McDavid hate rewarded by giraffes. lEafs beat Oilers.

[dustrock]

You keep the best of the three ... that's Hall.

IMO McDavid + Hall + Draisaitl + Nurse is your core group. Anyone else is available but you don't make trades for the sake of making trades, we need to get value for our players and be patient (as much as that's going to piss people off).

This is sound but despite what Chia Pete said, sometimes you do just have to trade to make a trade. The core runs the show, either way. If they can't lead you to improvement, time to go.

They have given these guys letters and way too much slack and McLellan is coming in 3 years too late.

 

[McDynasty]

Who the hell is this guy on CHED?!?!?

 

[McAsuno]

Who the hell is this guy on CHED?!?!?

I tuned off. What did he say?

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Toronto hasn't been a bottom feeding bunch of crap for 10 years though. McLellan has much more work to do than Babcock did and its not even funny. And you say he is getting a lot more mileage, they are a bottom 5 team still, that's not saying much.

Leafs have been just as bad, they just didn't have the lottery luck, and traded away a couple of early 1sts for Kessel.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Most of Hall's poor decisions come when the team is playing hopelessly bad though. He tries to do too much and forces the issue. He doesn't tend to make such bad decisions when the team is in the game.

Absolutely nailed it.

 

[nabob]

That was not one of Hall's better games, he is going back to being careless with the puck. RNH and Eberle still look like crap and Pouliot is also playing like he's useless. Outside of Drai, Nurse and Sekera I don't think that anyone on our side had a good game.

It's the type of game that Hall regresses to when no one on the ice besides himself (and Drai) are doing anything.

 

[McDynasty]

I tuned off. What did he say?

Someone with a hillbilly accent talking how the coach should throw things at the players to make them play better. Also he thinks all the oilers have skinny arms. Man some of these fans, jeez.

He also was advocating on the coach fining players 1000 dollars everytime they fail to get the puck out of the zone.

 

[oilwave]

I feel like the oilers right now, completely ****ing checked out.

 

[McAsuno]

Someone with a hillbilly accent talking how the coach should throw things at the players to make them play better. Also he thinks all the oilers have skinny arms. Man some of these fans, jeez.

. I wonder if he coaches?

 

[Del Preston]

Someone with a hillbilly accent talking how the coach should throw things at the players to make them play better. Also he thinks all the oilers have skinny arms. Man some of these fans, jeez.

He also was advocating on the coach fining players 1000 dollars everytime they fail to get the puck out of the zone.

That was Dallas E. from SoCal.

 

[Jet Walters]

Enough is enough! It's high time we begin our search for Chris Pronger's love child (currently 8-9 years old) and ceremoniously burn him/her at the stake and end this god forsaken curse!!!

 

[harpoon]

Schultz and Eberle out the door would be addition by subtraction.

Gagner, Dubnyk, Petry addition by subtraction.

 

[Mcnofool6110]

Someone with a hillbilly accent talking how the coach should throw things at the players to make them play better. Also he thinks all the oilers have skinny arms. Man some of these fans, jeez.

He also was advocating on the coach fining players 1000 dollars everytime they fail to get the puck out of the zone.

"None of these dem Oilers boys can chop any wood! Heck, I don't even think any of dem Oilers boys can carry any water! What they need is a good strong leader to lead them up stairs and back down stairs. Its all about der fitness! When I was a little boy, I knew a thing or two about hard work. Oooh, let me tell you, the day you start letting dem boys have skinny arms, the day you get your suit soaked."

"Uh, ok... we have a text message coming in... it's from Craig, he says he likes that post... Not that kind of media, Craig. Not that kind of media"

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

This game was so demoralizing I don't even feel like watching the Canucks lose.

 

[McDynasty]

That was Dallas E. from SoCal.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Browns lost in the most Oiler way possible

so there's that

 

[McOvechking]

I concur with the sentiment that Hall starts to force the issue when the team is losing. He absolutely shouldn't be relied upon as the only offensive force on this team. When McDavid returns, Nuge needs to be on the "third line" or traded.

It's amazing, McDavid produces more offense, and gets more production, out of veteran players and superstar youngsters than our "veteran" former #1OA Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

 

[McOilers97]

Gagner, Dubnyk, Petry addition by subtraction.

Except that I never said that about any of those guys. Goes to show how strongly I feel against the aforementioned players.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

I concur with the sentiment that Hall starts to force the issue when the team is losing. He absolutely shouldn't be relied upon as the only offensive force on this team. When McDavid returns, Nuge needs to be on the "third line" or traded.

It's amazing, McDavid produces more offense, and gets more production, out of veteran players and superstar youngsters than our "veteran" former #1OA Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

Another few years with these guys and even McDavid might crumble.

 

[McDynasty]

No matter how bad the Oil play, I always end the night with a smile on my face from the callers on CHED. That's one thing I'll miss when eventually they start winning.

 

[McDynasty]

"None of these dem Oilers boys can chop any wood! Heck, I don't even think any of dem Oilers boys can carry any water! What they need is a good strong leader to lead them up stairs and back down stairs. Its all about der fitness! When I was a little boy, I knew a thing or two about hard work. Oooh, let me tell you, the day you start letting dem boys have skinny arms, the day you get your suit soaked."

"Uh, ok... we have a text message coming in... it's from Craig, he says he likes that post... Not that kind of media, Craig. Not that kind of media"

Pretty much lol

 

[McAsuno]

Browns lost in the most Oiler way possible

so there's that

They're definitely the NFL's version of the oilers. At least their fanbase knows suffering like ours. Let us rejoice, brown fans. We know your pain.

 

[McOvechking]

Another few years with these guys and even McDavid might crumble.

Don't say that.

So far Nurse, Draisaitl, and Hall have remained fairly positive in the midst of this horror.

 

[harpoon]

Except that I never said that about any of those guys. Goes to show how strongly I feel against the aforementioned players.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that you had.
I felt that Dubnyk for sure was addition by subtraction.
What I really wanted to say is that there are very few players about whom that comment can legitimately be made yet it gets said over and over on this board.
And we are usually wrong.

 

[Mc5RingsAndABeer]

I don't see how trading RNH and Eberle will help unless it's to address a need. Moving everyone else up a line on the roster isn't going to make them more effective. I'd be fine moving then but trading for the sake of trading is dumb. We've already shuffled key players over the past decade with the same results. We need defense, period. Everything else is just secondary bs