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Kr55 wrote on Sun, 20 October 2024 13:28

nullterm wrote on Sun, 20 October 2024 14:15

In an alternate universe, we kept Holloway Broberg McLeod who add 12 points.

Compared to Nuge Nurse Hyman who have 4 points at an order of magnitude more salary.


Those 2 would be butt dragging like everyone else if they were still here. With the added pressure from teammates and fans with how they were cool bailing from the Oilers signing an offer sheet.

Starts with the leaders in this team and they are still sleep walking for the most part. They get all the prime offensive minutes and aren’t getting the job done.

Depth has actually been decent IMO. Skinner letting in deflating stinkers. Nurse has been much better with Stecher than pretty much anyone last year. Top “scorers”, special teams and goaltending are the main killers so far this season. Still trending for almost the same start as last year.


I agree goaltending needs to be better, and defence as well. We have 2/3 bubble guys for two D roster spots and that isn’t what you want if you are planning a major campaign this season. And we got lucky with Skinner last year but here we are again with him giving up one or two softies a game and that’s gotta be deflating.

Overall my other biggest concern is this team looks like it has faulty spark plugs. Top to bottom, everyone so far is going thru the motions. We’ve only shown up for 2 out of 6 games so far this season. I hope they aren’t counting for another miracle like last year, I think that magic bean has been spent.




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