Pre-Game Talk: Falling at the feet of Florida - Now with 1st goal of game Pool!

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Finally some intense battle drills for net front, something the Oilers are terrible at.

Will it make a difference?

Koskinen says no.

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[Sanchez]

 

[29Beast97Mode]

-wake up
-go to hfoilers board
-no Dave Tippett is fired thread
-swear to self
-get on with day

 

[Duke74]

That's....interesting.

Did Tippett actually do something different??

Or did Rishaug accidentally switch McDavid's and Draisaitl's names?

Edit: Nevermind, Michaels tweeted the same thing. Maybe someone different is coaching practice...we can all dream, I suppose

 

[CycloneSweep]

Florida has scored a minimum of 4 goals every game for like a month straight now.. which is like...10 games.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Finally draisaitl gets 2 big bodies to support his game.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Florida has scored a minimum of 4 goals every game for like a month straight now.. which is like...10 games.

They’re hitting double digits this game

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Tippett is only figuring it out now that this team lacks intensity and is afraid of the front of the net and physical contact.

See what happens but pretty sure we will be back to the half speed flow drills and pretty passing practice come Wednesday.

 

[Garbo Man]

Tippett is only figuring it out now that this team lacks intensity and is afraid of the front of the net and physical contact.

See what happens but pretty sure we will be back to the half speed flow drills and pretty passing practice come Wednesday.

If we win we for sure are back to that next practice....if we lose I'm not really sure what happens anymore

 

[CycloneSweep]

Nurse-Ceci
Keith-Barrie
Russell-Bouchard
Thats almost good. I rather switch Bouchard and Barrie but I have been saying we need to put Ceci with Nurse, have the top pairing be our 2 best defenders.

 

[Del Preston]

3-0 Oilers

Let's see how far off I am.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

3-0 Oilers

Let's see how far off I am.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Finally draisaitl gets 2 big bodies to support his game.

Yep. Hopefully it lands on something like this. Drai is better at utilizing wingers like this.

 

[SwedishFire]

Finally draisaitl gets 2 big bodies to support his game.

Dave Tippet checkbox ;

Fogele with McDavid ;
it was like after 32 games

- yamamoto on third line; took 35 games

1. Draisaitl playing with Hyman; 36 games

Nuge tried as the third center; hasnt happend yet.

I like thlse lines. Well see.
How wild isnt it with Perlini woth McD??
Lets see if McDavid is re vitalised.
He and Jesse just think and play the game diffrent, doesnt fit together for now. Meanwhile Jesse has found new playmates on other lines.

Finally DRY line is dissolved.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Darnell Nurse should be the Captain of this team. jmo. He's rounding out to be the teams best player. He had a slow start this season but lately he's been knocking it out of the park. His play on Saturday again was impeccable and he was by miles the strongest Oilers player trying to get a result. He had 3 Bobby Orr type rushes in the game, got open on two of them, and was stymying the Sens all night. He was awesome, and this just continuing.

The same Darnell Nurse played 62mins, perfectly, in a playoff game last spring. When things are the worst here look who shows up bigtime, every time. Been a long time since we could say that about Connor or Leon.

 

[Oilhawks]

Finally draisaitl gets 2 big bodies to support his game.

Took this brain dead coach 12 losses to figure that the team might want a line that can cycle. Shocking

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Battle all you want… doesn’t change the fact we have Swiss cheese in net.

 

[BlackDogg]

Players drawing straws for covid protocol.

 

[Oilhawks]

Players drawing straws for covid protocol.

If Tippett gets reinfected, do the Oilers start winning again?

 

[Stealth1616]

This might be a good game to go ahead and skip

 

[Marty McSurly]

My prediction is that Koskinen will be next on covid protocol before the Panthers game so Konovalov should get his first start.

That or the bandaged body of Mike Smith will make an appearance (and he will promptly catch covid also)

 

[3IR]

Sure is nice to see them battling with some sort of intensity in practice! All it took was 12 losses in a row with the current head coach behind the bench.

Seriously though, is the media just pointing this “intensity” out now to give some illusion of real change occurring on the team since the management isn’t actually doing anything?

Does a typical oilers practice not include battle drills where you actually put in an effort?

Why is this considered “good news”?

 

[Drivesaitl]

5-2 Oilers. I'll play optimist.

The Oilers are better than they've shown and theres nothing like anger to bring some resolve. The Oilers will come out strong. Its how they finish now that is more a concern.

People were saying the Oilers were perimeter in the Sens game. That wasn't the case. One minute in the game Drai had a slot opportunity, McD had 3 in the period. Kass scored from the slot, Yama scored on a breakaway, the Oilers Hyman, Foegele, Pulju were doing plenty of bulling the puck towards the net. These better habits are developing. But we need to bag some results.

 

[Gordian Knot]

The worse Oilers play the lesser line mates for McDavid. What could go wrong.

 

[cyberpunk]

in for a penny in for a pound, I say roll with Konovalov, I was like who's going to be in net with Skinner in covid. I bet you Konovalov is going to out play Koski and Skinner.