So, you guys think the Oilers are going to turn it around, or are they waiting until their entire team is first overall picks?
Well today was a great first step, management has needed some real change for a long time now, not just shuffling the same few guys around.
Personally I wouldn't mind if we traded one/some of the picks this year for some experienced defense.
Trading for good Dmen is hard and expensive. Especially any under contract at reasonable cap hits. Blackhawks gave up a 2nd and a 3rd for Oduya, and he wasn't really expected to play as well as he did in '13 and '14. Or look at the ask from Toronto for Phaneuf.
The more of the Preds I see as this series goes on, the more the Avs, Panthers, and Lighting look like idiots for passing on Jones.
Oh the other hand, trading down three or four places, and drafting Noah hanafin, would net them a pretty nice haul and then they could still draft a potential number one franchise defenseman.
So, you guys think the Oilers are going to turn it around, or are they waiting until their entire team is first overall picks?
Well today was a great first step, management has needed some real change for a long time now, not just shuffling the same few guys around.
Personally I wouldn't mind if we traded one/some of the picks this year for some experienced defense.
Trading for good Dmen is hard and expensive. Especially any under contract at reasonable cap hits. Blackhawks gave up a 2nd and a 3rd for Oduya, and he wasn't really expected to play as well as he did in '13 and '14. Or look at the ask from Toronto for Phaneuf.
The more of the Preds I see as this series goes on, the more the Avs, Panthers, and Lighting look like idiots for passing on Jones.
Oh the other hand, trading down three or four places, and drafting Noah hanafin, would net them a pretty nice haul and then they could still draft a potential number one franchise defenseman.
No way it happens. Not that it isn't an entirely rational choice. Domi+OEL+a 2016 first, maybe some more assets to flip for a goalie, etc. The haul could be huge, and could probably help them more faster than McDavid can.
But if McDavid explodes like he is suppose to and the jumpstart doesn't work well enough or fast enough GM is gone. With McDavid their idiot front office has been given a free pass for another 2 or 3 seasons. No matter what they can keep selling the hope.
Dammit St. Louis, just do your job and get rid of the Wild. Then you can lose in the next round. Though it would be fun to see Stastny get no further than he did last year.
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I get it, but I don't know why anybody would think a team built almost entirely around defense would be some kind of overwhelming offensive juggernaut. The Rangers won the President's Trophy by limiting other teams from scoring and being just good enough on the other end. The game they lost saw them give up four goals. The Penguins didn't play better for five games, the Rangers just played poorly for one.
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edited April 2015
Montréal started the game extremely well but that first goal completely killed them. I'm rather embrassed by my team right now. One lucky goal shouldn't completely change the momemtum of the game.
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I get it, but I don't know why anybody would think a team built almost entirely around defense would be some kind of overwhelming offensive juggernaut.
It's too bad that the team build entirely around defense was missing 4 of their top 5 defenseman.
You were talking about the penguins, right? The team that was in the top 5 in shot suppression in the regular season. Right?
Rangers did tie for second in the NHL in goal scoring, so that could be something to do with the offensive juggernaut thing. Also third in goals against. Shockingly, that's why they had the best differential in the league, which is usually my simple goto stat for playoff success.
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We only have seven years of data available, but the results are impressive. If you simply picked the better Score-Adjusted Fenwick% team in the last 20 games of the regular season, your record since 2008 is 71-33 (68.2%).
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Also, how nervous about this series are Montreal fans right now. The almost impossible is at least starting to feel kind of possible I assume
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Oh the other hand, trading down three or four places, and drafting Noah hanafin, would net them a pretty nice haul and then they could still draft a potential number one franchise defenseman.
No way it happens. Not that it isn't an entirely rational choice. Domi+OEL+a 2016 first, maybe some more assets to flip for a goalie, etc. The haul could be huge, and could probably help them more faster than McDavid can.
But if McDavid explodes like he is suppose to and the jumpstart doesn't work well enough or fast enough GM is gone. With McDavid their idiot front office has been given a free pass for another 2 or 3 seasons. No matter what they can keep selling the hope.
Those extremely subtle chicken wings he was flapping at the end of the 2nd period?
Pretty funny.
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Keep in mind that the team that scores first wins 66% of the time.
The team that scored second wins 68% of the time
The team that scores third also wins 68% of the time.
aka, first goals don't really matter. Scoring goals is the important thing. First goal stats are garbage.
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Laperriere is an extremely funny dude. He's a jerk on the ice, but his antics are amusing.
While missing 4 of our top 5 starting defensemen.
And Malkin about to have hip surgery.
Not a bad season, boys.
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A tougher team than you'd have had us believe. :P
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It's too bad that the team build entirely around defense was missing 4 of their top 5 defenseman.
You were talking about the penguins, right? The team that was in the top 5 in shot suppression in the regular season. Right?
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2) Wings got the benefit of a looooooot of non-calls on trips/hooks/etc
Was really expecting to see Garrison in the box on that play rather than Stamkos.
They really need to be thrown out.
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Because they are goddamn Canucks slippers and GO NUCKS GO
White Out makes sense when, say, it's PSU football and there really aren't that many teams that have White in their colours.
But when a good pretty much every other damn team wears white while away it just...... not so much.
Go teams #2a and #2b!
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