GDT: 4/14/2022 PREDS vs Edmonton --- Bartender, I'll have another.

[You]

Getting shut out by the Oilers at home

 

[sparkle twin]

Booooo!

No excuse for this mess.

 

[PredsV82]

Bed is now fully shat. Gut check time. See what Hynes can pull out of his hat

 

[ViktorBaeArvidsson]

Our scoring decided to go back to the Trotz era of assuming 0-3 goals is enough to win, if we miss the playoffs, fire everyone cause we’re gonna also lose Forsy for nothing…

Might be overexaggerating but for gods sake man, we finally got PPG guys, this is a year to make noise when no one expected this from us and now we’re going flaccid.

 

[drwpreds]

We can’t score. Meanwhile, the wild have scored 8 goals in their past 2 games. All 8 scored by fiala, hartman, and gaudreau.

And even worse, they completely dismantled this same Edmonton team 2 days ago

Not good, not good at all

 

[LCPreds]

It has been a long time since I left a game with 10 minutes remaining in the 3rd. That counter has been reset to 0 days.

 

[Kat Predator]

And even worse, they completely dismantled this same Edmonton team 2 days ago

Not good, not good at all

Right. Hartman, Fiala, and Freddy G. scored 5 in a blowout gone Wild. <sigh>

 

[Kat Predator]

Getting shut out by the Oilers at home

That's the really painful part. Getting shutout by a team known to have a far below average defense.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

I don't know what it is. We can beat significantly better teams and shut down very good players, but we face the Oilers and it's like we're that beer league team of 35-year olds going up again a team that's picked up two 19-year old major junior ringers. Losing is going to happen, but to continuously crap the bed against a team that only has two f***ing players is embarrassing. Since 2018 we are 1-6 against them while being outscored 29-14.

 

[Adz]

Well, that didn't go as planned.

@Iron Duke you have to remember that they had Mike Smith in net, the goalie who does to us what Pekka Rinne did to the Oilers for...years. I don't know how to find it but I'll bet his record vs Nashville is better than any other team. Even when we score on him it gets waived off, I know he hasn't been in net for all those games, but they have us circled on their calendars after all those losses. They were machine like, they showed no real joy in scoring--it was just win at all costs.

There were a lot of shots that could have gone in if not for MS. Still, could we have shot over the net or shot only to have it bank off their perfectly placed personnel and out of the zone any more times than last night? Could our guys have been any slower reacting to plays? Overall, it was a terrible showing and I felt like my 4 hours devoted to the game was wasted.

 

[Kat Predator]

Well, that didn't go as planned.

@Iron Duke you have to remember that they had Mike Smith in net, the goalie who does to us what Pekka Rinne did to the Oilers for...years. I don't know how to find it but I'll bet his record vs Nashville is better than any other team. Even when we score on him it gets waived off, I know he hasn't been in net for all those games, but they have us circled on their calendars after all those losses. They were machine like, they showed no real joy in scoring--it was just win at all costs.

There were a lot of shots that could have gone in if not for MS. Still, could we have shot over the net or shot only to have it bank off their perfectly placed personnel and out of the zone any more times than last night? Could our guys have been any slower reacting to plays? Overall, it was a terrible showing and I felt like my 4 hours devoted to the game was wasted.

It looks like Mike Smith has been best at beating the Edmonton Oilers in his career. His winning percentage being .712. (No wonder they keep re-signing him.)

He has a winning percentage over .500 against 9 teams, and the Preds are indeed one of those. (.556)

 

[Adz]

It looks like Mike Smith has been best at beating the Edmonton Oilers in his career. His winning percentage being .712. (No wonder they keep re-signing him.)

He has a winning percentage over .500 against 9 teams, and the Preds are indeed one of those. (.556)

Good enough reason as any. Was one of the reasons I wanted to sign Marleau back in the day. He'd always score on us! (Or it seemed that way)

It seems like more. To be fair, I don't remember him til the Phoenix series, whenever that was (2010?) because he just shut us down except for one game. Thanks for the info.