GDT: Game 1 // Oilers @ Devils // Oct 6 @ 11 AM MST // TV: SNET. Part 2

[BlackDogg]

There are so few games that lets' just pretend this is another game.

 

[King1s]

As long as we don't cut the head of the snake, we will be shit. I guess we are not allowed to have a negative opinion of our gm so I will most likely be thread banned. Enjoy the rest of the chiaturd product.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Klefbom telling it like it is at least.

Guys are just getting outworked

Whoop de doo. So do something about it.

But they won't. They're comfortable with losing.

 

[oljimmy]

I was psyched for this season until I watched the CBJ-CAR game last night. I thought: "The Oilers haven't played half as good as either of these teams all last year or in the preseason". That same tenacious, practiced, coordinated style is what NJ has right now. Our team appears to have all just met one another last week. No idea how this can even happen on opening night.

 

[Soli]

Montreal mod locked it.

He should keep and eye on his other knee.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Have we won a faceoff? Or a puck race today?

 

[thadd]

The Oilers are still in this game if Devils don't have 60mins in them.

This is the happy-positive version of what you just said.

 

[CupofOil]

Montreal mod locked it.

Why is he/she allowed to do that?
We're allowed to vent on our own board if we want without outside interference.

 

[Barrsy]

Devils are way better coached than we are

Yeah its the coaches fault that the players are skating in mud and the 8.5 million dollar man continues to dog it

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

Went for another beer after the 3rd Devils goal, no more beer at the arena!! Ugh.. I mean..

 

[oobga]

Are these numbers right from Matty? I kind of checked out mentally watching that second.

The team is not great for sure, but with proper coaching and systems, they shouldn't be anywhere near this bad. Lemaire make a rag tag group full of nobodies look like they all had a job and knew where they are supposed to be going. Coaching matters. This whole group looks lost in almost every situation out on the ice. Every set play we have is easily countered because it's the same garbage we did last year. The stupid play up the boards to a stationary winger. That was a failed plan from day 1 last season, but we just keep doing it.

 

[stratedge]

First game of the season and I've got that massive deflated "why even continue watching?" feeling that the Oilers have been bringing out for as long as I can remember. Stinker after stinker after stinker for 13 years...

This organization needs a coaching and GM change, now, not later. Not after it's too late. The McDavid era needs a reboot, while that's still possible, and may still save the McDavid era. This is not a revelation after a very poor first 40 minutes of this season, it's the logical conclusion from 82 games last season, now getting silly for how it's being prolonged. Ruining this season with more bad starts (in games and season) is just kicking that dead horse now.

Make it stop please. Players don't respond to Todd, it doesn't matter what kind of hockey minds he has helping him out. And Chia has done nothing but brick this organization into a corner. Chia will never take the Oilers anywhere with his management, the organization can only hope to achieve things despite him.

I'm not angry, I'm just... tired.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The Devils are working OUR transition game. We kept hearing about D moving the puck quickly. you mean what the Devils do effortlessly BECAUSE they have the personnel to do it.


Is there one Oilers D that has impressed today or looked capable of executing a quick breakout game?

It starts from there. The Devils full court press starts with out inability to transition the puck.

This is not your dads Devils team. This is an entertaining Devils side with a work ethic that is beauty to watch.

Pace galore, that's the Devils, it isn't us.

 

[Mr Positive]

at least we're playing so bad that it just can't be real. Even the worst teams of all time don't get like 1 shot in a period.

Also, Talbot is keeping the team in it, which bodes well. If the team somehow starts caring in the third it's not a 4 goal deficit to make up, even though it should be.

 

[nabob]

Have we won a faceoff? Or a puck race today?

Jesse kinda won a faceoff.m?

 

[Soli]

Why is he/she allowed to do that?
We're allowed to vent on our own board if we want without outside interference.

Lol? He’s onside.

 

[Coffey]

haha f*** no playoffs again this year.
Connor is gonna do great.
But the team will be too heavy for him to do anything with.

f*** this team.

 

[Mr Positive]

The Devils are working OUR transition game. We kept hearing about D moving the puck quickly. you mean what the Devils do effortlessly BECAUSE they have the personnel to do it.


Is there one Oilers D that has impressed today or looked capable of executing a quick breakout game?

It starts from there. The Devils full court press starts with out inability to transition the puck.

This is not your dads Devils team. This is an entertaining Devils side with a work ethic that is beauty to watch.

Pace galore, that's the Devils, it isn't us.

still, it's not like the Devils are a top contender. We should be better for sure

 

[bobbythebrain]

As long as we don't cut the head of the snake, we will be ****. I guess we are not allowed to have a negative opinion of our gm so I will most likely be thread banned. Enjoy the rest of the chiaturd product.

 

[thadd]

Why is he/she allowed to do that?
We're allowed to vent on our own board if we want without outside interference.

Wasn't that 'monteal mod locked it' comment a joke?
If not I'm downright offended and hope that mod is stripped of all admin powers.

 

[RegDunlop]

Crappy Oilers
Salt with the Hall feature
And... wait for it

A preview of Tavares feature. Got to get those Leads in.

FML

 

[OfCorsiDid]

This game is sheer nightmare fuel.

 

[Drivesaitl]

First game of the season and I've got that massive deflated "why even continue watching?" feeling that the Oilers have been bringing out for as long as I can remember. Stinker after stinker after stinker for 13 years...

This organization needs a coaching and GM change, now, not later. Not after it's too late. The McDavid era needs a reboot, while that's still possible, and may still save the McDavid era. This is not a revelation after a very poor first 40 minutes of this season, it's the logical conclusion from 82 games last season, now getting silly for how it's being prolonged. Ruining this season with more bad starts (in games and season) is just kicking that dead horse now.

Make it stop please. Players don't respond to Todd, it doesn't matter what kind of hockey minds he has helping him out. And Chia has done nothing but brick this organization into a corner. Chia will never take the Oilers anywhere with his management, the organization can only hope to achieve things despite him.

I'm not angry, I'm just... tired.

With the on ice play its never evident we have coaching. Coaching doesn't really seem to exist here.

Its like watching Team Canada circa 70's try to execute some lame game plan that opponents figured out decades ago. Every game we expect our star players to beat not only the opponent but our own *systems*.

 

[ohheyhemsky]

Everything they do is wrong.

 

[nexttothemoon]

This 3rd period will tell a lot with the amount of resilience and bounceback the Oilers show in the next 20 minutes.