Oilers v. Devils - Ephesians 4:25-27
by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 4:30 PM MST
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PrintWe must stop lying to ourselves. We must tell one another the truth because we are all part of the same body, and thus care for another: this team is terrible. But don't sin by letting that anger you. When the sun goes down, let go of any anger and resentment that you may have, because those feelings are a foothold for others, and before you know it, you're suddenly a fan of the Bruins, Blackhawks, or Devils.
New Jersey Devils (23-17-2) @ Edmonton Oilers (16-22-3)
Rexall Place, 7:00 p.m. MST
Television: TSN
More analysis after the jump...
Visiting Team Scouting Report:
When I was writing my season preview I picked the New Jersey Devils to improve their goal differential by more than any other team in the league, from -35 in 2010-11 to +20 this season. And while the Devils have improved, the change hasn't been quite that dramatic what with the club sitting at -6 about halfway through the season. The biggest reason for this is goaltending. I know that Martin Brodeur is an oldster, and that betting on oldster goalies is foolish, but I really didn't think he'd step into the elevator shaft quite this badly. Brodeur's .891 save percentage is awful, the fourth-worst of any goalie with at least 20 appearances (ahead of Dwayne Roloson, Steve Mason, and Eleventy-Billion Bryzgalov). Those atrocious numbers haven't stopped some from telling us that Brodeur's play "is keeping the Devils in playoff contention", but they have held the team back from a spot in the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference.
Expected Lineups:
Edmonton Oilers (16-22-3):
Hall - Gagner - Hemsky
Smyth - Horcoff - Jones
Paajarvi - Belanger - Lander
Hordichuk - Kytnar - Eager
Smid - Petry
Sutton - Potter
Peckham - Teubert
Khabibulin
New Jersey Devils (23-17-2):
Parise - Henrique - Kovalchuk
Sykora - Elias - Zubrus
Tedenby - Zalewski - Clarkson
Boulton - Carter - Palmieri
Tallinder - Fayne
Salvador - Larsson
Volchenkov - Foster
Hedberg
By the Numbers:
- Kurtis Foster makes his return to Edmonton in a Devils' uniform. He came to New Jersey in December when the Ducks traded him and Timo Pielmeier for Rod Pelley and Mark Fraser. Not exactly a blockbuster. Foster has now played in thirteen games with the Devils and has registered no goals and five assists, four of them on the power play.
- With Ryan O`Marra likely sitting out because of illness, Milan Kytnar has been recalled, which means both a nice payday, and a chance to play in his first NHL game. Kytnar had a fantastic end to the 2010-11 regular season (6-4-10 with 23 shots and a +7 rating in his last 10 games), but when reinforcements came down for the playoffs, he wound up being a healthy scratch. He was also injured for all of training camp this year, and was lost in the shuffle once he got healthy, which has left him in Stockton of the ECHL for most of the season where he's registered five goals, three assists, and a team-leading +4 rating in 14 games.
- With Jordan Eberle joining Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on the sidelines, Tom Renney has decided to reunite Ryan Jones with Ryan Smyth and Shawn Horcoff. The line was very effective early in the season, and it seems likely that they'll be used to match against Parise, Henrique, and Kovalchuk - three of New Jersey's top four scorers - which should provide the Oilers' top scorers with some excellent chances to score.
- Patrik Elias is actually New Jersey's top scorer so far this season with 39 points in 41 games. His current contract expires after next season (just after his 37th birthday), so I suppose there's some chance he'll retire, though with production like that it's easy to see him continuing on. If he does, there's a good chance that he'll get to 1,000 career points, which often means an invite to the Hall of Fame (I'm only saying that because Adam Oates isn't in the room). So what say you? Is Patrik Elias a Hall of Famer?
- In the first two months of the season, Sam Gagner had his fair share of struggles with just six points in eighteen games. But things have been much better in December and January: in those two months Gagner has scored fourteen points in sixteen games, and if he continues to play on a line with Ales Hemsky and Taylor Hall, that pace may just be something he can sustain.
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Poor Kytnar, first NHL game and he’s saddled with Hordichuk and Eager.
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It’s cool. The Devils’ fourth line of Boulton, Carter, and Janssen will do very little in terms of hockey to that group.
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by John Fischer on Jan 11, 2012 5:11 PM MST up reply actions
Note to Oilers’ coaching staff: if you put hockey players on the ice against those guys, you’ll score.
