Well Ceci and Nurse bad and Skinner can’t make a big save While Bobroski is great

he's the #1 cop on the force

Close out the third at home up 2-0 please

Max extend Marner!

the sweep starts now

Wonder if his thoughts have changed after tonight…didn’t watch very much at all, but the shots say Florida was outplayed by a nice margin. I’ll accept Bob stealing one and shutting them out is a nice little mental bonus too.

People who watched, what did we think of the game?

Oil in 5.

Darn tootin!

1) Will Skinner play well - NO
2) Will the refs call penalties to the point that each team has 3-4 PP/game - YES
3) Will Nurse-Ceci pairing hold up - NO

If 1/3 are "yes", it'll take a supernova McDavid/Draisaitl for us to win - IT WAS NOT

Will add one more factor:

4) Did Bobrovsky turn into prime Hasek? - YES

Loss in game one.

Think you have to chalk that one up to being goalie'd (on both sides of the puck). Not sure the Oilers should change one single thing, and despite being unhappy about the loss, the game still gives every indication the Oilers are the better team.

I don’t think you’ll see the Oilers having that great a shot discrepancy again. You might still see Skinner being the pumpkin that his career tells you he is.

"As posted I did pick Florida to win it all before playoffs started" from a page or so ago ITT

This is the way.

No comprendo

game 1, 5v5 xg: 62% oilers
all xg: 66% oilers (3.66 expected goals for)

cliffs: the oilers came out flying with an 80% xg 1st period, and had a 1.52 xg 2nd period, but they just couldn't beat bob. the panthers on the other hand were able to turn 1.85 expected goals into 2 actual ones on the scoreboard because they were shooting on iforgethisfirstnameiwanttosayjeffbutiknowitsnotjef f skinner. who cares, he doesn't desrves a first name today.


best oilers 5v5 xg: henrique 84%, foegele 84%, janmark 77%, brown 76%, bouchard 75%
worst oilers 5v5 xg: kulak 27%, perry 36%, nugent-hopkins 48%, broberg 53%, mcdavid 54%

kulak bringing up the rear today, which is rough considering that both ceci and broberg were in the lineup. kulak had the most xg against among edm blueliners today, but the most among all skaters was, wait for it ... connor mcdavid. yes, it wasn't just the 1st goal, that was kind of his fault (seeing it again on the highlights, both he and hyman also stopped skating on the backcheck, inexcusable), but overall the panthers generated more 5v5 offense vs mcbust than anyone else. obviously he also generated a lot of offense, but the lack of defensive effort was enough to land him as a bottom-5 player today.

also, nuge continues to suck, and corey perry continues to be one of the least useful humans on earth. and evan bouchard is annoyingly good, he should totally leave town asap. oilers wasted a great game from their depth forwards, and a not horrible game from ceci & nurse, though they were on the ice for both 5v5 goals against.


best panthers 5v5 xg: luostarinen 81%, tarasenko 78%, lundell 72%, forsling 53%, ekblad 50%
worst panthers 5v5 xg: lorentz 13%, stenlund 15%, kulikov 19%, okposo 21%, ekman-larsson 23%

panthers had a lot of guys who didn't show up today, basically only the top5 + bob did, and unsurprisingly their end of roster plugs were the worst of them today. maurice smartly limited their ice time, might wanna go even further with it though, because lorentz and stenlund in particular seem super useless. somebody tell maurice that lomberg is better than everyone on his 4th line.

the panthers big line today created a few chances, and conceded almost nothing, so big ups to them. and while the oilers got some offense against ekblad/forsling, they countered with some of their own. unlike mikkola/montour, who did not. and the kulikov/oel 3rd pairing got destroyed.

aka $$ is coming Malucci's way
Except next game as McDavid got the boys on the same page once back in the locker room.

Cats and the under in game one was the easiest parlay I have placed in the playoffs yet.

Omg so excited to hit play on the 30 for 30 on the Vancouver riots in 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knts...channel=Serg72

it was an interesting watch - especially the current day interviews with people who were involved in various roles and how their lives were affected afterwards. I had forgotten just exactly how much property damage was done.

what does this mean for your model?

loilers coach clearly a button-mashing donk scratching ceci after probably one of his best games. but he was -2, so...

nurse was too, but thank the gods they never blame him for sucking by choice

edit: yeah g1 was ceci's 2nd best xg game of the playoffs, behind one of the games in the kings series (may 1st)


actually there was so little that everything was cleaned up and looked exactly the same like the next day. the fact that anyone is still talking about it 13 years later is downright bizarre ... kind of feel like some more important **** has happened since but idk

early most pointless move of the off-season: the washington capitals in hiring the capfriendly guy, also bought the site and are taking it private. why? you aren't monopolizing information, i'm guessing most/all teams already have their internal version of it. and then there are also other public versions of it, and there probably always will be. i feel like this has already happened like half a dozen times, teams buying up the preeminent salary site of the day, and then instantly there's a couple more out there. i don't know why the league doesn't do something to stop, just seems very pointless, and mostly serves to annoy fans. oh right, the fans literally never factor into their calculations. anyway, point is: **** the capitals, **** the nhl


anyone remember the names of the old ones? i legit don't. once the site is dead i delete the bookmark and move on to the next one, and it's like it was never there

According to the line, all the money has come in on Edmonton, it’s down 10-15 cents from open at both of my books. I hate to Ceci it.

I’d say more pointless moves will be some teams hiring of terrible retread coaches/GM that will cost them more money than this guy’s salary and set their franchises back further.

It’s a move considering their fans. Considering how much more money they can squeeze out of them. Why do you think there are new 3rd jerseys every year, and every team needs a special winter classic outdoor jersey? To squeeze more money out of you. Classic Washington Capitalism.

yeah

not sure this guy will help much either though, as his qualifications are running a salary database, essentially. the analytics/analysis/etc parts of the site seemed meh, and weren't why ppl were going there. but i guess ted doesn't understand the difference, just how to cut big cheques. anyway cool, you got a guy to run the cap for your lottery team over the next ~5 years. because as we all know, the salary cap is always major concern to rebuilding teams. well played


how does paying a guy to shut down his player salary website make the capitals money?

Time will tell.

classic zig zag theory action yo