Post-Game Talk: Oilers 4 Slump Busters 3

[Tobias Kahun]

Happy we won and happy for both Lucic and Klefbom for finally ending their goalless droughts.

But the thing that still pisses me off is that the season is lost, we are focussing on developing our players and giving the young players a shot and yet Puju still gets the short end of the stick.

Time on ice:
Cammalleri: 14:30
Puljujärvi: 11:10

Even ignoring the fact that Puju doesn’t get put in a position to succeed on the power play, what in the actual **** is the reasoning behind playing Cammalleri more than Puju at this point in the season.

Leading up to the trade deadline, I could justify it, boost up Camo’s value and see if we can get some assets for him but now? I don’t get it.

I hate Todd and his staff.

How much of that is 5on5? Cam plays the PK for some reason.

 

[McShogun99]

JP's PPG should get in Woodcroft's head until he finally puts JP on there with his off hand shot waiting for a one timer. How they refuse to utilize him on there is another reason why our PP's garbage this year.

In honor of the memory of Letestu no one shall play his spot on the PP for the remainder of the season.

 

[Senor Catface]

Sigh. Young love..

 

[McIce Whole]

How much of that is 5on5? Cam plays the PK for some reason.

1:05 of that is SH time on ice so he still got more 5 on 5 mins than Puju...again. This issue of Cammalleri playing more than Puju extends beyond this game, it makes no sense.

 

[ZJuice]

New thirds for next season

 

[McAsuno]

In honor of the memory of Letestu no one shall play his spot on the PP for the remainder of the season.

Hahaha!

 

[Louis Cypher]

in before drivesaitl says something negative

He's not negative, he's unpossitive.

 

[VainGretzky]

The Oilers goals:

A shorty
A powerplay goal
5-on-5
OT winner

Every type of goal that can be scored, was scored.

Hate to be a downer but I don't see a penalty shot goal on there

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Jeez you knew the Coyotes would tie it after they made it 3-2.

But McDavid overtime magic. It's not even fair for the other team.

 

[Louis Cypher]

All the caoches fall for it as well , yup Tmac the sneakster. lol

Just our coaches. This helps him justify his stupid coaching moves

 

[booyakasha]

Why did OEL jump into the boards at the end of the game like that?
wasn't very smart.

 

[McIce Whole]

On a little bit of a side note, I pray the Oilers win the lottery one last time and land Dahlin. Then we can keep Nuge and will have our number 1 dmen.

Oh and watching the main boards crash and burn will make my soul happy after the shit we had to endure this season.

 

[Gord]

I'm grateful rnh is back. Missed watching him play.

 

[bzur]

Pool Party's Pizzeria shirt is 1-0 with a Puljujarvi goal.

 

[Del Preston]

I was 3-0-1 at games this year. I did my part.

 

[FlameChampion]

Even though I am tired of Lucic, nice to see him score a goal.
Pretty solid game from Khaira and Strome.
Nice snipe from Puljujarvi. He really needs to work on trying to find himself more space in the offensive zone. RNH seems to look for him a bit more than McDavid and Draisaitl.
Happy to see RNH back, he makes so many small nice plays. Not a great play on the second goal against, but was a lot of culprits on that play.

This team is terrible on the boards though. I know Camalleri has scored some points recently but the guy can really not get to the puck on the boards with any type of efficiency or pace. Same with Lucic. Hes always just standing around. So far Aberg looks pretty decent.

This team has really poor passing. They dont support the puck very well. Too many blind passes around the boards. Too many east-west passes in the defensive zone. They really need some more speedy wingers that have decent compete level and decent hands. If they could get the puck off the boards in their defensive zone, I think the team would have a lot more success.

 

[bzur]

Aberg has been good for us from my viewings. Seems to be really good at creating opportunities with whoever he is out there with. I think it is subtle things that he does on the forecheck that make a big difference.. he has good instincts.

Love Khaira and Strome lately, and i think Drew and Kevin's assesment of Strone finding a role when Nuge was out is correct.. honestly hoping we keep him around.

 

[oobga]

Really likes Bear's poise on the PP. Something we have very little of on this team on the back end.

Hope he can keep developing and get a reliable ES game going. Don't want to rush the kid, but it sure would be nice to have a PP specialist next year, even if he's a 3rd pairing ES guy.

 

[North]

Why did OEL jump into the boards at the end of the game like that?
wasn't very smart.

OEL is the defensive version of Dustin Brown. He's a diver and he doesn't get called on it a lot.

 

[SomeDudeOTI]

I noticed that too, when he hurt his "wrist" he didnt even miss a single shift even though he went to the room.

Go down the hallway so the refs know you were Really hurt on the play...

 

[Tobias Kahun]

OEL is the defensive version of Dustin Brown. He's a diver and he doesn't get called on it a lot.

Did he board hendricks and kassian gave him a love tap and sent him flying into the boards?

 

[Frank the Tank]

Go down the hallway so the refs know you were Really hurt on the play...

Doughty did that and earned a major penalty for Maroon. He also received bonus points for being back after the commercial break to start the PP.

 

[SomeDudeOTI]

It’s honestly mind boggling. I just don’t understand what the reasoning behind holding Puju back is. Puju is the one rookie who, IMO, should get more freedom than other young players on this team due to the fact that he’s a RH shooter and he’s actually defensively responsible. A player like him should be put in a position to score (like Laine) and continue to be developed as a pure goal scorer, especially on a team with playmakers like Drai, Nuge and Mcdavid.

But it looks like Todd and his genius staff think otherwise. I hope he gets canned at the end of year.

Todd's setting it up for next year where he gives JP primo minutes and he explodes and Todd says "I knew he could do it, he just had to put in the work"

 

[SomeDudeOTI]

Hate to be a downer but I don't see a penalty shot goal on there

Or an empty netter

 

[SomeDudeOTI]

Doughty did that and earned a major penalty for Maroon. He also received bonus points for being back after the commercial break to start the PP.

Tough veteran sacrificing his body to work for his team