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 OilFans
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tardigrade81
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Get a win
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tardigrade81
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These jerseys are different
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tardigrade81
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1-0 them. Shocker
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tardigrade81
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This is horrendous
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Jay
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| tardigrade81 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 20:12 |
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This is horrendous
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Nurse looks like he's in playoff form already!
In the last two games who had the most embarrassing poster job Nurse or Ekholm?
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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tardigrade81
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| Jay wrote on Wed, 29 October 2025 02:15 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 20:12 |
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This is horrendous
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Nurse looks like he's in playoff form already!
In the last two games who had the most embarrassing poster job Nurse or Ekholm?
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Agreed. It's beyond pathetic
Mcdavid is still utter crap too
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Skookum Jim
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| Jay wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 19:15 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 20:12 |
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This is horrendous
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Nurse looks like he's in playoff form already!
In the last two games who had the most embarrassing poster job Nurse or Ekholm?
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Getting rid of Nurse would be addition by subtraction.
Can't play a defensive team system if one of your top 4 defencemen (by ice time only.. not talent) doesn't have the smarts or skills to play it.. throws the entire team off.. nobody can figure out what's going to happen when he's on the ice.. pure spaz.
Absolutely useless.
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
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Nurse is the worst defencemen on the team. Total clown show from the opening face-off.. stumble and bumble..
Cause of both goals against.
AHL level bad.. maybe even ECHL.
Press box until he agrees to a trade.. 🤞🏻
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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tardigrade81
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Nurse will never change. He just sucks
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tardigrade81
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Not that this year is skinners fault but I hope at some point we find a capable goalie
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tardigrade81
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Tie game !
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tardigrade81
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3-2. Ugh
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Skookum Jim
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| tardigrade81 wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 19:35 |
Not that this year is skinners fault but I hope at some point we find a capable goalie
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.. you spoke too soon on the 3-2.. Skinner was going behind his net to try and stop pucks all game .. missed about 90% of them.. I was thinking, man this guy can't handle a freaking puck.. just hapless.. maybe you should just not bother .. stay in your net and let it go around.. you're not stopping it anyway.. then he finally coughs one up and its into the OPEN net.. how many times have we seen that image..
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
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PlusOne
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The struggles of 2 and 25 have been well documented. It seems to hide the fact that Troy Stecher has been brutal this year. He loses ever battle, every race and every play dies as soon as he gets the puck.
My thoughts on Bouchard differ from his detractors.
Nurse is not great but I dont think he is as bad as some believe.
For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 30 January 2020 12:21 |
und(i)sputed O.L.F.N Heavybra(i)n Champ(i)on of the Woooooooooooooooooorld. Plus. One.
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tardigrade81
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Oilers getting most their goals by defense is wild lol
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tardigrade81
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Drai! 3-3!
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tardigrade81
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Emberson! 4-3!
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tardigrade81
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Mcdavid. 5-3
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tardigrade81
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Great period. Go win this now
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Skookum Jim
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| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 19:49 |
.. For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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I'm hoping that if 25 is gone they can replace him with something much better than T. Stetcher.. someone that can at least play solid defence consistently and limit turnovers..
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
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tardigrade81
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 29 October 2025 03:35 |
| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 19:49 |
.. For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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I'm hoping that if 25 is gone they can replace him with something much better than T. Stetcher.. someone that can at least play solid defence consistently and limit turnovers..
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Agreed.
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tardigrade81
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Defense playing a sound third period actually. Dominating them
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PlusOne
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 21:35 |
| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 19:49 |
.. For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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I'm hoping that if 25 is gone they can replace him with something much better than T. Stetcher.. someone that can at least play solid defence consistently and limit turnovers..
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I shouldnt have said "benched or traded". He isnt getting traded. The only way he isn't on the ice is if he gets hurt or benched. Either way it means a worse player would be pushed up the lineup.
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 30 January 2020 12:21 |
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Adam
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| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 20:49 |
The struggles of 2 and 25 have been well documented. It seems to hide the fact that Troy Stecher has been brutal this year. He loses ever battle, every race and every play dies as soon as he gets the puck.
