Pre-Game Talk: Edmonton Vs L.A
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Davidson is skating so are we sure he won't be in. Hopefully the team can squeak out a win to keep in the hunt but LA is really rolling right now.
This defence is so disgustingly bad.
Klefbom went from perhaps back on the road trip to may never play again..............
Nothing will ever go right for this team.. ever. And if it does seem go right.
The hockey gods will fix it. See Connor McDavid. Win the lottery.. haha suckers.. broken ****ing clavicle!
I'll bet the kid doesn't stay healthy his whole Oiler career or gets hurt so much his play suffers permanently. Why? Because we are the Oilers! doomed to suck ass for eternity.
Klefbom went from perhaps back on the road trip to may never play again..............
Nothing will ever go right for this team.. ever. And if it does seem go right.
The hockey gods will fix it. See Connor McDavid. Win the lottery.. haha suckers.. broken ****ing clavicle!
I'll bet the kid doesn't stay healthy his whole Oiler career or gets hurt so much his play suffers permanently. Why? Because we are the Oilers! doomed to suck ass for eternity.
Optimism is wearing thin... feeling a big loss tonight.
I'd love to still be in the playoff mix come the trade deadline, but after these last 2 losses to the teams we're chasing, my confidence is waning.
We need a healthy lineup in the worst way.
I'd love to still be in the playoff mix come the trade deadline, but after these last 2 losses to the teams we're chasing, my confidence is waning.
We need a healthy lineup in the worst way.
czar99
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We play well at home, and I think our PP will be revitalized with Hunt back there.
Call me crazy, but I'm calling for a 5-4 win.
Call me crazy, but I'm calling for a 5-4 win.
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Digger12
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I wonder how many shifts it will take before McLellan realizes that there's a good reason why Brad Hunt has spent over 200 games in the minors.
Don't get me wrong, I get the reasoning. PP is outright losing us games, injuries have hammered us and the other replacements so far have been failing spectacularly. I just do not expect him to do anything but give at best a marginal improvement on the PP, while at the same time be an absolute circus act in his own end...just like the other times he's been called up here. He's a less effective MAB, which isn't much of a hockey player.
Don't get me wrong, I get the reasoning. PP is outright losing us games, injuries have hammered us and the other replacements so far have been failing spectacularly. I just do not expect him to do anything but give at best a marginal improvement on the PP, while at the same time be an absolute circus act in his own end...just like the other times he's been called up here. He's a less effective MAB, which isn't much of a hockey player.
McDrai
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Oh yeah, forgot it was at home! Well the refs should be able to pick up the slack for LA
It's one thing to nitpick about how a player has been playing poorly... but to be flat out negative isn't gonna help you sleep any better at the end of the night.
Do we have issues? Sure. Hopkins + Eberle + Pouliot = 16M in annual salary that is playing like dead weight on most nights.
Our 1st and 4th best d-men are hurt and we only have 4 d-men who can play like NHL d-men on our roster. (Fayne can be solid on other teams but can't seem to catch onto what our coaching staff is doing here.
It's been a while since we've seen this many injuries constantly pile up and that's saying a lot... but that doesn't mean that we're doomed forever.
To believe that we will suck forever is to believe in the statistically impossible.
Do we have issues? Sure. Hopkins + Eberle + Pouliot = 16M in annual salary that is playing like dead weight on most nights.
Our 1st and 4th best d-men are hurt and we only have 4 d-men who can play like NHL d-men on our roster. (Fayne can be solid on other teams but can't seem to catch onto what our coaching staff is doing here.
It's been a while since we've seen this many injuries constantly pile up and that's saying a lot... but that doesn't mean that we're doomed forever.
To believe that we will suck forever is to believe in the statistically impossible.
DipsyMcDoodles
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Just remember, you can retroactively place someone on the IR. So he could play next game still. It was done so we could call Hunt up who is replacing Nikitin tonight.Didn't he also get placed on IR recently?
McLellan says Davidson might play NYE
Del Preston
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MCDAVIDISH
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Talbot has been very good lately.
And we have been money at home.
It's a game we should lose therefore we will play good.
ChaoticOrange
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Talbot's playing and has been solid of late. Hopefully the Kings are resting on their laurels; they spanked the Canucks last night.
LA's record against the pacific has not been very good and tend to play to their competition.
I think this game will be a coin flip.
ponokanocker
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I have a really bad feeling about this one. Not sure how this is going to play out. Talbot has been good lately, but I have a feeling the shots are probably going to be 2:1 in favor of LA.
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