This is the Oilers projected opening night roster in July 2015. Talent has never been the problem for Edmonton, not since the Connor McDavid draft in June 2015. If we’re honest, the team should have turned north by 2012, and the fact it didn’t shows you one of the home truths about losing franchises: valuing your own players incorrectly brings misery every time.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN MARCH
- At home to: OTT, CAR (Expected 1-1-0) 1-1-0
- On the road to: VEG, COL, DAL, STL (Expected 2-2-0) 2-0-0
- At home to: NAS, SJS, FLA, TBAY (Expected 2-1-1)
- On the road to: UTA, VEG (Expected 1-1-0)
- At home to: ANA, SEA (Expected 1-1-0)
- Expected Record: 7-6-1, 15 points in 14 games
- Actual Record: 3-1-0
- Season Record: 32-25-8, 72 points in 65 games
I’m not sure where it started but someone online called out the Ryan McLeod for Matt Savoie trade, holding it up as supreme evidence that the Oilers don’t value Oilers players properly. My question: where have you been? I would point to the Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson deal, or Jordan Eberle for Ryan Strome for Ryan Spooner transaction tragedy.
Yes! The Oilers, as an organization, don’t trust in-house solutions. However, on its own, that isn’t fatal. What has kept the team from getting optimal return is the constant emphasis placed on older free agents who eat cap and force the trade of McLeod, Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway. It’s addled thinking for sure.
However, it’s even more of an issue when it comes to team building. For instance, Mattias Ekholm is 35, Jake Walman is 30 and injury prone, and Darnell Nurse is 31 and reportedly in a trade discussion at the deadline. Let’s ask ourselves what Glen Sather would do? Well, when the time came to trade Lee Fogolin, Slats had Jeff Beukeboom and Marty McSorley ready to roll. The current Oilers have no real replacement for Ekholm, Walman and Nurse unless Spencer Stastney develops into that player. The Oilers are just re-entering the era of planning for the future, after Ken Holland eschewed development over shopping in free agency.
There are two things I want to say on this subject: First, Bowman has done a solid job in fixing the forward depth with Euro and college signings. Josh Samanski is a prime example. His efforts on defense (Damien Carfagna, Paul Fischer, Asher Barnett) are developing but will take longer to arrive in the NHL. There is hope that the team will go back to developing defensemen again. Hopefully that happens before Ekholm fades too much.
The second thing I want to mention is Matt Savoie. The idea that Matt Savoie is some kind of error mystifies me. I will give you that the Oilers should have kept McLeod and the other youth, but by any measure Matt Savoie is delivering now and at a significant level. I’m flummoxed by anyone choosing Savoie as the example of the Oilers wasting youth. My God, people. There are so many better examples.
On the Lowdown today, we’ll be joined by Scott Wheeler at The Athletic to discuss the state of Oilers prospect pool (he has a new ranking), and Bagged Milk from Oilers Nation will help us tee-up tonight’s game against the Stars. Noon to 2pm, Sports 1440 and YouTube.
Oilers goaltending depth chart:
1) Ingram
2) Pickard
3) Tomkins / Ungar
Wouldn’t be surprised to see Jarry waived Saturday. He will have deserved it. Now .855 as an Oiler.
Just checked out the sorties from this game at NST.
Of the 6 forward lines they deployed repeatedly at 5v5, only 1 of them was negative in scoring chances. McDavid’s. 3 for, 4 against. 48% expected goals. But -3 at 5v5.
Only one line was negative in high danger scoring chances at 5v5. Draisaitl’s. And it was just 0 HDCF to 1 HDCA.
But Dallas had more scoring chances and more high danger scoring chances at 5v5 overall.
I’m not 100% sure why that is. It’s curious.
But what I think it means is that the Stars ate the Oilers alive between full changes. ie, 1 or 2 players changed and the whole team went into disarray with possession and on defense.
What that also tells me is that the Oilers system is reliant more on familiarity between linemates than it is on an actual defensive structure.
The PK gave up 2 goals. One was entirely on Nurse, though Jarry didn’t play it well. Reacted too late. The other was entirely on Jarry.
Overall, 54% for Dallas to 46% for Edmonton in expected goals for at 5v5. It was close enough that it should’ve been a 1 goal game at 5v5. But it was a 3 goal chasm in that game state.
At 5v4, Dallas had 4 scoring chances for, 1 against. 1 high danger chance for. That’s it. Edmonton actually played very well on the PK tonight.
At 5v4, Edmonton has 8 HDCF. 1 against.
