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[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by memphusk

28 minutes for Bouchard in a pre season game is pretty telling about their prospect pool.

I think it says more about coaching really. Why play a regular 28 minutes even if your other options suck? To get the important 2 points?

What a strange decision.

[Hockey-and_stuff]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I think it says more about coaching really. Why play a regular 28 minutes even if your other options suck? To get the important 2 points?



What a strange decision.

My thoughts too, it's just poor coaching. Why are you trying to win when you should be trying to evaluate other guys?

Once it was 4-0 I would have given the top guys the night off and tried to see what the others can do, but as usual in Edmonton they care more about optics and looking goof than competently running a franchise.

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[Toonage]

I can only imagine, like everything they do, its from their corrupt jerkoff weirdo owner on down to the coaches.

[Wastedyouth]

My goodness, Basha does NOT look like an 18 year old rookie in his first preseason game. The kid has poise out the wazoooo.

[Paulie Walnuts]

How much rust would a guy that played 2 months ago have anyways. No only is pointless to play someone that much, you risk injury sending him out every other shift.

That team is f'n weird.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Coronato with 2G 4A in two games

Does he translate his AHL and preseason heaters to the NHL regular season this time around?

Feels like just a matter of time.

The "throw Coronato" into every trade guys hopefully are starting to rethink doing that maybe?

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

I think the wheels are coming off the Josh Brown experiment. Good thing they immediately locked him up for the next three years to anchor the blue line:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1838413062845419835

Oiler nation spent all summer talking about the signings of Arvidsson and Skinner, and how the Oilers had a great summer (which completely ignores that they lost Foegele, McLeod and Holloway), but there has been no where near enough talk of what happened to their blueline. The D was already the weakest part of the lineup, and over the summer they made the following changes:

Out: Ceci, Desharnais, Broberg
In: Brown, Stecher, Emberson

That is a huge downgrade. If we simply rank the players on current skill level, I would go:

Ceci
Broberg
Desharnais
Stecher
Emberson
Brown

It's a very significant downgrade in talent. But it isn't even just that, they got smaller, slower, and lost 2 key guys from their PK.

Bouchard is not good in his own zone. Nurse, as bad as he is, is going to have a worse partner than he had last year. And the bottom pairing is going to be Kulak with either Stecher or Brown.

It is going to be no good. It is so no good that the Flames, after moving out Hanifin, Tanev and Zadorov, are going to have a better group.

And imagine if they incur any significant injuries. As terrible as this group is, they have zero depth. ZERO. The Flames have half a dozen guys that could step into the 3rd pairing and get by. The Oilers have... Akey?

Seriously, asking this group to play 82 games, and then go 4 rounds in the playoffs? Laughable.

[Paulie Walnuts]

The think with Coronato is he went from the USHL and 2 years of College and only played 34 games each year.

The scouting report on him was he has a non stop motor with that wicked release. That's tough to do in your first NHL season. You could see had the tools, he probably needed to get adjusted to playing that way against developed players.

This doesn't feel like a Chuck Kobasew lighting up preseason to me, he has sniped every goal, these are not pucks bouncing off his ass and going in.

I think he id a legitimate threat to be a 30 goal scorer for us with that shot during his career with us. Plus a non stop motor, those are the types who score the big goals in a tight playoff games when your stars go cold.

[howard_the_duck]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It feels like there is actually a lot of skilled forwards on this team. I expect the Flames to struggle at keeping teams on the perimeter in their own zone, and keeping pucks out of the net, but I am getting the sense that they could score a lot between Huberdeau, Mantha, Sharangovich, Zary, Kuznenko, Kadri—oh, and that's without even mentioning that Coronato looks like he is on a mission, or that Bucklund and 30-goal-scorer Coleman may be manning the third line.

It could end up being a really fun year, even if they miss the playoffs by a mile.

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I think a fun year and miss the playoffs by a mile is about the best we can hope for at this point in the rebuild. And sign me up.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Oiler nation spent all summer talking about the signings of Arvidsson and Skinner, and how the Oilers had a great summer (which completely ignores that they lost Foegele, McLeod and Holloway), but there has been no where near enough talk of what happened to their blueline. The D was already the weakest part of the lineup, and over the summer they made the following changes:

Out: Ceci, Desharnais, Broberg
In: Brown, Stecher, Emberson

That is a huge downgrade. If we simply rank the players on current skill level, I would go:

Ceci
Broberg
Desharnais
Stecher
Emberson
Brown

It's a very significant downgrade in talent. But it isn't even just that, they got smaller, slower, and lost 2 key guys from their PK.

Bouchard is not good in his own zone. Nurse, as bad as he is, is going to have a worse partner than he had last year. And the bottom pairing is going to be Kulak with either Stecher or Brown.

It is going to be no good. It is so no good that the Flames, after moving out Hanifin, Tanev and Zadorov, are going to have a better group.

And imagine if they incur any significant injuries. As terrible as this group is, they have zero depth. ZERO. The Flames have half a dozen guys that could step into the 3rd pairing and get by. The Oilers have... Akey?

Seriously, asking this group to play 82 games, and then go 4 rounds in the playoffs? Laughable.

Emberson is supposed to step into a top 4 role right away. A waiver claim by the worst team in the league.

Now they are calling for Stetcher to come in and save them. A guy that gets passed around every deadline to fill in once in a while. Absolutely hilarious.

[Fuzzy14]

Just remember everyone. It doesn't matter if it's preseason. The equation will always work: E=NG

It's basically the quadratic formula. It's a universal constant.

[Meers]

Edmonton plans to increase their LTIR flexibility by running Bouchard into the ground in preseason. 4D chess, everyone.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Emberson is supposed to step into a top 4 role right away. A waiver claim by the worst team in the league.

Now they are calling for Stetcher to come in and save them. A guy that gets passed around every deadline to fill in once in a while. Absolutely hilarious.

Yeah, they are pencilling in Emberson on the 2nd pair with Nurse.

Nurse - Emberson as your 2nd pairing. Say it out loud. And you have to play them 18+ minutes a night, against opposing top 6 lines, because your 3rd pairing is Kulak - Stecher/Brown (who you can play maybe 12-15 minutes max), and you want to play the top pairing in all offensive and PP situations.

And you have designs on winning the Cup.

LOL

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Yeah, they are pencilling in Emberson on the 2nd pair with Nurse.

Nurse - Emberson as your 2nd pairing. Say it out loud. And you have to play them 18+ minutes a night, against opposing top 6 lines, because your 3rd pairing is Kulak - Stecher/Brown (who you can play maybe 12-15 minutes max), and you want to play the top pairing in all offensive and PP situations.

And you have designs on winning the Cup.

LOL

Hope the Bouch Bomb hit the gym, he is going to be playing 40 minutes a night.

[SuperMatt18]

I honestly wonder what the record for minutes played by a non-goalie in a pre-season game is.

Feels like 28:35 would be close

[Robbob]

Especially for a game that ended in regular time.

[EldrickOnIce]

Was is excellent, and expected, is the TSN highlights from these games showed Hyman and McD's goals, and one of the Flames from both games. Noted Connor had a goal and an assist.
Good stuff

[1Nite]

Looks like he is being setup to get a home town discount of $11 million or so.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

I honestly wonder what the record for minutes played by a non-goalie in a pre-season game is.

Feels like 28:35 would be close

36:34 was Erik Karlsson in a regular season game with no OT. I can't find preseason.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I think it says more about coaching really. Why play a regular 28 minutes even if your other options suck? To get the important 2 points?

What a strange decision.

Multiple coaches doing the same thing though.

Katz insistence?

Or is it McDavid insisting and they don't want to say no to him?