GDT: X | "Nuge Capital Gains" | Oilers vs. Caps | 8:00 PM | HNIC
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KarmaPolice
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4-3 oil and third line gets 2 of those goals
Wow, now you're dreaming, man. I'd put a $1,000 2/1 bet that it doesn't happen, then be happy I doubled my money after the game.
But anything is possible.I think this goes to OT, and Connor gets the game winner, 4-3 game. Or Drai. Yeah I'm cheating.
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Yeah. That defense has McRape written all over it. Who the hell is Christian Djoos anyways?
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The guy has been one of, if not the best goal scorer of this generation and has given back on numerous occasions but people still love to hate him. I don't get it.
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He also seems to be a bit of a slow starter. Three years running now he's taken time to get his feet under him at the start of the season. Last year his struggles were masked somewhat because Sekera and Russell were playing so incredibly to start the season. But he eventually found his game and was the Oilers best d-man the last 1/2 of the season. He'll probably get going good again sooner or later.
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I certainly hope so. I was expecting another season of at least 35 points from him, and more hopeful for 40, to build on last season. I really hope you're right, that's it's a slow start kinda thing for him, and he gets going soon (his last 4 games were better than the first 5, so that should be a good sign...please). It's certainly no where too late to score those points or to just be a better and better all around Dman; how easily we forget, I guess, that's it's still so early -- only about 10% of the season has been played so far, which is almost nothing, really. I really hope he gets going, as he's my favorite player (but I'm also very hard on him when he sucks, so I try to be fair and objective).
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Just for the sake of comparison. Last season in 9 games in October he also only had 2 points.
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NeverForget06
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For me, he is out of the lineup because McDavid & co. will probably be up against Ovie, and TMac doesn't seem to have quite that much trust in him defensively, although I think he's been impressive.
I would think the reasoning is keep him up to practice with the team and learn more about the daily grind of the NHL, whether you agree with that or not.
Really he has nothing more to learn from junior, he will just go down there and dominate.
KarmaPolice
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You very well indeed may be on to something. Let's hope that's the case and Klef soon plays at the top of his game on EV and on the PP like he can (though he has been better lately, as I mentioned previously). Want to see more bombs from him on the point during the PP. Watched a lot of NHL game hi-lites on TSN last night, and lots of goals were scored on the point shot on the PP. Klef needs to get his Klefbomb going again, and not lose confidence in his shot. But hopefully it'll come, as you allude to.
Jumptheshark
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He has a lot to learn. If he had learned everything with nothing left to prove he would have went top 5. This was not a deep draft.
He needs to be developed
That’s bull. We have last change, so any line mis matches is tmacs fault.
This would be a great game to get him back in, see if he can build some confidence against a sub par d.
I see no point keeping him up if he’s going to sit. He needs to be playing hockey one place or another.
NeverForget06
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I'm not saying line mismatch, I'm saying that TMac is going to actively match McDavid against Ovechkin, like he did last game against the Benn line. Fight fire with fire.
They'll give him his nine games and send him down, but at this point we need to win, and I guess that means Kailer is out. His development is not the main factor in the decision at this point
KarmaPolice
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I think Yamo has been very good, too, for the most part. Don't think he can learn much more in the WHL. This is a guy who scored 57 points in 68 games as a 15 year old rookie in the WHL, who probably only weighed 130 at most at the time, soaking wet, then easily put up over a point per game his D-1 season and of course his draft year where he had the highest points/game ratio than anyone in the first round (I believe; it's close with Hischier). When you can put up points like that on a pretty average team (at best) I think he can learn more from watching Connor, Drai and the other pros in the NHL -- 1st year of his ELC be damned. I really don't care about that. If he has a poor season points wise, it should only help our bargaining position. That wasn't the case with Drai, but I think we overpaid Drai (as much as I love him, I think he's a 7.5m guy at most, but I'm not getting into that -- it's too subjective to have a real debate of any substance because of said subjectivity). So yeah, I think Yamo should stay. Play maybe half the season, and watch the other half from above and learn more about the pro game from watching the games. Seems like a better development plan than for him to go to the WHL and put up 2 points a game without even really trying, with Dmen that are mostly terrible compared to NHL Dmen. I just don't see what he could learn down there that would be so important for his development; can't think of anything. And I better not hear "confidence". The kid has confidence -- zero question.
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I said this earlier too. Caps will score 3-4 tonight. Let's hope our goal scoring can be good again tonight too.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Sounds like a very good plan. The final game of the Oilers next back to back is on the 12th in Washington. It's a pretty intense stretch with seven games in November by then. Give Yamamoto two games in that stretch and send him down after the next Washington game.
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