So at the end of the day, Edmonton’s regular even strength lines outplayed Dallas’s. Edmonton’s PK limited chances of a very good Dallas PP commendably. And they absolutely dummied Dallas’s PK, but were snake bitten.
The 3 differences between an extremely close game were:
1. Jarry. Was awful.
2. Nurse. Was a primary culprit for, I believe, 3 chances that became goals against.
3. Coaching. If the Oilers regular lines are outchancing Dallas but Edmonton was ultimately outchanced at 5v5, it’s because there’s chaos when regular linemates aren’t all together.
But I really don’t like the narrative that they didn’t play well. They played well enough to win, even if it was still sloppy. And I’m guessing that’s why McDavid and several other players were playing with such visible frustration.
Overall (ie, game in all states)?
The Oilers had 53% of the shots. 52% of the scoring chances. 56% of the high danger scoring chances. 59%(!!) of the expected goals for….
And 22% of the actual goals for.
Jarry cost them the game. That’s the story. 🤷🏻♂️
Great recap, i’d toss nurse onto the refuse pile as well
Good post for sure but don’t forget score effects. It was very noticeable in this game. Once the Stars got up 5-zip they were watching for the exits. Don’t get sucked into the Jack/Louie narrative that the oilers are “right back in it” they never were.
I commented on this elsewhere, but thanks for raising it here, too. Even without accounting for score effects, however, the first period had fewer scoring chances against the Oilers than the latter two. They didn’t produce many chances themselves, but they did limit them. They should’ve been down maybe a goal.
And if the 2nd had been a total write-off, I’d agree. But they really did pick it up about half way through, scoring was fairly even (3-2 Dallas, yes?) and the period was pretty even with scoring chances.
So you go into the 3rd, I believe, 9-6 in scoring chances against v for. Maybe down 1 goal, if you just have average goaltending.
Obviously the 3rd really saw heavy score effects. But the point is that if they goalie’d kept them in it, they’d be down a goal going into the 3rd based on chances alone. Chances probably stay more even and Dallas slightly outchances Edmonton to finish the game, but the Oilers have a very strong chance to keep it close, tie it, or even win.
Hockey at the NHL level is such a tenuous sport, a call here, a favourable (or not) bounce there, a moment of inattention there, an untimely broken stick here, a deflection there, so luck & momentum often plays a massive role.
I think when a team is on a roll like Dallas, they are probably getting all the bounces and the breaks and the shots off the posts and crossbars are going in for them and the opposition’s are not.
I think the first goal was goaltender interference, so why wasn’t it called or challenged? Benn clearly contacted Jarry in the blue paint and pushed him deep into his goal, that is obvious goaltender interference. That could have changed the course of the game, for example.
The Oilers are very inconsistent and very unlucky, Jarry being the unluckiest of all…
This unique nature of the game, with it’s very often unpredictable & weird “ball”trajectory, also explains why hockey players are so strangely superstitious.
Yes to most of this. But Jarry’s positioning and fundamentals are crushing him. There’s no way Aubry isn’t telling him this, either. They scored 2 on him from range where he saw the puck the whole way from the stick. Even one of those is bad. 2 is ridiculous.
I said the team needed to come through the gauntlet of the Carolina, Vegas, Avs, Stars games 2-2 to stay in it. It wasn’t pretty, but they did it and still have a decent chance at a division title. Amazing!
I think it was better to beat the Avs for confidence against them, and get a wake up call (another) against the Stars who they have bested in the playoffs. Hopefully they show up with an attitude against the Blues
B to B be damned, as I track games lots of teams win both games
The reality is, we’re in a fight for the playoffs, never mind playoff position, and that is the fifth straight Tristan Jarry start that has resulted in a loss, featuring a total of 28 goals against (not entirely all on him, Knoblauch pulled him in anger after five goals in that Anaheim game, and Ingram actually took the 6-5 loss).
How is this possibly sustainable?
Every game is critical at this point, and he’s a scheduled loss.
I would say that Jarry was excellent for a solid stretch in Pittsburgh and then solid for a few games in Edmonton, then he injured himself and has not recovered behind what has been a terrible team D. The one period in recent memory where the team played well against a top tier team and he saved 12/13 in cold. Everyone’s patience is understandably low, mine included, but you’re all forgetting why (hint: it was Skinner, including a below replacement goaltending performance for October-November as was becoming an annual tradition of putting his team on the back foot)
Jarry isn’t the goalie I would have traded for (Nurse, Howard, and every first round pick for the next half decade for Shesterkin would have been my move).
