GDT: Game 18: VIVA LAS VEGAS: Baby we need some goals!!!!! 7pm

[McDNicks17]

Wait, you're changing yours every 5 minutes... pre game ritual superstition? I see its Ranford now just to denote. You going with that for game time?

I was having a tough time finding a Ranford picture that was good enough quality haha.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I don't care what any one says, Vegas is off to a fluky start, they are a horrible team. We should roll over them tonight.

'Should' being the key word. With this team, you just never know what you're going to get. I think our forward lines are flawed, but I"m not going into that again. Just win. Don't care how ugly it is. Don't care if every win we get is ugly -- just make the playoffs.

I've said this before, but so far this season reminds me a lot of our season 2 years ago: When Klefbom went down with an injury, our team took a nose-dive and we bottomed out right after that (the McDavid injury didn't help either, of course, but we still looked competitive until Klefbom went out). Now it looks the same to me without Sekera. A concerning lack of depth on D then, and it's the same now. Calgary was very smart to come into the season with five top-4 Dmen, while we went in with (and still have) only 3, IMO: Larsson, Klefbom and Nurse.

Anyway, whatever, just win the game and pray for a winning streak. Just do it. Tonight is the game Klefbom wakes up. I can feel it (not really, just hoping).

 

[CycloneSweep]

I am loving everyone here calling Vegas garbage.
They aren't as good as their record but they are absolutely not a garbage team. Like I demonstrated they are actually a deeper team than we are.

They are a bubble team but then again so are we.

 

[guymez]

I agree. Vegas is garbage and they are starting to come back down to earth.

With that being said , the Oilers have looked pretty crappy up to this point especially at home .

Just please win.

Please .

What a lot of people dont seem to realize is that Vegas is not a typical expansion team of the past. There are a lot of very solid NHL players on that team that were made available (in many cases) due to the cap implications.

The pre cap expansion teams looked nothing like this team does. That more than anything explains why Vegas has a pretty strong bottom 6. They benefited greatly from the new League environment.
Add in some hard work and a simple system and you have a competitive team.

 

[ZJuice]

I got last minute tickets to this game. Excited to see this new exciting team!

 

[KarmaPolice]

We are a team with zero depth against a team that is all depth. No all stars but a lot of good hard working guys.

If their goaltender plays well we lose. If they have a bad game we got this.

Neal is pretty darn close, and is a better sniper than anyone we have. But yeah, it's going to come down to how well their goalie plays, and how rebounds/bounces go. A goalie like Legace, you need to be crashing the net on virtually every shot, as he's going to give up more rebounds than most other goalies in the NHL, or should. I haven't watched him a lot, but his SV% isn't great. This a golden chance (pardon the pun) to get our shooting percentage up . We'll see.

 

[McFlash97]

Vegas might be the 3rd best team we have faced this season record wise. Lol at people in here claiming we are going to light Vegas on fire when we cant even light teams like the Canucks and Red Wings. Red Wings must have the worst crop of dmen in the league and we scored 0. On a Sunday afternoon snoozefest. Right now my heart tells me Oilers win 7- 2 ! but my brain tells me Vegas 3-1.



ps: Oilers with Vegas bottom 6 = best team in hockey.

 

[McFlash97]

I never understand the fascination with McDavid's points. Don't you want the team to win? I'd rather be in the playoffs with him having 80 points then him having 100+ and missing which is likely what is happening this year.

You did see my username right ? He better not finish behind Gaudreau in any full season. Never. F that. My tv is flaying out the window if McDavid ever finished behind Gaudreau. Mind you its a Tube TV.

 

[McBeastMode]

Both teams are 2-2-1 in their last five games, Seems like Vegas is starting to settle down..

 

[McD97]

@EdmontonOilers trade for Mike Cammalleri. @Nhl Jussi Jokinen goes the other way.

per Nick Kypreos on twitter

 

[Tyrolean]

Oilers by 1.

 

[McFlash97]

@EdmontonOilers trade for Mike Cammalleri. @Nhl Jussi Jokinen goes the other way.

per Nick Kypreos on twitter

Dam ! what is Chiarelli thinking ! Cammalleri wont be in by tonight and we lose Jokinen ! We needed Jokinen for tonights tilt ! He was such an integral part of our bottom 6 ! Now we don't have 1 less player that will be invisible for tonight ! #Firechia

 

[MinimaMoralia]

I feel this is going to be a tough one to watch. Alot of posters are taking Vegas for granted, I feel the Oilers will do the same.
The success of Vegas isn't a fluke, they're a tenaciously hard-working team with alot of players flourishing under Gallant. Will Karlsson is looking beastly the past few weeks.

I unfortunately kind of think they might just have their way with Edmonton tonight.

 

[Robotdanceparty]

Vegas home record 7-1-0
Vegas away record 3-4-1

Their record is built on hangovers not talent. Oil got this.

 

[Oilers in NS]

@EdmontonOilers trade for Mike Cammalleri. @Nhl Jussi Jokinen goes the other way.

per Nick Kypreos on twitter

A 7th rd pick for Jokinen would have been good for me. Now can he swing a trade for Strome.

 

[Forgot About Drai]

I really want a win in regulation. Get it done boys. We are making improvements every game. Need to put it all together now.

 

[OilCountry93]

All right 4th string goalie Maxime Legace prepare to channel your inner 1998 Dominik Hasek.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

2 Pts for the Oilers, please.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I am loving everyone here calling Vegas garbage.
They aren't as good as their record but they are absolutely not a garbage team. Like I demonstrated they are actually a deeper team than we are.

They are a bubble team but then again so are we.

I would think its bad mojo karma to call a club above us in the standings garbage but what do I know?

 

[McBeastMode]

All right 4th string goalie Maxime Legace prepare to channel your inner 1998 Dominik Hasek.

If we can ever start scoring goals again, this guy looks promising..

 

[Drivesaitl]

All right 4th string goalie Maxime Legace prepare to channel your inner 1998 Dominik Hasek.

Maxime?

OK, theres lots of things I can say here about a goalie name Maxime and I'm resisting...

I'll behave myself, I promise.

ps this goalie looks very accustomed to giving up 3 or more goals at almost any level of hockey. The Knights would do better making an emergency call up phone call to the Golden Bears for a one game contract. Not that I'm trying to be helpful to them...

whoops, did I jinx karma now?

 

[McDNicks17]

The Oilers make backup goalies look like all-stars, so they must make 4th stringers look like hall of fame shoo-ins.

 

[CycloneSweep]

The Oilers make backup goalies look like all-stars, so they must make 4th stringers look like hall of fame shoo-ins.

We did last year or the year before to that kid in Toronto.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

You did see my username right ? He better not finish behind Gaudreau in any full season. Never. F that. My tv is flaying out the window if McDavid ever finished behind Gaudreau. Mind you its a Tube TV.

I hope you've been busy in the gym if that is the case

 

[Tobias Kahun]

If we can ever start scoring goals again, this guy looks promising..

He'll stop like 32/33 shots for the W