12-23-2018, 09:28 AM
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#4701
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Like a lot of Oilers fans Jone has become bipolar.
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12-23-2018, 10:43 AM
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#4702
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Ah, delusional Oilers fans abound. They talk of how disappointing it will be that a season in which the Oilers finally have an “elite level NHL coach” could be undone by all the injuries on the blue line. A good number of them think that the Oilers “hung in” with the top team in the League, that Saturday’s game was close, and were it not for a couple goal posts the Oilers probably would have beaten TB.
No. Not even hallucinations can save the Edmonton Oilers.
Nothing can.
Nothing at all.
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12-23-2018, 10:47 AM
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#4703
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
could be undone by all the injuries on the blue line.
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On the what now?
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12-23-2018, 10:53 AM
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#4704
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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12-23-2018, 11:59 AM
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#4705
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jschick88
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If the Oilers were in a playoff position over Christmas they wouldnt get any toys because Santa wouldnt know where to find them!
Santa: "I checked the basement...they're always here!"
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12-23-2018, 12:31 PM
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#4706
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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12-23-2018, 01:01 PM
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#4707
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Norm!
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Look I get that the Oilers are now talking about injuries derailing Hitchcock. But their injuries are
Klefbom - without question their number 1 defenseman, and having a good season, but is that franchise debilitating or does losing him point to the fact that they don't have enough good defensemen to take up the slack.
Russell - On most teams in the league he's a bottom pairing guy who's weak on the boards, and poor positionally and has to block shots to make up for it. But again, losing him and have it as a devastating injury points just again points to the poor job that the Oilers have done in building their depth.
Sekera - The guy has basically missed two years and he was a declining asset anyways.
The bottom line is that the lack of the Oilers ability to take advantage of their draft picks over the year and poor trades have made them a thin asset poor team.
People can talk about injuries, but injuries happen. Russell is really our Stone.
The Oilers can't win if they suffer any kind of injuries, they have to be praying that McDavid dosen't wear out from over use.
Frankly I think when Hitchcock came in they played way over their heads, and now that things have settled in they're back to bad habits and poor positional hockey.
In the last 3 games they've been scored on 14 times 4.67 ga/gm and scored 6 goals or 2 gf/g
On the power play and penalty kill
0/1 pk 2/5 (3 goals allowed)
pp 0/5 pk 2/3
pp 2/3 pk 1/2
They're just back to playing fundamentally bad hockey and if not for goaltending last night it probably would have been 8 or 9 to 3
This is less about debilitating injuries and more about this being a poorly built and thin team that played over their heads due to goaltending, and are now sinking back into the hole that is the Oilers.
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12-23-2018, 01:04 PM
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#4708
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Next to My Neighbour
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Originally Posted by AC
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This is gonna replace the fireplace on my TV while the family opens presents Christmas Day.
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12-23-2018, 01:10 PM
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#4709
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Franchise Player
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When you lack depth, injuries are debilitating.
But it isn't the injuries that are derailing the season. It's the lack of depth.
Injuries are just the symptom that is exposing the real cause.
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12-23-2018, 01:48 PM
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#4710
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Kevin Lowe: Excuse me?
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I think Chia needs to finish at the bottom at least 4 more times to challenge Lowe for the title.
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12-23-2018, 02:08 PM
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#4711
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Franchise Player
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should be interesting to see what happens.
Hitchcock is well known as a coach that eventually wears out his welcome because he continuously grinds down his players... maybe he's mellowed with age, but that was his coaching MO for a long time...
the Oilers and their lack of maturity seems completely antithetical to that 'buy in' mindset especially when the team is playing poorly... EDM got whipped last night, even if the scoreboard didn't show it... and EDM started to play without structure and pond hockey and tried to go at TB with punchers mentality.
Problem is, with the exception of McDavid, they have no punch
I could easily see Edmonton players' hubris taking hold of them and they play undisciplined hockey... Koskinen has been stellar for them, otherwise they'd be in the lottery already... AGAIN.
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12-23-2018, 03:17 PM
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#4712
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Norm!
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Just as an addon, They might survive the injuries to Klefbom and Russell, except watching Nurse this year he's all kinds of awful, and while Larsson is decent defensively, he has no two way game.
As much as we joke about having 6 Gio's on that team. They have one actual 1st pairing guy in Klefbom, who's not really a premiere first pairing guy, and then the rest Russell, Nurse etc are all bottom 3 NHL Defensemen.
And Bouchard isn't going to save them.
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12-23-2018, 03:20 PM
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#4713
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First Line Centre
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Would you look at that, Laurent Brossoit is actually a decent goalie when he doesn't have Oiler stink all over him.
8-1-1 with a .939 sv % over 10 games since escaping them. Them creating another Dubnyk situation where they dump him only to become good would be hilarious.
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12-23-2018, 03:25 PM
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#4714
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetfire
Would you look at that, Laurent Brossoit is actually a decent goalie when he doesn't have Oiler stink all over him.
8-1-1 with a .939 sv % over 10 games since escaping them. Them creating another Dubnyk situation where they dump him only to become good would be hilarious.
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The same thing will happen with Cam Talbot once he is freed from that garbage dump. You watch.
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12-23-2018, 03:25 PM
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#4715
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC
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Merry Chiamas Oiler fans!
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12-23-2018, 03:57 PM
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#4716
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
The same thing will happen with Cam Talbot once he is freed from that garbage dump. You watch.
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Oh I have no doubt in that, and can't wait for it to happen. You saw one season of what Talbot was capable of before they wore him right out. Send him off to a team that uses him properly and I'm sure he'll excel.
Then it'll start the next chain of goalie failure. They'll extend Koskinen, burn him out from carrying a team with zero depth, cast him away, and so on and so forth. Beautiful, isn't it?
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12-23-2018, 04:03 PM
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#4717
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetfire
Oh I have no doubt in that, and can't wait for it to happen. You saw one season of what Talbot was capable of before they wore him right out. Send him off to a team that uses him properly and I'm sure he'll excel...
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My personal hope is that that team is the Flames. Treliving was after Talbot before the Oilers acquired him. One would think that there would still be lingering interest there—especially with seeing how well goalies rebound as soon as they are redeemed from Edmonton.
How glorious would it be to see the Oilers's current whipping boy excel with the Flames?
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12-24-2018, 07:07 PM
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#4718
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tailgator
This is gonna replace the fireplace on my TV while the family opens presents Christmas Day.
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Someone needs to photoshop the fireplace arm guy stoking the fire by dropping #1 overall pick golden tickets into the bin.
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12-24-2018, 07:15 PM
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#4719
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jschick88
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Remind me - is Christmas before or after US Thanksgiving?
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12-24-2018, 07:24 PM
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#4720
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
My personal hope is that that team is the Flames. Treliving was after Talbot before the Oilers acquired him. One would think that there would still be lingering interest there—especially with seeing how well goalies rebound as soon as they are redeemed from Edmonton.
How glorious would it be to see the Oilers's current whipping boy excel with the Flames?
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It would be great, but didn't it take Dubnyk a couple years to wash the stink off?
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