But Jarry’s poor performance is being framed in an odd, non-statistical historical revisionist way to prop up Skinner. Skinner was mediocre for years in both regular season and playoffs, a sample size of hundreds of games, behind a team that largely had a high xGF% and lower xGA/60. Jarry’s been bad here for just over a baker’s dozen with some extenuating circumstances to consider.
Criticize Jarry all you want (I just did), but let’s not pretend Skinner was the answer. The most charitable things one can say about him were that he seemed like a nice and grounded young man, and for a generally average goalie he had a value contract (until end of this season). I’m sorry but it’s true.
Oh goodness, I would have given the Rangers a blank cheque for Shesterkin. But it’s a pipe dream. A Russian who’s made his home in New York ain’t comin’ to Oil Town.
Unfortunately, that applies to Sorokin too.
It was tongue in cheek. But the point was you got to give to get, and a 2nd and Kulak wasn’t going to solve a huge hole that every team values
He wasn’t the answer but he was decent and cheap which would have allowed us to get a stronger partner for him – we don’t have that luxury anymore paying Jarry 5.3
How much is Skinner getting next year?
I am starting to wonder if the Olympic loss is in McDavid’s head. A lot of suboptimal play and decision-making.
If so, I’d expect it to be out of the system once playoffs roll around, but he seems off.
Could be a number of factors, not the least of them being he’s tired, in a game where the team is getting it’s tail kicked and it’s a long season. Not making excuses, but when you get to this point of the year, discipline flags.
He’s fatigued and playing hurt. Don’t think it’s a mental thing.
Remember when we were looking for a goalie coach and Gregor (and probably others) were pitching the idea of a goalie “department” instead of a coach? That is sounding pretty good right now. I put forth commenter D5chlo and Kyle Woodley as candidates to lead this department
Kevin Woodley?
Yes. It didn’t look right to me. Thanks
Money puck says xGF was 3-2 all game states.
That may be one of the worse goaltending performances I can recall in the past couple of years. I do not profess to have studied Jarry for his career, but this is an ostensibly different goalie from the one we saw win his first couple of games for the orange and blue. I hope it’s injury.
It was the right move to start him in the scheduled loss night, and sweet baby J they better come out to win tomorrow against StL or else the first 2 games of the trip were for not.
On the positive, in these last 18 games they are 1-1 against the hardest strength of schedule teams, with only 3 left and ANA is one of them (COL, TBL the others). I had 2-3 as a reasonable goal and I think that’s still feasible.
Of the 6 “easiest,” St. Louis is in that group though, and it would be ideal if they could go at least 4-2 here.
Still 5 more against SJ (2), VGK (2), and SEA with big implications.
Yup. All game states the Oilers outplayed Dallas. Now, that’s a bit skewed by Dallas taking their foot off the gas in the 3rd.
But still. Dallas was only up 9-6 in high danger chances going into the 3rd.
If goaltending were equal, they might be up 1 goal from that.
This doesn’t not at all match my eye test. I thought the Oilers got steamrolled last night, right from the opening puck drop…again.
Followed the same pattern as the Colorado and Vegas games. Allow them to have possession, but keep shots to the outside and tie up the front of the net. It felt crappy because of the goals, I think. And because they did nothing offensively.
So they didn’t start ready to push offensively, no. But defensively they played relatively sound, goals notwithstanding.
Edmonton only gave up 4 scoring chances all period. That was better than the 2nd or 3rd. And by eye, they played better in the 2nd and 3rd. Which is why these metrics are really important to keep an eye on. They push back on our confirmation bias.
Another mind numbing effort after playing two of the best games all season prior. On the bright side side if they can get a win tomorrow in St. Louis, this will be a very successful road trip
Didn’t think effort was the biggest issue. I mean, they had a weaker 1st period, yes, but should’ve come out of it down by 1, not by 3.
They were mostly just kind of rusty on offense. They limited Dallas to fewer scoring chances than they had in either the 2nd or 3rd, so their defensive play was actually reasonable.
When I was young, a game like that would have made me so mad that I’d have been shaking like a dog shitting a peach pit. Today, I sit more in passive disbelief. What a terrible performance by Jarry and, because it’s so fresh, what on earth sort of defense was Walman attempting on that last GA?
Cody Ceci is the second worst PKer in the league over the last dozen games at 16.72 GA/60.
Darnell Nurse is at 26.6.