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by DownGoesAvery on Jan 11, 2012 5:52 PM MST up reply actions
It’s not. It’s just a trio of hockey brutality…at least that’s what they think they are.
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by DownGoesAvery on Jan 11, 2012 5:55 PM MST up reply actions
Neither can we.
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by John Fischer on Jan 11, 2012 6:35 PM MST up reply actions
Hey update: Apparently, DeBoer split Boulton and Janssen…which means the crap is present on two lines instead of just one.
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by John Fischer on Jan 11, 2012 7:04 PM MST up reply actions
Renney tried that the last few games.
AWESOME results.
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mix a gallon of sewage and a gallon of milk and you get two gallons of sewage eh?
by Passive Voice on Jan 11, 2012 8:02 PM MST up reply actions
before you know it, you’re suddenly a fan of the Bruins, Blackhawks, or Devils.
Coyotes!
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In the first two months of the season, Sam Gagner had his fair share of struggles with just six points in eighteen games. But things have been much better in December and January: in those two months Gagner has scored fourteen points in sixteen games, and if he continues to play on a line with Ales Hemsky and Taylor Hall, that pace may just be something he can sustain.
Because he’s friggin good!
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When I get that Columbus GM job, I’m trading for Gagner.
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It will have to be a package deal. Gagner, Omark and Gilbert.
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How fast do you think I could get them when I’m named? 4 hours?
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Without. And I’m thinking about getting Edmonton’s 1st too.
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Let’s see. You’ll offer Brassard, Wisniewski, and a 2nd round pick. Close?
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I’m thinking I won’t trade for Omark. I’m going to give him an offer sheet.
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I’d like to believe Elias is a HOFer, but he would definitely have to reach 1,000 points and winning another Cup wouldn’t hurt his chances, either.
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http://twitter.com/Pitty687/status/157262419364814848
Some how im locked in my apartment and @hamiltonov is locked out… Didnt exactly plan on this ever happening
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I’ve seen that episode of Bosom Buddies. It ends in hysterics.
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by Neal Livingston on Jan 11, 2012 5:59 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Awesome! This has the makings of an excellent sitcom episode.
by Chunklets on Jan 11, 2012 5:59 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
The Oilers have three guys in the black in raw scoring chances – Hall, Gilbert, Hopkins
They have one in the black when adjusting for zonestarts – Gilbert
No one in the lineup is in the black in scoring chances.
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Hordichuk - Kytnar - Eager
Tonight Ben Eager will may be the best player on his line on paper and on the ice, I may have to watch this game through my fingers.
Bold Prediction: The fourth line will combine for less than 12 minutes tonight and be minus 5 w/ 14 PIMs
How much painkiller was injected into Neal’s foot, do you suppose?
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Hey, there is nothing more vital than the ‘BIG SAVE’
That, my friend, is the difference between the best and worst teams in the League.
Khabibulin anyone?
We can only hope Yzerman gets desperate enough
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It was so convenient that the Oilers play the Devils tonight because that Brodeur example is so bad it’s funny.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 7:26 PM MST up reply actions
http://twitter.com/AHLBarons/status/157274725549219841
Kytnar is in, O’Marra out. Kytnar playing in his first NHL game.
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I want to see this guy play, I’d like to know what’s keeping him out of the OKC line-up.
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Wait, I thought we were?
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 6:51 PM MST via Android app up reply actions 2 recs
Which is better
In the tanko for Grigorenko
or
Stinko for Grigorenko
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Fail for Mikhail also works…
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by DownGoesAvery on Jan 11, 2012 6:56 PM MST up reply actions
PSA
Only one team has ever finished last in the league three straight times. That team went on to win the Stanley Cup five years after the third last-place finish. They won that Cup in a different city and none of the three 1st overall picks were on the roster at the time.
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Horcoff against Henrique. The hard match is back. That’s good.
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Petr Sykora. if anyone scores, I hope its him
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:13 PM MST via Android app reply actions
http://twitter.com/DKingBH/status/157284074107584512
commendable job by the Oilers putting the bad mouth on Hemsky. Aaron Ward just said Oilers would love to move him but no one will take him
http://twitter.com/DKingBH/status/157284157809111040
this also means that Ward is stupid, btw
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Sutton played that really poorly behind the net. He was free and clear and then just had the puck taken away.
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More importantly, was he gritty on the play?
