2021-22 Game 12: Oilers at Bruins

by Lowetide
Photo by Sarah Connors

The Edmonton Oilers are 9-2-0 entering tonight’s game against the Boston Bruins, but fans have more worry than one would associate with such a successful team. 

Why? If you owned a tractor that ran smoothly from seeding through harvest twice in 22 years, there might be a little dread heading out to start it in the morning. 

I can tell you that the Bruins are not rocking in the free world so far this season, but I imagine there will be furrowed brows across Oilers nation this evening when McDavid and company hit the ice. 

Edmonton’s even strength scoring is at 51 percent (30-28) and the team’s power play is running so hot (15 goals in 11 games, 19.24 goals-per-60) opposition coaches have to game their plan to allow for a GA every two PK’s. Speaking of PK, the 4.18 goals-against-per-60 is top-five in the NHL, and the PK save percentage is No. 2 in the league. 

This is a good team. 

There are issues. 

THE ATHLETIC!

WHAT TO EXPECT IN NOVEMBER

  • At home to: SEA, NAS, NYR (Expected 2-1-0) (Actual 3-0-0)
  • On the road to: DET, BOS, BUF, STL, WPG (Expected 3-2-0) (Actual 0-1-0)
  • At home to: WPG, CHI (Expected 1-1-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • On the road to: DAL, ARI, VEG (Expected 2-1-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
  • Overall expected result: 8-5-0, 16 points in 13 games
  • Actual November results: 3-1-0, six points in four games
  • Oilers n 2021-22: 9-2-0, 18 points in 11 games

I have this as a loss, but can also tell you that the Bruins games have been uneven this season and I believe the Bostonians need another defender they can count on. If Edmonton loses tonight, the Sabres game becomes a big game and could mean the gales of November come slashing. A minor furrowed brow, but you can see it in the right light.

After four games this season, Oilers centre Derek Ryan and the third line were 2-1 goals and 30-21 shots. Since then, it’s 1-7 goals and 29-41. I wrote about the issue and solutions for The Athletic and that’s one problem that may need to be solved externally. 

It’s also likely goaltending, should the Oilers choose to address it at the deadline, will need a trade to truly address the issue. 

In Bakersfield, the Condors are developing defensemen again and I think the replacement for Slater Koekkoek could be playing in California currently. 

Last night was a big night for Philip Broberg, who had the look of a dynamic, complete defenseman patrolling the blue for Bakersfield. He stood up at the blue line, punished advancing forwards, skated miles, passed the puck with aplomb, scored a point, and was seemingly one step ahead of any Heat all night long. 

Broberg was so impressive he overshadowed solid performances from Dmitri Samorukov and Markus Niemelainen. Through 10 games, Broberg is separating from the pack, Mike Kesselring is gaining traction and William Lagesson is flagging badly. 

CONDORS DEFENSE 2021-22

I don’t think the Oilers should recall Broberg, he is starting to dominate the AHL (Stockton is a fantastic team and he cut through them like a hot knife through butter) but you want to see that for 30 games before elevating. I am going to change my view in this way: If Broberg plays like he did last night through Christmas, they should call him to Edmonton. He was that good. 


Who should he be paired with? Ideally Broberg-Ceci would be the third pair but I think coach Dave Tippett will hold on to the second pair. 

LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

After the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 1972, the team was raided by the two new expansion clubs and by the WHA. The Atlanta Flames plucked goalie of the future Daniel Bouchard, while the New York Islanders dealt a major blow to the NHL Bruins by selecting two-way winger and prize penalty killer Eddie Westfall.

The WHA raids were even more devastating. Johnny McKenzie was the top scoring RW during the 1972 playoffs (5-12-17 in 15 games), Derek Sanderson was the other half of the Westfall PK pair, Gerry Cheevers was the club’s No. 1 goaltender. Boston fell from 119 points, a +126 goal differential and a Stanley Cup to 107 points, +95 goals and a first-round exit against the New York Rangers.

The Bruins had a productive minor-league system, so Sanderson’s replacement (Gregg Sheppard) arrived in 1972-73 and scored 50 points as a rookie. McKenzie was eventually replaced by Terry O’Reilly, who would go on to become one of the truly popular Bruins of all-time. Goaltending was not as easy to solve, in fact Gerry Cheevers and a trade for Gilles Gilbert were required to set things right.

