Post-Game Talk: Same Ol' Oilers

[syz]

Mcdavid must have been partying for his bday last night.

McDavid had like 3 drawn penalties and more scoring chances than the rest of the team combined, while both of his linemates were busy tripping over the puck.

Holtby robbed him at least 3 times.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Everyone is livid with Larsson no one with Jones? He was just as bad in our end.

He had a bad game although Larsson SHOULD be better and smarter at this point so his game kind of overshadowed Jones

 

[tardigrade81]

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

Exactly this. Nobody is saying he is to blame, but man it would be nice to have a goalie make a great save and bail us out. Defensively we are crap, and we don’t have a rock star goalie that can steal us games either. As you said perfectly, nobody is blaming Koskinen but he sure as hell didn’t win us the game either.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Khaira and Chaisson had an xGF rel of -52 tonight, 0 xGF and 0.63 xGA.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Right back into the Oilers depression, Too bad its impossible to escape this team.

Never came out of my depression.

 

[belair]

Everyone is livid with Larsson no one with Jones? He was just as bad in our end.

He'd have to be in our end for that to be true.

 

[Old Boys Club]

Honestly reminded me of 14-15 era Oilers.

Is it just the ghosts of Oilers passed? I swear I saw Klinkhammer out there... no I must've been mistaken, that was Chiasson.
Was that Nikitin who left his man wide open? Ohhhh, Larsson you say??
Viktor Fasth starting in net? Koskinen, ahhhhhh.
Who is this "Yamamoto" player, I only know of one sub 5'7 Oiler: Marc Arcobello.

 

[McTonyBrar]

I can’t believe people are defending Koskinen on here

 

[YakDavid]

A thing to note is in a season where there is a taxi squad we have fringe players playing like tonight

 

[Lacaar]

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

I thought he was f***ing awful.. seriously.. sometimes... sometimes you need to make a f***ing save.
I know everyone is rusty but he got his ass handed to him by the other goaltender. I think it was the single difference in the game.
I felt we had more chances.. but if we made 1 f*** up.. it was buried.

Oilers get 5 chances.. score once.
Canucks get 2 chances.. score once.

Just seemed how it felt to me I guess

 

[RipsADrive]

I dunno, I don't think I'm as down on the team after this game as the rest of the board.

Loss was more frustrating because this game was so easily winnable. Felt more like a self inflicted loss rather than being beat.

Too many brainfarts by the defence and the forwards need to bury their chances.

Koskinen was OK. A better goalie maybe could have won us this game but I'm not laying the blame at his feet.

 

[BudBundy]

Well. Gee. So lots of McChances. Kahun/Draisaitl chemistry is maybe a thing, though Kahun needs to defer a bit less. PP looks very good though results weren’t there. Puljujarvi looked alright. So much size, reach, and skating there. Better balance than V1.0.

I’ll refrain from the negatives except for “for Christ sakes why can’t this team defend, like at all.”

 

[McAsuno]

Khaira and Chaisson had an xGF rel of -52 tonight, 0 xGF and 0.63 xGA.

Garbage. Get those two plugs off the team

 

[dss97]

Hated everything about that game aside from Drai.

Don’t like this PP, no one wants to shoot the puck. I would like to see Bouchard on the point.

This defence sucks.

 

[Cloned]

New lines:

Kahun - McDavid - Pulju
DRY
Ennis - Turris - Kassian
Nygard - Shore - Neal

Nurse - Bear
Koekkoek - Barrie
Russell - Jones

 

[CycloneSweep]

I can’t believe people are defending Koskinen on here

On the list of reasons we lost he wasn't even top 5

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

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

But the coach said they were motivated... to party.

 

[North]

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.

We know what RNH is capable of but a game like that makes one want to offer him up in a deal for Dubois.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Canucks were okay but really shot ourselves in the foot too much

A lot of it goal effects and being down and chasing game all night. We were pushing forward, getting caught. We were always behind and the Canucks pace can make an opponent desperate to try to get something going at times.

I'll say this, I have no idea why people were high on Turris. He's not much at this age.

 

[Aerchon]

Not a lot of good and the bad was really bad.

This is simple way to sum it up.

I believe the team we have this year is slightly better on paper than last. But it's absolutely more fragile. Has significantly worse defense on a team that wasn't good enough defensively to begin with.

Last year's team would have won that. Klefbom would obviously been better than Jones and 0 for 4 on the PP...

The team is significantly different. Tippett needs to figure out the team and the new PP quick.

 

[McTedi]

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.

LOL...give it a rest. Not sure of the Barrie hate but it won't age well. The PP will get it together as soon as Chiasson is off it.

 

[ZJuice]

Yamamoto entertained tonight with his great effort.
Kahun with so many chances.
I feel optimistic enough that I will watch tomorrow too

 

[AddyTheWrath]

I would add Singh to the Ugly.

hey now he was looking pretty dapper in that suit

 

[McDNicks17]

Haas needs to get back like tomorrow.

 

[LTIR]

I don't know what people saw in Kahun other than one maybe two decent give n go with Drai.

He has got the Toby Rieder vibe to him.
Disappointed in Turris and Barrie as well.
Puljujarvi looked the same as before but hopefully gets a longer leash this time around.

 

[Snipes45]

Khaira gets waive and he responds with laying an absolute egg tonight.
I have always had hope for him, but now my only hope is that this was his last game in an Oilers Jersey.

This is the most troubling sign with him. Either that deflated him, which is terrible, or you go out there and play balls to the wall. He looks like he is just going through the motions. Guys like Yammo, etc must get furious inside watching floaters like that.