Post-Game Talk: Same Ol' Oilers

[McTedi]

Was a hell of a shot by a guy who can snipe. Could of had it, but still not a bad goal at all.

Yah but if I was going to be critical of one goal that would be the one.

 

[North]

You guys ready for Smith to start tomorrow night?

Well unfortunately I have to work in the morning so I can’t start drinking now.

 

[OilerSuperstar17]

JP was buzzing tonight, made some good defensive plays, was skating. Good first game.
Drai was decent. Saw a couple turnovers, missed the puck when exiting the zone that led to Boeser's 4-2 goal but did make a nice pass to Yamo for the first goal.
Larsson was terrible despite scoring a goal.
Connor couldn't muster much tonight.
Kahun gets his 1st Oiler point on the Nurse goal, him and Yamo were excellent on Drai's wings.
Barrie and Turris didn't do much.
Koskinen did good but should've had a couple of the goals.

 

[LTIR]

You guys ready for Smith to start tomorrow night?

He is just as good/bad as Koskinen so sure.

 

[bellagiobob]

I legit don't understand how ANYONE could blame ANY of that travesty on Koskinen

He wasn't the problem, and he wasn’t the solution. Not awful, not great. Other tender was better.

 

[MoontoScott]

Gonna go ahead and order my Brock Boeser jersey. Great player on a good team. Canucks are going places this season.

On that Boeser goal in the 3rd, Kassian has to make more of an effort to block that pass. A little stick swipe doesn't do it. Go horizontal for better results.

Just too many Oiler forwards with little or no defensive efforts.

 

[ujju2]

Positives: I really liked Kahun on the Drai-Yamamoto line. Also, Yamamoto is f***ing amazing.

Negatives: Literally everything else (besides Koskinen who was ok).

Biggest negatives: Literally everything even vaguely related to defence. Also a mighty poor showing from the top line until the last few minutes of the third.

Edit: Positive for other team: As a big Holtby fan, glad to see him have a great game. I'd love to see him have a great season, except when he plays us.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Mcdavid must have been partying for his bday last night.

 

[CupofOil]

What about Larsson?

He had a goal so he was only smelly, flaming dog shit. The disgusting is reserved for Mr. Ryan Nugent Pay Me like a #1 center Hopkins.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

defense picked up where the where they left off against the Hawks
shame on Holland not bringing in actual defenders

 

[KlefDown]

my heart hurts already

 

[North]

What about Larsson?

It was good for Larsson that the game ended.

 

[alphahelix]

Sit Larsson, Chiasson and JJ. Larsson personally responsible for 3

how bout Barrie?

would have loved to eat crow but this guy was lost almost as bad as Larsson, but at least Adam the offensive dynamo managed some redenption on the scoresheet. Still hope Barrie can build some chemistry before too long.

Klefboms role was obviously underappreciated here but I think Nurse, Bear and even Jones have plenty of PP experience and success in their careers. We should be okay but we cant expect less intelligent players to step in and pick up where Klef left off. Going to be a work in progress and we cant afford to leave points on the table in this division.

 

[Betelgeuse]

Dating back to last season, Drai's line should be listed as our top line.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Meh.

Nobody really looked ready. I'm not super concerned, but that was not great.

I like Kahun. Feels like only a matter of time until that line clicks, IMO.

Singh is pretty bad on play by play. Don't care for that at all. Just doesn't seem to have the voice for it or something. Felt very unnatural to me.

yah, agreed, however ill give him time, but he was boring and didn't bring up any facts or anything relevant, just stuck to calling the game, didn't add any flair beyond saying Yamamotooooooooio. He didn't announce key moments well, like last minute of a period or the oilers pulling the goalie until after it happened.

first game jitters, lets see how he does tomorrow.

 

[Oilhawks]

Gonna go ahead and order my Brock Boeser jersey. Great player on a good team. Canucks are going places this season.

Bye Felicia!

 

[FiftyFifty]

On the positive side, they socially distanced pretty well. I noticed Koskinen chose to self isolate in the last minute. Pulju also had to quarantine for a couple minutes at the end. Tippett didn’t wear his mask well though.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

If your defense is this bad it doesn't matter how good your offense is.

The problem is that some people are expecting to outscore our defensive issues.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Last season feels like ages ago.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The Drai-Yamamoto-Kahun Chemistry was the only bright spot tonight. Koskinen was good too just got screwed

Yep. They really looked good, didn't even get any breaks tonight and they had two goals. All of them played well. Kahun has really good edges, evasive, and good puck vision working with Draisaitl. Drai had a beasting game. Setup so much tonight.

Topline was a disaster, and got outscored on the night. Can't happen when you got 22M of players on that line. Gotta be better. nuge was lost in space most of this game turning the puck over for fun against the faster Nucks. He serviced McD with a good play once all night.

 

[McDeepika]

Way too many turnovers by guys that shouldn't be trying to make plays.

Kharia/Chiasson are awful. Kassian might be too. He has been horrible since the Tkachuk incident.

 

[Dan Kelly]

yes they are indeed the same old Oilers....can't play defense and has sh*tty goaltending.

 

[KCC]

They didn’t even need Markstrom. They beat the piss out of us.

That they did. Nucks played well and EDM still looked like they were in training camp mode. No one was ready except a few players. lol

 

[CupofOil]

defense picked up where the where they left off against the Hawks
shame on Holland not bringing in actual defenders

Like who with the little cap space he had? Hamonic who was burned like ten times today?
The worst defenders were the holdovers from the Chia era.

 

[DingDongCharlie]

Time to let Draisaitl and Turris be the top 2 centres and use McDavid as our superstar D. Put Larsson in net