 RDOilerfan
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| Rocksteady wrote on Thu, 14 March 2019 08:54 |
I let myself believe.
Shame on me.
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I thought it was going to be a long shot but I thought anything was possible. They are done. This was their game in hand, they had to win. I am baffled. The roster is flawed, Chia screwed it up, I know all that. That doesn't excuse that game. The Oilers roster is not good enough to compete with a good team on most nights but the Devils were icing a mostly AHL team. I counted 7 guys who played for the Devils last night who have little to no NHL experience So they had over 2 lines of AHLers. Other than maybe Currie, every player on the Oilers is an NHLer on most teams. Lucic's contract blows, he's not a top 6 guy but he's an NHLer on any team. Brodziak hasn't been very good for the Oilers but I am sure he could be a 4th line center on a lot of teams. Rieder has been horrible but I would guarantee he'd be in the NHL on another team. The Devils best center was Zajac. Even on the Oilers, he'd be a 3rd liner because he's not better then McDavid, not better than Leon and not better than Nuge.
Even McDavid I didn't think was that great. I thought McDavid was the best of the bunch of the Oilers but that isn't saying a hell of a lot. He had 2 assists, good for him but he was still -1. He's better than 3/4 of the Devils by A LOT. He should have been able to DOMINATE that game. He didn't. Leon was been red hot and is way, way better than 3/4 of the Devils, he should have dominated. He didn't. I expected those 2 to be like what Gaudreau did for Calgary. Not even close. Nuge is better than 3/4 of the Devils and he did jack squat. If those 3 alone just play a decent game, they should have cruised.
What pisses me off the most is how too a man, every Oiler when asked have said repeatedly, we believe we can make the playoffs. It doesn't matter who gets interviewed, they say they believe they are going to make it and actually get pissed off when a media says anything remotely against their belief. Good for them, they should believe they can make it. That is their JOB. Their job is to win games and to make the playoffs no matter what the obstacle. Even if I don't think they can make it, it doesn't matter, they should be playing as hard as they can, scratching and clawing and doing whatever they can to try to get in. That is what I expect. So if you believe you are making it, so much so to the point you get offended when someone questions your belief, how the hell do you play like that in a game you have to have. The Devils had lost 7 in a row, lost way more than that on the road, they played the previous night and got thumped. You knew that most likely all these AHLers were going to come out at you hard early but in reality, if you even just mostly matched their intensity you would win because there is a reason these guys aren't in the NHL full time. They aren't good enough. Yet somehow including McDavid, your entire team was FLAT.
Even after the first period when the Oilers were flat and playing like crap, it was 2-2. So that proved they are flat out BETTER than the Devils to be that bad in the first and still tied. All it would take is a little effort and they should pull away. So I thought surely, given how badly they needed that game, they would take the intermission, regroup and come out flying. NOPE!!! What a joke.
[Updated on: Thu, 14 March 2019 09:49]
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