The Oilers don’t have an AHL team like the Bruins did in 1971-72 (Boston Braves), a club that produced quality players Daniel Bouchard, Terry O’Reilly, and a few NHL regulars like Dave Forbes, Nick Beverley and Bob Stewart.

The Oilers don’t have a second minor-league team like the Bruins did in 1971-72 (the Oklahoma City Blazers) who produced Sheppard, Chris Oddleifson, and Ron Plumb, who spent most of his pro career in the WHA and was a fine player in the league.

The Bruins lost a lot in the summer of 1972. 

The Oilers lost a lot in the summer of 2021. 

Adam Larsson and Ethan Bear exiting still echoes down the canyon. The current Oilers defense is new and still in discovery. I think Darnell Nurse-Evan Bouchard and Duncan Keith-Cody Ceci will last the year, but the third pair needs a lefty shutdown defender for Barrie on the third pair.

I think the recall is Samorukov, but my goodness Broberg is taking giant steps in California. He is ahead of Oscar Klefbom at the same age. I’m certain of it. 

LOWDOWN WITH LOWETIDE

A busy morning on TSN 1260, starting at 10. It’ll be Chris Johnston from TSN and the Toronto Star will discuss the changing landscape of NHL management and what it means, plus the things Ken Holland might be looking for and when. Conor Ryan from the Boston Sports Journal will pop by at 11 to preview an interesting but flawed Bruins team. 10-1260 text, @Lowetide on twitter. See you on the radio!! 

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€√¥£€^$

Koekkoek apparently did not allow a single HDSC last night, but man he makes me nervous. He got 2 weak penalties called against him, but I have a feeling he drew them based on cumulative actions leading up to the calls…

With the puck on his stick and any kind of pressure in both zones he just does not have my confidence. I wonder when Niemelainen gets called up…Most likely he won’t as long as the W’s keep coming and the D stay healthy.

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Amadeus

Imagine if we had picked up Kylington on waivers last year…

kgogshig

Almost exactly 12 games into last season I posted a comment here of my desire to load Turris into a cannon and FIRE HIM INTO THE SUN!

One year later, and I think he’s actually worse…his body has disconnected from his mind…you can see that he knows what play to make, but his hands have failed him and he fans on shots, fans making passes, can’t receive passes. Further he has never, and will never engage physically. He’s negative value, he’s below replacement level except for evidently in the shootout.

I think a purely rational GM and Coach, operating in a vacuum, would have buried Turries long ago.

The reasoning behind Tip and Dutch’s decision seems to be the same reasoning that got Gryba’s last season bought out….anyone read the Frolik article last week? Dutch loves bringing in old vets and he’s making sure future FA’s see that Turris has gotten more than a fair shake here….

That Ken Holland…he’s a patient man….goalies usually are.

kgogshig

Does anyone think it’s a coincidence that the most egregiously reffed game of this young season happened in Boston? The old ties to Colin Campbell…ownership’s ties to the mob….I’m still hoping that the silver lining of betting on Hockey will bring a more consistent application of the rules.

€√¥£€^$

I feel sorry for the hundreds of fans wearing a McDavid jersey in Beantown tonight who paid whatever they did to watch their guy get DISRESPECTED during his one and only visit to the City this season.

Such a disgraceful display and such an utter and complete lack of integrity for the whole world to see.

The NHL needs a change of leadership in all areas ASAP.

Oilerguy

Do tell what the heck did I miss???

DevilsLettuce

They hired some landscapers to officiate.

Admiral Ackbar

Hyman blatantly tripped on a pick which almost immediately ended up in the net because of his ‘missed’ coverage. Few minutes later, McDavid drives the net, fakes the shot and gestures to round the back of the net when both the F and D insert their sticks between his legs and trip him, in front of the ref. No call on either.

Tbh, McD and the rest of the team look just dumbfounded at how bad it’s getting. They don’t even complain much anymore.

Keeper_13

Watching Hall play against Edmonton always makes me sad.

Diablo

Must be similar to how Leafs fans feel watching Hyman playing for us?

