Post-Game Talk: Devils 5 Oilers 2 - welp

[Oilhawks]

Wow wtf oilers has to wait 5 days for next game! Why wasnt this a doubleheader?

Last year it was avs vs ottawa back to back

Because NHL

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

New Jersey is sooooooooooo much faster than the Oilers, it's shocking how slow of a team Peter has managed to build here.

Even with the fastest thing alive the Oilers are still slow as molasses.

 

[nabob]

We'll see, not making any promises

Solid avatar.

 

[booyakasha]

New Jersey is sooooooooooo much faster than the Oilers, it's shocking how slow of a team Peter has managed to build here.

proper levels of pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence....LOL

 

[Raab]

Dan right we could!

I love Dan Dan. New food of HFOIlers?

 

[LaGu]

Benning was our 1RD...





Any game where a Benning plays more than a Larsson is a f***ed up game... Completely insane. Even if Larsson has a quiet night, he should still be playing much more (except for PP).

 

[Soundwave]

If he was already showing to be one of the best dmen on the roster, sending him down makes no sense. The NHL is still a developmental league while the OHL at this point for him wouldn't be

If Seattle delays their expansion by a year then the Oilers are probably losing one of Puljujarvi or Yamamoto though for a nothing season.

Send him back down. If he is the best D on this team it's probably gonna get reeeeeeeal ugly here by about December or January anyway and you don't want a kid exposed to all that losing anyway.

 

[rboomercat90]

We really should not be using up one of Bouchard's ELC years this season, because if Seattle expands a year later that could really screw us, but it's sad to say he was probably one of the better Oilers D.

The only way Bouchard should be in the lineup is if he’s so good and making such a positive impact that it would hurt the team to take him out. He wasn’t terrible today but he didn’t make any difference. He can’t be in the lineup just because we have nobody else that’s better. That’s how we failed with Justin Schultz and other players from 2011-15. Leaving him up here right now hurts the teams future either by burning a year off his ELC for nothing or because of the upcoming expansion draft. The team can’t keep making the same mistakes. Send him down.

 

[Spawn]

Call me crazy but I don't think doing that against Boston is a good idea.

Move Russell up, bench Benning and put Garrison in on the third pairing.

It might not be... but we need some guys who can transition the puck. Bear and Bouchard were our 2nd and 3rd best RHD in pre-season and Benning just laid a big fat egg. Unless the Oilers are waiving someone (or I guess sending Yamamoto down) there isn't a way for them to do it though.

But the defense as it looked today couldn't transition the puck up the ice. It kills the offense before it even starts.

 

[Canada Drai]

Benning was our 1RD...





Any game where a Benning plays more than a Larsson is a ****ed up game... Completely insane.

Obvious hyperbole but it's likely that he was hemmed in and unable to change for 98% of his minutes tonight.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Dan, Dan he's our man!
if he can't do it?, who else?

Another meme I'm missing. Who is Dan?

 

[Raab]

You lost this argument a long time ago Raab.

Did I, or is Nurse proving it? Seems to me I wasn't the only one calling out Nurse & Benning today. Both were brutal.

 

[booyakasha]

If he was already showing to be one of the best dmen on the roster, sending him down makes no sense. The NHL is still a developmental league while the OHL at this point for him wouldn't be

The NHL is not a devlopment league though.
Snf Bouchard might be hurt from getting more than he can handle.

 

[McIce Whole]

It isn't my fault that you posted garbage in the GDT. It really is that simple. Post better might be the message. Applies to all of us.

Honestly, youre the only one posting garbage at this point if that is your whole argument. So one legit post criticizing Drai is garbage? Like I said, it isn’t my fault you can’t comprehend a joke/sarcasm.

Take your own words, post better, maybe come up with an actual argument. The fact that you’ve repeated yourself 3 times now...post better.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The only way Bouchard should be in the lineup is if he’s so good and making such a positive impact that it would hurt the team to take him out. He wasn’t terrible today but he didn’t make any difference. He can’t be in the lineup just because we have nobody else that’s better. That’s how we failed with Justin Schultz and other players from 2011-15. Leaving him up here right now hurts the teams future either by burning a year off his ELC for nothing or because of the upcoming expansion draft. The team can’t keep making the same mistakes. Send him down.

he almost scored...

in his own net.

 

[McDrai]

New Jersey is sooooooooooo much faster than the Oilers, it's shocking how slow of a team Peter has managed to build here.

He's still stuck in the last decade. How Chiarelli still has a job here is beyond me.

 

[booyakasha]

Another meme I'm missing. Who is Dan?

someone mistyped "Dman" earlier as "Dan", and we're having fun with it.

 

[duul]

Bouchard had a couple gaffes but he is clearly our offensive leader on the backend. Nobody can make passes like he can and he showed that part of his game off well tonight. By game 9 he will clearly be here to stay as our only threat of a clean breakout, lol.

Pathetic effort from the whole team. That has to be on McLellan. That powerplay is absolutely insane. Don't even think in house league they'd run a 5 LH shot PP followed onto the ice by a 5 RH show PP. Hahahahahahahaha.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

It might not be... but we need some guys who can transition the puck. Bear and Bouchard were our 2nd and 3rd best RHD in pre-season and Benning just laid a big fat egg. Unless the Oilers are waiving someone (or I guess sending Yamamoto down) there isn't a way for them to do it though.

But the defense as it looked today couldn't transition the puck up the ice. It kills the offense before it even starts.

You're right about the defense but adding more rookies just doesn't seem like a solid answer.

It just baffles me that for the second straight year the defense wasn't addressed and we're "forced" to play Benning in the top 4 again.

 

[Up the Irons]

I'll be surprised if it's that bad.
NJ pressures their opposition constantly.
It's their calling card.
That's how they got into the playoffs last year.

I'll be surprised if it's that bad.
NJ pressures their opposition constantly.
It's their calling card.
That's how they got into the playoffs last year.

lets hope ur right.

 

[nabob]

Benning was our 1RD...





Any game where a Benning plays more than a Larsson is a ****ed up game... Completely insane.

Clearly our coach was watching film from last year and saw something that no one else saw. This team didn’t look any different from the one that stunk the joint out last year for most of the season. No structure, no flow, no forecheck, no breakout. Just a bunch of guys waiting for Connor to do something.

 

[booyakasha]

Did I, or is Nurse proving it? Seems to me I wasn't the only one calling out Nurse & Benning today. Both were brutal.

C'mon now...
All of them were BRUTAL

 

[LaGu]

Obvious hyperbole but it's likely that he was hemmed in and unable to change for 98% of his minutes tonight.

Good point. I didn't consider it despite having watched the game. Those are the things you see when you pay attention to the game and not only the stats.

I'll take a breath and stop for the night. Let's hope this was a one time **** up and thst's it.

 

[Canada Drai]

he almost scored...

in his own net.

Laine DID score in his own net. Who cares??????

 

[Soundwave]

Clearly our coach was watching film from last year and saw something that no one else saw. This team didn’t look any different from the one that stunk the joint out last year for most of the season. No structure, no flow, no forecheck, no breakout. Just a bunch of guys waiting for Connor to do something.

I don't know why people ever bought into that nonsense anyway. Glen Gulutzan was magically going to make basically the same roster (well probably worse actually, Reider in for Maroon is a downgrade) suddenly that much better because 3 months had passed?

This is the same team as last year from the looks of things.