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[GretzkytoKurri9917]

That reminds me, I gotta check the forecast

 

[snipes]

No kidding.

I stumbled into the Ethan Bear thread today and uh, wow.

I regretted that.

You mean Ethan Baer? Baer isn’t as good as Stecher, let’s ignore that Baer plays far more difficult usage and minutes. No rookie D played more minute than Baer.

That thread made my brain hurt.

 

[BlackDogg]

 

[McDoused]

You mean Ethan Baer? Baer isn’t as good as Stecher, let’s ignore that Baer plays far more difficult usage and minutes. No rookie D played more minute than Baer.

That thread made my brain hurt.

I lost my shit when Toronto fans said Bear would be a healthy scratch on their team.

 

[GretzkytoKurri9917]

 

[snipes]

I lost my shit when Toronto fans said Bear would be a healthy scratch on their team.

Dermott would get eaten alive if he played the minutes and matchups Bear does.

 

[Cloned]

I got more leaked text messages.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

You mean Ethan Baer? Baer isn’t as good as Stecher, let’s ignore that Baer plays far more difficult usage and minutes. No rookie D played more minute than Baer.

That thread made my brain hurt.

Reading through this thread today gave me a good laugh Lot of salty Oiler fans.

Bear would be a healthy scratch on the Leafs. There is nobody I trust Bear over in the current Leafs top 6 which at the moment looks like:

Rielly - Brodie
Muzzin - Holl
Lehtonen - Dermott/Bogosian

Sandin - Liljegren as top LD and RD injury callups.

That top 4 is a lock, Bear would not crack it. Muzzin - Holl was our most reliable pairing last season, stop talking about Holl like he's some scrub, it's laughable lol. Dubas said Dermott will play the right side this season, the Leafs would not push out a 3 year pro in Dermott in favour of a 23 year old rookie dman with mediocre statistics and analytics on a piss poor 5v5 team. Therefore, he would be a healthy scratch. We'll just wait for the results next season to speak for themselves. The oilers are really thin and weak after McDavid, Draisaitl and RNH. There is a MASSIVE drop off in skill level in all areas of your line up after them. You all are overrating Bear and underrating the Leafs, which is nothing out of the norm here on HF so it's whatever.

 

[Soundwave]

Dermott would get eaten alive if he played the minutes and matchups Bear does.

There's no way the Oilers would've been trending to make the regular playoffs if Dermott was playing in Bear's role (top pairing 5 on 5 minutes), lets get real.

Bear was an unsung hero for the Oilers, coming in as rookie and playing top pairing RD minutes straight off the bat with Larsson missing the first 2 months of the season.

If Toronto had like 4/5 guys better than Bear last year, how exactly did they finish a country mile behind Edmonton in goals against per game?

 

[Bryanbryoil]

I mean sure but my pops always told me “it could always be worse...”

Rosie O’Donnell starring as Supergirl, exclusive only to Movies 12.
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@Cloned would still smash?

 

[Oilers Propagandist]

@Cloned would still smash?

 

[GretzkytoKurri9917]

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You know you want a piece of that too.

Don't lie.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

And I have learned when this board is happy, that is a bad sign.

You can't say such a thing and run this ridiculous avatar. asdfadsf

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I am so happy today. I knew the big Kahuna was coming here.

Kahuna is a Hawaiian word, defined as a respected person who has moral authority in society; a "priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession (whether male or female)".

Taken from Wikipedia. I can live with that

 

[Oilers Propagandist]

You know you want a piece of that too.

Don't lie.

Nah, leslie jones is more my type.

 

[belair]

I still think we overrate the hell out of Bear. He had an outstanding year compared to what was expected of him, but realistically he'll probably top out as a sheltered 2nd pair Dman. There's no need for him to be playing the minutes he did last season consistently.

 

[CookiesAndMilk]

I still think we overrate the hell out of Bear. He had an outstanding year compared to what was expected of him, but realistically he'll probably top out as a sheltered 2nd pair Dman. There's no need for him to be playing the minutes he did last season consistently.

Yeah, we need to chill our pants. It's one thing that TOR-fans are downplaying Bear...let them have it. Let's just not do the same. Dermott is a damn fine D-man. Both succeed in their own ways.

 

[SK13]

Theory vs reality...

In theory we should have mopped the floor with the hawks.
In reality they took our lunch money and made us pay for their dinner for another week

The real reality is that hockey is a wildly random sport when there are factors like long breaks involved. It turns out that a 5 month layoff - longer than any normal offseason - into a BO5 series with one warm-up game is a difficult thing to make any real judgments about.

It's the same reason every pundit spends the first two months of every season throwing cold water on every underdog team with a hot start. And why the Oilers had multiple winning records in October in years where they would eventually draft #1 overall.

 

[Oilers in NS]

I lost my shit when Toronto fans said Bear would be a healthy scratch on their team.

Yes and Ceci is a #1 Dman. I don't even bother arguing with Leaf fans.
When dealing with leave fans, I live by this motto
YOU CANT FIX STUPID

 

[Tobias Kahun]

You mean Ethan Baer? Baer isn’t as good as Stecher, let’s ignore that Baer plays far more difficult usage and minutes. No rookie D played more minute than Baer.

That thread made my brain hurt.

Ethan Bear > Ethan Baer

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Theory vs reality...

In theory we should have mopped the floor with the hawks.
In reality they took our lunch money and made us pay for their dinner for another week

In reality, they got extremely lucky over a 4 game sample.

 

[TheUltimateOiler]

Kahuna is a Hawaiian word, defined as a respected person who has moral authority in society; a "priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession (whether male or female)".

Taken from Wikipedia. I can live with that

Yep,that's my brother's nick name at work. He is a plant manager and he is a chubby aboriginal who looks Hawaiian. Lol

 

[LTIR]

In reality, they got extremely lucky over a 4 game sample.

They got lucky that they caught Oilers playing exhibition hockey in play-ins?
The series loss was on us being shitty and not them being lucky

 

[Tobias Kahun]

They got lucky that they caught Oilers playing exhibition hockey in play-ins?
The series loss was on us being shitty and not them being lucky

The oilers had 3 pucks deflect in their own net.

but you also think strudwick is a comparable for broberg, so what do you know.

 

[bucks_oil]

In reality, they got extremely lucky over a 4 game sample.

You thought that was luck? Ughhh...

Experience counts for something. We got played... by a team with a bunch of true champs on it.

We'll get there, but only if that was a lesson to Nurse and co. We better not be sitting back, licking our wounds and calling it "luck".