As the Oilers embark on another tough road trip (it’s actually three games in the same area), we can begin discussion of Warren Foegele’s recent success and what this team might look like in the spring. I believe we’ll see some changes.
THE ATHLETIC!
- NEW Lowetide: Edmonton Oilers’ lack of secondary scoring is a critical situation
- Lowetide: 5 Edmonton Oilers trade targets from the AHL
- DNB:How Oilers star Connor McDavid went from poor to unreal in a pivotal win
- DNB and Jesse Granger: Is the Connor McDavid vs. Jack Eichel rivalry finally about to become reality?
- Lowetide: How the Oilers can replace Evander Kane’s production on a budget
- Lowetide: Why the Oilers need to trade for an established defenceman
- Lowetide: Five curious Oilers trends that may or may not regress
- Lowetide: What’s Xavier Bourgault’s NHL ETA? Does he get a look this season?
- DNB: Stuart Skinner’s 40 saves lift Oilers over Panthers
- Lowetide: What should the Edmonton Oilers expect from Klim Kostin?
- DNB: Oilers’ Evander Kane hospitalized after skate blade cuts his arm
- Lowetide: Oilers top prospect is unclear for the first time in a dozen years
- Lowetide: Oilers rookie Stuart Skinner is chasing history
- DNB: Ryan Smyth on Oilers memories, keepsakes and the current team: Q&A
- Lowetide: Edmonton Oilers start October slow but finish month strong
- Jonathan Willis: Jakob Chychrun would look good on the Oilers, but is there a deal to be had?
- Lowetide: Edmonton Oilers reasonable expectations for every player in 2022-23
- Lowetide: Oilers top-20 prospects, summer 2022
WHAT TO EXPECT IN NOVEMBER
- At home to: NAS, NJD, DAL (Expected 2-1-0) (Actual 1-2-0)
- On the road to: WAS, TBY, CAR, FLA (Expected 1-2-1) (Actual 2-2-0)
- At home to: LAK, VEG (Expected 1-0-1) (Actual 1-1-0)
- On the road to: NJD, NYI, NYR (Expected (1-1-1) (Actual 0-0-0)
- At home to: FLA (Expected 1-0-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
- On the road to: CHI (Expected (1-0-0) (Actual 0-0-0)
- November expected result: 7-4-3, 17 points in 14 games
- Actual November results: 4-5-0, 8 points in 9 games
- October results: 6-3-0, 12 points in 9 games
- Oilers in 2022-23: 10-8-0, 20 points in 18 games
Edmonton has Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, so every game is winnable. Rookie Stuart Skinner is emerging as a legit stopper despite his youth and inexperience. He’s not Cam Talbot in 2016-17, but is manna from heaven for a team that projected Jack Campbell in the Talbot role. I thought his performance against the VGK (including several fantastic saves with the game in the balance) was among the best we’ve seen from him this year. His .948 save percentage five-on-five is No. 2 in the NHL among goalies with 150+ minutes. His overall number (.930) ranks No. 4 league wide.
NUMBERS
The great baseball writer Bill James used to write about “established level of ability” and what that means to a franchise. He used the most recent three-season sample from a major league player as that line in the sand, and I believe it’s a good one. Here are the pts-per-game for Edmonton Oilers players combining the three most recent seasons. If a player wasn’t in the league for all three seasons, fewer seasons were used.
- Connor McDavid: 1.61 pts-game
- Leon Draisaitl: 1.46 pts-game
- Evander Kane: .83 pts-game
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins: .82 pts-game
- Zach Hyman: .72 pts-game
- Kailer Yamamoto: .55 pts-game
- Jesse Puljujarvi: .52 pts-game
- Mattias Janmark: .38 pts-game
- Warren Foegele: .37 pts-game
- Derek Ryan: .34 pts-game
- Ryan McLeod: .27 pts-game
Foegele isn’t the player I would use in the No. 2 RW role on this list. For me, once you decide Hyman is playing right-wing, the second and third line RW’s are Puljujarvi and Yamamoto and the order depends on what is working in terms of chemistry. Janmark and Foegele are getting the push, but the three-year trends favour the Finn and Spokanite.