Just watched that 4th goal, Johnston’s PP marker. Didn’t notice it at the time, but Nurse was standing within arm’s length of Johnston and just sat at the edge of the crease poking his stick at him like an analog pokecheck in NHL 94 on Super Nintendo. 😂
Nurse is such a fuddy duddy, it’s hilarious.
Yet they keep throwing him out there! He may set a record for PK ineptitude. And he keeps doing the same things. Terrible gaps, backed way too far in, screening his goalie, bad stick position, not clearing the net, not boxing out, not interrupting cross crease passes.
Are the coaches happy with his performance?
Nurse sucks. Jarry sucks. Pressbox both of these bums before they kill our chance at making the playoffs
Pickard going to be coming back and jarry in the ahl
Works for me.
Jarry makes Campbell look good.
Wicked name good sir
No question about it.
Hofer is probably in net tomorrow night (Binnington played tonight in Carolina). Likely six rookies playing tomorrow. Mailleux and LIndstein on D. Snuggerud, Dvorsky, Stenberg, and Finley up front.
Easy peasy! -).
Rookies often have breakout nights vs the Oilers
That was the perfect time for Nurse to grab Meyers. You’re not winning so maybe show your Captain you care.
Agree a couple Jarry would want back, but overall d has not given much support tonight
I’d rather have Stu back
I counted 3 *bad* ones. 2 that the majority of NHL goalies would’ve had.
Defense wasn’t solid tonight, no. But they didn’t give up many great chances despite that. Like, Nurse giving up that 2 on 1 for the 2nd goal? No bueno. But Murphy took away the pass.
It was a cannon from above the faceoff dot that he saw the whole way. And let it in. NHL goalies save those 96-97% of the time.
It’s almost like no team is prepared when the 2nd pp unit is playing out there….like i swear to gord it seems uncanny.
I realize I’m going to be the contrarian here, but starting the scrum and being penalized at the end of the second wasn’t some commendable instance of team motivation from Connor and Leon, it was a selfish temper tantrum.
Your team has scored two straight goals to pull back the deficit to three. But now instead of having a powerplay to start the third, you give Dallas an early powerplay of their own, leading to a goal and effectively icing the game.
If McDrai had been performing better since the Olympics I could understand it more, but they’ve both been sloppy and poor compared to what we know they’re capable of, especially when it comes to passing/puck possession and defence.
Getting frustrated and trying to call out your team for poor play can obviously work, but it goes over like a led balloon if the person doing it hasn’t been performing up to snuff themselves.
And that’s not even getting into the theoretical consequences of either of them getting injured during a needless scrum.
Bang on.
Let’s not mentioned the PP before that where the shots started off 13-14 Dallas and ended 13-20 Dallas with McDavid in the box
They weren’t winning this game at all, and honestly, I’m more annoyed they stayed out for most of the PP down 6-2 when they should have been resting for tomorrow
I don’t disagree except for the fact that extra two to Drai was lame – that was barely a slash.
It should have been evened up (although McDavid had taken himself out of the ongoing PP).
Podz playing so well lately. Hope he can turn into a 25-25 guy with defensive awareness and physicality by next year.
He’s removing any doubts I might have had about his contract extension. Looks like an excellent bit of work by Bowman right now.
25G would be a lot without PP time. 15 this year so will probably finish in the 18G range.
I think he could get close to 25 but, without PP time, probably not.
Podz has been robbed twice in front and Henrique and Bouchard hit posts – this game is really tied.
Haha
Lordy.
97 with a minus 3 tonight seems concerning
Tell me again about his 52% goal share.
Don’t think I’ve ever told you about his 52% goal share. In fact I haven’t brought this up to anyone. Can you let me know when I did?
We finally have a team forming this year. Samanski you are a beauty.
To cheer myself up I’m watching some YouTube video on a professor who is an expert in the folly of aerial warfare used to win a military objective in a country
It’s been said a lot tonight, but if Jarry is a scheduled loss, how long can this continue?
[I realize this isn’t entirely on Jarry tonight, but, well, but.]
You’ve got Bowman’s ego etc etc in the way, I guess.
But they have a history of at least rallying around Picks and giving him run support.
Can you really keep playing Jarry? If if was November, maybe? Now, there aren’t a lot of low stakes games..
I also get that on this back to back this is the less winnable game, so fine, Jarry got tonight, Ingram tomorrow, and the fallout from the Colorado incident, with Jarry coming in and not imploding, feeds it. Like, fine, Jarry was the one who had to start, and he got through to a win in Colorado.
