Post-Game Talk: PTSD - Post Traumatic Smith Disorder

[BlackDogg]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

 

[Rengorlex]

I wonder why they waited until the playoffs to make Bouchard 'the guy' in the final minutes of a game. Out there with the goalie pulled instead of Nurse or Barrie. Why not give him the opportunity to be that guy in the regular season? Better late than never, I guess.

Bring Skinner in. Who cares. Same old story every single year.

Bouch needs to be in #1 PP too

 

[Langdon Alger]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

Heh

 

[Drivesaitl]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

Signature worthy. haha.

 

[oil Leaks]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

I go that reference

 

[WaitingForUser]

I'm not stupid but the cherry picker making 8.5M per asking for a high risk pass down the middle in a tie game is stupid indeed ..
Are you stupid??

First off he wasn’t cherry picking he was getting up from being hit and coming back into the zone. Second Smith could have passed it to Keith who was right there and could have hit Drai up the boards instead. It was all smiths fault and he even stated as much.

 

[brentashton]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

Ok. This made me laugh. Well played.

 

[Drivesaitl]

McD: “lots of excitement, we didn’t handle it well”

Exactly my thoughts this game.

Getting a little tired of the excuses though.

Team plays two post seasons with Covid going on "Oh we had trouble adapting to no crowds"

Team plays last night in front of a rip roaring crowd "Oh we had trouble adapting to crowds"

Its paint by number excuses. Teams that do better in playoffs visualize and prepare for the atmosphere more. They mentally put themselves in the situation before they are in it. The Oilers appear to lack in that aspect of preparation. Other clubs do it.

Every Oilers player should probably be asking Yama, McD and Kass what they did to mentally prepare and peak at the right time and be ready for game time. Nobody else did it.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Getting a little tired of the excuses though.

Team plays two post seasons with Covid going on "Oh we had trouble adapting to no crowds"

Team plays last night in front of a rip roaring crowd "Oh we had trouble adapting to crowds"

Its paint by number excuses. Teams that do better in playoffs visualize and prepare for the atmosphere more. They mentally put themselves in the situation before they are in it. The Oilers appear to lack in that aspect of preparation. Other clubs do it.

Every Oilers player should probably be asking Yama, McD and Kass what they did to mentally prepare and peak at the right time and be ready for game time. Nobody else did it.

Kassian threw a few hits that had no effect on the game. The Kings weren’t intimidated, they know if they just ignore him he won’t do any damage to them.

 

[forlecious commander]

Someone has gotta start a Pre game talk for gm2. Mass suicide going on today in Edmonton.

 

[K1984]

Getting a little tired of the excuses though.

Team plays two post seasons with Covid going on "Oh we had trouble adapting to no crowds"

Team plays last night in front of a rip roaring crowd "Oh we had trouble adapting to crowds"

Its paint by number excuses. Teams that do better in playoffs visualize and prepare for the atmosphere more. They mentally put themselves in the situation before they are in it. The Oilers appear to lack in that aspect of preparation. Other clubs do it.

Every Oilers player should probably be asking Yama, McD and Kass what they did to mentally prepare and peak at the right time and be ready for game time. Nobody else did it.

Bingo. It's always some kind of excuse, except they play the exact same shitty style of game no matter the conditions.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Bingo. It's always some kind of excuse, except they play the exact same shitty style of game no matter the conditions.

But at least Kass wasn't lying. He was saying that he would play jacked with fans in the seats in playoffs and he wasn't wrong. 7hits in 9minutes and he was belting people around. he definitely brought it.

 

[MessierII]

No need to hit the next level - just need him not to regress in playoffs.

He’s never great 5 on 5. Nuge brings his greatest value in special teams.

 

[forlecious commander]

I figure if we play like we did in 2nd, we got this series

 

[brentashton]

Someone has gotta start a Pre game talk for gm2. Mass suicide going on today in Edmonton.

Yep. It’s Reverend Jim Jones and the kool aid time it seems.

 

[Oilhawks]

But at least Kass wasn't lying. He was saying that he would play jacked with fans in the seats in playoffs and he wasn't wrong. 7hits in 9minutes and he was belting people around. he definitely brought it.

No one should be unhappy with Kassian’s game last night. One of the better forwards, didn’t really make any egregious errors and “did his job”.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Someone has gotta start a Pre game talk for gm2. Mass suicide going on today in Edmonton.

when you lose 7-straight playoff games, it's bound to happen

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

No one should be unhappy with Kassian’s game last night. One of the better forwards, didn’t really make any egregious errors and “did his job”.

I can be unhappy with a player who gets paid as much as he does and had as much effect on the game as you or I did. Credit to Kassian for actually having a pulse for a change but he still accomplished nothing.

 

[belair]

I have to ask. Why does Draisaitl call for that stretch pass in the first place? He should recognize that the Danault line was schooling them for the majority of the game. It's an unnecessary high risk play.

Fault Smith for the attempt, but Drai needs to be more conservative there.

 

[MessierII]

I can be unhappy with a player who gets paid as much as he does and had as much effect on the game as you or I did. Credit to Kassian for actually having a pulse for a change but he still accomplished nothing.

He barely played. Woodcroft got away from what was making us successful and went back to riding the crap out of Leon and Connor.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

I can be unhappy with a player who gets paid as much as he does and had as much effect on the game as you or I did. Credit to Kassian for actually having a pulse for a change but he still accomplished nothing.

did more than Puljujarvi, who saddled with McDavid all game

heck, Kane had a pretty quiet game too

tons of players need to get engage, and in a hurry...Kass isn't one of them

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

did more than Puljujarvi, who saddled with McDavid all game

heck, Kane had a pretty quiet game too

tons of players need to get engage, and in a hurry...Kass isn't one of them

Every forward that wasn't McDavid or Yamamoto accomplished nothing at even strength. Kassian also gets paid more than those two players. He needs to do more than just hit guys.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Every forward that wasn't McDavid or Yamamoto accomplished nothing at even strength. Kassian also gets paid more than those two players. He needs to do more than just hit guys.

that's not Kassian's fault for his paycheque..blame Holland

Kass played well, did his job for the most part

 

[Rob]

Mike Smith is the Amber Heard of bed poopers.

Too soon dude! Lol

 

[Drivesaitl]

I can be unhappy with a player who gets paid as much as he does and had as much effect on the game as you or I did. Credit to Kassian for actually having a pulse for a change but he still accomplished nothing.

Kass was a bargain compared to -2 Nuge that did nothing. I'm not paying Kass so is what it is. He's overpaid, we get it. Least he played his game. Really I'd give him more minutes if other players keep dogging theirs. Kass was hard to play against, clobbering people, and making them think twice about having the puck. its not a bad thing to bring the physical to the Kings.