Post-Game Talk: Its a Trap

[Oilhawks]

He's been 1/4th of the forward core on what has been one of the top pk units all year on a team with no viable option to replace him since Granlund flopped

Then replace him with Granlund.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Then replace him with Granlund.

Yamamoto.

 

[Quality Oil]

Gotta give Yotes credit where credit is due, they played a hell of a game plugging up the middle and limiting our chances to the outside. From the opportunities we did have on the inside Raanta was solid. It's too bad that the goals against came from a broken play and a total fluke off Klef's skates.

Throw it in the garbage and move on.

 

[Jesus Take the Wheel]

Yamamoto.

As much as that is an option for the long term, maybe Tippett wants to work Yama into his role on this team, instead of throwing everything at him at once

 

[Jumptheshark]

Calgary and Vancouver and Vegas lost so it might be a muligan in the grande scheme

That is the only saving grace but losing to ateam chasing is bad

 

[replacement]

What the actual **** is this press conference?

You’re trying? You don’t have enough juice?

Isn’t that your ****ing job Dave?

Ah yes, the ol' "you're not doing your job!" rant immediately after the "finally we have a real coach" thread.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Obviously this team still wants to make things hard for itself. We'll see if they want to fight when it really matters down the stretch. I have my doubts.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Ah yes, the ol' "you're not doing your job!" rant immediately after the "finally we have a real coach" thread.

I was kinda overreacting, I'll admit.

Mainly I was just shocked at what he said.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Today was a reminder. We are still learning

 

[ijk]

Raanta played just well enough to shut out a lethargic team. No 10 bell saves. A lot of luck with shots hitting him and the Oilers top players having an off night. He is not a very good goalie.

C’mon.

He has a career save percentage of 92.0%.

The Coyotes may play a boring defensive game, but Raanta is quite legit. Just check out his scorpion kick save the game before this one.

There are plenty of worse goalies than him in the league. And sure, there are goalies who are better than him. But he is stellar.

 

[guymez]

Big let down game. Probably the worst team you could play after a high emotion game.

Bummer.

100%.
It was bad enough that the Oilers had 3 emotional games in a row but next up...go into that totally lifeless building and play against that ugly (suck the life out of you) team was just too much.
Couldnt possibly have been a bigger contrast in emotion for this team. A team like this one learning how to win is going to struggle with that...no doubt in my mind.

What a gross team Arizona is...thank god we dont have to watch that garbage 82 games a year.

Despite some of the over reaction on here where posters want to throw the team under the bus (immediately after beating the Stanley Cup Champs and torching the Flames) I am going to cut them some slack.
They earned as much...they deserve as much.

 

[NedPlimpton]

It was a bad effort, and also an incredibly boring game.

My time felt double wasted.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I couldn't watch the game but according to you, Khaira sucked again which is good. Give Benson a chance.

 

[nexttothemoon]

That wasn't an awful game... they got beat by the better team on the night.

There was effort there by the Oilers and they actually played decent hockey after that admittedly weak 1st period... it's just that the Coyotes played a textbook defensive game and kept most scoring chances to the outside which meant the Oilers really couldn't capitalize on the chances they did have because the scoring lanes were always tied up and it was hard to generate good scoring chances.

Full credit to the Coyotes on the team wide effort in that game.

Koskinen was every bit as good as Raanta as the 2 goals that beat Koskinen were impossible to stop... one on a skate blade own goal and the perfect thread the needle pass to a quick shot which was just out of his reach as he came across the crease.

Koskinen should have been one of the 3 stars imo as he was very solid all night and made some exceptional saves as well.

Oilers had a few decent chances but Raanta played well overall and the team D on the Coyotes was better on the night... making several Oilers players less effective than they should/could have been.

Yotes were drowning in their last 10 games and were simply the more organized, determined and desperate team on the night.

Were the Oilers shit tonight? No... but they were the less structured of the 2 teams out there and the Yotes found a way to bury 2 chances that they had... one semi-fluky one and the other a real sharp play by Hall threading the needle to Garland who made a tough re-direction to score.

It's the bounce back from this game for the Oilers that will tell the story of whether they can learn from this game... work on a plan to bust through a tough defensive structure like they were stifled with tonight... and come out and bust through offensively in their homestand coming up.

I think this is a blip in an otherwise solid uptrend for this team and they will bounce back strongly in their upcoming games.

