, high ankle sprains take a long time to heal. He was probably not healthy.
However, it's a ton to give a guy off a 4-point playoff in which he was almost invisible. And even if you thought he was worth that dollar figure, I don't know why you'd give that kind of term to a third-liner. If you do - you have to discount significantly.
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Kr55
Messages: 12009
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 17:06 |
| Gator21 wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 16:07 |
| smyth260 wrote on Tue, 17 June 2025 21:49 |
The coaches love for Frederic, Henrique, and Janmark has been a detriment all year and it looks bad here. Brown also looks like he should have sat for a healthy Arvidsson.
Or 11/7 might have been a good adjustment against Florida.
The same game happened 5 times in a row and coach didn’t figure out how to change it even a little.
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Oilers rumoured to be closing in on 8 year $4M AAV deal with Fredric. Guy did jack shyt in the playoffs…not sure if that’s someone I wanna lock up until he’s 35
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To be fair to him, high ankle sprains take a long time to heal. He was probably not healthy.
However, it's a ton to give a guy off a 4-point playoff in which he was almost invisible. And even if you thought he was worth that dollar figure, I don't know why you'd give that kind of term to a third-liner. If you do - you have to discount significantly.
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What are we even grabbing onto in his past to justify this kind of deal?
He was a 13-14 min player with a high shooting % in his best year of 40 points in 82 games. We are about to pay max value for a year of luck which he followed up with a poor season even before he was injured.
This is just some lame attempt to justify the crappy trade we made to get him. A sunk-cost fallacy. Can't accept we messed up and just let him walk for nothing. Gotta show everyone he was actually a good add. The proof of that being OUR TEAM paying him a ridiculous amount of money to extend.
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"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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