The Oilers make their second trip to Seattle looking to find SOMETHING positive to build on before their upcoming 5 game homestand. Austin Hockey has you covered with today’s Pre-Game Report including projected lines, stats, keys to the game, and much more! #oilers #edmontonoilers #nhl
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Oh yeah the goaltending is changing. No doubt about it. All we need is a predictable.900 guy and shore up team defence while trading away a couple forwards that haven’t worked out and WHAMO! We make the playoffs. As soon as MacDrai feel confident and start pulling the team forward, the sky’s the limit.
There is footage of Bouchard standing straight up at the Dallas game. Pathetic.
These guys cannot produce effort more than 2 games in a row 😤
yeah, 4 point game, and not lose the striking-distance to the playoffs.
if Oilers don't imrove now, playoffs are gone and out of reach. We are 6 points to the top already, with games at hand for the top teams, so it does not look good if we also lose tomorrow and Oilers get no 'jolt' through improvements.
It sucks that when they get nuge back roslovic is out a month. This team is stuck In neutral. However if they can win tonight they get a big win against a division opponent and if they can win again against Seattle at home next week then giddy up. They've got a home stand coming against easier teams. This is the part of the schedule where we can get right. I still believe!
Manifesting a Janmark 5 point night (afternoon?) tomorrow
I said over 2 years ago;"Trade Skinner and Nu-Ho package deal." But you just ignored my comments. Whatever
Players won't be engaged if the first shot goes in and then your goalie has a 500%
Right now there are three guys who are playing with real passion and staying locked in every shift, Roslovic, Emberson and Pickard.
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Mangiapane sucks man and Henrique / Janmark dont do nothing on the ice
Why did the Oilers not re-sign Perry and Brown and what impact on the team? Is it just me? Or is that the start of this years downward trend??? Austin what information do you have?
Love how you didn’t care to wear your oil jersey. We will lose 2-1
Excellent preview. How the Oilers respond to that poor showing against Dallas will be telling……..LGO
Afternoon game 😮
Loss…..😊
Clattys Crew here he's banging bodys in the corner
Put tomasek w McD. We need offence, let T show what he can do for a few games.
Did Roslivk get injured? Cause he's the best player, we are going no where without him
Chicken or the egg- which comes first?
Goaltending: The options with Jarri and Binnington aren’t great. I don’t think either one is considered an upgrade and Binnington is A) too expensive and B) he’s 6-7 years older than Stu. You’re basically hoping to trade for the 4 Nations finals version of Binnington, which has been non-existent this season.
Defence: We have the worst defensive stats in the league but yet we blame the goaltending. They stood around watching Dallas score from inside the crease 4 freaking times and we blame Stu. Okay 👌. If you think 1 or 2 extra saves per game would improve this team, the way they’re playing, you’re delusional. Maybe they lose 6-3 instead of 8-3.
Fix the defensive side of the game and then you can blame the goaltending, if you’ve played your role. If you’re a middling stats goalie, do you really want to play behind this current lineup of pylons?
It won’t be a popular opinion, but that is how I see it.
I think it's a combination of horrible defensive play, not just the defensemen and very bad goaltending.
I mean I'm mostly a moron, but if my suggestions were taken, we'd be a dynasty.
At the Vegas expansion draft, I said the oilers should trade for M.A Fleury.
At the 2021 draft a freaked out when we passed on Wallstedt.
Now I've said 1000 dumb things regarding players, but those 2 were my best suggestions lol
Getting a new goalie will do NOTHING……..this team needs a new coach.
ELIMINATED by xmas.
My score prediction is 4-2 Oilers as well 🎉
Calvin should start to avoid injury to swiss cheese skinner
Clattenburg has certainly looked impressive so far
Facing D'Accord and playing a matinee game forces me to bet against Edmonton today. 3 days off doesn't help as they're always slow out of the gate after a rest, go figure!
I have $5 on a 2 goal loss and it will likely be a one goal deficit until the last 2 minutes when they pull the goalie and give up an empty netter!
My new nickname for Bouchard is Bevan Douchetard!!
Skinner was not the best goalie last season either and we made it to the finals. It's the defense that really sucks this year. Emberson, Kulak, Nurse, Ekholm, Bouchard…they were there last year too and they showed that they can defend. If you have D-Men with those qualities and they play as they play right now it is hard to not blame the coach. That post-match Knambien press conference made me so mad.
Mangiapane doesn't deserve to be on second line. He hasn't even been top 6 all season. Invisible all season
Janmark isn’t a goal scorer. Not really his role. He brings something else to the table. Not all players are out there to score goals. It would obviously be great if he could chip in, but his strengths lie in defensive play, penalty killing and turnovers. Probably ok on 4th line but not really fair to say that all he does is skate fast, and he’s not worth being out there because he’s not scoring goals.
I think lazar is a perfect fit for our 4th line tbh
If the oilers don't show up tonight, you GOTTA commit the joker outfit next livestream!
Half of the Oilers are "passengers" )) Terrible defense and below-average goaltending😂
You can't rely on two players forever😇
Scoring on the oilers is way too easy. Shoot at the pads, scoop up the rebound.