The Edmonton Oilers sloppy game vs the Rangers two nights ago continued into tonight against the Islanders, with Evan Bouchard, Connor McDavid, and others having forgettable nights on the ice. Kris Knoblauch’s line shuffling and time on ice allocation is going to run the big guns into the ground. Austin Hockey discusses the teams’ issues and more in tonight’s Fan Reaction! #oilers #edmontonoilers #nhl
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Quite frustrating to watch ! I think Connor McDavid has some kind of a psychological block right now. Whyyyyy does he pass so much!? That one right in front of the net was pretty frustrating, like dude shoot! 😢He had some good looks and drove right to the net a few times but dam…. Stu did great again. Phew. The oilers need to work on their passes dammit!
Yikes. Let’s not burn out mcdrai 😭 i did not realize they were on so much. Just like last year 😩
go jays
you are not allowed to watch certain games until it's over
I wish they would play poddy with drai or mcdavid
oilers are the previous 2-time Stanley cup finalist-they are fatigued, & are lousy team defensively & about the worst team in nhl last season & year before at beginning of season for maybe 1st 10 games
Knobs has forgotten more about hockey than I'll ever know, but as a complete layman, it just doesn't seem sustainable to burn out McDavid and Draisaitl like that. Not to mention, most teams have seemingly adapted to "weathering the storm" for at least the last couple seasons, so it's not even really producing results. 🤷♂️
To anyone panicking let me just remind you last year they were 0-3 and the year before 2-5-1 (and eventually 2-9-1) to start so being 2-1-1 is fantastic seeing as they are getting points. There's 78 more games to play so let's calm the jets. And also, the GOALTENDING has been singlehandedly winning them games! Sooooo calm down 😂
Worst game they've played in forever….
McDavid had a great slot shot chance and instead decided to try and make "The Perfect Pass", so f-ing frustrating. He needs to shoot more, or else what was the point of mentioning why you liked goals more than assists. Bouch had a terrible game. Yeah not much to say here, just a terrible game. Finally when Stu is locked in the Oilers sh*t the bed. Frustrating frustrating frustrating. 3 words to describe tonight.
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Where was Savoie going on the PP goal that killed us? Where was Bouchards attention span,his teammates need to start throwing him suicide passes early to wake him the puck up. Skinner actually had a STELLAR game…I loved his game, the Team owes him one. Connor Mcdavid needs a natural shooter on his line, and Ike is that shooter, Mcdavid and Leon can hit who they want when they want …period…so put Ike Howard in the position to just let his shooting skills work for him….you dont have to be a defensive wizard to play with the 2-Kings you just need to smell blood in the water when its there and bury the g%d d@m puck.
Offense has been absolutely flat from the previous game and it carried over to this game. They need to fix it RIGHT NOW. Disappointing night, the only thing to be happy about is Stu is actually in top form. Thats about it.
Weak sauce game, Connor shoot the puck
Bouch bombed bad dang
They gonna lose afternoon games most likely or at best go 1/2
Why does nobody talk about how bad Fredrick is? His dumb penalty near the end of the game in the offensive zone directly led to the loss.
agree with u Connor and Leo need less ice time
We have a cross eyed kid playing Defence for crying out loud!!!…MAKE HIM A WINGER and ONLY PUT HIM ON THE POINT FOR THE POWERPLAY!!!….OR TRADE HIM!!!!….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!
McDavid and Draisaitl 25mins. 8 players under 13:13.
Pretty crazy how he looked mad at stech for not receiving a horrible pass even though mcdavid could have just shot it and scored. It might sound like I’m overreacting but remember, HES THE BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD!
Love our Oilers but this is not a good team. Struggled every game. Davo says he’ll shot more but hasn’t shot 1 time all season.
Worst Oilers team game in a long time. Oil had 3 turnovers in own zone within 5 mis of the 1st period alone.
Also that was the WORST game by #2.
That breakaway goal by Horvat is a common pinch by #2. He did the same 2X against the Panthers Marchand in the Finals.
Because of this recurring play by #2, I think this is a coaching issue. I can't believe the D-coach didn't yell at him to hang back instead of pinching at the offensive blue line.
Head coach has some work to do to address their poor team defense.
Bouchard the $10 million pylon on skates
"What are we doing Connor McDavid???" 😂
I am happy I did not watch this game live. Watching Bouchard's terrible mistakes in this game in the replays has been painful to my eyes. And that is only one of the issues…
Yeah this is the oilers in October i know and love (except you stu, and picks my beautiful, beautiful goalies.)
