Louis Cypher
Boys are back in town
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Did we wash our hands of Pontus.Mighty Pontus (-3) tonight
Did we wash our hands of Pontus.Mighty Pontus (-3) tonight
Do you have a no trade clause? Cuz I'm thinking we should get you making GDT polls for Calgary before they make a joke out of the rest of the west.
Reading 58 pages random comments in a GDT? nah, I'll take the readers digest version. Learned to stray far away from those in the moment everybody sucks threads.
All this talk of trading posters reminds me of something I did on this board a long, long time ago...
(Cheers to the vets who were here for that fiasco ... @Mowzie )
All this talk of trading posters reminds me of something I did on this board a long, long time ago...
(Cheers to the vets who were here for that fiasco ... @Mowzie )
Shame on you. Suggesting I should go play for the 'Lames?
I can't believe you'd say such a thing.
Shame on you. Suggesting I should go play for the 'Lames?
I can't believe you'd say such a thing.
All this talk of trading posters reminds me of something I did on this board a long, long time ago...
(Cheers to the vets who were here for that fiasco ... @Mowzie )
I joined two years ago. What happened?The best part of that was his gdt on the isles board. It was done so lazily looool
I'm a little fuzzy on details but basically Mowzie was traded for some guy on the isles board who made absolutely incredible GDTs and he made one for the Oil that night.I joined two years ago. What happened?
That's amazingI'm a little fuzzy on details but basically Mowzie was traded for some guy on the isles board who made absolutely incredible GDTs and he made one for the Oil that night.
Mowzie made one for the isles but it was all text, filled with spelling mistakes had wrong players listed etc. It was hilarious.
All Talbot all day. The reason the Oilers won the game. Ducks had it all over us early and Talbot held the fort and held them off the scoresheet. Wonder how much credit he was given tonight here.
Albeit the thread title is something..
All this talk of trading posters reminds me of something I did on this board a long, long time ago...
(Cheers to the vets who were here for that fiasco ... @Mowzie )
The best part of that was his gdt on the isles board. It was done so lazily looool
I joined two years ago. What happened?
I'm a little fuzzy on details but basically Mowzie was traded for some guy on the isles board who made absolutely incredible GDTs and he made one for the Oil that night.
Mowzie made one for the isles but it was all text, filled with spelling mistakes had wrong players listed etc. It was hilarious.
That's amazing
But its a small players game now...heh.
I wish Lucic would do more of that. I know several people said that. But that's a train coming. Maybe he read the comments on here today.
I can't imagine if felt too good being lined up like that lol how the Duck tried to give back on that one. Nah, you're destroyed, you lose in physics.
Lucic actually played well tonight.
Haha, memories! I remember I kept saying "hey guys" and used no punctuation. That was really a lot of fun because a lot of people thought the trade was serious and were super pissed off and confused. Isles board was super pissed that I was there new GDT guy as their guy was really really really good at GDT's. I was getting private messages from people really confused and sending me well wishes. I gotta try to dig that up.
He can do that all day long if he wants to. Hopefully Hitch had a heart to heart with him and this will be more common than what we've been seeing lately.
I was watching the Ducks feed since the game is blacked out on gamecenter for me On that feed it was clear that Montour was holding onto Looch going into the corner and he still got tossed like a rag doll. If Looch doesn't score much but t least does stuff like that and stands up for his teammates I can stomach him on the team in spite of the brutal cap hit.
What a perfect mess.Jones quietly with a two point night.
Haha, memories! I remember I kept saying "hey guys" and used no punctuation. That was really a lot of fun because a lot of people thought the trade was serious and were super pissed off and confused. Isles board was super pissed that I was there new GDT guy as their guy was really really really good at GDT's. I was getting private messages from people really confused and sending me well wishes. I gotta try to dig that up.
Holy shit, that's hilarious if you ever find the one from the isles thread please @ me. I just had a good laughHere is a GDT I did in the same terrible style. GDT: - Oilers and Preds hey
Holy ****, that's hilarious if you ever find the one from the isles thread please @ me. I just had a good laugh
Of course everyone knows that. Fans are just happy with the win. I think they will miss the playoffs.I don't think too many of us are under any illusions that this game is a major turning point.
This was Talbot playing unreal... stopping all 39 shots.
That's obviously not going to happen every night... most nights he'll likely let in 4 goals on that many shots... or at least 3... but tonight he was in the zone and rock solid... and the team around him actually buried their chances when they got them... 4 goals on 24 shots because they actually had some drive and tenacity out there.
The shot clock was still one-sided though... you can't be outshot 39-24 and expect to win many of those.
Most of the time good or even average teams will bury you with those shot counts and the Oilers ran into a crappy slumping team plus they rebounded after a craptastic effort the night before against LA and played a more aggressive, capitalizing game against the Ducks.
The underlying fundamentals are still bad though... Oilers have been outshot in 11 of their last 12 games.
The shots over those past 12 games are:
293 shots for... 24.4 per game
408 shots against... 34.0 per game
You aren't going to win the majority of your games when you are being outshot by an average of 10 shots per game so either the offense needs to improve... or the defense needs to improve, or both, or this team is going to only win games when the goalie stands on his head... like what happened tonight.
I was watching the Ducks feed as well... and their replay camera angle showed when Nurse made his Hulk-Smash hit on Henrique.. he had quite the grimaced look while flying through the air. Excellent entertainment value and that would make an excellent gif from that angle as well.
I also agree... this team has the potential to regularly bully teams with their physicality... yet most times they play as soft as bunny rabbits out there. Sure they get a few hits per game, but very rarely can you really say that the Oilers physicality made a difference in a game but it did tonight.
If they play like this more often... they'd EASILY be in a playoff spot because teams wouldn't be able to just glide through games and not break a sweat like the LA team just did.
I also agree... it's a major piss off to see what this team is capable of, then see them half-ass it most nights and not even give 50% let alone 100% most games.
It's no coincidence we finally saw a couple forwards other than Drai/McD/RNH/Chaisson get on the board tonight. That wasn't just a coincidence... that came from the entire team being more engaged and actually giving a **** for a change and the opportunities and goals came along with that.
This team does have limited talent and skill... but they certainly don't have to play half assed and not work hard every night... because that just makes it worse. When they play with some passion and intensity, the team can somewhat make up for a lack of skill... and that's when Drai/McD/Nuge come in and supply their skill... as they get a little more room out there when the rest of the less skilled players are at least working their asses off and creating some chaos at least.
All I can think looking at that is how my knee would explode if I tried that stop McDavid makes with his left leg.