This game had similar intensity to Friday's. If we were playing against any kind of effort whatsoever we'd have lost another one.
To me this wasn't much of a rebound effort after one of the worst performances on home ice in team history on Friday.
LA basically walked in and handed us the two points and we had trouble taking it.
Normally, I agree with you.
However, look at LA's roster. Now look at ours. As you just said (a few posts up) we have an "AHL lineup". For us to beat a team that has players like Kopitar, Brown, Richards, Doughty, Johnson, Quick while we don't have Whitney, Eberle, RNH or Gilbert is very impressive.
Give credit where credits due. A win is a win. Yes, the Oilers should be better. But they aren't. Enjoy the small victories, and when the big ones come you'll be more appreciative.
I'm wondering how much of the game Replacement actually watched.
If not for Quick brilliance we would've won in regulation easily.
I'm confused too. I thought that the Oilers played a very good game especially considering the lineup that they iced. L.A. obviously didn't bring their A game but who cares? I'm not sure what Replacement's beef is, to each their own i suppose.
So you don't think that the Hall-Gagner-Hemsky line was entertaining at all? They were buzzing in the Kings zone all night.
They've been playing well. The only line thats going. Overall I'm still disgusted in the effort on Friday night. I expected more of a rebound after that one. Hell a public apology would be good to start.
A team should NEVER play with that little emotion on home ice.
If this club was located anywhere but in a hockey hotbed they would have trouble giving tickets away.
However, look at LA's roster. Now look at ours. As you just said (a few posts up) we have an "AHL lineup". For us to beat a team that has players like Kopitar, Brown, Richards, Doughty, Johnson, Quick while we don't have Whitney, Eberle, RNH or Gilbert is very impressive.
Give credit where credits due. A win is a win. Yes, the Oilers should be better. But they aren't. Enjoy the small victories, and when the big ones come you'll be more appreciative.
Pretty much just residual anger then about Fridays abortion of a performance on home ice against a very bad club.
I really maintain LA didn't even show up in this one. The sense I got is they were putting up very little opposition.
I'm not a win or lose kinda guy. I turn an NHL game on and I expect a higher level of competion than this bs. Neither team was adequate tonight.
Kings looked like they couldn't wait to get on the redeye. They barely showed up tonight.
They've been playing well. The only line thats going. Overall I'm still disgusted in the effort on Friday night. I expected more of a rebound after that one. Hell a public apology would be good to start.
A team should NEVER play with that little emotion on home ice.
If this club was located anywhere but in a hockey hotbed they would have trouble giving tickets away.
Totally agreed. That performance on Friday left a sour taste in my mouth too, one of the most lifeless performances that i've ever seen from the Oilers which is saying a lot considering the travesties of the last couple of seasons but they played a good game tonight which was good to see.
Hopefully they keep putting forth efforts like this even if it results in losses.
They've been playing well. The only line thats going. Overall I'm still disgusted in the effort on Friday night. I expected more of a rebound after that one. Hell a public apology would be good to start.
A team should NEVER play with that little emotion on home ice.
If this club was located anywhere but in a hockey hotbed they would have trouble giving tickets away.
I agree with this entire post, but the bolded statement seems weird to me... you could say that about ANY losing team in the league. And at least talents like Hall keep things interesting (on most nights...)
I also don't want to take away from the win tonight. They played terribly on Friday, but played a very good game tonight. Quick had an excellent game, and anything else could have ended up with a 3-1 or 4-1 Oiler win.
A little OT, but IMO Penner looked pretty good tonight I find it hard to believe that he has put up those point totals if thats the way he plays every night.
A little OT, but IMO Penner looked pretty good tonight I find it hard to believe that he has put up those point totals if thats the way he plays every night.
Are you serious? Penner was beyond useless tonight. Little Sammy Snowpants owned him on the boards in a puck battle, and he brought absolutly nothing the rest of the night. He should do the honourable thing and donate his organs to science - less the heart that he obviously doesn't have. What a waste of skin. How we ever got TWO 1sts and a 3rd out of DL remains a mystery to me.
Are you serious? Penner was beyond useless tonight. Little Sammy Snowpants owned him on the boards in a puck battle, and he brought absolutly nothing the rest of the night. He should do the honourable thing and donate his organs to science - less the heart that he obviously doesn't have. What a waste of skin. How we ever got TWO 1sts and a 3rd out of DL remains a mystery to me.
Probably the same way he got a first, second and third out of us.
Are you serious? Penner was beyond useless tonight. Little Sammy Snowpants owned him on the boards in a puck battle, and he brought absolutly nothing the rest of the night. He should do the honourable thing and donate his organs to science - less the heart that he obviously doesn't have. What a waste of skin. How we ever got TWO 1sts and a 3rd out of DL remains a mystery to me.
Did he at least finish his pancakes in the 2nd intermission?
Are you serious? Penner was beyond useless tonight. Little Sammy Snowpants owned him on the boards in a puck battle, and he brought absolutly nothing the rest of the night. He should do the honourable thing and donate his organs to science - less the heart that he obviously doesn't have. What a waste of skin. How we ever got TWO 1sts and a 3rd out of DL remains a mystery to me.
Yes I am. He got knocked on his butt by a smaller man meh it happens to everyone. It was one play. He got by eye about 45sec of PP time and played probably 12-15min. Yet he should of had a penalty shot he also made some good big man moves down low and looked strong on the puck all night. Just what I saw. On a team that played like crap all night he played better than most with the exception of a 5-10 min stretch in the 3rd.
In before Beerfish gets a thought to say it.
