04-13-2021, 05:27 PM
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#5141
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by stang
Why? They need to score more goals?
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You know... if you go to the top of the page, your “Why?” Is answered.
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Oilers should've been pushing heavy for a guy like Rakell or Palmieri
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I assume it’s been few and far between for watching playoff hockey for you. Now, the playoffs, has a bit different intensity to it, so scoring is quite a bit different.
Oh and, much like the City of Edmonton, all the goals scored in the regular season are meaningless.
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04-13-2021, 05:30 PM
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#5142
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hyperbole Chamber
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stang
Why? They need to score more goals?
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Yes, the Oilers are 12th in goal differential at +14 and sliding. Only +2 above Montreal.
Teams shut down one of McDavid or Draisaitl and it's lights out with who you have in net.
RNH is your 3rd leading forward scorer and ranks 87th. The Leafs have 5 forwards before your 3rd.
As much as your "journalists" say it is, it's not going to get it done.
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04-13-2021, 05:32 PM
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#5143
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indiana
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I still think Smith will just collapse at any time.
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04-13-2021, 05:37 PM
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#5144
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I still think Smith will just collapse at any time.
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The bottom is going to fall out at any moment. It's just a matter of when. Flames had the right idea on Saturday as you have to go top corners or 5-hole.
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04-13-2021, 05:38 PM
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#5145
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I still think Smith will just collapse at any time.
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The Ritchie goal is the pebble that starts the landslide.
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04-13-2021, 05:56 PM
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#5146
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I still think Smith will just collapse at any time.
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From the moment he started playing better than normal for him, the countdown to his collapse was on. Not a matter of if but when and in what hilarious fashion.
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04-13-2021, 06:24 PM
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#5147
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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 djsFlames
From the moment he started playing better than normal for him, the countdown to his collapse was on. Not a matter of if but when and in what hilarious fashion.
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What would be totally funny would be fall out of the playoffs meltdown team anger kind of collapse.
Then, and only then, will we be able to answer that ages old question: Can we finally award the one individual trophy that has so far eluded the bestest of great, the greatest of best, Connor McAvi...the vezina?
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04-14-2021, 12:14 PM
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#5148
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Central Alberta
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So are the Oilers going to thank the schedule makers that they are the first team that gets to play the Covid Canucks? The Vancouver media is already stating that the Canucks will have to play shorthanded on Friday because they won't have enough healthy bodies to make a full roster. Surely Connor is on the phone to the league to make sure that the NHL reschedules the game for the Canucks. Yeah, right!! Terry Jones better get on the phone too about such an injustice for the Canucks!!! ####ing hypocrites!!!
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04-14-2021, 12:40 PM
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#5149
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rejean31
So are the Oilers going to thank the schedule makers that they are the first team that gets to play the Covid Canucks? The Vancouver media is already stating that the Canucks will have to play shorthanded on Friday because they won't have enough healthy bodies to make a full roster. Surely Connor is on the phone to the league to make sure that the NHL reschedules the game for the Canucks. Yeah, right!! Terry Jones better get on the phone too about such an injustice for the Canucks!!! ####ing hypocrites!!!
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This is so unfair to the Oilers.
There is no more rested team in the league and the Oilers have to play them first?
Who is going to be more motivated than a team that just faced the adversity of a teamwide Covid outbreak? And the Oilers have to play them first?
This is a team that is now pretty much immune to Covid, that's basically a super power. And the Oilers have to play them first?
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Those guys all had Covid, shouldn't they have to stay 6ft away from Connor? They were actually touching him when he had the puck!!!
This is clearly the league ignoring the rules, all of those guys should be suspended, and we should be awarded the cup.
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04-14-2021, 06:34 PM
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#5150
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Fort McMurray, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I still think Smith will just collapse at any time.
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I used to think so too but we're what? 40 games in? This oiler success is really getting on my nerves, more than the Flames flailing. We said last year that their success was unsustainable but here they are again. I hate them with a passion and they shouldn't be playing as well as they are this year and last. It's really, really irritating.
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04-14-2021, 07:29 PM
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#5151
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schteve_d
I used to think so too but we're what? 40 games in? This oiler success is really getting on my nerves, more than the Flames flailing. We said last year that their success was unsustainable but here they are again. I hate them with a passion and they shouldn't be playing as well as they are this year and last. It's really, really irritating.
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Relax. Edmonton is no good, and Mike Smith is garbage.
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04-14-2021, 07:51 PM
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#5152
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: So Long, Bannatyne
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
Relax. Edmonton is no good
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(You had me at this.)
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04-14-2021, 07:57 PM
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#5153
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schteve_d
I used to think so too but we're what? 40 games in? This oiler success is really getting on my nerves, more than the Flames flailing. We said last year that their success was unsustainable but here they are again. I hate them with a passion and they shouldn't be playing as well as they are this year and last. It's really, really irritating.
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His stats are already consistently declining.
Just in time for the playoffs.
Also, teams get less healthy as the season goes on. For a team with no depth, that's more noticeable.
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04-14-2021, 08:02 PM
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#5154
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Also, teams get less healthy as the season goes on. For a team with no depth, that's more noticeable.
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Not to mention, as soon as they start playing teams not in the North division, they are going to run into some problems.
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04-14-2021, 08:04 PM
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#5155
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Not to mention, as soon as they start playing teams not in the North division, they are going to run into some problems.
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This will not be an issue for them
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04-14-2021, 08:04 PM
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#5156
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Not to mention, as soon as they start playing teams not in the North division, they are going to run into some problems.
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That assumes they will make it that far. They will not.
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04-14-2021, 08:17 PM
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#5157
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by schteve_d
I used to think so too but we're what? 40 games in? This oiler success is really getting on my nerves, more than the Flames flailing. We said last year that their success was unsustainable but here they are again. I hate them with a passion and they shouldn't be playing as well as they are this year and last. It's really, really irritating.
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And it was lol...remember when they got beat by a 12 seed and missed the playoffs?
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04-14-2021, 08:18 PM
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#5158
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Not to mention, as soon as they start playing teams not in the North division, they are going to run into some problems.
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So.. next year?
Yeah. I agree.
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04-14-2021, 09:18 PM
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#5159
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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The only thing I give very very reluctant credit is that Tippett is and has always been an excellent coach, even if it's "boring". He is through in preparation and scouting, video on other teams and tactics and communication of his message to his team.
To that end, it is a lot easier to be prepared this season with the limited teams he had to prepare for.
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04-15-2021, 10:00 AM
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#5160
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: YYZ
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'I will drive this jacked-up POS right into that ditch, truck nuts and all before I'll ever admit the Flames are better than us'
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