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Edmonton @ Calgary (Game #56) [message #782527] |
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 Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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Fuhget abat it
Get your week of practice in, get Nuge back, get whatever pieces Holland brings in and
DOWN THE STRETCH WE COME
Survivor CHAMP S52 | S66
OG's #MUSTWIN Scale
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Category 3 - Considerably Musty
Category 4 - Severely Musty
Category 5 - Incredibly Musty
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watchman
Messages: 1412
Registered: October 2019
Location: River City
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If TIPP doesn't think BOUCHARD is an improvement, and TIPP won't be replaced by someone who does... then I have a lot of time adding OLESKIAK(sp). A big mean D who, like Larsson, doesn't mind hurting anything in front of him. 
...this time, it's for real (isn't it?).
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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mcdavid on having to play the day of cave's celebration of life: "you'd like the nhl to maybe think that one through a little bit. ultimately, our performance wasn't good enough. I don't want to make excuses. they were better than us, but i think you're asking a lot from guys to sit through something like that and remember your teammate and see what they're going through, the whole family, and expect to preform that night. I don't know what the league was really thinking there. I don't want to make excuses, I can't stress that enough, but it's obviously a hard day. it's a hard day for the cave family, it's a hard day for emily and her family and it's a hard day for (EDM/BOS).“
[Updated on: Sat, 10 April 2021 22:59]
Survivor CHAMP S52 | S66
OG's #MUSTWIN Scale
Category 1 - Lightly Musty
Category 2 - Moderately Musty
Category 3 - Considerably Musty
Category 4 - Severely Musty
Category 5 - Incredibly Musty
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inverno76
Messages: 2343
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
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| Oscargasm wrote on Sat, 10 April 2021 22:54 |
mcdavid on having to play the day of cave's celebration of life: "you'd like the nhl to maybe think that one through a little bit. ultimately, our performance wasn't good enough. I don't want to make excuses. they were better than us, but i think you're asking a lot from guys to sit through something like that and remember your teammate and see what they're going through, the whole family, and expect to preform that night. I don't know what the league was really thinking there. I don't want to make excuses, I can't stress that enough, but it's obviously a hard day. it's a hard day for the cave family, it's a hard day for emily and her family and it's a hard day for (EDM/BOS).“
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It puts things in perspective. Sometimes we forget they are human. Looks like the NHL forgets this too. Saturday night network commitment usurped human emotions. Would’ve been impossible to ask Toronto or Montreal to move back their cushy 5pm CST puck drop time.
Hopefully this is an ignition source for the rest of the season.
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Kr55
Messages: 10770
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Ken Holland @FakeOilersGM
well the important thing is that Evan Bouchard didn’t play tonight
"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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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4418
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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Bring in Bouchard and maybe even fly in some Condors, McLeod for sure, maybe even Lennstrom, anybody that's more mobile than what we have out there now.
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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Mike
Messages: 1397
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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Recorded this and watched it this morning. Wish I hadn’t. Oh well, move on.
As for the broadcast - I’m all for “diversity and inclusion”, but shouldn’t there be a minimum competency requirement? Must we be subjected to this team every week? Dear god they’re bad. Is there a PPV option to get Cuthbert or Hughson or someone else? It really diminishes the experience of watching the game. Nails on a chalkboard.
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K.McC#24
Messages: 2834
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
2 Cups
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| Mike wrote on Sun, 11 April 2021 03:31 |
Recorded this and watched it this morning. Wish I hadn’t. Oh well, move on.
As for the broadcast - I’m all for “diversity and inclusion”, but shouldn’t there be a minimum competency requirement? Must we be subjected to this team every week? Dear god they’re bad. Is there a PPV option to get Cuthbert or Hughson or someone else? It really diminishes the experience of watching the game. Nails on a chalkboard.
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When Louie is with this guy it isn't bad, if I'm being honest he's still better than Kevin Quinn. When he's with Cassie though, it's like 7/8 D playing 25 min/night.
