The opposing view: Blueshirt Banter

Not Yet Turning A Corner

The Oilers are winners in four of their last five!  Certainly, they must be turning some kind of corner, right?  If by "turning a corner", you mean "getting extremely good goaltending", then you're on to something.

The Oilers have yielded a seemingly impossible 142 shots in the past three games.  That's an average of over 47 shots per game.  These are regular, everyday ordinary sixty minute games we're talking about here, and the Oilers are getting their asses kicked all over the ice.  Fortunately, the masks are keeping the losses at bay.  In his last two starts, Ben Scrivens has turned aside 96 of 100 shots.  He'll need to again be extraordinary in net.

The Oilers are saying

That's Rangers captain Ryan Callahan.  With Callahan set to become an unrestricted free agent at the beginning of July, his name is being tossed around a lot as a potential trade target.

Callahan has 24 (11-13-24) in 50 GP.  The line for a 40 point, six million dollar player starts to the left.

• Oilers have won four of their last fiver, but are behind Calgary.  The Flames have also played two fewer games.  I'm not beyond siphoning gas out of their airplane.
• Last game versus Buffalo, I asked whether you thought Linus Omark or Nail Yakupov would get more ice time.  If you took Omark, you won by about two full minutes.
• Looks like 4-93-64 is going to be a thing tonight.  Mark Arcobello still suspiciously absent from the bottom six.
• Cam Talbot is going to get the start for the Rangers tonight. Talbot has played in just sixteen games behind Henrik Lundqvist, but he's got a nice fat SV% (.935) in relief.