12-30-2016, 12:50 PM
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#2561
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Rocky Mt House
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Yeah Elliot started the season as the starter
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12-30-2016, 03:57 PM
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#2562
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Originally Posted by Yrebmi
Yeah Elliot started the season as the starter
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I think anyone would be hard pressed to identify a clear-cut "starter" in Calgary at this juncture. Elliot and Johnson are pretty equal in my view.
And Edmonton is no good.
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12-30-2016, 04:06 PM
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#2563
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 55...Can you see us now?
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Originally Posted by dash_pinched
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David Staples doing his best minister of propaganda routine...no pressure on the player:
If he can keep up this rate of scoring, or improve on it, the Oil may be looking at a Top 6 attacking winger in the kid.
Another one!
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12-30-2016, 04:55 PM
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#2564
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by verda13
Wasn't Elliott a number 1 back then?
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He wasn't playing like a number 1, and lost the job outright soon thereafter. Based on this season's performance, I think you have to call him the backup in retrospect.
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12-30-2016, 06:37 PM
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#2565
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hyperbole Chamber
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Originally Posted by McG
David Staples doing his best minister of propaganda routine...no pressure on the player:
If he can keep up this rate of scoring, or improve on it, the Oil may be looking at a Top 6 attacking winger in the kid.
Another one!
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They're going to have to convince the league to increase roster sizes to have 5 lines for all these superstar forwards.
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12-30-2016, 06:47 PM
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#2566
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by McG
David Staples doing his best minister of propaganda routine...no pressure on the player:
If he can keep up this rate of scoring, or improve on it, the Oil may be looking at a Top 6 attacking winger in the kid.
Another one!
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Staples is becoming a caricature of himself. He's so desperate to stay on side with oil mgmt he can't bring himself to say a negative word about the team or decisions made by PC.
He refuses to accept that without lucking into McDavid the oilers would be perhaps no further along than they were 5 years ago.
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12-30-2016, 07:25 PM
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#2567
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by McG
David Staples doing his best minister of propaganda routine...no pressure on the player:
If he can keep up this rate of scoring, or improve on it, the Oil may be looking at a Top 6 attacking winger in the kid.
Another one!
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What rate of scoring? I mean seriously. The kid looks like he's having a career year this year in the W and he's on track for 20 to 25 goals.
But I guess the Oilers and their fans wouldn't know how to evaluate talent unless he's the consensus number one pick by the hockey news.
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12-30-2016, 08:45 PM
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#2568
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Houston
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Random
He wasn't playing like a number 1, and lost the job outright soon thereafter. Based on this season's performance, I think you have to call him the backup in retrospect.
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All Im saying is the Flames didn't put in their backup due to the fact they were playing the lowely Oilers.
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12-30-2016, 10:33 PM
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#2569
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by verda13
All Im saying is the Flames didn't put in their backup due to the fact they were playing the lowely Oilers.
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Thanks for clearing that up Gully.
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12-31-2016, 06:48 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Verda is not wrong though. At the time, Elliott was our #1, and the point that was made about how we get backup goalies far more often than the Oilers stands true.
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12-31-2016, 08:35 AM
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#2571
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 55...Can you see us now?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by verda13
All Im saying is the Flames didn't put in their backup due to the fact they were playing the lowely Oilers.
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awesome! Lowely Oilers! it writes itself, even for Greaser fans!
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12-31-2016, 10:49 AM
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#2572
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Lifetime Suspension
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Darn they have a lot of loser points.
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12-31-2016, 12:33 PM
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#2573
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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The Edmonton Oilers schedule is a joke. 19 times this season they face a team on the oppositions second night of back to backs. On the flip side, they only play a rested team on their second night of back to backs 8 times.
Looks like the NHL is doing everything in their power to get the Oilers and their new building into the playoffs, wouldn't want to see 11 straight seasons of failure.
Last edited by dieHARDflameZ; 12-31-2016 at 09:15 PM.
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12-31-2016, 02:00 PM
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#2574
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Section 203
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Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ
Wrong thread but I didn't see the OOT for today started yet. The Edmonton Oilers schedule is a joke. 19 times this season they face a team on the oppositions second night of back to backs. On the flip side, they only play a rested team on their second night of back to backs 8 times.
Looks like the NHL is doing everything in their power to get the Oilers and their new building into the playoffs, wouldn't want to see 11 straight seasons of failure.
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What do you mean wrong thread? This exact topic, with those figures, is being discussed by multiple people, about five posts up.
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12-31-2016, 02:21 PM
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#2575
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Central Alberta
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I think the NHL schedule maker must be a huge Oiler fan. It is ridiculous. 2nd time in a week that a team plays the night before in Vancouver and then must travel to Edmonton to face a team on 2 full days of rest. Not surprising, just like with officials. What is a penalty shot for McDavid isn't for every other player in the league. That penalty shot they gave him in game 1 still pisses me off.
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12-31-2016, 02:46 PM
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#2576
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Franchise Player
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The schedule is what it is. Too much whining and not enough E=NG going on right now.
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12-31-2016, 03:21 PM
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#2577
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Franchise Player
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If Rejean didn't have the Oilers to whine about he wouldn't have anything to post. You'd think after 15 years he'd have some new material!
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12-31-2016, 03:24 PM
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#2578
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Lifetime Suspension
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haha, this season reminded me V follows hockey and likes the Oilers. 
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12-31-2016, 03:25 PM
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#2579
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Franchise Player
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Well, not like like. But I have watched a couple games this year. I might even get a TV, that's how excited I am!
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12-31-2016, 03:43 PM
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#2580
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Section 203
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Originally Posted by V
Well, not like like. But I have watched a couple games this year. I might even get a TV, that's how excited I am!
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Getting a TV is a good idea. If you haven't bought one since the Oilers were in the playoffs, you are in for a treat. They now have high definition TVs. Even though an Oilers playoff game has not been broadcast in HD, nor has there been a tweet about an Oilers playoff game, all the rest of the teams have had this experience.
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