Didn't think Potter was too terrible tonight...Anyone else wanna weigh in on this one?
Sorry, but I agree with Supermullet, Huge. Potter has some real deficiencies on the D side of the puck, has trouble boxing his man out and even more trouble handling opposing forwards who are hard on the puck -- something that shouldn't happen as often for a guy his size.
But he is what he is...a promoted career AHL guy whose sole weapon is that cannon, playing on a weak NHL D core that desperately needs more confident and gifted puck movers.
Good entertaining game for fans but against a much better team we would have been eaten alive with all of those turnovers. Man, Horcoff...
I think the anger at Potter (who had a decent game tonight all things considered) is left over from him injuring a few of his fellows on freak accidents this year, too bad Horcoff whiffed but hey don't want him getting too many points (he might escape the third line if he does).
That was quite the whiff, but Horcoff played a responsible game and did a good job along with Jones and Eager. I like Horcoff when he's played like 3rd liner.
I love games when Hall and Eberle both score. Good to see Smyth pick up pt no.800 with the Oil. Petry played an aggressively good game (apart from his major gaffe). I thought Hemsky played great, loved his back check on a sure goal and how he mugged a Jet when they were going after Hall.
why get this Russian when there are better ones to be drafted
Fair, sarcasm aside I would love Grigorenko in Oiler silks. Would be odd to see a highly skilled Russian on the roster, we haven't exactly been a hotspot for them.
Sorry, but I agree with Supermullet, Huge. Potter has some real deficiencies on the D side of the puck, has trouble boxing his man out and even more trouble handling opposing forwards who are hard on the puck -- something that shouldn't happen as often for a guy his size.
But he is what he is...a promoted career AHL guy whose sole weapon is that cannon, playing on a weak NHL D core that desperately needs more confident and gifted puck movers.
Good entertaining game for fans but against a much better team we would have been eaten alive with all of those turnovers. Man, Horcoff...
Couldn't have said it any better myself. Can't trust him on defense.
That was quite the whiff, but Horcoff played a responsible game and did a good job along with Jones and Eager. I like Horcoff when he's played like 3rd liner.
I love games when Hall and Eberle both score. Good to see Smyth pick up pt no.800 with the Oil. Petry played an aggressively good game (apart from his major gaffe). I thought Hemsky played great, loved his back check on a sure goal and how he mugged a Jet when they were going after Hall.
Good game.
Yes Horc played a good game. But that EN bobble was funny. Thatès all, no hatred from me, just a point of humor.
And Petry has the most ice time of all Oilers at 24:09!? Great to see him developing nicely.
I think the coaches did a great job with him easing him in at the start of the season with some soft minutes, keeping him in the line up even he made lots of mistakes, and slowly giving him more and more ice time now.
I swear last game I was here I was listening in on Ched again and there was like 30 second left and the other team was going to tie it up and BOOM thread is closed and the surprise of "does it go to OT?" was ruined.
I can understand that some of you mods enjoy being mods and NO it isn't like someone is abusing their power, but it's excessive to say the least when someone is closing threads with such precision that bums like me listening in from on the other side of the world can't even enjoy the ending of the game without having the surprise broken by HFboards.
If it was so important for threads to be opened and closed at such a precise time, there would be a program built into the message boards to do this because computers are much more precise and consistent than people.
I've got a few more days off, so I hope that I can tune into our next game and actually experience the pleasant feeling of surprise.
