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 OilFans
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Registered: February 2006
Location: Edmonton
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Login To Make Your Prediction2018-19 Regular Season| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 | Edmonton 5 @ Winnipeg 4 (OT) | Win | | Thursday, December 13, 2018 | Edmonton 4 @ Winnipeg 5 (OT) | Loss | | Monday, December 31, 2018 | Winnipeg 4 @ Edmonton 3 | Loss |
Home Record: 0-1-0 Road Record: 1-0-1 Overall Record: 1-1-1
Home / Road Goals For: 3/9 Total: 12
Home / Road Goals Against: 4/9 Total: 132017-18 Regular Season| Monday, October 9, 2017 | Winnipeg 5 @ Edmonton 2 | Loss | | Wednesday, December 27, 2017 | Edmonton 3 @ Winnipeg 4 | Loss | | Sunday, December 31, 2017 | Winnipeg 5 @ Edmonton 0 | Loss |
Home Record: 0-2-0 Road Record: 0-1-0 Overall Record: 0-3-0
Home / Road Goals For: 2/3 Total: 5
Home / Road Goals Against: 10/4 Total: 14 |
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Goose
Messages: 1098
Registered: October 2006
Location: Vancouver
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From Gregor's twitter:
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Best guess at lineup tonight after optional skate:
Lucic-McDavid-Rattie
Rieder-Draisaitl-Spooner
Khaira-RNH-Puljujarvi
Gambardella-Brodziak-Kassian
Nurse-Petrovic
Manning-Larsson
Jones-Benning
Koskinen #Oilers
Again this is just a guess. Unsure of 1LW, but top pair is for sure
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From being healthy scratched in Florida to the top pair in Edmonton. Yup, this should go super well. All three of those D pairs are going to get manhandled.
https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/1079806221144616961
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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Kr55
Messages: 10780
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Goose wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 11:41 |
From Gregor's twitter:
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Best guess at lineup tonight after optional skate:
Lucic-McDavid-Rattie
Rieder-Draisaitl-Spooner
Khaira-RNH-Puljujarvi
Gambardella-Brodziak-Kassian
Nurse-Petrovic
Manning-Larsson
Jones-Benning
Koskinen #Oilers
Again this is just a guess. Unsure of 1LW, but top pair is for sure
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From being healthy scratched in Florida to the top pair in Edmonton. Yup, this should go super well.
https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/1079806221144616961
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Lolcic back on the 1st line. Didn't take long to go full circle.
Chia would definitely proudly agree that 2nd D pair is not sexy.
"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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Goose
Messages: 1098
Registered: October 2006
Location: Vancouver
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The 8 wingers in that line-up have a combined 12 goals this year. Anyone that thinks this team should be trading away draft picks for rentals at this point is nuts in my book.
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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WhoreableGuy
Messages: 592
Registered: August 2006
Location: Calgary
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The Oilers are undefeated this season when I’m in attendance (0-0-0). Let’s hope they can keep that streak alive.
Hoping for a New Years Eve miracle, no Buff helps.
"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"
- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win
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Thiiiiiiin! Also, I think I speak for us all when I say "Gambarwhoda?"
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
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I wonder with the potential defence pairings, do they just balance out the minutes more rather than play the piss out of Nurse and Larsson like they were. If anything, it will be interesting.
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Adam
Messages: 7177
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Are they healthy scratching Yamamoto already?!?
Also, must-win?
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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WhoreableGuy
Messages: 592
Registered: August 2006
Location: Calgary
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| cosmicheretic wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 12:55 |
Thiiiiiiin! Also, I think I speak for us all when I say "Gambarwhoda?"
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Better than Caggiula, all you need to know.
"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"
- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win
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CrudeRemarks
Messages: 1703
Registered: November 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Hoping for a Jet win. Lose until this GM problem is fixed. Season is lost. Was lost in September.
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.
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nullterm
Messages: 1034
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
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Lucic on the first line with McDavid could be Chiarelli’s farewell gesture.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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nullterm
Messages: 1034
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 12:44 |
Hoping for a Jet win. Lose until this GM problem is fixed. Season is lost. Was lost in September.
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It was lost two summers ago when Sekera was injured and Chia didn’t do anything to fill in the D gap. And then the same exact thing echoed this summer.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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Kr55
Messages: 10780
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 13:44 |
Hoping for a Jet win. Lose until this GM problem is fixed. Season is lost. Was lost in September.
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Lose and we are back to exactly .500 and Jersey just got back to 1 game under.
Being an OIlers fan is pretty consistent torture.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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Yep, I'm done giving any @#$@!s until Chia and the OBC are completely purged.
"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."
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Looch
Messages: 14
Registered: December 2010
Location: Rexall Place
No Cups
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Petro-Nurse could actually be a half decent pairing. Petro has been garbage as of late. I'm curious to see how he responds to playing in Oilers silks. The majority of his family will likely be at the game tonight and this was his favorite team as a child so it's going to be interesting to see how hard he battles tonight.
...Manning though? Ugh. I've got a really bad feeling about this...
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overdue
Messages: 493
Registered: October 2014
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| Looch wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 16:15 |
Petro-Nurse could actually be a half decent pairing. Petro has been garbage as of late. I'm curious to see how he responds to playing in Oilers silks. The majority of his family will likely be at the game tonight and this was his favorite team as a child so it's going to be interesting to see how hard he battles tonight.
...Manning though? Ugh. I've got a really bad feeling about this...
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Hitchcock in his interview stated that he spoke to Quennville about Manning. I'm assuming it was before they made the trade. They are admittedly third pairing guys but almost certainly an upgrade on what they traded away. As to the game...go Koskinen go!
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Adam
Messages: 7177
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| WhoreableGuy wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 13:41 |
| cosmicheretic wrote on Mon, 31 December 2018 12:55 |
Thiiiiiiin! Also, I think I speak for us all when I say "Gambarwhoda?"
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Better than Caggiula, all you need to know.
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Worth noting - Gambardella is older than Caggiula and this is his first NHL game. I wouldn’t count on him being a significant upgrade. Some of that is because Caggiula was signed by the Oilers, so rushed in to the NHL straight out of college without much (any?) pro seasoning, but let’s not imagine we are bringing in a fresh talent with a long development curve ahead of him here...
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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