Post-Game Talk: Habs 4 Oilers 3

[Mez]

I just can't count right now lol. I'm just assuming we lose our next game and Vancouver wins their next lol

Honestly, thats completely reasonable lol.

 

[Mez]

Looking at it another way though, that early season comeback win vs. Winnipeg basically cost this team:

Strome for Spooner
Caggiula for Manning
Petrovic
Koskinen x 4.5M x 3
Another 3 months of TM
Another wasted season of McDavid
+/- 4 months of Hitch

They lose that game, TM gets fired, the clock on Chia starts 3 months sooner.

Even when we win we lose.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

I wonder where the resident goalie expert is to let us know that today’s loss wasn’t Koskinens fault at all.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Also 4 points out of 3rd last. Impressive

Anaheim had a 12 game losing streak and are tied with us in points.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Looking at it another way though, that early season comeback win vs. Winnipeg basically cost this team:

Strome for Spooner
Caggiula for Manning
Petrovic
Koskinen x 4.5M x 3
Another 3 months of TM
Another wasted season of McDavid
+/- 4 months of Hitch

They lose that game, TM gets fired, the clock on Chia starts 3 months sooner.

The team was playing significantly better under TM though... they were carrying the play early in the season, even in games they lost. Now it feels like one giant game of cat and mouse.

 

[MarkStreitPPGOD]

Anaheim had a 12 game losing streak and are tied with us in points.

Yet people here would laugh at the thought that the Ducks would make the playoffs.

Somehow the Oilers are different?!

 

[Cloned]

The team was playing significantly better under TM though... they were carrying the play early in the season, even in games they lost. Now it feels like one giant game of cat and mouse.

The team wasn't going anywhere anyways, not with this roster. Everything that's happened this season is just prolonging the pain and suffering, and with added damage from Chia's midseason moves.

 

[CycloneSweep]

The team was playing significantly better under TM though... they were carrying the play early in the season, even in games they lost. Now it feels like one giant game of cat and mouse.

The team had a better roster under McLellan and Klefbom wasn't injured.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

The team had a better roster under McLellan and Klefbom wasn't injured.

This right here.

It still wasn't a great roster but Hitchcock definitely has to figure out how to do more with less.

 

[rboomercat90]

Looking at it another way though, that early season comeback win vs. Winnipeg basically cost this team:

Strome for Spooner
Caggiula for Manning
Petrovic
Koskinen x 4.5M x 3
Another 3 months of TM
Another wasted season of McDavid
+/- 4 months of Hitch

They lose that game, TM gets fired, the clock on Chia starts 3 months sooner.

Funny how things work out. How much would that have changed things? Does Hitchcock even get brought in at that point or are we looking at Gulutzan? Who knows what Chiarelli might have done if the screws had been put to him at the middle of October instead of the end of December. Things may have ended up even worse, it’s not like Nicholson was stopping him from making destructive transactions.

 

[ItWasJustified]

How man BP goals have Nurse and Russel been on the ice for now?

Wouldn't blame McDrai one bit if they would want out..

They shouldn't have signed long term deals for a lot of money then. Who gives a **** if they want out? They signed effing contracts.

 

[Cloned]

Funny how things work out. How much would that have changed things? Does Hitchcock even get brought in at that point or are we looking at Gulutzan? Who knows what Chiarelli might have done if the screws had been put to him at the middle of October instead of the end of December. Things may have ended up even worse, it’s not like Nicholson was stopping him from making destructive transactions.

With the Oilers, all potential timelines are bad.

 

[MoontoScott]

I still think that Hitch would be a good HC for next season. You can't blame him for the paper thin roster depth.

I would be quite happy to go with Keith Gretzky and Hitch for the 2019-20 season.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I still think that Hitch would be a good HC for next season. You can't blame him for the paper thin roster depth.

I would be quite happy to go with Keith Gretzky and Hitch for the 2019-20 season.

Good on you for being easy to please. Keith Gretzky with MacT and Howson should be just what the Dr. ordered.

 

[Cloned]

Good on you for being easy to please. Keith Gretzky with MacT and Howson should be just what the Dr. ordered.

 

[BlackDogg]

All I can say is pay Koskinen more. And then he makes that save.

 

[Cloned]

All I can say is pay Koskinen more. And then he makes that save.

Does that work for Lucic and goal scoring?

 

[Macheteops]

We got 2/4 points, the sky isn't falling people

This team has been a dumpster fire for over a decade. The sky is long gone at this point

 

[BlackDogg]

Does that work for Lucic and goal scoring?

I think so. Pay reider too.

 

[BlackDogg]

This team has been a dumpster fire for over a decade. The sky is long gone at this point

Bob and the OBC mouth breathed up all the ozone.

 

[Cloned]

I think so. Pay reider too.

I should get paid for posting on HF.

(Or maybe paid to not post )

 

[Senor Catface]

This team has been a dumpster fire for over a decade. The sky is long gone at this point

Have you seen the Matrix?

It's kind of like that I think.

 

[Nostradumbass]

The team wasn't going anywhere anyways, not with this roster. Everything that's happened this season is just prolonging the pain and suffering, and with added damage from Chia's midseason moves.

The midseason moves of shipping out better players for worse players has definitely worked out exactly as Chia had planned. I'm willing to bet he saw the writing on the wall and was like "f*** it, if I'm going down, they are too."

 

[Cloned]

Have you seen the Matrix?

It's kind of like that I think.

Nah, the 80's was the Matrix.

We've already woken up and we're in that horrible Zion City reality now.

 

[LaGu]

The guy isn't very good with controlling loose pucks and gives up rebounds. He looks fatigued easily and is hardly getting any work. 30GP. Wow. When this guy is our starter and expected to play over 60games whats going to happen. He's never played more than 41 games in any season. That's a problem waiting to happen.

He played 63 games last season. You forget that goalies (good ones) in KHL/Europe are regularly called to play with their national teams during seasons.

Anyhow, obviously not a great game, but I wouldn't burn Koskinen at the stake for this game.