Hyman is a better fit what the Oilers are now than Hall would have been.

Reja

He could easily have 5 more goals he’s a puck hound that gets 2-3 grade A chances every game.

kelvjn

With 20/20 hind sight, would anyone trade a 2016/17 Hall for Hyman 1-for-1? How about 18? 19? 20?

Munny 2.0

Just finished watching the game on delay…

Of all the horribly one-sidedly refereed games this season this one was the worst. Absolutely pathetic by the NHL and if it doesn’t start to change we stand no chance in the playoffs. There HAS to be a level playing field. From Marchand’s charge in the opening minute to Bergeron’s trip on the second goal, to the tripping on 97, the constant interference, the icings they refused to call, and the non-calls that Marchand drew…

I was happy we won because it was spitting in the refs’ faces, the real opposition.

Other than that, decent game by the Oil, they lost the thread a couple of times but fought through the reffing adversity. Good to see bounce-back games from Bouche and McLeod. Koskinen being deep in his crease is still driving me nuts, but his puck-tracking was good overall tonight. Connor’s got to take it a little easier on his linemates. That offside wasn’t Pujo’s fault.

I want to extend a thank you and huge props to the Bruins organization for Colby’s tribute to start the game. I had a lump in my throat. Truly classy.

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Keeper_13

Watched the Bruins feed, was very distracted for the first half of the game. Had to pause to capture the following from the Bruins talking heads.

“McDavid goes down under the stick of Nilson(?), I’ve seen that called a trip.”

“The Oilers have a legitimate gripe about McDavid not able to draw penalties. His last 8 playoff games he has drawn 0 penalties. That defies reality. I know the refs put the whistle away in the playoffs, but the guy’s so fast and he creates such opening and puts defenders at such disadvantages… the guy gets fouled all the time!”

When is the last time you saw the talking heads for the home team calling refs out for not penalizing the home team? I’ve seen it two games running. smh

Diablo

The last time was in the last game in Detroit.

DevilsLettuce

Detroit, “for all McDavid does, he draws the least”.. Play by play guy talking about the endless stream of infractions not being called against McDavid in the 3rd period.

Scungilli Slushy

Holland better be on the horn

No problem sending a half hour lowlight package to Bagman and his henchmen

Reja

How do you think we received the golden ball.

Admiral Ackbar

The photo up there was by THE Sarah Conners? Like, the one that blew up Skynet?

dangilitis

Probably going to be an unpopular take but Koskinen’s 3rd goal he has to have, and I’m not sure he even knew what was happening on the toe save – a bit of desperation and a bit of luck?

He was great in the 3rd. The fact that they are winning without the same caliber tending he provided in his first few games is good news, because regression was inevitable. He’s getting the job done for the most part and that’s all you can ask for now. Teams have won the Cup this century with goalies playing similar to Koskinen. I’m pulling for him, but also hope that Skinner will get some more starts with Smith out, as we need to see what we’ve got with him before Konovalov hopefully makes a push

Gerta Rauss

Skinner should get the start tomorrow – I hope, anyway

Keeper_13

Totally see where you’re coming from. FWIW, four different times that puck *could* have been tipped on his way to him, and I thought it got a little titch of the first stick, but if so it was really titchy. He was mad at himself there, with some justification, but that was a more difficult save than it appeared. Deflating goal though, no way around that fact.

Diablo

You’d think a guy his size would have no problem finding the puck … he’s got like a birds eye view. His puck tracking seems to fail him once per game, resulting in a soft goal.

Admiral Ackbar

I know we’re all happy because they won, but we’d be pulling out the pitchforks if the hockey Gords didn’t make things right with those crazy Bos giveaways. That and Miko robbing Pasta: I feel like I should be angrier about this. Those non-calls should result in some sort of action. This ridiculous game-management is a stain on the league.

Gerta Rauss

This ridiculous game-management is another stain on the league

I fixed that for you

It really is perplexing

I wonder how the league administrators look at themselves in the mirror

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Keeper_13

They pay people to do that for them.

Yukon Jerk

They don’t ask how, just how many..
Goals!
Points! (hi RNH!)
Wins!

