Both games against the Oilers, half of their posts in their GDT's are them incessantly gripping about the refs... Obnoxious! And when they aren't gripping about the refs, they are gripping about how boring the Blues are and that the Blues are too physical, supposedly getting away with being "linebackers" all game. Also, the Oilers have the best group of forwards in all of hockey! Did you all know that because I didn't know that?
LoL... Anyway
The Oilers are Charmin soft. I think they are a playoff team or at least they better be employing both McDavid and Drai but I don't think they have what it takes to go to the promised land as they are still too top heavy and their D is awful despite the Blues best attempts at making them look competent these two games. Their young goalie Skinner was mighty impressive, he seems to be a smooth operator between the pipes. Nurse is an improved player too. As far as good news goes, we have played downright terrible hockey without Saad and Buch and still hung with the supposed lock to play in the WCF Oilers just fine.
Blues miss Saad and specifically Buch badly. Their absence has seemingly crippled our systems on offense. We look messy up front these past three games. It's definitely not a good look so far without those two. We need a Brown or Torpedo, preferably both to step it up and play above their pay grade until Saad/Buch come back. Thankfully, Binnington has continued his stellar play though he seems to cough up too many seemingly unnecessary rebound chances and our defense looks more consistent than we were last year, thank you Leddy! Oh and...Kyrou... Where are you? Please come back, you can jerk it to your new contract in the off-season because there are more important things to do until then!
