Just an absolutely amazing season so far. Man, those Hanifin and Lindholm deals are looking better every day. Anyone think Johnny signs this week with family in town?
I wish but I don’t believe so. I think both Flames and Johnny want to wait. Johnny has a good season going so no rush for him, Flames have a good season going and depending on their playoff (if they make it) it may dictate the outcome.
Tonight look for the Flames to score first because all teams score first on the Oilers.
7 regulars out tonight. It could really ugly.
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I did not know Oil were playing flames today. Yet had a dream I was watching a BoA and losing 6-2. I hope it doesn't mean anything
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McDavid evades the Selke potential winner Lindholm in his own zone, circles behind his net to wait for his line to complete a change.
McDavid looks up, with determination in his eyes. Does one crossover, gets to the blue line, passes the puck to Hyman who one touches it back to McDavid with a full head of steam.
McDavid puts the puck through Johnny hockey’s legs on the zone entry, flips the puck up and bats it through the legs of Hanifin.
Markstrom stares at McDavid with wide eyes as he comes in and shoots it top gloves. HFOil goes wild, for a second the flames fans shut their collective mouths.
It’s 7-1 Calgary leads with a minute to go.
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Won’t bother watching this. Gonna be embarrassing.
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This one gonna get ugly tonight. I’ll be surprised if Calgary scores less than 4 and even more surprised if we score more than one.
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Hoping for some energy and fight right out of the gate. I gotta see it.
Nintendo Switch on standby in case this gets ugly.
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So whose ready to be sad?
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If we try to linematch against them, we'll lose.
I hate to say it, but Calgary's got some depth this season and Sutter is doing a great job spreading out wealth and putting the young guys in positions to succeed.
Comparatively our bottom six is a wasteland of has-beens and fringe prospects.
Holland needs to make a trade.
In the meantime, we need the top guys to win us this game. Again. Still.
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We're stuck in a rut along with having injury troubles and Calgary is hotter than hot right now.
Can't say I'm excited for this one.
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I'm gonna watch this game because I hate myself
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And of course the Kings tie their game with 25 seconds left.
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We down 1-0 yet ?
Dumb & Dumber(er)
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Friendly reminder that it has been 576 days since the Edmonton Oilers knew they needed a different goalie tandem than Mikko and Mike Smith without a change.
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Kosk is in net. We will win
Maybe
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f*** that's a lot of injuries and those bottom 6 forward lines and bottom D pairing looks pretty suspect...
BUT
Smith isn't in the lineup...
BIG win for the Oilers comin' up.
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Most disappointing Oiler this season so far is: .......................
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If you mean player: Smith
If you mean the organization: Holland
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Koskinen should teach Smith how to challenge a shooter instead of staying inside net
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"I said Oiler fans would be conned by a goaltender"
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Smith is the most disappointing Oiler and it isn’t even close.
C’mon, Just Do the Hockey
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just shoot the puck into the net is how we win
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So you're supposed to be attacking with the extra player on the ice
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This has been objectively a terrible hockey game.
Looch Smash!
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Lol lucic hit was so big…
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Not a single Oiler went after Lucic after that hit. What the ####.
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Niems clobbers that p***y Andersson then Hrudey slobbers over Lucic love tapping Broberg into the boards. I can’t take this #### commentary
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LUCIC IS A ####ING BUM
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Why do they keep showing a replay of Lucic missing a hit?
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This game is almost impossible to listen to, also flames fans are embarrassing. Lucic misses Broberg, but makes a big noise and they lose their minds.
That Niemo hit was amazing
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Softest team in the league. Not even a glove to the face to Looch.
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Yeah I get Lucic is a big guy but the team has to at least cause a scrum there. Even when he slashed koskis pads there was no response. They had a bit of grit to them when Kane was added but it has since faded. Don’t like to see the no response
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Lucic on the PP.. is this a normal occurence?
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We’re gonna see that lucic hit 6 times.
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That caveman troglodyte literally just tackled Foegele there. Oh well, probably for the best no more PP’s lol
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You big slug Lucic
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It's the ####in Battle of Alberta and not a single player put Lucic on his ass after that hit. Just disappointing. Where's the energy on this team.
