Post-Game Talk: Agent Smith | Drai/Kassian/McDavid 3 - Smith 31/33

[OilerTyler]

Leon Draisaitl

1G 2A 3P, +2 26:11 TOI

Didn't take Tippett long to figure out the only way to win with this team

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

Only 2:11 played for Haas next lowest was Nygard with 9:23 ..... yikes.

Yeah I'm not sure the reasoning for that. He didn't do any worse than the rest of the bottom 6 in his few shifts I saw.

 

[Morpheus]

 

[Pointteen]

I love having the new goalie come in and casually stonewall a team. That wasn't dominance. That was Smith playing well. Any of our last starters would have had to have played great to put up that performance.

Casual confidence. Like Talbot's best year.

Archibald... I loved this signing. I don't love you tonight. You made McDavid need to show off.

 

[LTIR]

Benning, goaltending and PK

The three evils from last year were the difference tonight

Kassian, Draisaitl ,Smithm 3 stars

 

[RegDunlop]

That Draisaitl-
Such a product of Kassian

 

[BlackDogg]

Hope Smith likes to play lots

 

[Da McBomb]

Tied for first in the league

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Poor Haas only played 2 minutes after flying his family in from Switzerland on 1 day's notice

If I was his dad, I'd be having a few words with the coach about my sons ice time.

 

[russ99]

Smith was pretty great, kept us in this one big time.

Koskinen is a few more blown high glove saves away from being #2.

 

[BamaOil]

Such a better and more entertaining start to the season vs last year. Anybody remember that boring game against NJ last year?

 

[LTIR]

WINRAR.EXE

Just zip it!

 

[Joey Moss]

I love Zack Kassian

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

Benning with your all time largely undeserved multi point game

Bear was really good tonight, klefbom looked great. Want to see more Haas, liked what I saw. Neal was a great pick up

 

[Drai Fi]

I think we need to take out some guys in the bottom six, they made some ugly plays tonight.

Juju and Archibald were god awful, with the latter being directly responsible for the second goal. And it’s not like Granlund did much either. Get P.Russell and Jurco in there ASAP

 

[Aerrol]

Not the prettiest win, but I'll take it. Bottom 6 looked brutal. I disagree that the defence was pretty good - I did not like Nurse or especially Larsson today. Nurse was okay, but still fumbled the puck too much for our 'top pairing'.

I liked Neal and Nygard, Haas was up and down. Satisfied with RNH - he had some sick plays and some unexceptionable fumbles.

Draisaitl was godly, I hope he can keep this up and finally shut up all the 'product of McDavid' nonsense.

McDavid wasn't nearly as bad as the meltdown in the GDT would make you believe, but that GWG was vintage him. He can definitely be better though. Hope to see it soon.

I like Smith more than I thought I would. Hated that signing but honestly he was pretty damn good today. Really liked the puckhandling. Didn't even whine much.

edit: Kassian was good too.

 

[Spawn]

That Draisaitl-
Such a product of Kassian

The hilarious thing is that there will be posters on the main boards who unironically will think that 2 of those points don't matter because McDavid was on the ice.

 

[Cloned]

There’s going to be some gnashing of teeth on CP this year about Smith and Talbot.

 

[Crabapple]

ProductOfMcDavid.png

 

[Ctrain2k]

Yeah I'm not sure the reasoning for that. He didn't do any worse than the rest of the bottom 6 in his few shifts I saw.

Yeah I agree, only reason I can think of is Sheahan should be coming back soon and Tippet sees Haas as an extra forward and not Cave.

 

[Roof Daddy]

Plus side: We had goaltending steal a game.

Minus side: We have a backup making 4.5 mil


Plus side: We’re in first place!

Minus side: We took two penalties for too many men on the ice because our coach turned on the line blender after 1 period! Like, WTF Tippet. Do you think the pre-season might serve a purpose? Or do you think a guy might need more than a 4 shift opportunity to prove himself/develop chemistry?

 

[OilersfaninTO]

Suck it Canucks, Pettersson/Horvat/Boeser were invisible. McDavid/Draisaitl/Kassian were not.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Sweet a win!

lots of work ahead but hopefully they can build on this

 

[McFlash97]

End of the day McDavid and Drai and whatever line those 2 were on..won us the game. The rest of the lineup was AHL level. Let's how long this lasts. The Canucks were the better team.

I hope this lasts all season... but we need to get better depth.

 

[Spawn]

Benning with your all time largely undeserved multi point game

Bear was really good tonight, klefbom looked great. Want to see more Haas, liked what I saw. Neal was a great pick up

Benning doing exactly what Benning has done his entire career.

Sheltered bottom pairing minutes. Chips in a couple points and ends up a plus player at the end of the night.

Literally can't ask for more out of a guy who puts in 11 minutes.

Unsung hero of the game.