GDT: Oilers at Stars: The "Only the boldest predictions" thread

[McDrai]

Who you gonna call? Slumpbusters! (Oilers)
4-2 Stars with an empty net goal since the Oilers are atrocious with the extra man

 

[Paralyzer008]

Benoit Pouliot is playing C tonight folks.

 

[McHilman]

Now THAT is bold.....

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

Hall Drai Purcell
Klinkhammer Pouliot Eberle
Hendricks Lander Yak
Kassian Letestu Pak

...

okay I'm gonna be the first to say it, why in the hell aren't you switching yak with klinkhammer. That makes no sense.

 

[McTrashBoat]

Benoit Pouliot is playing C tonight folks.

I'm a little more surprised at Klinkhammer on the "top" line

 

[ChaoticOrange]

There's no way those will actually be the lines for the game they can't be.

 

[Kepler 186f]

Hall Drai Purcell
Klinkhammer Pouliot Eberle
Hendricks Lander Yak
Kassian Letestu Pak

...

okay I'm gonna be the first to say it, why in the hell aren't you switching yak with klinkhammer. That makes no sense.

All the Stars have to do is mark the first line all night and the Oil are hooped.

4-0 Stars.

 

[BlackDogg]

Predicting 0 power play shots and 1 shorthanded goal against.

Has Tmac actually addressed why the PP is so bad or is he just going with the flow?

 

[McDrai]

All the Stars have to do is mark the first line all night and the Oil are hooped.

4-0 Stars.

Yup. Put the Seguin line against the Hall line and it's an easy W for Dallas

 

[joestevens29]

Pouilot at center now?

 

[McTrashBoat]

Pouilot at center now?

It would seem so

 

[OilerTyler]

Klink in the top six while Yak is stranded with Lander and Hendy :/

 

[MPStoEberletoHall*]

4-1 Stars. Going to be a frustrating one to watch. Talbot stands on his head for most of the game, but then some bad bounces go against the Oilers

 

[nexttothemoon]

Oilers are tied 2-2 with the Stars late in the 3rd... A Dallas player takes a shot... the puck is saved but on further review it's shown that the puck actually becomes a wave and quantum tunnels through Talbot scoring 4 goals at once... Dallas wins 6-2.

 

[oljimmy]

Klink in the top six while Yak is stranded with Lander and Hendy :/

Now, how often do you see a guy go down, unable to put any weight on a leg at all, and then return to the lineup five minutes later? This is a major clue, here. I think that in the TB game they gave Yak some kind of shot so that he could keep playing and they are limiting his ice time because he is playing hurt. That's the only explanation for this that I can think of.

 

[McHilman]

I rather see:

Hall-Draisaitl-Purcell
Kassian-Pouliot-Eberle
Hendricks-Letestu-Yakupov
Klinkhammer-Lander-Pakarinen

 

[Paralyzer008]

I rather see:

Hall-Draisaitl-Purcell
Kassian-Pouliot-Eberle
Hendricks-Letestu-Yakupov
Klinkhammer-Lander-Pakarinen

I'd rather not experiment with Pouliot at C.

We scored 4 with our lines from last game against TB, Nilsson ruined it.

 

[K1984]

McLellan has had a tendency to experiment with lline shuffles in practice and then revert to the norm come game time. I wouldn't take those lines at face value.

 

[nexttothemoon]

Hendricks is actually a solid C... no reason not to use him in that capacity.

Draisaitl
Letestu
Hendricks
Lander

That should be the 4 centres... it certainly isn't ideal but with RNH/McDavid both out, nothing is going to be ideal, but at least use actual centres at centre.

 

[McHilman]

I'd rather not experiment with Pouliot at C.

We scored 4 with our lines from last game against TB, Nilsson ruined it.

True enough, speaking of Nilsson:

 

[Beerfish]

Our goalies are just like our forwards, they take turns in playing well or playing bad.

 

[McOilbleeder]

If we keep it within 4, I'll take it as a moral victory (league leading in that category).

These lines are so ****ed.

 

[oil Leaks]

Yak on the forth line again....

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

 

[BarDownBobo]

If Pou isn't working at C I wouldn't mind seeing PakMan move up into that spot and drop Klink. They tried him in the middle before and he wasn't bad iirc.