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:19 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
Come on Hemmer
A draft pick would’ve scored there
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:22 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
Hall-Hemsky—Gagner ate buzzing
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:31 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
Hall, Hemsky and Gagner are buzzing
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:32 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
Hall in particular looks fantastic tonight, beating guys one-on-one a bunch.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 7:38 PM MST up reply actions
A forechecking demon this 1st period
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:40 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
But he didn’t cash. Now you know why no one will take him.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 7:22 PM MST up reply actions
How is it possible Khabibulin has been the league for 27 years and he still has no idea what he’s doing with the puck?
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Anybody else hear Ward say that the Oilers are dying to trade Hemsky but nobody wants him and that they coudln’t get a pail of pucks for him? That Hemsky is disinterested and not trying.
Kytnar really playing the system well.
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Kytnar seems to have taken a page out of the Lennart Petrell book of forward play. Dude is not going to get caught with an odd-man rush the other way.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 7:24 PM MST up reply actions
Yeah, I was joking above, but he’s not even looking at the offensive zone.
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Nice defense there as his head was on a swivel looking behind him.
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Have to give him credit, thinking he was flying to Alaska this morning and ending up in Edmonton.
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by Eric Rodgers on Jan 11, 2012 7:39 PM MST up reply actions
Like he’s the first Czech kid traveling through California that’s ever done that.
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Probably laughed at that harder than I should have
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by Eric Rodgers on Jan 11, 2012 7:50 PM MST up reply actions
“I told the Thomas Cook people I wanted to see some Eskimos…”
by Passive Voice on Jan 11, 2012 8:09 PM MST up reply actions
Gotta Cannonball It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmxcmpR1GQA#t=0m52s
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Looks like Henrique has already passed RNH for Calder consideration out East.
It’s freaking difficult to win the Calder in the WC, particularly for a player in a true Western city. (not Detroit or Chicago)
by RiversQ on Jan 11, 2012 7:34 PM MST via iPhone app reply actions
Rightfully so. Much more complete player right now and only three points back in the same amount of games.
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Maybe so, but if RNH was in the EC in the same situation, the rank and file reporters in the East would be giving him the edge I bet.
Tough call as to which player is getting the push. I haven’t looked yet but I bet Henrique’s line doesn’t play anybody (that’s Kovalchuk’s MO anyway) and those are pretty good linemates. Of course we know how much protection RNH is getting.
It doesn’t really matter – it’s an award.
by RiversQ on Jan 11, 2012 7:41 PM MST via iPhone app up reply actions
It’s an award and there’s a significant age gap. But Henrique is getting seconds behind Elias and putting in 2 minutes a night (mostly effective) on the PK as well.
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He’s ridiculous. He does everything at top speed too so you never know if he’s going to hurt himself, someone else or score.
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http://twitter.com/DKingBH/status/157292879801360385
what is going on with this narrative about 83 not fitting into the age group of a contending club? everyone can’t be a fucking teenager
It’s only a matter of time before Paajarvi is too old.
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How do you think Gagner feels? He has been around for years!
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 7:55 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
Even a zygote plays with more heart than Hemsky!
by melancholyculkin on Jan 11, 2012 7:59 PM MST up reply actions
http://twitter.com/JasonGregor/status/157290944163618816
Hall has had an excellent first period…He’s been dangerous almost every shift…Devils’ D can’t handle his speed at all.
http://twitter.com/DeanHrehirchuk/status/157293428235972609
Shame his makeshift linemates cant either. They need the Nuge and Eberle out there !!!
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Lander’s got a bit of actor in him. Three times tonight I’ve noticed some form of acting, twice it was a Sedin head snap.
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Through 41 games, Hordichuk played 61ish ES minutes. 4 CF / 17 CA, -12.781 CD/60
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But his QUALGRIT is positive, due to his high Showsrun/60 measure.
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He was hiding so that the refs wouldn’t notice that the Oilers had too many men on the ice.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:08 PM MST up reply actions
Gagner, Smyth, Horcoff, Hall, Potter on the PP. Remnants of the failed rebuil….er, “retooling”.
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In that there are two guys from time period?
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:13 PM MST up reply actions
Smyth started it. Horcoff got the big deal, Gagner was the result of the dive, Hall was an accidental result and Potter’s a defenseman playing 5-6 spots above his ability.
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Quite good, actually.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:11 PM MST up reply actions
Hall-Gagner-Hemsky awesome.
Rest of the team, okay.