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Looch with the spear. Nothing.
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Lucic is a f***ing idiot
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Calgary looks moderately better, however this game is still VERY winnable for us. Looch was a heatseaking missle that period lol what a goon
Getting Darryl’ed Up
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I watched Sutter's presser today, it was painful.. Dude's taken way too many hits to the head.
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6 minutes in and it already feels like we're holding on for dear life.
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Yep looks like he'll face about 50 shots
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We got a shot!
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Holy crap a shot on goal
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Jesus calgary is playing some hard 1-4 hockey. Absolute snoozefest.
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So this game is not so much fun to watch
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Notice how the flames get a piece of every player on every play. That's grit and it adds up. Oilers have zero grit
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Oilers look unbelievably ####ty tonight.
Crazy how behind the play they look
Power Kill Penalty Shots
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If they only give up one breakaway every PP, we're ok
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We lead the league on breakaways allowed on the PP per 60
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Why the f*** does the other team ALWAYS get the best chance to score on an Oilers powerplay. Add this to the annoying habit thread.
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Yikes! That was close. Good thing Toffoli ran out of room. Credit to Koskinen for forcing him wide.
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f*** CALGARY, STAY OUT OF THE f***ING BOX.
I can't bare witness to this horse#### powerplay anymore.
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Or just take an offsetting penalty on purpose. Toss the puck over the glass with your hand
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That would at least be funny.
*Gets PP*
*Faceoff*
Puck comes to Benson who picks it up and:
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Ah crap another powerplay
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Lol shorthanded 2 on 1 against.
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Flames should just play dirty all game...their best chances have come on the PP
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You know it’s bad when you’re just glad they didn’t give up a chance on the PP LOL
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I find it funny that the Oilers were poor at even strength and had good Special Teams under Krueger, good at even strength and ####ty Special Teams under Mclellan, poor at even strength and good Special Teams again under Tippett and now back to good at even strength and ####ty Special Teams under Woodcroft. It has come full ####ty circle.
$9.25 million a year
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Wow nurse just went full dur dur.
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Nurse just stares for three seconds at the puck sitting in the crease and then just ices it… like wtf.
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Nurse has a 2 cent brain f*** off.
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Nurse is an absolute train wreck today.
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Nurse is as dumb as a rock sometimes... just go 5 forwards at this point
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Nurse holy #### get your head in the f***ing game
Cleared it right at a Flame.
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Nurse not even able to ice the puck. That's usually something he's good at.
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nine million dollar shift right there
Bing Bang, Tyler-Foli
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Toffoli paying dividends...
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I wish the next time Tkachuk does the between the legs...someone sticks lifts him so hard he coughs up a nut.
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Toffoli is a good player. This is annoying.
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Nurse defending air
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said in the 1st period to cut Nurses minutes cause he was off tonight. Now it costs us a goal, and could have cost us a couple earlier too.
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That’s how a PP should look. f***en disgrace.
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That's how you do it Oilers. f***ing stupid!
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f*** Calgary and f*** this ####ty SNet feed.
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Thats how you do it Oilers. You go to the net
Its crazy how you can start hating a team with 97 and 29 on it
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Calgary's TDL acquisition scored
wonder who Ken's going to pickup
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Tyler Toef***face
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Defensive breakdown leaves Toffoli wide open. Defensive breakdown that the Flames won’t give us. Now i think i understand why the flames aren’t trying, they just conserving energy for our eventual mistakes.
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That’s what they do to everyone. Defence wins championships.
Oiler-Killer, Tyler Twofoli
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Toffoli has always been a f***ing Oiler killer.
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Tyler Twofolli
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Toffoli always kills us
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Toffoli has such a good shot.
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We're Toffoli's bitch
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WELL that's the season folks. See you next year.
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Sad that this bunch of losers quit on their season three games ago with plenty of games left. New GM has a lot of work to do just to get a heartbeat on this team.
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people here know Toffoli is one of my favorite players that I wanted here for years. now he's killing us. EXACTLY the type of one shot scorer we've needed for years. Instead we spend huge coin on players like Hyman, again being useless tonight.
