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Edmonton @ Vegas (Game #75) [message #820277] |
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 Ragnarok73
Messages: 2419
Registered: February 2011
2 Cups
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This one felt good to watch after the game on Saturday. That 2nd period easily qualifies as one of the best that the Oil have played all year. If they could play like that in all 3 periods consistently, they’d be fighting for first overall and home ice throughout the playoffs.
"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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tardigrade81
Messages: 2217
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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Hell of a win
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 Kr55
Messages: 10724
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Nice win. Wish we could get these guys in round 1, Quick looks bad.
Fire Schwartz, seriously.
"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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smyth260
Messages: 1072
Registered: November 2007
1 Cup
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No complaints about that one. Back to back on the road. Well deserved. Nuge is sufficiently large.
Clean house or bust
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
5 Cups
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Way to Must them
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Adam
Messages: 7165
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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Third time this season that Skinner has won while allowing four or more. Campbell has five of those. It's pretty impressive that we've won eight games in which we've allowed 4 goals against. Not sure the coaches will love that though. We've only had our goalies over .900 nine times in the last 27 games going back to the All-Star break. Man - I hope Stuart has another level to get to here.
In the meantime, that game was a lot of fun. We should blow teams out like that all the time. It'll be exciting to see just how high these guys can push their numbers in the next two weeks. A couple more 7 goal games could go a long, long way!
"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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Mike
Messages: 1396
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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Man that was fun. And agreed - that 2nd period was definitely one of our best of the year.
And our PP. Wow. Our 32.7% is almost a full point over the all time best 77-78 Habs (31.9%). For this year we are a full 7% higher than 2nd place Toronto and Colorado (25.7%) 
100 for Nuge seems quite doable now, as well as 150 for McDavid, thought 70 goals looking more unlikely. A hat trick Thursday could bring it back into play though :)
And Leon is only 5PP goals away from Tim Kerr's single season record of 34. One of the most surprising things to me in terms of stats is looking at the all time best PP goal scoring seasons and not seeing any mention of Gretzky in there. After a bit of scrolling I finally found him - the 20 he scored in 83-84 is only good for the 102nd best total all time. That is shocking to me.
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NZ Oiler Fan
Messages: 1184
Registered: October 2006
Location: Kensington, PEI
1 Cup
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First period was the same old loosey goosey that we've seen the past 5-6 games, but that second period was exactly what I was hoping to see from this team. If we can bring that every game and eliminate the turnovers and brain farts on D, there are very few teams in the league that can hang with us.
Fell asleep & missed the 3rd (stupid 11pm starts)
Happy for Nuge to have a big game - 100 pts looks well within reach now. Same with 50 for Drai.
I hadn't realized that we still have 2 games left vs each of ANA & SJS, which will help with the race for 1st in our division/conference.
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Mike
Messages: 1396
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
1 Cup
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| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Wed, 29 March 2023 09:03 |
I hadn't realized that we still have 2 games left vs each of ANA & SJS, which will help with the race for 1st in our division/conference.
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I think we have the best remaining schedule of the top 3 in the Pacific. I think we still have pretty decent shot at the division title, maybe even the conference.
EDM: LAK, ANA, LAK, ANA, SJS, COL, SJS. We could easily win out.
LAK: EDM, SEA, VAN, EDM, VGK, COL, VAN, ANA
And Vegas I think actually has a pretty tough finish: SJS, MIN, MIN, NSH, LAK, DAL, SEA, SEA
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4407
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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| Mike wrote on Wed, 29 March 2023 06:03 |
| NZ Oiler Fan wrote on Wed, 29 March 2023 09:03 |
I hadn't realized that we still have 2 games left vs each of ANA & SJS, which will help with the race for 1st in our division/conference.
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I think we have the best remaining schedule of the top 3 in the Pacific. I think we still have pretty decent shot at the division title, maybe even the conference.
EDM: LAK, ANA, LAK, ANA, SJS, COL, SJS. We could easily win out.
LAK: EDM, SEA, VAN, EDM, VGK, COL, VAN, ANA
And Vegas I think actually has a pretty tough finish: SJS, MIN, MIN, NSH, LAK, DAL, SEA, SEA
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I think Van could beat LA
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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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4407
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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| Oscargasm wrote on Tue, 28 March 2023 22:16 |
Way to Must them
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Musted 'em up real good!
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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Suomalainen
Messages: 899
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
No Cups
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After that game, I want this team to win a Cup for Nuge more than anything. The reminder that he's in his 12th year in the NHL still blows my mind
If they could just not have as many fire drills on their side of the red line...man.
97.
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tardigrade81
Messages: 2217
Registered: November 2022
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
2 Cups
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| Suomalainen wrote on Wed, 29 March 2023 17:58 |
After that game, I want this team to win a Cup for Nuge more than anything. The reminder that he's in his 12th year in the NHL still blows my mind
If they could just not have as many fire drills on their side of the red line...man.
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Me too!!!
We have such a good team.
Won’t lie. Nobody in our division scares me that much.
But… Colorado and Minnesota. Those teams scare me
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