That was super frustrating to watch. Another year with a team that is not ready when the season starts I guess, and it could not have gone much worse than it did, so it's only up from here I guess. Very happy that it looks like we have goaltending this year though.
I thought Bennett and Versteeg looked pretty good, but sadly Brouwer killed every play he was in on, so get Jagr in there and Brouwer out and we might have a really good line! So far Tanner Glass is making a decent impression as well. I thought the fourth line seemed to have some good chemistry and I really want to see Hathaway stay with the big team, but of course Brouwer will slot in as RW instead of Hathaway next game and then we no longer have a good fourth line.
Get Matt Bartkowski away from the ice immediately! All I saw from him was blind passes up the board and him getting stuck in his own zone for long stretches.
Also, I wonder what the Oilers would look like without McDavid, there was not one single Oiler forward outside of McDavids line except maybe for Kassian who was noticable tonight.
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