Admiral Ackbar

Come on! Rage with me!

You’ve got my favourite name in this place, btw. Love it!

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Reja

I don’t know if you were around back in the Rod Phillips days but a lot of games weren’t broadcast probably around 30 so you had to go off of Rods beautiful take of the game . He would be going ballistic on these non calls on Connor, yelling, ranting and raving to call the cops because there’s been a theft. Finally Louie and Jack have had enough of watching shit-show Reffing.

Admiral Ackbar

I loved how he wouldn’t pull any punches. There was no sugarcoating. The Bos play-by-play guy reminds of Phillips in that respect. He owns his partisanship like a badge of honour. I respect that.

Reja

I like the Bruins team announcers as well if your going cover a team at least cheer for them God dammit. We have arguably the 2 best players in the league the days of listening to the reverse engineer Drew Remenda are over.

Admiral Ackbar

Ha! That’s a name I’d long forgotten. Ramenda must’ve been dreaming of being a Hughson sidekick. He made me cringe at least once a game.

Reja

Tonight was a team bonding game they’re going to be up 2-0 on the Sabres 7 minutes into tomorrow’s game. Book it!

Reja

The jig is up everyone on social media to hone and away announcers can’t believe the non calls on Connor. We should be getting some favourable Reffing for awhile. The national broadcast CBC with the Flame homers will downplay it and laugh and say that’s good solid defence. You know Hrudey, Cassie, Buttons and that other goof Stewart are going to laugh about it, they even have Friedman in on the big joke. I’m glad MacT is back to straighten out these goofballs.

Admiral Ackbar

At some point everyone’s got to recognize that it’s just horseshit for the game to have ref-subjectivity be this involved. Every team has some skilled players and presumably wants a consistently called game by the rulebook…… no? Can we have nice things?

Keeper_13

Really grinds my gears when the talking heads praise someone for “quality defense” against Conner while playing a clip of him being fouled two or three times.

Harpers Hair

Tucker Poolman gets a 5 minute match penalty..now 7-1 Colorado…this could get ugly.

lyleparsons

DSF, Honestly, if we wanted Vancouver updates we would look at the out of town highlights, The key thing here his that they are the “out of town highlights”.
We appreciate your NHL info, but please do not come here with your Vancouver updates, we are not interested and we find it simply wrong.

JimmyV1965

Reffing will be the ruin of this game. It’s garbage. Virtually every game is managed and because our PP is so good, we can expect a lot of nights with two PPs.

And it’s so pathetically predictable. I literally texted a buddy during the second intermission and said we would get a PP within the first few minutes – because we were losing 3-2 and that made it okay to give us a PP.

Was anyone actually surprised Nurse drew a garbage penalty, after multiple non calls on way more serious infractions. Hell, Nurse could have been called for a penalty on that play. 

Nothing will change until the broadcasters, coaches and players start getting pissed off. 

Admiral Ackbar

I watched the Bruins feed. It was hilarious because they knew it was a ridiculous call but didn’t say much because they knew there was ref-karma built up over how McDavid and Hyman were clearly tripped with no call. Everyone sees it. Everyone.

Keeper_13

I’m really enjoying watching this Oilers team, but I’m trying not to think about the playoffs. Expecting a total zebra job.

OriginalPouzar

Oilers 2nd in the league in points (FLA ahead but have played 3 more games).

Oilers 2nd in the league in points percentage (decent margin ahead of FLA in 3rd).

Oilers 2nd in the league in goal differential.

N64

~ Oiler’s 20 points in 12:games sounds OK, but that’s still 4 points behind Connor and 6 behind Drai ~

Ice Sage

That was a significant win. Oilers responded time and time again against a quality opponent, who don’t seem to have the same hunger.
And! CMcD was quiet… I pity the Sabres tmrw, I may not watch, don’t want to be called as a witness!!!!

Admiral Ackbar

McD was quiet? He was buzzin’ dude. Don’t agree. They just didn’t go in and he was getting mauled with no call. Not for a lack of trying though. He’s really starting to develop a 200ft game. I love watching him free pucks deep in his own zone and skate past multiple wingers and a Dman on the rush. Majestic.

