Post-Game Talk: Oilers 4 Sharks 3 - Hitch a ride to McDavid

[McFlash97]

McLegends status keeps growing..

 

[CycloneSweep]

"Is that how you wanna freaking wanna score?"

 

[CycloneSweep]

Stauffer

What he say!

 

[Cloned]

Things that Hitchcock has already learned:
His top line is good
Koskinen is his starter
His third pairing sucks total ass
He's probably not going to get many PPs

He basically only has one really reliable defender (Russell) and one guy who is mostly good (Klefbom). The rest range from inconsistent (Larsson) to terrible (Benning).

 

[KCC]

top 3 scorers on the team contributed again, Koskinen was great and that’s about it. So nothing changed but hey, a win is a win. Lol

Hitch gonna take us to the promise land. Lol @ him walking off the ice,

Pretty sure he’s still walking off the ice as I type this

 

[IAGTTAYM]

That was a page out of The Hitch's Guide to the Playoffs!

 

[CycloneSweep]

He doesn’t give up or deflate like Talbot.

For him a save is a save. A goal is a goal. He is like....incredibly poised.

 

[Roof Daddy]

Obviously Hitch can't take credit for the McD and Drai show, but I will say this - he showed more game management in his first 60 than TMac showed in his entire tenure.

Putting Looch-Brodz-Kass together looks brilliant initially. All 3 looked very comfortable together. Let's hope it continues.

 

[North]

Didn't catch most of the game. Did we really earn no PPS?

We had 11 seconds of PP time. San Jose were all Lady Byng candidates.

 

[Da McBomb]

Loved Hitch's use of Connor throughout the game.

 

[BlackDogg]

Hoping to practice power play Friday.

 

[MessierII]

Didn't catch most of the game. Did we really earn no PPS?

Drew 1 penalty on the pk to make it 4 on 4 and had I think 11 or 12 seconds of pp time at the tail end of that.

 

[T-Funk]

San Jose is a good team so I'll let some dman sloppiness slide. Different looking aggression level so far. Annnnd San Jose gets away with Everything as usual

 

[Cloned]

Hoping to practice power play Friday.

To be honest they probably need an actual practice with Viveiros first.

 

[Coffey]

Hoping to practice power play Friday.

Why practice something you never use?

 

[ZJuice]

We have 11 seconds of PP time. San Jose were all Lady Byng candidates.

Pavelski especially. He wasn’t as clean as Tkachuk but I’ll give him props

 

[MaxR11]

some good things tonight. better and smarter effort. much better energy on forecheck and backcheck in general. better effort in puck battles. better on ice communication. better at taking away chances or time and space in front of own net.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Totally different coached game then TM.

Yeah, he's actually 'coaching.' What the hell is this stuff? Get outta here with that crap!

It's been so long I almost forgot what some actual competent coaching looks like. Hopefully it only gets better from here.

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

We have 11 seconds of PP time. San Jose were all Lady Byng candidates.

I see. I guess I don't expect much else out of a Cali road trip

 

[MoontoScott]

In the last 2 minutes of the game I don't remember seeing Lucic too much. Perhaps that is an immediate change in strategy.

 

[harpoon]

What he say!

Just has the smug dialed up to ten tonight. New coach, rare victory ... its like Christmas for him.

 

[KCC]

For him a save is a save. A goal is a goal. He is like....incredibly poised.

he’s been great at making the key saves. Poised for sure. Talbot would have already been pulled had he been in net.

 

[Frank the Tank]

Didn't catch most of the game. Did we really earn no PPS?

Technically the Oilers had a few seconds of PP time as Karlsson turned it over early into a Sharks penalty, got out-skated by Khaira, and took a penalty.

 

[Cloned]

Need someone smarter than me (not hard ) to analyze Hitch’s deployment tonight.

 

[780il]

Lets goooo baby