PatRuns
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PatRuns
@PatRuns
Distance runner, 3 x hockey dad, fan of the @edmontonoilers @cflredblacks
Ottawa Katılım Eylül 2010
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Mike Babcock, John Tortorella emerge in Oilers coach search oilersnation.com/news/edmonton-…
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@LeiperOttawa So it would make sense for Ottawa to have two 10,000 seat + arenas 3 km from each other when there is a new NHL arena at Lebreton?
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The Ottawa Charge just broke North American women’s hockey records. Mark Sutcliffe’s response?
Lansdowne 2.0 with 5,850 seats. We’re shrinking while the city grows. That’s not leadership. That’s playing it safe when we need to think bigger.
Claire Hanna@clahanna
16,894 fans in attendance. Ottawa has set a new PWHL playoff attendance record (which it set in round one vs Boston). #PWHL #yow
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@AzorcanGlobal Broberg wanted out for a while. His first trade request was while Woodcroft was coaching. Holloway is a tough player to lose but injuries are still a concern in his case.
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Criminal that the #Oilers let Holloway and Broberg walk. Matching Holloway was the easiest thing to do at the time. Total mismanagement of assets.
At the time, I said match both, & move out a contract or two if you have too.
Hockey Canada@HockeyCanada
What a shot by Holloway! 🤩 Quel tir de Holloway! 🤩 #MensWorlds | #MondialMasculin
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@TSNRyanRishaug What are the chances the coaching staff already knew their days were numbered? The exit interview comments foreshadowed this.
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If the Oilers plan all along was to let Knoblauch go, then their handling of this has been horrendous.
If they wanted to explore Cassidy as an option, and if it didn’t work out retain Kris, then it was risky - if it got out, they’d be scuttling a coach they just re-signed and were considering keeping.
The fact it got out made a return for Knoblauch impossible.
Arguably the most important off season in 30 years for this franchise gets off to a rough start.
Have to think Bowman and Jackson are very much on the clock as well. Fatigue and injuries only go so far in masking a body of work with some massive mistakes at critical junctures.
Brett Kulak with a series winner last night puts an exclamation point on mishandled assets and mis-reads on players.
Will be an interesting few months for the organization.
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Travel to the U.S. is down even more dramatically than we thought, data shows. Visits by Canadians have cratered by 42% over the last year, cell phone data reveals, @JPTasker reports cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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@nielsonTSN1260 What are the chances Knoblauch already knew his days were numbered after the exit interviews?
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This news coming out at 5:58 AM is the perfect way for the saga to end.
Ryan Rishaug@TSNRyanRishaug
The Oilers have relieved Kris Knoblauch of his coaching duties.
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Trying so hard to troll and he doesn’t even know what position McKenna plays. Classic.
Rob Pizzola@robpizzola
McDavid, Matthews, McKenna down the middle in a few years is gonna be electric.
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@mathewjdp Passive is accurate. He seems regularly to back right up to his goalie, leaving him in position to deflect pucks into the net. If he wasn't playing that way before he was this season.
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To an extent. Nurse also tends to be passively defensive, struggles with providing quality or possession defense, and is unable to contribute effective offensive plays in the Ozone. Additionally, he is considered one of the least effective penalty killers in the league and frequently diminishes the performance of his linemates.
Woz@itsWozzz
Darnell Nurse isn't even that bad of a defenceman; he's just got an anchor of a contract. We're hard on him because we expect more out of him for how much he makes. He's a great skater, provides physicality, isn't afraid to eat pucks, and can chip in offensively.
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As my buddy Sam Gliserman pointed out…
Gavin McKenna going to Toronto could certainly help convince Connor McDavid to come home…
🤷♂️
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@mathewjdp I am definitely intrigued by Leppanen if he gets a shot which seems likely unless Bowman is fired. Those pairs are worth a shot if Nurse gets moved (I think he will). Do you see Carfagna as having NHL potential as well?
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I would have Emberson as 7th with Regula. Let them split. Injuries happen too. He's a great defensive Dman. So is Regula tho. Much less chaos with Leppanen than you'd think. Regula is consistent defensively, and with Leppanen whose very gifted offensively, Edm will have the puck far more often than not.
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Here are my thoughts regarding potential roster changes for EDM:
Players I would suggest re-signing include:
• Dickinson
• Murphy
• Stastney
• Kapanen
• Ingram
• Lazar
• Jones
• Dach
• Michaels
• Jarventie
• Hamblin
• Bloom
• Ungar
• Beryozkin
I would consider letting go of the following players: Roslovic, Henrique, Petrov, Poulin, Dineen, Pickard.
In terms of team needs for EDM, I believe the priorities are:
#1 - Goaltending
#2 - Top 6 forwards
#3 - Coaching
Players who may need to be moved are Nurse and Jarry.
Is there anything I may have overlooked?
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@mathewjdp You would let Emberson go? I thought he looked good on the pk when finally tried there. Not too much chaos with a pair of Regula and Leppanen?
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My season notes
• Edm ended the season using the right systems
• Toi needs to be spread out much more
• Youth should be given more PK/PP toi
Depth Chart currently from my eyes
Hyman - McDavid - Savoie
Podkolzin - Draisaitl - Kapanen
Nuge - Dickinson - Frederic
Dach - Samanski - Hutson
Ekholm - Bouchard
Walman - Murphy
Stastney - Emberson
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Extras: Howard, Lazar, Beryozkin, Leppanen, Regula, Ungar
Many of these extras should be in the NHL. I would be prioritizing Beryozkin and Howard at forward. I also prefer Leppanen/Regula as a 3rd Dpair than Stastney/Emberson. Edm probably has the answer to their goaltending problem inside their organization. Is that solution NHL ready? We don't know.
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Subban saying Edmonton has never been that close to winning… They lost by one goal in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. You literally can’t get closer than that.
Is it too much to ask that National broadcasters know basic facts about teams in the league?
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Connor McDavid will win a Stanley Cup, in Edmonton, in the next two years.
Mark my words.
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I hear Kuch wants out, and shortly thereafter Hagel.
Am I doing this right?
JB 🇨🇦@JackieBee_16
And that’s a total of how many career game 7 points for Kucherov? Zero? He shouldn’t win the Hart then right? That’s the criteria for McDavid…. Let’s now talk about how Tampa needs to blow it up since they can’t make it past round 1 - that’s how it works for the Oilers…
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This is outright fear-mongering at this point, good grief. Fans and players are already disappoined by the outcome of this season, let's worry about 26-27 before we start obsessing over the long-shot "its possibles" for at least 2 years out from now. The team has the power both upstairs and on-ice to make this entire conversation even more irrelevant than it already is.
Pierre LeBrun@PierreVLeBrun
It’s interesting that our only focus seems to be on what 97 will decide to do, whether that’s this summer or next or whenever. And it’s obviously because he only has a 2-year deal. But I mean, nothing is stopping Leon Draisaitl from asking out one day if that’s what he wanted. Not saying he will nor do I have any feeling he will. But just because he signed an 8-year deal doesn’t mean he will necessarily play it out all in Edmonton.
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I wonder if Rantanen, Pastrnak, Crosby want out after a first round exit, I wonder if Tampa loses, will Kucherov want out? Or is it just an Edmonton thing? #NHL #LazyNarrative
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