Ice Sage

I agree – I meant quiet on the scoresheet. It’s his turn to slice n dice now

Harpers Hair

Somehow the VGK keep hanging in there.

Leading Minnesota 2-0 in the second.

Goals by Paul Cotter and Jonas Ronbjerg.

Who are these guys?

Diablo

Who knows … who cares?

Ice Sage

Injury-plagued Avalanche feeding Canucks their lunch, that’s not right.
Or is it?

Harpers Hair

The Avalanche just get Toews and Makar back and now lose Byram.

The Canucks are dysfunctional..a coaching change may be in the offing soon.

Reja

There’s no doubt the Av’s have a hell of a team but there’s something missing in Denver.

Admiral Ackbar

It’s the go-to remedy, though. I’d say the results we see were predictable and a coach can only squeeze so much out of a lineup.

Material Elvis

I guess Brogan Rafferty really was the glue that bound the team together. Who knew?

Admiral Ackbar

Don’t feed the troll plz.

CMcD4PM

Bruins are a well coached, disciplined and professional team. Still, they did lose.

Redbird62

And get away with interference hooks and holds like its the late 90s.

Groggie

Al. Can you look into adding a filter button so I can block any comments from certain posters. You have your reasons for not out right blocking guys like HH and I can respect that. But my experience would be greatly enhanced if I can filter myself. Other blog sites I frequent offer this and I personally love it. Give me the blog fan that option. Your thoughts ?

Material Elvis

As great as a filter button sounds, just have the courage to read over his comments instead.

hunter1909

Oilers methinks are really starting to have a gem in Nurse :

Boston fans loudly calling Nurse out as a “fake” tough guy…some avidly recall his fight with Lucic which they think was a beat down…

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Side

Draisaitl > Matthews

Admiral Ackbar

Draisaitl > (Matthews + Marner)

Keeper_13

Mark Messier – the stuff you totally can’t do anymore, seriously, youtube “mark messier elbow” + Joe Thornton – 27 lbs of beard = Leon Draisaitl.

hunter1909

“This is something Boston hockey fans are not used to” postgame local commentary lmao

leadfarmer

When non Oilers fans are complaining about the reffing the Oilers are getting you know there’s a problem

hunter1909

Oilers won a game I thought was a sure loss. And Boston for their part played clean and fair.

(except Marchand right before when McDavid schooled him)

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lenko

McDavid should get assists just for all the opposition going after him!

Randle McMurphy

Technically, Hyman’s goal was the nicest goal of the night. imo

Leon’s game winner the most satisfying,

Ceci’s goal the most pleasing.

BornInAGretzkyJersey

Tippett snarky, quipping:

“You think? Did you see that up there too? I saw that on the bench too; I just didn’t know if anybody else saw it.”

“It’s frustrating because the tone is set on the first call of the game, on Draisaitl; which is, shouldn’t be a call. If you’re going to set the tone like that, you better call the rest of the game like that. And that’s not the way it went.”

Bulging Twine

If anyone thought that maybe it’s just fans and coaches being homers, here is a SURE indicator it’s not; the biggest homer play-by-play guy in the league, Jack Edwards, was saying it’s baffling how McDavid doesn’t get the calls

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Tarkus

He’s lucky the refs didn’t give him a minor penalty for quipping.

Fuhrious

Is there an award for best pun?

pts2pndr

Would we call it a Punny ?

Keeper_13

Gene Principe is SO jealous right now!

Admiral Ackbar

Was that on the Hyman trip? Or the McDiety double trip?

Prairie_Sentinel

Tipp hits the nail on the head. Officials should want their first call of the game to be an impact call, a tone-setter, not some soft as butter BS call that I saw way too much of tonight. NHL zebras do the “game management” thing all wrong, set your standard for the night right off the bat and let the players adjust, but stick to it. As the players figure out your game, you can “manage” the rest of the game by calling the stuff that crosses the line. Weak calls and changing your standard mid-game is just making for animosity between the officials vs players/coaches.

Not sure what the answer is, but the NHL seriously needs to clean house on the officiating end of things. It’s what I would do.

Reja

Most satisfying win in a long time love the intensity of Connor hopefully it rubs off. CC-Rider scores a goal and 10 seconds later gets ear-holed which is utter pain if you’ve ever had it happen to you.

