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Detroit @ Edmonton (Game #8) [message #745059] |
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 NetBOG
Messages: 2951
Registered: January 2006
Location: Parts Unknown
2 Cups
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Not going to score 6 every game. Good to see them win when they only score 2. Big boys got nothing tonight.
Koskinen looking solid again.
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overdue
Messages: 493
Registered: October 2014
No Cups
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Nice to get the win but I think they need to practice shooting into an empty net more.
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inverno76
Messages: 2343
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
2 Cups
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| overdue wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 21:32 |
Nice to get the win but I think they need to practice shooting into an empty net more.
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Haha. No doubt. Felt bad for Russell. That being said he played a good game. Thought he sniped one earlier off of the crossbar. It’ll come. Be a better story for his grandkids one day.
2 more points in the bank.
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
5 Cups
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Get the job done, was a must win and they deposited 2 points in the bank tonight.
Wasn’t a pretty one again, but Mikko stood tall and the D played fairly well. Haven’t heard Tippet’s post gamer yet but interested to hear as it seemed better than Wednesday night but they were still not real sharp.
Personally really like the Bear-Nurse pairing, they compliment each other well and can both contribute offensively.
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overdue
Messages: 493
Registered: October 2014
No Cups
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Koskinen solid again, the one that beat him was a deflection off of one of our players. That goal by Bear was a thing of beauty and the winner! First star tonight.
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Magnum
Messages: 839
Registered: June 2009
Location: Rogers' Arena > Banff
No Cups
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9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
2015/2016 - This Kool-Aid tastes like McDavid flavoured Drain-O.
2016/2017 - This Kool-Aid is starting to taste like juice.
2017/2018 - I'm drinking this Kool-Aid, in hopes that it's Drain-O.
2018/2019 - Another round of Drain-O, good sir!
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Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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| Magnum wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:08 |
9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
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Of course I'll take an ugly win over a moral victory, but I'm not fully convinced yet about this team....
"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.
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"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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| Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:57 |
| Magnum wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:08 |
9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
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Of course I'll take an ugly win over a moral victory, but I'm not fully convinced yet about this team....
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Yes agreed taking into account the defensive lapses for extended times and lack of bottom 6 production. Also special teams percentages and Neal are anomalies that will trend downward.
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Mike
Messages: 1397
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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I really enjoyed the 2nd period. Felt like we were dominating them. Starting planning my Edmonton trip for the parade in June. But then the 3rd...same old same old. Over a dozen years now this team just seems to try to sit on a lead. They got away with it, but just barely. Some easy EN goals would be nice for a change. Or even better, stretch those 1-2 goals leads to 3 or 4. Don’t let up on what got you that lead.
Loving Kassian’s forecheck on that top line. The guy can move.
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Magnum
Messages: 839
Registered: June 2009
Location: Rogers' Arena > Banff
No Cups
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| cosmicheretic wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 01:00 |
| Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:57 |
| Magnum wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:08 |
9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
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Of course I'll take an ugly win over a moral victory, but I'm not fully convinced yet about this team....
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Yes agreed taking into account the defensive lapses for extended times and lack of bottom 6 production. Also special teams percentages and Neal are anomalies that will trend downward.
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I wonder what the 80s Oilers advanced metrics look like. That would be cool to know. Would round out the research nicely.
2015/2016 - This Kool-Aid tastes like McDavid flavoured Drain-O.
2016/2017 - This Kool-Aid is starting to taste like juice.
2017/2018 - I'm drinking this Kool-Aid, in hopes that it's Drain-O.
2018/2019 - Another round of Drain-O, good sir!
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Goose
Messages: 1098
Registered: October 2006
Location: Vancouver
1 Cup
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| Magnum wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 08:29 |
| cosmicheretic wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 01:00 |
| Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:57 |
| Magnum wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:08 |
9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
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Of course I'll take an ugly win over a moral victory, but I'm not fully convinced yet about this team....
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Yes agreed taking into account the defensive lapses for extended times and lack of bottom 6 production. Also special teams percentages and Neal are anomalies that will trend downward.
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I wonder what the 80s Oilers advanced metrics look like. That would be cool to know. Would round out the research nicely.
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I remember reading somewhere that they weren't actually that good, but they were just so much better at scoring goals than everyone else.
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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Corky
Messages: 14
Registered: October 2017
Location: Franklin County, Pennsylv...
No Cups
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I have been “tied up” so to speak since last night and this is the first opportunity since then to visit the site. I am overjoyed with the start, this season. I also think that it is a really neat feature that this forum provides in the way of the “pick the score contest.” Thanks to all and Go Oilers!
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Every Night Is Hockey Night
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4419
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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| Mike wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 05:36 |
I really enjoyed the 2nd period. Felt like we were dominating them. Starting planning my Edmonton trip for the parade in June. But then the 3rd...same old same old. Over a dozen years now this team just seems to try to sit on a lead. They got away with it, but just barely. Some easy EN goals would be nice for a change. Or even better, stretch those 1-2 goals leads to 3 or 4. Don’t let up on what got you that lead.
Loving Kassian’s forecheck on that top line. The guy can move.
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Its a thing of beauty.. :)
Some of the bottom 6 should be following his lead..
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Magnum wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 09:29 |
| cosmicheretic wrote on Sat, 19 October 2019 01:00 |
| Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:57 |
| Magnum wrote on Fri, 18 October 2019 23:08 |
9.7% of the games into the season, the team has 14.58% of the points needed for playoffs. 149% of points required to make the playoffs, to date.
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Of course I'll take an ugly win over a moral victory, but I'm not fully convinced yet about this team....
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Yes agreed taking into account the defensive lapses for extended times and lack of bottom 6 production. Also special teams percentages and Neal are anomalies that will trend downward.
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I wonder what the 80s Oilers advanced metrics look like. That would be cool to know. Would round out the research nicely.
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There's an article that talks about PDO for the 1984 Oilers and Islanders. Both well over 100, which would be chalked up to luck now if a team was doing that well, but they basically both had all-star teams. Gretzky had a shooting percentage of 26.6% which we'd be sure would regress - and to a point it did, that was the highest of his career, but that was one of a stretch of six out of seven years where Gretzky was over 20%. He took a lot of shots, but not for the amount of goals he scored. He was just lethal. His top season for shots was 1981-82 when he took 370 shots...that's the 42nd most in a single season in league history. Ovechkin has had more shots seven times, but never come close to the 92 goals Gretzky scored that season.
Some of that is probably goaltending - the position has evolved greatly since the early 80s, but even so - his contemporaries were shooting on the same goalies without anywhere close to the same production. Gretz was also +553 in his time with the Oilers...I'm going to guess he was probably a possession beast...
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