8-2-2 is a solid stretch of hockey and this was just a rare dry night where the offense dries up vs a stifling team.

They had scored 52 goals in their last 11 games which is a phenomenal 4.73 goals per game over that stretch... so I don't think this 1 shutout is going to instantly erase the offensive heat that the team has been conjuring up recently.

Move on... give credit to Arizona for a game well played and rip into the next teams they play with the type of effort they have been providing over the last month of hockey and this team will be fine rolling into the stretch run heading for a ~100 pt season and a playoff spot.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Coyotes can eat ****. Five guys lined up on the blue line all 3rd period, off the glass and out at least 20 times, flip our at least another 20.
And when it was 0-0, just clutch, grab, interfere. Hope they finish in exactly 17th place overall for years to come.

They're playing without OEL, Demers, and Kuemper. Its a huge game for them and they threw down with what it was going to take to get a home win.

seriously why we blaming the opponent team for playing the way they should instead of the Oilers having a lukewarm lineup that can't solve this degree of checking?

 

[Drivesaitl]

Why is the narrative that we played terribly? We didn't have a great first period, but its not like we laid down. We had like double the yotes shot attempts, and both of their real goals came off weird bounces.

It was a low event game with the Coyotes playing desperate.

Yep. Some over reaction about the game tonight. Theres going to be nights like this when the team isn't sharp and isn't clicking. We also started slow, a bad habit we've had this season and too much success is usually followed by something like this. Team was due for a rougher night. We didn't get the breaks, Yotes did, it happens. everytime you score 8 goals you wish you could save a few for another night. Just the way hockey is.

 

[WhyYouHaveToBeMad]

We should never ever pull our goalie when we are down, it's an automatic goal against us. I don't understand how they couldn't break the pressure and control the puck when we had an extra skater. That whole game was just frustrating to watch

 

[Drivesaitl]

What the actual **** is this press conference?

You’re trying? You don’t have enough juice?

Isn’t that your ****ing job Dave?

We're gonna blame Tippett now? seems like he's had the team playing real well, and dialed in since NYE. Team went on a busting string for 5 weeks. One lacklustre performance and we're getting the nail guns out?

C'mon people. The Oilers didn't even play badly. Even game, could have gone either way. Two teams on the ice, the Yotes were more determined in this game. The Oilers have been on the right end of these for a dozen games.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Garbage effort. Also why is P. Russell even playing? He's not even PKing. Benson not playing for 3 games in a row makes me wonder if Tipp even sees him as a NHL player at this point. Also once Archibald was off of the McDavid line, why wasn't he back with Sheahan? Head scratching personnel moves and a poor effort = this crappy loss.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Tbh, Benson and Lagesson probably wouldn’t have helped enough the whole team was flat and that’s on Dave.

Also this is the NHL, everyone plays 82 games there’s no ****ing excuse for being tired. They’re professionals, they better start acting like it.

Teams are IN 82 games in a season. Zero teams are sharp, or play well, in all of those games. In pro sports you're lucky if your team plays reasonably well the majority of the games.

Every NHL club is composed of professionals and every one of them has stinkers. We've actually seen a fair degree of those from opponent clubs. lol that the playoff race has been a snail race lately with a lot of teams in the "running" having a rough time.

 

[Burnoutboi]

Obviously this team still wants to make things hard for itself. We'll see if they want to fight when it really matters down the stretch. I have my doubts.

I'm cautiously optimistic about their chances. Just the fact that they're in it still in February inspires a little bit of hope.

That being said, there's more than a third of the season left to play. The entire Pacific division could flip , well, except LA. They blow monkey chunks this year.

 

[Oilhawks]

Will never give credit to a trap team. f*** the Coyotes and f*** their boring brand of bullshit hockey. Hope they miss the playoffs and Tocchet and Chayka get shit canned.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

When you get shut out, the other team's doing a lot of things right. Too bad, on to the next one..

 

[Tyrolean]

When you get shut out, the other team's doing a lot of things right. Too bad, on to the next one..

That's what they said in Calgary. Shuts up all the booster here though.

 

[nabob]

Guys its one game. Can't win them all. The "Oiler fans" crying and saying "pathetic performance" and "Can't trust this team" etc seriously need to take a look in the mirror. This team or any other team will not win every game.

Plus side, Benson is most likely in next game and Vancouver and Flames lost.

It’s funny because this board has spent the last week making fun of Flames and Leaf fans for having the same chicken little attitude. Can’t win them all.