DYLAN HOLLOWAY
Lots of verbal in the comments section and online about young Dylan Holloway. The organization is signalling a trip to the farm is imminent (he isn’t playing much) and recent performances have had ‘rookie events’ that plague freshman and do represent a lack of experience. It’s a Catch-22 that can trap players, as the only way to work through mistakes and areas of weakness is to play in the NHL and iron them out, but it’s tough for coaching staffs to trust rookies when games are constantly 2-1 or 3-2 affairs.
I wanted to push back on the idea Holloway is somehow miles away from helping. He is guilty as charged in making errors (penalties, turnovers) that have resulted in goals-against for Edmonton. Let’s look at what else he has done this season, and factors others than saw him good can tell us. All numbers five-on-five.
The question about Holloway that is worth asking pertains to offense. Is he going to spend seven years on a skill line and five more in the bottom six? Is he going to average boxcars that resemble Andrew Cogliano? Sam Gagner? I don’t think we have that answer. The story isn’t “Dylan Holloway makes mistakes” because of course he does. The story is “when Holloway returns, where should he play?” and the answer must be in the top-nine.
- His 1.19 pts-60 at five-on-five ranks No. 8 among Oilers forwards. Well within range of expectations and a solid number considering his most common linemates.
- His 2.39 penalties-drawn per 60 ranks No. 1 among Oilers forwards who have played more than 10 minutes at five-on-five.
- Giveaways-per-60 at five-on-five (1.55) is fifth best on the Edmonton team among F’s.
- Takeaways-per-60 at five-on-five (2.99) is fourth.
- Hits-per-60 (16.12) is No. 2
- He won nine of 19 faceoffs. That’s not bad for a rookie.
- His on-ice shooting percentage (5) and save percentage (.864) give him a PDO of 91.4, poorest on the team.
Holloway will get sent down, and will return. When he does get back to the NHL, mistakes will occur. It’s what happens when you trust young people. It’s dangerous, costly and frustrating. The only thing worse is not trusting them, because the roster ages and fresh blood is required. As per Dylan Holloway, we are here. Serenity now, pay later.
LOWETIDE AND JAMIESON
We’ll have lots to talk about today, 10-2 TSN1260. We’ll talk Grey Cup (a classic), Oilers in Hoboken and have the World Cup USA versus Wales at noon. 10-1260 text, @Lowetide on twitter. Talk soon!
That hand on the puck 100% should have been a penalty shot. If the NHL wants more offence they should have plays in video review.
when the montreal canadiens who are “tanking hard for bedard” and took on albatross contracts of monahan, dadonov, and others have a better points percentage than ken hollands capped out oilers team with mcd and drat in their primes u know someone soiled the linens.
Probably the most incisive statement the coach made tonight:
“We want to do a better job of contesting lines,” began head coach Jay Woodcroft. “I think the game changes when the opponent gets the blue line. If they do get the blue line and shoot the puck, they have got to get touched.”
This is partly backtrack and partly the D being too damned scared (it seems) to stand up at the blue line, force the dump in, and play the man. You don’t have to be fast to force dump-ins. Just willing.
They’re not attending to the details in many aspects of the game, and part of that is three rookies… but damn, the rest of the team makes it impossible to play the rookies. Gotta get the mistakes down somehow.
Broberg will be here shortly. Please hire someone to make his sandwiches for him, though.
Hopefully adding another rookie helps. I’m wondering if Demers might be getting a contract shortly. I’m not shittin you.
The team needs a major league shit disturber. In a big way.
I’d rather have him 3 RD than Barrie. I could see Demers Bro being a decent 3rd pair
Dude rocks a great suit as well
So I commented a while ago about Trotz, and Woodman needing to get er going tongue in cheek
On the other hand 2 established good coaches previously got the same results and ended up doing basically the same thing tactically
This is a roster issue, which is a GM issue. The quality is increasing, slooowly, but the balance is off still
The cap is an issue for the overly conservative or the uncreative, after seasons
It’s been shown here many times over that trading is the key tool that the repeating top teams use
You can’t just draft and develop, it’s too unpredictable and too slow, your core will age out hi Chevy
You can’t sign UFAs to the top they are too expensive and usually close to decline
McCrimmon has aggressively changed his team to suit the management’s vision and stayed on top. He mentioned they knew the ‘rejected’ meme wouldn’t carry forward
The Avs and Devils traded or signed the majority of their D corps
The Oilers D corp is piss the weak
If they can push these guys to contending status their young players will again more value to use in deals. But if they don’t, they’ll continue to get little. Samu was garnering calls apparently before ‘the shift’ and subsequent handling. As always
So….
