Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 16 October 2024 21:45

Kr55 wrote on Wed, 16 October 2024 18:45 Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 16 October 2024 18:36 Jay wrote on Wed, 16 October 2024 04:34 watchman wrote on Tue, 15 October 2024 23:17 ...enjoy this one. (I will ignore the fact of how much effort it took to beat a bad Philly team. Totally ignore it. ) Philly is bad but the Oilers have had some terrible 'breaks' (officiating, logic defying rules, posts etc) go against them. Getting through a night like that after this start with a win is big. That tying goal was a thing of beauty wow. 90 looks like he's turned back the clock - hopefully he can keep up this pace. The Hyman goal called off was one the worst I've seen.. even the one called off on C. Perry was abysmal.. we've all seen those goals have been consistently determined to be "good goals" .. whoever is sitting in the booth making the decisions on the reviews at NHL Corp needs to be fired.. maybe use an AI program.. can't be worse. Also, the non-call on Couturier putting the shoulder into Skinner behind the net was also a penalty called 99.9% of the time (the 0.1 % being this one) .. Incompetent refereeing recently. Not the entire reason the Oilers are 1-3 .. but comical refereeing leading to called off goals and powerplays against have been a significant disadvantage.. changes the entire flow and momentum of a game. Loved Stetcher going after Couturier.. smallest guy on Oilers going against tallest guy on Philly.. then the oldest Oiler takes on Farabee. I've been disappointed in J. Skinner, but last night (to me) he finally indicated some of his higher level skills and puck control.. The good news is McDavid is playing no where near his potential .. lots of upside to look forward to. Brown, Janmark, Henrique looked dialed in PK is a tire fire.. no pressure on the point men.. maybe lost the speed to do so with McLeod, Foegle gone (?).. too much of a collapse towards the net combined with weak shot blocks.. too many shots getting through Early opinion.. Nurse doesn't seem to play any better "recovered from injury" .. poor decisions.. weak on the cycle.. inaccurate muffin shot I missed before that the actual hit on the goalies glove that prevented the save was by the Philly defender Crap like that is why those kinds of plays are ruled a goal and the burden is put on the defending team to challenge. That's a joke of a call by the refs and extremely rare. A giant leap of judgement by the ref brought out of the woodwork just for us. Should be an automatic review by the NHL on goals that are even remotely questionable.. NFL does it on every TD.. the NFL also uses "video review assist" to look at and verify even mundane calls like offsides, and illegal procedure. In the NHL you have to risk a POWER PLAY against .. PLUS a lost time out.. in order to challenge referee incompetence... a huge risk.. NHL just sheltering their refs from scrutiny

Let's keep the hits on Skinner in this game and against that lot on Sunday, the goals pulled back all noted, so that come play off time we can use them in dubious goals for ourselves and of course instances of blind refs as well akin to the McDavid high stick in Vancouver.

As for the game, slowly oh so very slowly things are turning, but I hate the fact it takes this team like a month to two months back to start being ready for the new season. It's a long season and the like, but we don't half like putting ourselves in difficult situations and putting us fans through hell before it clicks.

Take me home, country road
to the place where I belong
to Alberta, to see the Oilers
take me home, country road