But man oh man. Games are getting few. We can’t keep running this out there.
Ingram and Picks.
If that’s not enough, thow Ungar in and see if he can do some Hammond/Binnington stuff.
It can’t keep going like it is.
I hope the Stars hang 10 on Jarry and we never see him in and Oilers jersey again.
Brutal trade by Bowman.
I’m going to excuse the trade. However there are numerous factors that led to where we are now. Some go all the way back to 2015.
Edit: long winded rant
I’ll focus on this season.
1. Training camp cannot extend 20 games into the season. Not having any sort of chemistry when the season starts. (On the coach).
2. In the midst of the extended training camp, the coach loads up McDrai to start the season, causing a rather large imbalance on the remaining three lines. (On the coach)
3. Changing instead of tweaking the systems (not 100% sure the degree of changes, it’s been discussed at length). (On the Coach).
4. Too much turnover in personnel (coaches and players). The lack of familiarity has been a contributing factor. (On the GM mostly, some on KK’s selection of staff).
5. Systems or no systems, the players refusal to adapt and committ to limiting the risk in their play. Their apparent ambivalence to playing a mature, repeatable 200 foot game. (On the players).
There are more that I’m not listing but to circle back to the goaltending, the tenders have been mostly been left to fend for themselves. This is not excusing some bafflingly soft goals by every goalie.
We keep saying, myself included, just need league average goaltending to be successful. This may be true but I think to have.910 to .920 SV% we should realize the currency exchange involved.
What I mean by that is to say that for a goalie behind our team to have that SV% here, it’s equivalent to.925 to .935 on another team. There is no other reason why goalies come to die in Edmonton.
Edit: rant over
Annnnd another mid-slot shot that Jarry saw the whole way. Didn’t even get a piece of it.
G-d, I can’t remember an Oilers goalie this fundamentally crappy since Ty Conklin. His fundamentals and his angles are complete trash.
You should have been here for the Stuart Skinner era. 😉
hahaha I get the point, but I see 2 very different issues with the 2.
Skinner’s was a combination of below average athleticism, challenges with sustained focus, and playing too deep in the net.
Jarry’s got bad fundamentals and isn’t as athletic as he was in his early 20s to compensate for it. And his angles are *really* bad.
To use familiar comparables, I think Skinner’s issues were closer to Koskinen’s. And Jarry’s are closer to Campbell’s.
Please don’t use familiar comparables. We’ve all got too much PTSD from them.
He’s actually looking similar to Skinner lately. Can’t flare his pads out, often not square to the shot, poor rebound control, and uncontrolled sliding after the rebound
Why not waive Jarry and call up Picks. Couldn’t be worse than Jarry.
The Jarry trade was an all-timer.
Jack Campbell says hello.
I wish Connor Clattenburg was playing…
If he has spent the last two months since re-assignment working on the skills he was sent down to work on, he could potentially have been ready but, unfortunately, he didn’t want to play hockey when he was re-assigned but he simply hunted for hits and fights and got himself hurt in his second game back and hasn’t played since.
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Yea his numbers in the ahl are awful, might not even be a player there
After running our Goalie with no response opposing teams know everyone is free game. A frikkin 20 year-old kid can’t get here soon enough.
Guessing Jarry sealed his fate tonight. Knobby might be playing some 5D Chess head games with Dallas.
Wouldn’t read too much into this one.
We are certainly learning who the number 1 goalie is. It’s Ingram or bust this year. Jarry looks to have zero confidence. Always over playing angles and sliding around the crease.
Remember when Skinner outdueled Oettinger in the playoffs?
Which time?
Remember when Skinner got pulled in the playoffs and Pickard had to win the series for the team?
You should because it happened twice.
Good thing he wasn’t seriously injured two nights ago
I don’t think it’s confidence. Because he played very confidently last night. And played well.
You can usually tell a lack of confidence through body language. Either regular disappointment and anger. Or confusion. Or despondency.
Pickard was lacking confidence this year. Campbell and Koskinen struggled with confidence.
He’s playing aggressively. And he’s called out the team. He hasn’t adjusted his angles or fundamentals, and that’s the tell. There’s no way this goalie coach hasn’t been pointing these things out and trying to get him to change. He’s resisting any change to his game, whether conscious or unconscious. And then got into it with teammates.
To me, that suggests a guy who thinks it’s more on his team than it is on him. But there are a few flags they are Amber to Red for me.
Yeah, when you call out your teammates in practice, and then go out an lay an egg, it doesn’t exactly do wonders for your credibility.