Coming from a Highland Scottish family who literally lynched a gypsy back in the 18th century for murdering one of their neighbours…
Whelks lynch no one fine sir!
Also don’t like highlands, not enough salt water
JP
McLeod
Yama
Shore
Bouchard
Murray
None of these guys do anything to impact the game in a positive way. Actually thought JP was good tonight.
Holloway not good either. But he’s young and fast and physical.
Kostin and Janmark and Malone meh too. But they’ve only played a couple games.
Way too many guys with 0 hits, O shots, O blocks. Just nothing going on.
Frustrating.
There’s a pattern there. I think Bouch gets a pass because he is very talented, young, and has no appropriate partner for his current level
You can’t have all those guys on one team
JP and McLeod are big and fast and can’t finish NHL level and are passive by nature. JP at least does good things almost every game except produce
Yama has the jam but is league smallest, lacks explosive skating and doesn’t have a strong shot. And gets hurt increasingly
Shore may not be in the league on a different team
Murray didn’t keep his gig on good teams
Holland thinks they’re all good people though
All of these guys have basically just been vanilla filler this year and have flat out been a total non-factor as we near 1/4 season completion.
JP was a joy to watch, and aside from a number of boners by a number of different players, the better team was in white. Stupid mistakes and shitty D will always out-boner a great offense, and whatever dumpster fire the D-zone coverage is right now must be adjusted. Whether Skinner channels his inner Mike Smith or maintains a .930, the coverage (coaching) is insufficient.
And it’s not just the coaching. By my count, one of Barrie or Bouchard will need to be replaced, and another LD needs to come in to push Kulak to 3D. Far too soft, always back into the crease on the rush, and then run around like headless chickens when hemmed in.
The constant backing in makes me wonder if that while it’s a good skating D group, they don’t pivot well or the like
Bouch was the fastest backward skating D in his draft cohort
Some former NHL D mentioned a while back that he felt while Nurse was a great straight line skater he doesn’t pivot well
I don’t know, but it’s either coaching or a skating issue
Its been such a long standing issue what else could it be?
Holland has assembled a group that can’t do the job
Yes it’s hard, but shouldn’t everyone in an elite management position want to be the best? Because some GMs solve their team’s issues come hell or high water
Yearly
US Thanksgiving is a couple days away…..
Our top D pairing got destroyed tonight.
We can talk about the bad goal Skinner gave up but…Ceci and Nurse with a real effort here.
Ceci -CF20%
Nurse-CF 31%
Defending the whole night….
Ryan McLeod with a lovely CF-26%
Those are some god awful numbers.
Jay Woodcroft the PK Whisperer….
St Louis and Calgary just passed these Oilers and now Oilers are sitting outside the playoffs, with no idea how to right the ship like they always end up in, season after season since the Steve Austin times.
Cynically looking forward to the so-called rational analysis which needs to spin this shit team into something more than fools gold.
Can you believe you changed the name of the Death March?
WTF were you thinking?!
I’m a sucker who believes that a couple of cheezy rounds of playoff success can translate to an emerging elite NHL team.
Silly me.
This is why I have this name on oiler sites.
Heroin I know from a one off experience.
We have all been chasing the dragon since 90 with some very, very low points.
Slightly concerning that it is 7 years since the 2016-17 “things are looking up” season.
Oilers are a curious team, based off of
ourthe cap and signings, Oilers are reliant on 2 key players to not get injured and go super nova for a playoff run.I’m not sure if there is a “soft” landing here.
I really thought Edm would be a Top 6 Reg Season team this year. Balance, depth, high end Talent, et al.
And yet, here we are.
Team did misa the playoffs after the 2017 run, so who knows
I am an NHL fool. I have this insane propensity to cheer for a team after it had a decent not great playoff run.
On the Skinner miscue, I hate the two D going to the wings and leaving the goaltender with two forwards bearing down on him.
If everyone were backtracking, one D (in this case Kulak) should be going to the front of the net. Mercer would have been covered.
And the goaltender would be left with two options, the remaining D who went to the wings, and a forward who should have been coming back hard.
Skinner is my favorite part of the Oilers season by a landslide.