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| K.McC#24 wrote on Sun, 11 April 2021 18:01 |
| Mike wrote on Sun, 11 April 2021 03:31 |
Recorded this and watched it this morning. Wish I hadn’t. Oh well, move on.
As for the broadcast - I’m all for “diversity and inclusion”, but shouldn’t there be a minimum competency requirement? Must we be subjected to this team every week? Dear god they’re bad. Is there a PPV option to get Cuthbert or Hughson or someone else? It really diminishes the experience of watching the game. Nails on a chalkboard.
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When Louie is with this guy it isn't bad, if I'm being honest he's still better than Kevin Quinn. When he's with Cassie though, it's like 7/8 D playing 25 min/night.
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I don’t think Cassie’s great when it’s not the Flames but the homerism when she’s covering a Flames game is so over the top. Could they not find someone who isn’t married to a member of the Flames’ management team?
"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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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
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I was pretty disappointed to hear that the Oilers had this memorial on the books for a while and the league just ignored it and scheduled a game because another team got covid. The guys planned on being there, they couldn't so that would probably bother them a little. Then you go and instead of doing a morning skate, you go sit in a big room and watch a video link of your teammate and friends wife crying about Cave and how great of a guy he is, how missed he is, etc. I am sure they had some video tribute of clips of him with his wife, family, guys on the team, even pictures and clips of him playing and practicing with the guys in that room watching. I am sure that was emotionally draining.
I think about the last funeral I was at where someone young died. A buddies sister who wasn't even 40 had an aneurysm and died. I knew her, partied with her a bit in my younger years, we weren't great friends but we were friends. It was sad as hell because she was a real good person and people that young shouldn't die. I was emotionally drained and I sure as hell wasn't in the mind space to go back to work. I have a desk job. I can't imagine having to go out and play professional hockey.
Sometimes things are more important than a hockey game. I am really glad McD actually said something because he rarely says a thing. Bad look on the NHL in my opinion.
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K.McC#24
Messages: 2834
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
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I wonder when we see Bouchard again, and whether Stalock will see a couple starts in the next 15 or 16 or whatever is left. They can't want him with no games before the playoffs.
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RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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| K.McC#24 wrote on Wed, 14 April 2021 15:14 |
I wonder when we see Bouchard again, and whether Stalock will see a couple starts in the next 15 or 16 or whatever is left. They can't want him with no games before the playoffs.
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Pretty simple for Bouchard.
Which right shot are you taking out to give him a spot?
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 14 April 2021 15:25 |
| K.McC#24 wrote on Wed, 14 April 2021 15:14 |
I wonder when we see Bouchard again, and whether Stalock will see a couple starts in the next 15 or 16 or whatever is left. They can't want him with no games before the playoffs.
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Pretty simple for Bouchard.
Which right shot are you taking out to give him a spot?
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He's already played some games on the off-side and looked fine. You can definitely get him in to the lineup on the left.
Tippett doesn't seem to be in a hurry to put him in, and from his comments on Stalock, I don't think he sees action before the Oilers have clinched unless someone gets hurt. Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if it's the same scenario for Bouchard too.
"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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K.McC#24
Messages: 2834
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
2 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 14 April 2021 15:25 |
| K.McC#24 wrote on Wed, 14 April 2021 15:14 |
I wonder when we see Bouchard again, and whether Stalock will see a couple starts in the next 15 or 16 or whatever is left. They can't want him with no games before the playoffs.
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Pretty simple for Bouchard.
Which right shot are you taking out to give him a spot?
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The Vancouver game screams for Bouchard, imo. I'd give Russell or Bear a seat, or Jones and Russell switches. Bouchard is at the stage of his development where he needs to be playing rather than watching for weeks and weeks..... and it's not like he projects to be a 6/7/8 NHL D, he's going to be somewhere in the top 2 pairings his development is more important than that.
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