If there's one thing I'm concerned about still right now, it's McDavid and his seemingly lack of confidence in shooting the puck. I think if he gets back to that "shoot, shoot, shoot" mentality it'll come back, but he has to do that. Still, big win, and our 2nd line wingers of McLeod and Foegele came through big.
Impressive win tonight! I feel bad for Skinner on that last Rangers goal. He played a great game and didn’t deserve that. If they play with this same urgency for the next 51 games, you never know, they could make the playoffs. Long way to go.
To me the 3rd and 4th line look better than they did last season. They are producing goals and setting up goals and even preventing opponents from scoring. Whatever happened keep it up. Great the see McLeod scoring three goals in two games.
Man that pp needs to shoot the puck like wtf just passing it and skating around doesn’t get you points on the scoreboard, I believe Kane should be on the second line.
Great game to watch. Poor ice at the gardens. Team still panicking in front of their own net and as you said, pretty solid until the last 5. Thanks for the update and Merry Christmas.
Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the New York Rangers. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones.
Statistics for Edmonton Oilers at New York Rangers December 22nd, 2023
Edmonton:
McLeod 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Hyman 1 Goal
Kane 1 Goal
Foegele 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Ekholm 1 Primary Assist
Ryan 1 Primary Assist
Ceci 1 Secondary Assist
McDavid 1 Secondary Assist
Skinner 31 Saves on 34 shots = .912 Save %age (59 minutes)
Rangers: (*included for fairness)
Wheeler 1 Goal
Zibanejad 1 Goal (PP), 1 Primary Assist
Cuylle 1 Goal (Unassisted)
Kreider 2 Secondary Assists (1 on PP)
Lafreniere 1 Primary Assist (PP)
Quick 24 Saves on 28 shots = .857 Save %age (55 minutes)
I want to talk a bit about depth. Can I get a big HECK YEAH for Derek Ryan (100% in the faceoff circle with 7 and 0 plus an assist on Kane's goal), how about McLeod with another goal and assist, or Foegele with a Goal and an Assist, how about Ceci and Ekholm getting assists. This game wasn't as much about the big boys. Hyman had a goal and Connor had 1 secondary assist. Nothing from Leon or Nuge. Kane got a goal but everything else came from depth or D. How about Skinner getting the 1st star of the game even after letting in 2 late ones (one of which was a PP goal (6 on 4) so the PK wasn't perfect). The PP not getting it done on 2 tries hurts but no one can say we don't get 5 on 5 goals or can win that way. Four Goals in 6:45 span in the 3rd period. Quick must have felt shell shocked. There was an interesting byplay in the 2nd period where Zibanejad fired a one timer that knocked Skinner's mask off, Panarin knocked in the rebound but the goal was disallowed. Skinner made a save on Zibanejad during a PP late in the 1st that carried over to the second and apparently Mika skated by me after I made the save to say now wwe're even. When Skinner's mask was knocked off a bunch of guys came over to check on him to make sure he was okay. CLASS people, CLASS. You are competitors but you're also a brotherhood in a way. A timely win. Next up, San Jose on Thursday after Christmas for a 3 game California trip (and we'll see how we do against LA, that will be a test). This is the first back to back of the year for the Oilers and they won both. Take care all.
It was again very early (1:30am starting) date to see my team live at Madison square garden. I think it was the right test to the right time yesterday. Looked that they found their Teamspirit back, tried to fight for the win by playing more powerful against the opponent. And we do have a goalie this night! 74 made a very good game yesterday! So we were back only one goal entering the last period starting the miracle again. This time we need 6 min to change the game into a win with great goals out of a 5 on 5. The end was dramatic because of a good Powerplay of the Rangers but the time was running for us, so we take the win with a 4:3, making me very happy! Hope the team felt, that with Teamspirit we are able to win against everybody! Go on Oilers! Merry Xmas from Germany. Nice holidays to everybody…
unfair. EDM should not have to play those last 4 mins when the guys just wanted to call their moms and get home to bed. We would quickly give the other team the puck so they could immediately score to pad EN stats and call it a night for all. Poor taste for NY to keep trying to score and take away the EN scoring stats. Their sportsmanship is bad after all the efforts we make to be nice and quickly give the other side the puck so all can get home early and call moms.
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If there's one thing I'm concerned about still right now, it's McDavid and his seemingly lack of confidence in shooting the puck. I think if he gets back to that "shoot, shoot, shoot" mentality it'll come back, but he has to do that. Still, big win, and our 2nd line wingers of McLeod and Foegele came through big.
bet a parlay for over 6.5 goals and edmonton to win, im in shock i won that, 1-0 rangers going into the third WHAT THE FUCK
Cardiac kid's the last 2 games keeping the suspended till the 3rd, love it. Thanks for the update Patrick Merry Christmas 🎅
Is it just me or is the depth scoring improved a bit? Nice to see and hopefully takes some pressure off Drai and McDavid
first thing i do is hit the like button, always. Patrick deserves it, always great video. ty Patrick!
Another 3rd period resurgence!!! What a game!!
Impressive win tonight!
I feel bad for Skinner on that last Rangers goal. He played a great game and didn’t deserve that.
If they play with this same urgency for the next 51 games, you never know, they could make the playoffs.
Long way to go.
Is the thumbnail just delayed loading? I'm watching 45 min after posted.
Have a Merry Christmas Patrick
PLAY LA BAMBA
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
I am certain the Oilers can get on a winning streak and win the Stanley Cup. I am 100% certain.