I would say LD and CMD, but I “suppose” being in a 1&2 race for points leaders isn’t as exciting anymore…. 🙂
Oilers are likely to be on the outside looking in at a playoff spot on the eve of American Thanksgiving. That’s usually the kiss of death.
This team needs a coaching change to get untracked … like every season it seems. Just not good enough defensively and just too static in the offensive zone (aside from McDavid) … the forwards are constantly dusting the puck off instead of passing it around crisply like we saw them do in the playoffs. The defensemen don’t walk the line consistently enough to open up shooting lanes … I’m tired of the Bouch-bomb … he takes too long to wind up and it ends up getting blocked straight out of the offensive zone every time.
Jesse created some havoc, and was good tonight, but he’s still got just 1 goal this season. Foegele at least crashes the net hard, but Holloway and McLeod aren’t generating any scoring chances.
Holland should get out in front of this mess, put Jay out of his misery, and hire Trotz before another Western conference team does.
Problem is, they “just” signed him. And he was great with the team last year and in the minors the entire time he was there. Optics would look terrible if they fired him so soon. Tbh, I don’t think even Trotz could fix this team right now. The root problem is the defence. It’s not good enough. Everyone knows it, and opponents take advantage of it.
The optics will look terrible if the Oilers miss the playoffs. I could care less about the optics of firing a coach.
It’s the same defence as last season, sans Keith, who everyone here couldn’t wait to be rid of, never mind couldn’t get over the price paid to acquire him.
The alternative is a big trade that sends out (at a minimum) this year’s first, and one of Holloway/Broberg/Bourgault + Jesse/Yamo for cap ballast to “fix the defence” … only that defensemen is not going to come with the cache of having won 3 Stanley Cups, a Conn Smyth, and the Norris trophy.
There are a lot of things that are fixable. Leon is back to lazy passes and only shooting when he gets a cross-seam pass for a one-timer from his office. Bouchard needs stop cranking low percentage clappers from the blue line, pick his head up and get a wrist shot through from the point. Nurse needs to stop giving up the blue line and flopping all over the ice like he’s channeling the Cowboy. Jesse needs to park his butt one inch in front of the blue paint of the opposition goalie at all time. McDavid needs to stop trying to go 1-on-3 at 5v5 all the time.
I know Woodcroft is trying to gets his troops to correct these issues. I think he’s a good coach, but the team is not responding. He’s grasping at the same straws that Tippett did.
Before we blow all those assets, I’d prefer Holland to do the one thing that just costs money and doesn’t add to the cap … if Trotz is available, I want him hired before he ends up with the Canucks.
Leon is sleepwalking out there.
Russel, as swing man, played 31 games
Keith, no lower than 2nd pair, played 64 games.
*Around 2150 combined NHL games of experience.
Kulak and niemo played 38 games last year combined for edmonton. Primarily 3rd pairing.
*Around 350 games NHL games of NHL experience
Keiths passing…Combine that with I actually think even mikko, while not perfect, more aggressively handled the puck. May not have passed it like smith, but when it was dumped in, more often than not he stopped that pucks movement. BEHIND NET not coming around into corner. Corner way harder place for D to retrieve and turn it around. Especially not being used to it. This appears to be leading to a whole lot more problems on puck retrieval and breakout.
Playbook is out. If even remotely in question dump and chase our D. If those D do have clean possession teams are also already set to prevent what was working due to quicker turn around last year.
I dont believe coaching change is neccesssarily the answer but woody definitely needs to really focus on this area in practices and come up with some adjustments.
Does anyone know how to look at defensive zone time by year? I’d be suprised if it’s not substantially reverse.
Don’t like the results either right now, but firing the coach has to be about the worst thing I’ve read here tonight.
There’s an issue on defense as the team is adjusting to not having Keith’s leadership back there. The new FA goalie hasn’t found the range and the forward lines are dealing with injuries. You went up against a team that’s on fire.
You make some player moves and you give the coach time to find the right combo.
Look, Holland had a plan and trust me, it was not to play Kulak second pair. Broberg has screwed the entire defense. Hopefully he can get in the line up and make the difference that was expected.
Campbell never did return. Possibly some swelling affecting his vision.
EBUG was ready to go in.
