Brain farts by our D are disappointing. Like there’s no reason Bouch should be giving that giveaway. No reason Ceci should be batting the puck into center ice. No reason Nurse should be booting a puck into our net. Yeh there’s some bad luck there but also some stupidity we need to get out of our game.
Exactly, how many times have we heard goaltending saving a series?? In Edmonton it's non existent
They sure did. Unfortunately it was a wasted effort
Not gonna agree on this one. McD had 5 assists game one. Drai has been productive in both games. Our big guns are among league leaders in playoff pts. At some point you need a save, you need any save.
Fully screened by one guy on a shot from the boards near the blue line? Man thats literally a shot where you just have to go into the butterfly and it will hit you. If he can't see past that screen then he is in severe trouble. He's going to get about 50 screens a game tougher than that one.
Ya on all 3 of those goals I was thinking... wow never saw that before from these guys... you get 3 of those type goals in one game and you NEED to win it because those aren't goals that will be repeated any time soon.
I think Stu makes that save if Nuge doesn't get his stick there, but still a save you want.
He did say post game he didn't see a thing
I completely agree with you here.
Hey I hope you're right. Seeing Skinner crack this badly this quick though isn't exactly instilling much confidence after he cracked in the majority of the games in last year's playoffs.
He did have bounce back games last year in playoffs.
That doesn't exactly reassure me of anything though. He needs to be able to find pucks through screens and that was a pretty pedestrian screen. Wait until there's 4 or 5 bodies in a lane and not just one from one of the lowest percentage scoring spots in the offensive zone.
Yeh there was an opportunity to take advantage of great goals from unusual suspects. Tough to see that go to waste. One or two plays go differently and we would have been on our way.
I've said this many times but look at Skinner on pt shots. Most times if he's screened he doesn't even try hard to look around the screen. he just kind of hopes its not going in. Its incredible how dangerous any screen is on him and the Oilers are excellent at boxking out and moving guys out of there. But Byfield and PLD are hard to move.