My thoughts on Bouchard differ from his detractors.
Nurse is not great but I dont think he is as bad as some believe.
For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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I've been thinking a bit about this point. Basically almost no one on our defence HAS looked good to this point in the season. Lots of mistakes from everyone. People have been talking about Nurse and Bouchard, but Ekholm has also been dreadful to the point where there's been people musing about whether he has lingering injury concerns from last season.
I wonder though if a new set of assistant coaches haven't introduced something new to the system that has taken a while to adjust to? They had a couple years of Paul Coffey and probably understood the expectations there. What's different now?
We know this group historically has been good at shot suppression, so hopefully they can rally soon.
The one adjustment I wish they WOULD make is to stop wasting pucks by sending long unscreened shots on net. Nurse and Ekholm are so bad for this. I don't mind the one-timer, they score sometimes there (as Ekholm did last night), but there are so many times where they have control without a ton of pressure and just throw a shot in on goal. It's basically never going to go in and without traffic in front there's no chance for tips or rebounds. It just kills plays. Kulak's done it a bunch this year too. Nurse and Ekholm way up the list on SOG to this point (I think both in the top 7) but I'd rather we hold there and try to find ways to get more dangerous looks (I also think we aren't getting enough shots from most of our wingers and that those two things are somewhat related).
"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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Kr55
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 29 October 2025 22:27 |
| PlusOne wrote on Tue, 28 October 2025 20:49 |
The struggles of 2 and 25 have been well documented. It seems to hide the fact that Troy Stecher has been brutal this year. He loses ever battle, every race and every play dies as soon as he gets the puck.
My thoughts on Bouchard differ from his detractors.
Nurse is not great but I dont think he is as bad as some believe.
For anyone that wants them benched or traded be careful what you wish for. More minutes for Stecher is the last thing the team needs.
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I've been thinking a bit about this point. Basically almost no one on our defence HAS looked good to this point in the season. Lots of mistakes from everyone. People have been talking about Nurse and Bouchard, but Ekholm has also been dreadful to the point where there's been people musing about whether he has lingering injury concerns from last season.
I wonder though if a new set of assistant coaches haven't introduced something new to the system that has taken a while to adjust to? They had a couple years of Paul Coffey and probably understood the expectations there. What's different now?
We know this group historically has been good at shot suppression, so hopefully they can rally soon.
The one adjustment I wish they WOULD make is to stop wasting pucks by sending long unscreened shots on net. Nurse and Ekholm are so bad for this. I don't mind the one-timer, they score sometimes there (as Ekholm did last night), but there are so many times where they have control without a ton of pressure and just throw a shot in on goal. It's basically never going to go in and without traffic in front there's no chance for tips or rebounds. It just kills plays. Kulak's done it a bunch this year too. Nurse and Ekholm way up the list on SOG to this point (I think both in the top 7) but I'd rather we hold there and try to find ways to get more dangerous looks (I also think we aren't getting enough shots from most of our wingers and that those two things are somewhat related).
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Think Nurse is just gonna Nurse.
The play of Ek and Bouch to start this year though has been very concerning. But last game they both had a strong game. Hopefully a little sign they are figuring it out again. If that pair can't get back to their old ways though, it's gonna be a tough year. Could be adjusting to a new coach, or just a hangover. Last year lots of guys had a heck of a time getting it together to start the season. People were all screaming to trade Bouch around this time last season too.
Walman has looked pretty good so far. One of the only D that has looked pretty good in all his time this year. Of course he missed a chunk of it.
"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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Kr55
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I watch our team putting on a minute and a half of solid pressure hemming Utah in their zone. Finally a Utah player does a full arm wrap around Drai to pull him down to kill our pressure and the refs completely ignore it. Then quickly they call the first thing they can on the Oilers to get Utah a chance to get back within one.
The more things change ...
"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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Kr55
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McDavid can indeed still score goals.
"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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