From the department of obvious, the big difference was NJ put their chances away. Hyman, Nuge to make it 3-3, JP had a good game but still missed some goals. Agree the Devlis look like the Oil at the end of last season and Edm, just can’t get in sync
Pool, Janmark, and Kostin were our best players by my eye tonight. Again. Skinner destroyed all of our momentum and gave away the game with his blunder. Tough one for the rookie who’s been otherwise our lone bright spot this year.
We have now reverted all the way back to McD miracles and relentless forced cross-seam Drai one-timers on the PP.
Kane out for the season, Campbell now gone. This year’s one giant piece of poo.
I’m almost positive we are the only team that can be down 3 goals in the 3rd period and get a penalty called against them…consistently. Like 99% sure.
Is there a coach in this universe that can get a team with two top-5 players (in their primes) on it to be consistently good at hockey? There’s enough talent on this roster…more than enough. What the hell is wrong here?
Defence is just plain not good enough, and their are too many passengers that “play well” but don’t contribute to offensive.
Too be honest, if I were a betting man, I’d probably bet against the Oilers for making the playoffs this year. Nothing is going their way right now, and they don’t look or play at all like they did last spring.
Maybe they piss off the hockey world again and win the Bedard sweepstakes (even though they need defence WAY more than offensive). Reload and try again next year
I guess that’s what I meant by “reverting to McD miracles/Drai one-timers”…no one on the team will play hockey. They just only look to pass to the 2 superstars. Like they are unable to play the game of hockey without them. Even the lines they aren’t on, believe not getting scored on and dumping pucks in the offensive zone is a good shift.
I whole heartedly agree on the defense though…any team (including this teenager bean-pole NJD tonight) can walk around in our zone untouched. Our D is so soft and has zero edge to their game.
Neimo may not be great with the puck…but at least he punishes.guys for trying to play against him. Love watching him play. This season might be a massive failure…may as well give him more minutes and see if he takes off.
There are no indications that Kane is out for the season.
You just presuming Cambell is “gone”?
Kane gone for 3-4 months at best…that’s pretty much the season.
Campbell left in the 2nd period with an eye injury and wasn’t good enough to come back to just sit on a bench. Yep…I’d say he’s gone for a while.
Was an eye injury reported? Or made up?
This says ‘bloody nose’, and Campbell was ‘joking around following the injury’.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/oilers-g-jack-campbell-hurt-after-being-hit-by-puck-on-face-while-on-bench/
Projected to be back with 1-2 months in the season – I guess there is another way to view or spin it.
Eye injury? Gone a while? Could be, I guess – nothing reported on either of those.
Dont worry guys Chycruns playing. The next saviour trade is around the corner;)
That is not how you spell Karlsson! -).
Too be honest, Holland might be forced to grab him just to attempt to salvage the season. Kulak has been underwhelming, Murray is mostly terrible, Nemo and Broberg are not at the level they need them to be to make any real difference. Question is how do they fit him on the roster?
You would throw in a Puli or a Barrie and give up a 1st 2nd and Broberg. I am hoping for Edmondson trade buy a top 4 LD is my top priority for a trade
Didn’t say I would trade for him, just that Holland’s hand might be forced soon if he wants to attempt to save the season. I agree Edmondson would be a better target, but I highly doubt he’s available.
the more I think about it and how this season was “supposed” to have gone, the more depressed I get. The only thing that’s ever a sure fire lock on the oilers is that McD and Drai will put up top 5 points. Which is pointless if they can barely hold a playoff spot.
Murray reminds me of Turris. A day late and a dollar short. Every. Single. Time. Fack….Feels like a bad re-run.
OK. What do we have on D.
LHD
NURSE – De Facto #1. 25 mins a night. Solid if unspectacular.
KULAK – not great. Fall down softish?
NIEMO – Rookie.
MURRAY – #7 level
RHD
CECI – Solid. Low Event
BARRIE – Offensive. Soft D. Turnover machine
BOUCHARD – Offensive. Soft D. Turnover machine.
Where are our Steve Staois? Jason Smith style D men? SOLID. PLAY WITH AN EDGE. PLAY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PUCK. COMPETE 110%.
We are too soft overall on D.
We started well. Got scored on but didn’t let up and worked hard.
Then the devils picked it up and we couldn’t.
We flat out got outworked.