To me the 3rd and 4th line look better than they did last season. They are producing goals and setting up goals and even preventing opponents from scoring. Whatever happened keep it up. Great the see McLeod scoring three goals in two games.
Thought the Oilers would lose tonight's game until they exploded in the 3rd period.
Merry Christmas
Man that pp needs to shoot the puck like wtf just passing it and skating around doesn’t get you points on the scoreboard, I believe Kane should be on the second line.
Merry Christmas Patrick. Looking forward to your unboxing video!
Great game to watch. Poor ice at the gardens. Team still panicking in front of their own net and as you said, pretty solid until the last 5. Thanks for the update and Merry Christmas.
Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the New York Rangers. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones.
Statistics for Edmonton Oilers at New York Rangers December 22nd, 2023
Edmonton:
McLeod 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Hyman 1 Goal
Kane 1 Goal
Foegele 1 Goal, 1 Primary Assist
Ekholm 1 Primary Assist
Ryan 1 Primary Assist
Ceci 1 Secondary Assist
McDavid 1 Secondary Assist
Skinner 31 Saves on 34 shots = .912 Save %age (59 minutes)
Rangers: (*included for fairness)
Wheeler 1 Goal
Zibanejad 1 Goal (PP), 1 Primary Assist
Cuylle 1 Goal (Unassisted)
Kreider 2 Secondary Assists (1 on PP)
Lafreniere 1 Primary Assist (PP)
Quick 24 Saves on 28 shots = .857 Save %age (55 minutes)
Oilers Rangers
Shots on Goal 28 34
Hits 11 13
Faceoffs Won 33 23
PP 0/2 1/3
Giveaways 3 7 (6 by NST)
Takeaways 2 (1 by NST) 6
Blocked Shots 24 (21 by NST) 15 (11 by NST)
3 Stars: 3-McLeod (1G, 1A), Foegele (1G, 1A), Skinner (31/34 = .912 Save %age)
Player TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways
Nurse 25:08 2 0 0 1 5 0 0
Bouchard 24:06 4 2 2 2 4 0 0
Ceci 23:30 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
Ekholm 21:07 0 2 0 0 4 0 0
Desharnais 12:11 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
Kulak 10:41 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
McDavid 21:52 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
Draisaitl 21:52 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hyman 21:00 7 1 0 1 0 0 0
Nuge 20:35 5 1 2 0 1 1 0
Kane 14:40 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Foegele 14:28 4 1 2 0 2 1 0
McLeod 13:18 2 0 0 3 0 0 0
Janmark 12:16 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Brown 12:03 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
Ryan 10:55 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Hamblin 8:06 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Erne 7:01 1 0 0 2 0 0 0
Faceoffs Won Lost Percent
McDavid 11 6 64.7
Draisaitl 10 9 52.6
Ryan 7 0 100.0
Hamblin 4 3 57.1
Kane 1 0 100.0
Nuge 0 1 0.00
McLeod 0 1 0.00
Janmark 0 1 0.00
Erne 0 1 0.00
Brown 0 1 0.00
I want to talk a bit about depth. Can I get a big HECK YEAH for Derek Ryan (100% in the faceoff circle with 7 and 0 plus an assist on Kane's goal), how about McLeod with another goal and assist, or Foegele with a Goal and an Assist, how about Ceci and Ekholm getting assists. This game wasn't as much about the big boys. Hyman had a goal and Connor had 1 secondary assist. Nothing from Leon or Nuge. Kane got a goal but everything else came from depth or D. How about Skinner getting the 1st star of the game even after letting in 2 late ones (one of which was a PP goal (6 on 4) so the PK wasn't perfect). The PP not getting it done on 2 tries hurts but no one can say we don't get 5 on 5 goals or can win that way. Four Goals in 6:45 span in the 3rd period. Quick must have felt shell shocked. There was an interesting byplay in the 2nd period where Zibanejad fired a one timer that knocked Skinner's mask off, Panarin knocked in the rebound but the goal was disallowed. Skinner made a save on Zibanejad during a PP late in the 1st that carried over to the second and apparently Mika skated by me after I made the save to say now wwe're even. When Skinner's mask was knocked off a bunch of guys came over to check on him to make sure he was okay. CLASS people, CLASS. You are competitors but you're also a brotherhood in a way. A timely win. Next up, San Jose on Thursday after Christmas for a 3 game California trip (and we'll see how we do against LA, that will be a test). This is the first back to back of the year for the Oilers and they won both. Take care all.
It was again very early (1:30am starting) date to see my team live at Madison square garden. I think it was the right test to the right time yesterday. Looked that they found their Teamspirit back, tried to fight for the win by playing more powerful against the opponent. And we do have a goalie this night! 74 made a very good game yesterday! So we were back only one goal entering the last period starting the miracle again. This time we need 6 min to change the game into a win with great goals out of a 5 on 5. The end was dramatic because of a good Powerplay of the Rangers but the time was running for us, so we take the win with a 4:3, making me very happy!
Hope the team felt, that with Teamspirit we are able to win against everybody! Go on Oilers!
Merry Xmas from Germany. Nice holidays to everybody…
unfair. EDM should not have to play those last 4 mins when the guys just wanted to call their moms and get home to bed. We would quickly give the other team the puck so they could immediately score to pad EN stats and call it a night for all. Poor taste for NY to keep trying to score and take away the EN scoring stats. Their sportsmanship is bad after all the efforts we make to be nice and quickly give the other side the puck so all can get home early and call moms.