The pp sucks all life out of the rest of the game. 5v5 there is an argument we don't have enough depth or skill or are too young and nothing might change. The pp sucks despite having the best offensive talent (one player) in years on it. Gotta work your strengths.
Oilers were decent 5 on 5 last year, how did that philosophy turn out?Point is a bad PP won't sink a team that's decent at 5v5, but a great PP won't save a team that sucks at evens.
absolutely criminal having Kassian over Jesse. are you ****ing kidding
Forgot? The average leafs fan is probably 20something yrs old. Or it seems that way. The only thing they really know is that they are from Toronto and to look down at any other fanbase.
Leafs and their fanbase were always trolls. They were trolling Gretzky when Harold Ballard was the owner.
Oilers were decent 5 on 5 last year, how did that philosophy turn out?
So Stauffer just emphatically stated that Gulutzan is running the PP, not Viveiros. Mr 28th in the league last year with Calgary. Interesting?
Oilers were decent 5 on 5 last year, how did that philosophy turn out?
You start to wonder about our pro scouting.
Last year they bring in Jokinen, everyone says "well, pretty solid bet, maybe he'll have a bounce back year". Nope, gone pretty quickly.
Now they bring in Brodziak, everyone says "well, pretty solid bet, he'll shore up the PK and 4th line". Now maybe he's being scratched?
Oilers had a -13 5v5 goal differential last year in spite of having the best 5v5 player on earth play 1/3rd of their 5v5 minutesOilers were decent 5 on 5 last year, how did that philosophy turn out?
How does Kassian get promoted after doing nothing all of last season and this preseason and first game. My lord, Todd is trying to get fired. He must have a snowbird timeshare booked somewhere. Wants to get out of dodge by November.
Pulju gets dropped to 4th line. This is going to get ugly. Good thing theres no home games for awhile.
You start to wonder about our pro scouting.
Last year they bring in Jokinen, everyone says "well, pretty solid bet, maybe he'll have a bounce back year". Nope, gone pretty quickly.
Now they bring in Brodziak, everyone says "well, pretty solid bet, he'll shore up the PK and 4th line". Now maybe he's being scratched?
I'm guessing the rationale is that they've got Caligula and Jesse to forecheck with speed on the one line, and Kassian and Rieder to forecheck with speed on the other.
Thinking it through, both those lines will probably play equal minutes and our 4th line got absolutely caved by New Jersey, so this is the resulting bottom 6.
I ain't wondering about our pro scouting.
Scratching Brodziak after 1 game is a nonsensical coaching decision.
I'm guessing the rationale is that they've got Caligula and Jesse to forecheck with speed on the one line, and Kassian and Rieder to forecheck with speed on the other.
Thinking it through, both those lines will probably play equal minutes and our 4th line got absolutely caved by New Jersey, so this is the resulting bottom 6.
The Brodziak line got caved pretty bad by New Jersey.