PlusOne wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 19:08

Ragnarok73 wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 19:04 NetBOG wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 19:01 Ragnarok73 wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 18:47 K.McC#24 wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 18:42 Ragnarok73 wrote on Tue, 22 October 2019 18:38 Seriously, Sheahan is playing like hot garbage right now, and there is another Wild goal to make it 3-0. This is more like the Oilers that we've grown accustomed to over the past 13 years... They're all checked out tonight, I've friggin near had enough after 1. This is the part that is pissing me off hard right now. I had my fill of this sad-sack nonsense from the team over the past 13 years, don't need to see more of it this year, hot start or no hot start. Tippett clearly has a very big talk to give to the team this intermission, hopefully in the form of a screaming tirade that traumatizes them into playing harder for the rest of the game.... I mean, it's the 10th game before they had a dud. That's impressive. It's almost like y'all were waiting for the first sign of adversity to go full Chicken Little. It's going to happen every once in a while. Just chill out and come back in 5 games if nothing has changed. Maybe, but 12 out of their past 13 seasons have done nothing to inspire confidence, so I hope you'll understand my feelings on how they are playing so far. I'm not giving up yet on this game, but they need to play much better than they have been.... Not to mention I thought last game (Jets) they played awful as well. There were also a few games during the opening run that the Oilers were lucky to win. I dont think we can be blamed for worrying that the first 8 games were smoke and mirrors.

For me tonight, it's less about the score and more about the effort the team put out in that first period. It's one thing if they were being outskilled, but to be outworked is inexcusable.

"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.

5-14-6-1

"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."