I will never understand how they made the Jarry trade without retention
OP would know if it helps the cap situation, but there’s a chance he’s buried in the AHL next year.
I’m hoping for a more reliable goalie to tandem with Ingram, but hard to get ones hopes up.
League min is up to $850K next season so they could bury $1.225MM in the minors – the rest would count on the cap.
Damn New York Rangers and the Wade Redden situation for being the catalyst for that rule change (not being able to bury the full cap hit in the minors).
He has signing bonuses on the last two years of his contract, so the buyout is ugly.
Nurse, Frederic and Jarry are in the top seven buyout searches at PuckPedia.
https://puckpedia.com/player/tristan-jarry/buyout
Walman will be joining them soon.
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I just got home and turned it on. Looks like Bob got into the hair dye. 🙂
Never trust the 3 game win game all season
Does anyone recall if the Oilers interviewed a slate of GM candidates or just hired Bowman without any real process?
I don’t know if they interviewed others but he was certainly the only one we were hearing about, as far as I can remember.
I think Bowman was the plan all along.
I know there will be plenty of “good for him” on the Al Gore tonight, but McDavid injury would absolutely end the season. One worries about hands, concussion and back.
Man I’m not trying to pile on here but those optics don’t look good. Your captain is clearly trying to send you a message to get engaged and the guy who should be engaging, Trent Frederic, is smiling with Jamie Benn and tossing pucks in the crowd to kids.
They got us the nicest tough guy hahaha
It’s hockey and I love the leadership. He’s been a prick all night. Go til you blow!
That’s why Hyman has to get in there. You don’t want Bouchard getting hurt either.
I’ll be disappointed if Frederic, Nurse, Pods, etc don’t go hard after some Stars.
They have a game tomorrow night. the two points tomorrow night matter.
Agreed LT. The knuckledragger in me really wants to see some blood. That’s just frustration talking though.
I hear you. I’m fine with a role player taking a run, but they need the St. Louis game. Glad to see McDavid back out on the ice.
I’d like to see more out of Hyman at the end there. Feel free to give a face wash at least while you’re Captain is going off. Watching Buffalo scrap TB the other night, made me wish our boys would get into a battle together.
Hyman ripped the helmet off of McDavids opponent.
That was some not very good powerplaying there boys.
Three times in three games they’ve really let their foot off the gas and it’s gotten weird.
Act like you give a damn. I like it.
I’m hoping that he was tired after that. He was bent over before leaving the ice at the end of the period. Him being that frustrated doesn’t bode well if the Cup keeps playing hide and seek with us.
Better PK this time.
Also, 45 posts in 3 games means you can’t finish well enough
Correct. Classic announcer BS that it would be a good thing.
Goal 5 is a beauty, Jarry gets a 7 and the two defenders get 6 each for backing into the crease wtf. 97 gets a 6 as well doesn’t come back hard and leaves the third guy alone and is standing covering no one
If you’re going to play the blame game let’s try to make it more meaningful.
1) Each goal for or against is allotted 10 points in the blame game. Positive 10 on a goal for and negative 10 on a goal against.
1a) Exception, if no Oiler was to blame because everyone did their job but shit happened anyway, a rare no points may be appropriate.
2). If you play the game you must allocate the full 10 points on each goal or as per 1a 0 points.
3) All 10 points must be allocated to Oilers players.
Normally I agree with you but this teams keystone cop antics have forced a generous scale for allocation of screwups. I like your rules but will do mine thank you. It’s not a limited scale, 2 objectively idiotic event can occur on the same play and by splitting it in half the error is diminished from what actually occurred. Watching this team suggests that we can get multiple nonsense simultaneously.
Blind play. Awful puck management
Are you all noticing players holding the puck in the D zone looking for a pass up ice? And it going nowhere?
That’s not good. Flow killer I say boo
Goal 4 on the PK, D not defending against players but playing mystery zone (where you cover an area but not the forward in front of net ). I see nurse doing the big reach cause he to far away, but I give the culp 8 to KK a 4 to nurse and I say bad things about everyone on the ice.
Beauty tip by Dickenson. This is a play that the Oilers don’t seem to use much.
Wtf was dickenson doing, going to stand in front of the net, he shows up his teammates and immediately gets benched
A PPG and it’s a two goal game
Good push back men. Good push back.
Good save by Jarry on that screen
Just tighten up the rush chances and you’re cooking.
Dallas employing the Nurse defending technique
Was going to say this but thought was to much
New player with some push back