Post-Game Talk: Game 84, same as the previous 83.

[Llamamoto]

Just leave Benning in Boston.. maybe Lucic can stay there too.

Lucic was one of our best players that game.

 

[Mcnofool6110]

Serious note. Bear needs to be up here. Benning needs some seasoning in the ECHL. We will look a lot better with two NHL level pairings. Dont know what the f*** we're going to do about KlefLars

 

[nabob]

Some terrible missed calls in that game.

Chara throws his stick at MCDavid
Backes with the biggest 2 handed slash I’ve seen in a long time
The hit from behind on benning that knocked the glass out.

All three were plays that both of the officials would have clearly seen. Yet no one called anything. I get that some hooks or picks or highsticks might be missed, but those were so blatant.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Simple Todd needs to call out McDavid again.

 

[OilerTyler]

Putting Drai with McDavid, ok, so who is going to provide secondary scoring?

Why would you worry about secondary scoring when we don't even have primary scoring?

 

[CupofOil]

I wouldn't be opposed to blowing up the entire team outside of McDavid if this keeps up much longer. We can blame Todd all we want and I've been one of his biggest detractors but I honestly don't think a coaching change will make a big difference (it would be Gulutzan btw). Team needs a facelift, again.
Yes, it's just Game 2 but for me, it's Game 84 and they are getting worse and worse.

 

[Frank the Tank]

Chiarelli has to identify a bottom pairing RHD that can be acquired for Kassian and/or a 3rd round pick. Playing Benning regularly is costing the team wins. That or roll the dice with Bear, who struggled last season, but can't be worse.

 

[FlameChampion]

Better effort tonight.

If Klefbom and Larsson play like they did in the first period, we are in for a long year.

I didnt think the team created much offensively. The lines really lack chemistry. Draisaitl looked better tonight but people have been saying since last year that he needs help. TM has had so much time to try and figure something out, but hes so stubborn and doesnt try new things. Third and fourth lines were pretty blah.

I thought they settled in better defensively in the second and third period. They were better getting the puck out of their zone tonight.

TM cost this team tonight. He makes the same poor decisions over and over. Cagguila is not a good defensive forward, why is he on the PK? Benning is really struggling, why is he playing on the PK as much as he is? The PP doesnt work, yet he keeps going with it. Team continuously loses momentum on the PP.

I really dont think TM is the person to coach the team. He doesnt put his players in a position to succeed. Hopefully they dont wait too long to make the change.

 

[nabob]

Lucic was one of our best players that game.

As he was last game.

 

[McDeepika]

McDavid, Draisaitl, Drake, Russell, Bouchard weren't awful.

Klefbom is so unbelievably bad. Takes 3-4 seconds just holding the puck before he can make a decision. I loved him looking off McDavid just so he could slowly gain center and dump it in.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Its darkest before dawn

 

[CupofOil]

If his name was Beninarvi he'd be benched and sent to the AHL.
But he's Matt Benning, the local kid who chose to play here.

"Benning gets Alberta"

- Bob Shill Stauffer

 

[booyakasha]

Putting Drai with McDavid, ok, so who is going to provide secondary scoring?

not like secondary scoring was coming anyway.
It's literally McDavid, then a whole bunch of nothing.

 

[snipes]

How much more can they honestly expect us to take?

 

[Soundwave]

Gene had so many hard hitting questions for Chiaturd in the intermission too.

 

[nabob]

Maybe it's just me, but I found him to be generally useless all game. When you have an 8.5 million dollar price tag on you, you're expected to be at least average.

Overall, I've never seen such little offensive pressure from a hockey team. Not due to coaching, not due to reffing, just due to a pure lack of talent. Was there a single shift where the Oilers spent more than 30 seconds in the offensive zone? In both the Jersey and Boston games.


For those wanting Pulju up in the lineup tonight, the dude literally did absolutely nothing all night. Like there is only so much you can blame on who he is playing with. He was horrendous.

Yeah what did Puljujarvi play? 7 or 8 minutes? He only had 2 minutes in the 1st. Can’t expect much from a player who gets singled out in practice and then stapled to the bench. He looked so good in preseason and Todd has sucked the life out of the kid already it seems. Do Jesse a favor and let him play for a coach that will play him to his strengths instead of his weaknesses.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

The Oilers are now the only pointless team in the league.

 

[Del Preston]

How much more can they honestly expect us to take?

I didn't buy tickets this year, except for the game in Calgary next month so I can cry in my beer.

 

[Aerrol]

Putting Drai with McDavid, ok, so who is going to provide secondary scoring?

I mean...I think we need some primary scoring first, lol.

 

[Delicious Pancakes]

Good:

McDavid
Nuge
Draisaitl
Caggiula
Rieder
Khaira
Bouchard
Russell


Okay:

Talbot
Rattie - oops forgot him
Lucic
Yamamoto

Poor:

Pulju
Strome
Kassian
Nurse
Klefbom
Larsson
The PK

Very Poor:

Benning
The Refs

 

[nabob]

Putting Drai with McDavid, ok, so who is going to provide secondary scoring?

Drai maybe. Because as of right now we have no one.

 

[Senor Catface]

I am checked out. After game 2.

Thanks Oilers.

 

[Aerrol]

Its darkest before dawn

Unless you're in the far north, then it's just dark all winter. And I'm just saying - we're the northern-most team in the NHL.

 

[booyakasha]

How much more can they honestly expect us to take?

The only option for Edmonton to get a team is to trade McDavid.
McD deserves better, and he's really the only assett that can return some peices to build a team...other than him, who we got?
none of our players are worth anything on the market.

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

Its darkest before dawn

Been saying that for 13 years

 

[Da McBomb]

What is the oilers overall record under Katz?

 

[MaxR11]

Let's hope it's jet lag but there appears to be fundamental issues with this team. Too slow and unskilled. I flip over to the flames game and it was night and day. That game was fast and skilled. the puck was moving around and getting possessed and handled with skill and intelligence. The oilers play ugly ugly slow hockey that seems sloppy awkward and uncoordinated. Part coaching, part personnel? Man this is not going to be an easy fix for Chia.