Power play – pathetic and bad.
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Btw, I do not recommend NHL gamecenter. Bought it for $169 and it does not stream worth shit. Do not buy it!!
What device do you use? It works in this order for me: Laptop > AppleTV >>>> PS3
I don’t like it really though. I’ll go back to CI if I care about the Oilers next year.
by RiversQ on Jan 11, 2012 8:19 PM MST via iPhone app up reply actions
Oahu? Stop complaining about GC!
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I suppose. I just hate to miss the game…even if they are playing Kytnar-Hordichuk-Eager. Did I read that correctly?
They haven’t exactly been facing the vaunt, but that line has been way more successful than they have any right to be.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:28 PM MST up reply actions
You did.
GC has flaked on me at times over wireless. I always have to take it down to 800k until the thing stablilizes
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Laptop on a 4G connection, phone on a 4G connection.
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It’s been strange. My experience last year was great. This year it hasn’t been as good, though it’s much better when used to watch replays instead of live hockey.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:15 PM MST up reply actions
I’d love to know what happened to Peckham. His game is so awful this year. Last year he was just bad and playing too high.
Maybe Gilbert is worth that much.
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Ferraro yammering on and on about Eberle and RNH being out. Newsflash – they sucked with them too. I’m getting really tired of these injuries partially bailing out this mgmt.
by RiversQ on Jan 11, 2012 8:21 PM MST via iPhone app reply actions
Yeah, Dennis, Woodguy and Pat have been hammering that point.
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No. He came kinda sorta close, though. Then proceeded to overstay his shift.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:23 PM MST up reply actions
Had a whiff in front and a nice hack or three at the side of the net.
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Adj Scoring Chance Diff
Hall -0.342
Paajarvi -0.733
Horcoff -1.000
Jones -1.199
Smyth -1.558
Hemsky -2.718
Eager -3.043
Hopkins -3.074
Gagner -3.938
Lander -4.002
Belanger -4.241
Eberle -4.801
Petrell -4.877
Omark -6.245
Hordichuk -14.452
Gilbert 0.216
Smid -1.817
Sutton -1.948
Teubert -3.157
Potter -3.323
Petry -4.248
Whitney -4.547
Barker -5.625
Peckham -6.123
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That is a lot of minus symbols. Hall might be able to push into positive territory soon though.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:32 PM MST up reply actions
Gilbert’s in a class by himself on the back end, but we knew that.
Peckham…
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Is also in a class by himself!
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:44 PM MST up reply actions
You know my opinion on Gilbert, but he can’t be that good, can he?
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Well, I think Peckham really has been worse this year. That said, Peckham did much better with Gilbert last year despite playing in tougher circumstances when he was with him. What’s Peckham’s chance % so far this season? It was 40% without Gilbert last year.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:51 PM MST up reply actions
So yeah… maybe Gilbert was just good enough to carry him (more or less; it’s not like they were outchancing) against the toughs.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:01 PM MST up reply actions
.471 with, .400 without.
So since he’s .420 without this year, he’s actually improving!
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2011-12 Smid WOWY through 41
w/ Gilbert: ..495
w/o Gilbert: .433
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Part of this is no doubt the drop-off (if it’s not Gilbert, it’s Petry or Potter), but yeah, Gilbert is good.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:25 PM MST up reply actions
Devils forgot about Hall on the power play there. And again there.
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Nice dive by Hedberg, unfortunately he didn’t get run over and through by Milan Lucic, so he gets no call
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Stauffer is a team-paid blowhard.
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It’s a media narrative now. Spector and Gregor said the same. The club obviously had JJ Hebert hand out talking points last week.
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Don’t point out the ugly behind the curtain, no one will know it’s there
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by Eric Rodgers on Jan 11, 2012 8:42 PM MST up reply actions
http://twitter.com/TheCityOfChamps/status/157305890238758912
Possible #Oilers deadline tradebait: Hemsky, Gagner, Gilbert, Peckham, Omark, Paajarvi, Khabibulin & Sutton…….
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And now Darren Dreger figures that more guys don’t do the spin move in the shoot-out because it’s too hard. If it really is a 70% play (or even a 50% play), these guys would be wise to learn it!
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He was apparently relaying information from a player. Just seems like a really weird excuse to me, especially when we’re always seeing videos of guys like Stoll practicing faceoffs with a bucket of pucks.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 8:52 PM MST up reply actions
Man this game is ten shades of ugly. We’ve got one scoring line the Devils are blanketing and three “development” lines.