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Ice Sage

Um, u mean with a puck, right

Fuhrious

Well, I’m just a modern guy
Of course, I’ve had it in the ear before

Tarkus

Have you ever heard of “shinshi shinshi”?

If not, Christopher Walken explains.

Scungilli Slushy

He has a lust for life

OriginalPouzar

So, do the Oilers actually get some credit for this game?

Given all the parameters, on the road, against a great home team, who made the playoffs last season, were not tired and playing their starter, Oilers should get like 5 standings points, no?

Bling

Even more impressive considering how much McDavid was interfered with.

Draisaitl is something else. He’s from that Forsberg/Lindros family of players. He was sensational on both sides of the puck. He’s played many excellent games and this was another. He is so effective at C.

Randle McMurphy

Best player in the world.

Scungilli Slushy

Best forward ATM for sure

I was thinking this is Leon’s answer to the friendly competition

I can’t do what Connor does, but I can be best overall

pts2pndr

Is tackling interference, asking for a friend! NHL sets the standard for incompetence in officiating with no other major sport even a close second. It is embarrassing !

Randle McMurphy

I just checked the standings at NHL.com.

Can confirm, Oilers were awarded the 2 points for the win 🙂

tcho

Just wait until the Kraken start to weaponize their cap space. There will be no more points.

OriginalPouzar

I’m just speaking to the tired points system that is being implied by some……

I would suggest you start look at the records of the teams the Oilers have beat this season.

Being childish about this is not a good look for you.

Be honest, there is no way you typed that with a straight face – no way.

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Harpers Hair

You are the one that has been relentlessly pushing some kind of tiered points system.

Quality of competition is a factor whether or not you want to accept it.

Beating Boston at home was a very nice win but one win does not determine the outcome of a season.

Randle McMurphy

Take a shower dude. You reek of desperation.

KassHat

And yesterday it was 4 of their next 5 games will be against playoff teams….
Oil have played 12 games…6 of them were against teams ranked in the top 15 in standings this year. That seems about right.

N64

~ 20 pts in 12 games. If the Oil were any good they’d manage 2 pts a game like 29 and 97 ~

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godot10

The Oilers were without their #1 goaltender, their co-#1 defenseman, and two other bottom six forward starters.

Harpers Hair

Curious who you consider the Oilers co #1 defenseman?

Klefbom?

Seriously?

That’s like saying Ray Bourque is the Avalanche co-number #1 defenseman.

Groggie

Vancouver’s record pretty much explains why you’re being such a dick/baby/asshat. That or it’s simply your nature. 10 wins. Your pouting is loud and clear HH.

Bank Shot

Ceci for Norris!

Good to see the Oilers beat the Bruins and refs.

Goalering needs to be a bit better. Can’t expect the boys to score 4 every night.

I like this D-core for the most part. They key holes so far seem to be 3C, 3LD, and G.

Tarkus

How can you not like a guy whose last name is also his initials?

Randle McMurphy

“Can’t expect the boys to score 4 every night.”

Grant Fuhr begs to differ 🙂

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Scungilli Slushy

It sure does

I hope Skinner gets the yips out asap

London’s calling

ChupaCabra

Nice win! This should keep the troll at bay for at least 12 hours.

[Hey Sheps – if you’re listening out there – The Belov Bonus is back in business, baby… https://en.khl.ru/players/10176/ ]

Randle McMurphy

Half way through the 2nd

Avalanche 4 HHC* 0

(*Harpers Hairy Canucks)

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pts2pndr

Didn’t even make four hours!

Keeper_13

lol there is only one thing that keeps trolls away – not going on the internet. Someday we’ll evolve better manners for talking online, and that will be very, very nice.

Material Elvis

Uhhh…have you seen the way humanity is trending vis-a-vis internet communication? It’s not getting better.

“People are crazy” — Material Elvis

Randle McMurphy

Nurse is going to be McDavid’s roomate….
.
.
AT THE OLYMPICS!!!

Ice Sage

Does Hyman get a cot, then?

Randle McMurphy

What McDavid wants…..McDavid gets. 🙂

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Genjutsu

If you have to ask the question . . .