Disjointed team play. Need to tighten up.
I honestly didn't get the 8 year deal for Fredrick when it was signed and I still don't get it.
Bouchard cannot be Edmonton’s last line of defense.
He doesn’t have assertiveness,
He panics to fast,
He’s lazy on defense,
He takes away from McDavid’s offense game because he is forced to cheat up the blue line to try and cover for Evan’s mistakes.
I said it before and I'll say it again, Oiler fans should stop being so alarmed with Bouchard's game in the regular season. Bouchard is paid the big bucks for his grace under pressure in the playoffs. For some weird inexplicable reason Bouchard excels to super human heights when the pressure is pouring down on his head. The kind of pressure that 95% of the players in the NHL can't handle. But in the regular season Bouchard treats every regular season game like it's a waste of his time. Big yawners – in Bouchard's world. Once in a while Bouchard puts a tiny bit of effort into a regular season game. And that's Bouchard in a nut shell folks. I'm guessing Bouchard doesn't drink regular drip coffee. He's a triple espresso shot kind of guy to get his mo-jo going.
Lots of new faces, new lines. First road trip of the year after so much home and vacation time. They'll shake the rust off. Stu is looking good in the last 2 so hopefully that kicks their butts into gear. Dear Lord though please stop the penalties, can't have energy or momentum when you spend half a period in the box
Mcdavid doesnt dangle and make amazing plays much anymore
Stu is getting better! This is what I wanted to see. That aside it seems the rhythm, for lack of a better term, is way off in the forward group.
If Stu made that many mistakes evryone would be roasting him, Time to roast Bouchard, their only 1 year difference in age. ffs
Oilers fans don’t get enough attention for their roles of being hard on their team. It’s so early in the season and most fanbases are just easing into the season, here’s Oiler fans (some, not all) complaining they lost ONE game in regulation in the first 4 games 😳 the fact some people are angry shows how the expectations are not only high, but unreasonable and to never lose a game is unrealistic.
Bouch does this way more than 10% of the time. He sucks with the puck under pressure all the time.
My thoughts on the game.
1. Connor is still doing the Harlem Globetrotters BS of being too fancy and then giving the puck away. He is no longer the best player in the world.
2. Knobloch just isn't a good coach. He plays a boring low event system that encourages passengers. We can't score and if we get behind, he loads up McDrai for 30 minutes.
3. Our vets are supposed to be smart and battle hardened. Tonight they took terrible penalties and cost us the game. Again that goes back to Knobber not trusting youth.
4. I'm jealous of Montreal. Their players play the game properly. Score goals=win games.
Dude what are the oilers doing right now 😂
We have forgotten too many of Bouchard fails and kept making excuses for 5 years watching. Why are analysts like you making so much excuses for Bouchard??? Guy stops skating, does easy giveaway from damn centre of the ice when he could have just dumped it in, looks lost, Gave 8 dangerous chances to NYI and he is an elite defensemen???
STU makes 1 mistake and everything is on him, Bouchard makes 8 mistakes and analysts make excuses and defend. How long are we going to watch this. Knoblauch makes excuses, people keep calling him Elite for what?
Howard needs to go to Bakersfield. No reason to be up here playing less than ten minutes a night. Philp should have never been taken out of the lineup.
In the first four games Bouchard has flubbed twice – that’s not “rare”
The claim Bouchard is great in the playoffs – was he great vs Florida last year?
Austin , " Evan is a elite defenseman" "This is not evans constant play level "
Sorry , i was waitING for the admission that you were making sarcastic opposite humour
BUT THAT NEVER CAME . PLEASE EXPLAIN TO JUSTIFY BOTH THOSE ASSERTIONS , because REALITY PROVES THOSE 2 POSITIONS EXACTLY WRONG AND OPPOSITE .
You Have To Be KIDDING Right , HOURS OF VIDEO CLIPS OF BOUCHARD SCREWUPS, LAZINESS AND COMPLETELY ZONED OUT FAILURES .
well , good game fast paced ilanders looked good , oilers gave to many turn overs to many dumb penalties, and to many scoring chances , Fredrick is not the guy for the oilers , Buchard well thats buchard, Mcdavid needs to be a little more selfish and shoot the puck instead of being the good captain and trying to get others to score, kulak should move on, i still will not go on the Skinner band wagaon he still needs to get traded, leon he needs top players with him, need to watch more of the new comers , and Hyman cantt wait till he is back thats a game changer , nuge is playing great, i dont know about Howard yet we will see
This is all on douchard austin
Mcdavid and Leon need to be there own lines that going be better than together