They need to score a goal on this power play.
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Was it dawgbone that talked about Paajarvi standing still when he’s receiving the puck?
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Another dive by Hedberg and he gets the call.
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What a great pass by Petry. Too bad that Hemsky didn’t finish it. He seemed surprised that it was there.
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Another great lead pass by Petry to Hemsky.
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Yeah. Petry has been quite impressive tonight.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:02 PM MST up reply actions
There ya go dummies. Boo Horcoff for being at the end of a shift. Dummies.
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nothing like booing Horcoff bc Jones gave him a bad pass.
stay classy Edmonton
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 8:58 PM MST via Android app reply actions
Why aren’t they booing?
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:06 PM MST up reply actions
I thought we were supposed to hate Hemsky?
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by Eric Rodgers on Jan 11, 2012 9:07 PM MST up reply actions 1 recs
There ya go little guy. Though that was all about Smyth’s screen.
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Hemsky!!
I knew I just had to reach for the vodka…
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 9:06 PM MST via Android app reply actions
Correlation does not equal causation?
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:08 PM MST up reply actions
They’re like evolution to me.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:14 PM MST up reply actions 2 recs
Petry could shape up to be a decent player…Gilbert-like. IF they don’t pair him with Peckham. Ted seems like a great teammate but has absolutely no anticipation out there. I don’t think you can teach a player that.
Like we said before the season started, the Oilers have 5 7th defensemen.
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Yes, he’s the 4th of the 7th defensemen
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Hedberg must not have seen Smyth coming by him, he didn’t flop this time
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http://twitter.com/EvanChaikowsky/status/157312576357801984
Just saw hemsky smile, I guess there’s a first for everything
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MAAAAAAYBE if the Oilers send Hall along too.
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http://twitter.com/ThomsonCam/status/157313978907885569
Hemsky with a slapshot fueled by grit, desire, and good mom jokes that go over well in the locker room
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Tricky idea by Gagner on that feed from Hemsky. He was trying a one-time slap pass to Hall breaking in the middle of the ice.
He’s all over this game tonight.
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It’d be a shame if he didn’t get rewarded tonight. He’s really grabbing this opportunity by the nuts.
Maybe a point in OT. 15 points in 17 games would be amazing.
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He’s impressive. Always hard on the puck, though his pursuit has cost him a couple of penalties in this game.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:24 PM MST up reply actions
You think that is impressive?
Pouliot was so hard on the puck, he pursed it right down to Tampa Bay then all the way over to Phoenix…
See? There was a reason the Oilers valued Pouliot over Parise
yes, its his fault the puck was too far ahead of him to get a good shot off
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 9:27 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
btw Theo, there is a wide open player infront of the net…
by DarrenV on Jan 11, 2012 9:33 PM MST via Android app up reply actions
2011-12 Smid Scoring Chance WOWY through 41
w/ Gilbert: ..495
110-112
w/o Gilbert: .433
45-59
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
I thought Peckham was in a tough spot (between Kovalchuk and Parise), but Parise scored from the top of the crease, and Peckham probably should have come over in that instance because Smid was already laying on the ice.
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by Scott Reynolds on Jan 11, 2012 9:34 PM MST up reply actions
Theo left Parise alone in front.
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Having watched that game, I only have one burning question: Did Pitlick and Hamilton manage to sort out their apartment-door-related difficulties? Well, DID THEY?
http://twitter.com/Pitty687/status/157327485107843072
we got it figured out someone came and fixed it the door handle was broken
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
I got to say, the Oilers had the better run of play in the first and third periods and they put out a good effort. They had the better of possession, by far. The Devils played with a good case of the Stupids ranging from discipline to line combos (say no to Eric Boulton, kids). The Devils also had no real answer for Hall; and they were fortunate (thanks Moose, who bounced back a 5-for-9 performance on Tuesday) that the score was held close for so long.
Truthfully, I don’t think it’s going to take too much longer for the Oilers to be in a playoff bubble again provided they don’t do stupid things like trading Hemsky or dropping other good players for some inexplicable reason.
Devils in my heart! Devils in my mind! Devils in my eyes! Devils until I die!
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No our management never makes stupid, inexplicable decisions. You can take that to the bank.
by gvblackhawk on Jan 11, 2012 9:41 PM MST up reply actions 2 recs
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