Heres another attempt at illustrating. The Oilers have given up 26pk goals this season. Thats pretty good. But its only 3 goals removed from the 29 GA that the Median pk team in NHl has allowed this year. Thats only 3 less pk goals differential between us and the average amount this season. Across average of 45GP. This makes it like 1 goal difference every 15 games, not a lot.
Proviso that 7GA differential is cause and effect divided between the 5 players on the ice (4 skaters, goalie) with the Goalie typically having biggest kill effect, followed by the D, followed by the forwards. Connor Brown could be Mike Peca and his proportion of the pk differential effect is still small. The discussion was about the presence or absence of Brown on the pk. Pull Brown from the pk and somebody nearly as good would be on it.
He's a delightful player of that era, I think he would be left behind in today's NHL.
Yeah I’d have McLeod or a Holloway in place of Foegele.
One of the best bluelines they had since the glory days.
One of my favourite unsung players from the dark ages was Gilbert Brule. Man, I loved his game. His wrecking ball style did not work against grown men twice his size, and I believe he may have had some struggles with his mental health, but he was so fun to watch
I loved Brule as well, he was always held back by a lack of good pro hockey sense. Just couldn't bring his Junior game to the NHL.
I hope where ever he is and what ever he is doing these days he is doing well. As someone who has struggled at times with depression and anxiety I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
Brule was awesome, I think he had some connection to Bono from U2 but I can’t remember how.
I still remember when he picked up Bono from U2 on a highway down in BC and then Bono shouted him out here at the Edmonton concert lol
Bono got lost or ran out of gas. Something happened and Brule and his gf happened to be driving his truck down the road and picked him up. I believe the band was staying far from Vancouver during their concert stay there
You know, I've always wondered about these little ball of energy players like Brule or Yamamoto that just bring so much intensity to every shift. Why can't a big player do that? Like why couldn't Jesse Puljujarvi play that way, or really any other like 6'4 plus player play that way? Is it not physically possible? Is it just not obvious as a viewer? Has there ever been like a massive player that played with intensity of a Yamamoto, or Brule, or Theo Fleury?
You're correct, but I think he had issues in his game that couldn't or wouldn't come around, and those team naively thought they were going to compete for that lol. (Know as fan I had that thought to start years lol)
No, I'm fairly certain that Gilbert Brule was the Bassist for U2. He played on the Joshua Tree
He never had much of a career though. Mostly bounced between the NHL and the minors.
Who's better Gilbert Creme Brule or Marc-Antoine Chicken?
I still think he might have turned out "a bit" better if he didn't get mono and could have joined the team more for that cup run.
McLellan Tippett Hitch, etc. all lost. And overplayed them.
