2018-19 Oilers Season Thread

[Beerfish]

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Took in the fan day scrimmage on a whim today. The usual suspects stood out in both good and bad ways. But two guys who caught my attention were two defenders, Lagesson and Gravel. Gravel looks like he's got a ton of potential.

Does Gravel play with 'grit'?

[Hugoagogo]

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Nurse is two years, $3.2M AAV

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) September 17, 2018

[OK14]

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Does Gravel play with 'grit'?

Not so much grit, but confidence...well-grounded confidence...

[Uncle Bobby]

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Does Gravel play with 'grit'?

Let's just hope he can contribute to the aggregate defense and grade out on the plus side. Hate to see him make a run and turn out to be the pits.

[PDO]

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McDavid is absurd.

Curious to see what happens next week for some of the kids when the competition really picks up. JP has looked amazing thus far.

We wait.

RNH-McDavid-Rattie
Reider-Draisatl-JP
Lucic-Strome-Yamo
Khaira-Brodziak-Kassian

Klefbom-Larsson
Nurse-Benning
Jerabek-Russell

Probably how I would start the season based on what's happened thus far.

Daily reminder they're paying Lucic + Russell a combined $10,000,000 against the cap per year. Amazing.

[Esks4ever]

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I'm pretty sure they'll keep Lucic on the 2nd line just because.

[Deathsdoorstep]

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I'm pretty sure they'll keep Lucic on the 2nd line just because.

For sure. Highly doubt that Yamo starts the year in Edmonton as well.

[nafnikufesin]

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So, who would have thought that overpaying for a goalie with no NHL experience was a bad idea? Oh yeah, everyone except Chiarelli.

[Angelus]

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So, who would have thought that overpaying for a goalie with no NHL experience was a bad idea? Oh yeah, everyone except Chiarelli.

It's absolutely incredible this guy is still a GM in the NHL.

[BaronAmongYou]

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Hey! He had four games in the NHL 8 years ago and had a great save percentage last year for a stack St. Petersburg team (.937!). Did you know he's an Olympian and two time World silver medalist? You have to overpay for a guy like that.

[Section N]

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JUST IN: Corey Perry will miss approximately five months after undergoing knee surgery due a meniscus and MCL injury.

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— TSN (@TSN_Sports) September 26, 2018

[bone]

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Surprised there aren't any comments on yesterday's game in here. I enjoyed the beat down, but how it happened has me worried. The PowerPlay was dreadful, yet still went 2-4. The PK was hemmed in all game but Vancouver's offense is... hmm well. Overall game play seemed to go moreso in Vancouver's favor, but Talbot handily beat Nilsson and the Oilers made good on their chances. I bet they feel pretty good about themselves, but the reality is that wasn't a 6-0 game regardless of the score board.

Last year after some pretty one sided wins against the Jets and Hurricanes in pre-season, the players started buying into the hype and we all know what happened. I hope they've learned from that.

[Angelus]

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Surprised there aren't any comments on yesterday's game in here. I enjoyed the beat down, but how it happened has me worried. The PowerPlay was dreadful, yet still went 2-4. The PK was hemmed in all game but Vancouver's offense is... hmm well. Overall game play seemed to go moreso in Vancouver's favor, but Talbot handily beat Nilsson and the Oilers made good on their chances. I bet they feel pretty good about themselves, but the reality is that wasn't a 6-0 game regardless of the score board.

Last year after some pretty one sided wins against the Jets and Hurricanes in pre-season, the players started buying into the hype and we all know what happened. I hope they've learned from that.

Oilers were 6-2 in preseason last year. I can't wait for the percentages to even out and Rattie go scoreless to start the season and watch twitter burn.

[stamphater]

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Yup...we've had a winning record every year in the preseason for about a decade. I will wait until the bullets fly for real. That said...it's nice to see our right wingers providing a lot of goal scoring when it's such a question mark moving forward.

Also nice to see Talbot looking like old Talbot again. I will say after having a child...I think I understand how having twins could conceivably affect ones game. Especially that of a goalie...

[stamphater]

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I also need to mention this completely different guy wearing #98 this season. I can't get over how different he looks. I still have some questions about his hands and his ability to score from in tight but it's crazy how quick he looks this season.