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San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #82) [message #820910] |
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 Kr55
Messages: 10779
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Crappiest 5-2 win ever!
Oh well, on to the games that really matter
"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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tardigrade81
Messages: 2266
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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One hell of a win!!
29 wins for skinner. Awesome
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Suomalainen
Messages: 900
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
No Cups
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Time to get to work.
97.
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Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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The Oil did their job, now to see if the Kraken can do theirs....
"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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Kr55
Messages: 10779
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Apparently this was McDavid's 2nd most impressive season
https://www.hockey-reference.com/leaders/points_adjusted_sea son.html
He really did blow the doors off in that shortened season. Left everyone in the dust even more than this year. Lots of rebuilding Ottawa games though :)
"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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NetBOG
Messages: 2951
Registered: January 2006
Location: Parts Unknown
2 Cups
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LA it is. How hard could it be total down a team coached by the Toddfather?
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smyth260
Messages: 1081
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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Yeah, that Covid season was unbelievable and nobody knows about it.
Although leading in both assists and goals didn’t happen that year.
Clean house or bust
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Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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| NetBOG wrote on Thu, 13 April 2023 23:18 |
LA it is. How hard could it be total down a team coached by the Toddfather?
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Hopefully, it will go like last year did but easier.
"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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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4421
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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| Ragnarok73 wrote on Thu, 13 April 2023 22:39 |
| NetBOG wrote on Thu, 13 April 2023 23:18 |
LA it is. How hard could it be total down a team coached by the Toddfather?
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Hopefully, it will go like last year did but easier.
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Ekholm, Bjugstad, Kostin, Desharnais, Janmark were not in the line up last season..
All bigger bodies, more physicality.. should cancel out whatever physical edge LA thought they had..
Ekholm, Desharnais, plus a revitalized Bouchard & Nurse is a huge upgrade in defense..
PK is much better with Bjugstad and Ekholm
and Skinner is playing like legit #1 goaltender
Good times! 
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1189
Registered: October 2006
Location: Kensington, PEI
1 Cup
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Solid win to cap off a fantastic regular season. Congrats to Connor on another Art Ross & first Rocket Richard (and hopefully Hart and Conn Smythe)
Now time for the real games to start. Pretty happy that we're playing LA rather than Winnipeg - Hallebuyck has the ability to win a series pretty much singlehandedly. Hopefully the Jets & Vegas beat the heck out of each other in a drawn out 7 game series.
That said, can't get ahead of ourselves - play the Kings the same way we did the last couple of games & we'll be fine. I just hope they don't start taking retaliatory runs at Connor after his hit on whatshisface last time round.
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g2k
Messages: 2840
Registered: January 2003
Location: The Hood
2 Cups
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| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Fri, 14 April 2023 06:30 |
Solid win to cap off a fantastic regular season. Congrats to Connor on another Art Ross & first Rocket Richard (and hopefully Hart and Conn Smythe)
Now time for the real games to start. Pretty happy that we're playing LA rather than Winnipeg - Hallebuyck has the ability to win a series pretty much singlehandedly. Hopefully the Jets & Vegas beat the heck out of each other in a drawn out 7 game series.
That said, can't get ahead of ourselves - play the Kings the same way we did the last couple of games & we'll be fine. I just hope they don't start taking retaliatory runs at Connor after his hit on whatshisface last time round.
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I’m happy they are playing the Kings as well.
Retaliation? Please do. We have Kane and the best PP in history. Doughty will be Kane’s beatch.
#firebob #screwitjustselltheteam #ownerisacreep
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Mike
Messages: 1397
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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What a finish to the season. Can't believe we ran the table after that OTL against Vegas and still couldn't catch them.
Anyway - with an Oilers rookie record 29 wins and a final stat line of 29-14-5, 2.75GAA, .914 Save% (and 2 assists  ), Skinner gets my vote for the Calder. Easily ahead of Beniers and his 57 points. I'd probably even have Owen Power ahead of Beniers.
And how about Ekholm? 21GP, 4-10-14, and a ridiculous +28! The team has gone 18-2-1. The team has only allowed 56 goals in those 21 games for a GA of 2.67 which would be good for 6th in the NHL. In the 7 games since March 30, they've only allowed 6 goals for a ridiculous 0.857 GA/game!
Certainly the best deadline acquisition in the league this year - is the the best Oilers deadline acquisition ever?
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AndersonRules
Messages: 94
Registered: April 2008
Location: Shawnee, Oklahoma (OKC ar...
No Cups
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| Mike wrote on Fri, 14 April 2023 07:47 |
And how about Ekholm? 21GP, 4-10-14, and a ridiculous +28! The team has gone 18-2-1. The team has only allowed 56 goals in those 21 games for a GA of 2.67 which would be good for 6th in the NHL. In the 7 games since March 30, they've only allowed 6 goals for a ridiculous 0.857 GA/game!
Certainly the best deadline acquisition in the league this year - is the the best Oilers deadline acquisition ever?
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See how the post-season goes ... at this point, I'd say Dwayne Roloson trumps Ekholm as best deadline acquisition ever.
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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Good win. I don't think this was their A game but I wasn't expecting them to bring their best nor did I really want them to be going all out right before the playoffs. I just wanted them to win and to come away healthy and I think they did.
On to the Kings.
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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You can see from the ice time last night that the Oilers coaching staff, while they wanted the win, were making sure not to take a lot of risks. No Oilers forward reached 19 minutes of icetime - the team leader up front was Ryan McLeod with 18:03. On the blueline, the highest (Nurse 21:11) and lowest (Desharnais 17:46) isn't a big spread either and that's with Desharnais getting shaken up in the first.
We also saw a lot more icetime for the second powerplay unit - almost half of each PP (other than the one Draisaitl scored on). McDavid and Draisaitl barely touched the ice on the penalty kill too.
This was a game where the key was caution and the team still won it handily, so that's great news. Hopefully we can keep our streak going next week...I'm expecting to be outraged in game one with the Kings goon tactics by the 10 minute mark of the first period of Game One.
"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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Kr55
Messages: 10779
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| smyth260 wrote on Thu, 13 April 2023 23:19 |
Yeah, that Covid season was unbelievable and nobody knows about it.
Although leading in both assists and goals didn’t happen that year.
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Funniest McDavid stat of this season, his 47.06% GF (8 for, 9 against) on the PK (by a good margin the league leader for anyone that had 100 mins+ of PK time) was better than what our bottom 6 lines were able to do at 5v5 for many years before this season.
"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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