We have most of the tools we need except the, imo, most important one and that’s work ethic…
Oilers are the rich entitled kid that the rest of the NHL likes to beat up on. Never quite strong enough to win anything, constantly going up the standings then straight back down the standings.
Got out-goalied tonight too. Wasn’t just effort. And we had our chances:
HDCF 10-6 (8-6 at EVs)
The swing play was the Nuge chance that missed and then the puck coming back the other way and Tatar remarkably picking the rebound out of the air with good wood.
Well, on the bright side they killed off that penalty.
That was a weak ass slashing call
At this rate we’ll soon be back to checking the Lottery Simulator.
The teams structure is nothing like it was in the playoffs last year. They don’t break out the same, they don’t backcheck the same, they don’t generate in zone offense the same.
I honestly can’t even see structure…
Totally agree. Devils play like we did under Jay last season, lots of backtracking, lots of tough sticks, never give up on the battle, finish checks and skate your bloody ass off.
We’ve done it spurts this season, and even in spurts tonight, but we continue to shoot ourselves in the foot. Including shots by the rookie goalie, as we have to expect.
They all seem stoned out of their heads.
keith and smith covered up a lot of team deficiencies last spring. Out defence now is laughable. Doesn’t help that Campbell has been terrible up to this point, forcing them to play Skinner more than expected.
Bouchard is a shell of himself without Keith. Kulak is playing above his level for too long and Nurse has seemed to have lost a step since the injury.
this team will be lucky if they make 2nd wildcard. And that’s if the west stays mediocre like it has been to this point.
Calgary won by the same score that we lost tonight. If the Blues win tonight, Oilers will be on the outside looking in.
This is unacceptable for a team with the top two scoring players in the league.
Who would you rather have, Keith or Kane?
Vanicek has stymied the Oilers tonight.
He’s been really good
The Oilers had the 2nd best goalie on the ice tonight
Why would you start the same Goalie that lost to Jersey 2 weeks ago?
Hopefully they can build on that lol
Needed to score there
They finally call a penalty after it’s 5-2…
I think the Oilers are a couple of trades away from being a good team. Oh wait we’ve been saying that for years…..
Let’s hope they catch fire soon. At this rate the sample of games is getting large enough to be worrying. Really need Campbell and Bouch to find their games, get some secondary scoring, tighten up defensively, and play with more urgency.
Yup, the sample is starting to get large enough.
Hopefully Holland fires this bum Woodcroft!
Guy has no idea how to coach what a loser!
😉
Stick in the skate holder – somebody’s stick was where it shouldn’t have been. As usual, no call.
Way too easy, way too often
Hope Kulak is OK after that stick.
Could see Broberg on Wednesday if not.
I am fully expecting the oilers to be out of a playoff spot by next week
That is poor defence by Kulak but what a shot…..
That no call on Nurse…. standard… sigh
the stick was caught in his skate blade, I don’t understand how the official lets that go
I started typing “how is that not a penalty” then I just deleted it…why bother?
Defense trying to do it all by themselves. Barrie pays the price.
Pathetic display by the Oilers.
The pre season contenders are exposed as pretenders.
You’re usually jumping off a ledge at this point in the season. You’re remarkably optimistic this year.
😉
97 has had better shifts
Big save, that one
55 sighting
He’s actually approaching 10 minutes tonight…..
the game state was eyebrow raising
Jack, Pickard is hurt…..
Rodrigue’s time to shine.
🤣🤣
Devils play the puck with six skaters in their own zone and every official on the ice chooses to ignore it.
They’re definitely playing on slush out there.
that’s how you play the hockey. Two great shifts B2B
Of course that wouldn’t go.
Oh, Clouder – gotta bare down and bury that, just gotta….
Omigod
Nurse showing up in all the wrong places tonight.
4-2 NJ they just walked into the Oilers zone and scored as casually as an 11 year old walking home from church.
Game over.
Yep
Not a good rebound there but where did Barrie go?
that’s a back breaker
Dunno where Barrie was going on that 2on2, but Nurse has to be better at the opposition blueline too.
3-1 down in the 3rd Oilers look 1 more goal away from totally collapsing. Nurse just made a pathetic play behind his goal and coughed up the puck like an idiot.
NJ show little respect for the Oilers forechecking them with alacrity.
Nuge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesse again with net front presence. Liking the big Finn’s game tonight!