Nice look on the McD line getting beat easy on the puck in the Calgary end and skating slowly up ice while Calgary has a 4 on 2 on our D on 2nd Toffoli goal. We have a loaded top line and they're getting f***ing owned. Somebody call that #### out.
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Toffoli has always been one of my favorites to watch, just unfortunate that he's on the wrong team now.
A bit of a Horseshoes Moment
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WITH LUCK LIKE THIS WHO NEEDS SKILL?!?!?!
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So lucky lmao
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Puck luck baby!!
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That official had about as much awareness as the Oilers tonight.
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thank you ref bro.
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Ref ultra clutch
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ref is our best player so far...
Johnny Insurance
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This is frustrating, man.
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Holy f***ing #### f*** this team.
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Nurse and McDavid can both f*** off.
Most important game and they both take it off.
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Nurse what the #### are you doing
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What a pass from Nurse to McDavid... That's 20M right there
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McGaudreau
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They look defeated on the ice now. Great pass, Nurse.
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Enjoy the evening guys. This is pathetic to see.
Team is cursed and going absolutely nowhere.
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Our defensemen give up so many break aways on our powerplay…. Honestly at this point I’d rather them just flutter the puck on net on the powerplay every chance they get like Bouchards done a few times.
These passes into the other teams legs leading to breakaways are just a given on our powerplay now.
A 10th Place Squad
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Not over, but every loss makes it that much harder. VGK and LAK won again yesterday, so now we're playing catchup.
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the door started closing in December. this team is not built to make 8th let alone win a round.
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Everyone here keeps brainlessly regurgitating "we just need to string some wins together" as if that's the end all be all of the situation... There are OTHER TEAMS involved in this. Other teams that are just as good or better than us that we would need to lose games they aren't going to lose. It's not just "we only need a few wins" as if those other teams were just going to lose every game from here until the end of the season.
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Here's what I'm thinking. This whole "struggling to make the playoffs" thing is a strategic play by management. Oilers play much better against higher ranked opponents, so if we squeak in at 8th, it's checkmate.
This is what I tell myself so I can sleep at night
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f*** this garbage team, and f*** the GM who put it together and refuses to make any meaningful changes while we waste more of mcdavid and drais prime.
We are by far the most embarrassing organization in the league.
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I was told we would be scary in a few years, a few years ago.
They were right.
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The season is on life support
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Oilers completely outclassed by the flames tonight. First time all year I genuinely believe this team isn’t making the playoffs.
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Let’s put it this way: Oilers have to go 16-9 in their remaining 25 games to make the playoffs. 3 games against the Avs still which are basically guaranteed losses, so need to go 16-6 in the other games. So basically we need to win 5 lose 2 for the rest of the season in those games to be certain. Now I only mentioned the Avs, we still have to play Tampa again, Pittsburgh, etc. And that doesn’t include teams who are also battling fiercely to get a wildcard spot. Every loss makes it that much harder. I think this might be the breaking point.
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If I was an nhl player I probably wouldn’t want to be in the playoffs either. Too much work.
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Darnell Nurse had zero giveaways tonight according to the NHL official game stats.
Related: NHL's giveaway statistic has zero credibility.
Well the puck hit the boards before the flames took possession, so it was actually a giveaway by the boards.
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k im just not going to respond to your #### anymore because i have better things to do like #### my model girlfriend rather then try to convince people like you of commonly held hockey knowledge.
I mean they could always buy him out in the off season, right?
I’m sure the cap penalty wouldn’t be too bad and just think, they could use the cap savings upgrading all the contracts of their up and coming talent from Bakersfield, like.... ummm..... well you know, some of those guys.
3rd one was a thrilling read, it had drama, suspense, and just as the hero of the story looked down and out, you realized he was going to pull through all along. Greatest thing ever written by an oilers fan.
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Was at the game so I never heard an explanation. What did Benson do for that misconduct?
Edit: already asked!
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O.K. there has been a lot of talk on whether or not MacTavish has actually done a good job for us, most fans on this board are very basic in their analysis and I feel would change their opinion entirely if the team was successful.