OriginalPouzar

I think Nurse will be there but the talk of Hyman and Nuge is somewhat silly to me.

Randle McMurphy

Of course Hyman and Nuge is silly.

One or the other but not both! 🙂

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prefonmich

Huge game in many ways. 3 comebacks. Overcoming frustration with lack of calls. Miko shutting it down when it mattered most. Ceci with two nice plays. All around big team win. Even thought the 4th line deserved the minutes they got tonight, which is more than the previous games minutes (so it seems before I see the numbers). And to top it off, Calgary loses..

hunter1909

Oilers rookie McLeod was really really good tonight. He plays hockey like a Bruin lol

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OriginalPouzar

His best game in a LONG time.

hunter1909

Honest. Its literally the very first time I noticed him.

He looked very good tonight. Playing in a hostile barn.

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hunter1909

That’s actually a compliment dorks.

Lucinius

Important win, especially considering the officiating. Also important to get the win with the Flames losing to the Canadians; we’re in need of the Flames losing more often.

Nice to see McDavid keep the 2 pts/g pace, and points streak alive, RNH continues his funky scoring stat season, and Drai looking to put some distance between himself and McDavid.

Ceci has been a very pleasant surprise this year, imo. I was neutral on his signing, but he’s been good for us.

Koski was able to shut things down and make sure no more goals went in after the 3rd goal against, which is key. Oilers need to get that GAA down.

Bling

That was a very nifty fake by Ceci on his pass to Draisaitl, opened up the lane and allowed him to pass that puck along the ice to Drai. Cool play.

razor

No way Larsson can make that play

Scungilli Slushy

Bear didn’t make set ups like C2 has several times already either

Tarkus

First time the Oilers have won without a PP goal.

5v5 scoring is fun!

jp

Uh oh, PP is ‘only’ 44% now 😉

OriginalPouzar

Habs beating the flames in regulation is a very very very nice cherry!

hunter1909

Flames are in a 4 way tie for 6th place and 2 losses away from being right back where they deserve lol out of the playoffs

hunter1909

Seems like Oilers don’t like Taylor Hall very much.

hunter1909

Marchand: Let’s try something funny with McDavid
McDavid: Hold my Beer

Sierra

Great win. Great response after the Detroit game.

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hunter1909

The road trip is right back on track.

Admiral Ackbar

My thoughts exactly. This was a different team. Miko played very well. Saved the game, imo. Plus, those Boston giveaways were the hockey Gords bringing our karma back to neutral. Goodness…

Reja

Big period for Mikko’s confidence

prefonmich

Koskinen has been terrific since the Oilers got the lead. I hope he starts to get some credit for his play. Smith got all the credit last year despite Koskinen having to carry the heavy load early in the year with old man Smith dealing with injuries. Big win!!

DevilsLettuce

Ain’t nobody wanting to see no dang overtime. Woooot

Material Elvis

That was a very satisfying victory in the face of adversity.

fishman

Mikko had a great 3 rd period! Key to the win.

jp

# 2 in the league in wins. 8-1 now.

Keeper_13

I absolutely did not see that coming. For all the angsting I’ve done about our goaltending these past couple years, the results have been above league average.

OriginalPouzar

What a victory.

Just as “big” as the win against the Rangers given where we were after the 2nd and the officiatig.

Massive, massive win.

Side

Ceci must have made a deal with the devil. A goal and an assist in exchange for an ear.

Tarkus

That’s a Vincent Van Gogh hat trick.

Side

Well done

OriginalPouzar

Yikes – hope Ceci is OK and he just needs some ear stitches.

The Oilers cannot afford to lose Ceci – imagine Russell as 3RD tomorrow…..

fishman

Nooooooooooo!!!!!

Bling

Nice goal by Ceci and good forecheck by the fourth line. McLeod can play at this level, no question.

rich tm

McLeod had a very nice game. Forechecked, moved his feet, made simple plays, won face-offs. Checked off a lot of boxes.

LMHF#1

Having defencemen who can roof the puck is nice.

hunter1909

Having several scoring defencemen is fantastic.

OriginalPouzar

Very happy to see Feogele on the ice……