Thing about Darnel Nurse; he has a place on the team, just not for 9.24mil or whatever his contract is set at. Campbell however I have little confidence in. If we face LA in the first round, we'll have to run Skinner the whole time.
Good defence of Nurse. There may be some unwarranted complaints about him- I don’t follow everything. But we can certainly say he deserves some criticism. It’s the type of blunders he makes too. They really stand out and look ugly sometimes: getting caught in no man’s land, doing the crouching flamingo to try to block a shot, and missing obvious coverage for goals against gives a bad impression. It’s hard for people to forgive all that when a lot of the things he does well are subtle. The optics work against him.
It’s not his fault he makes 9.25…if someone offered me that, u bet I’m taking it..He has been oil best d last few years let’s be honest..he’s been playing the shut down top guy minutes, he’s not really that guy though.. nurse at his best is an offensive defensemen with size, toughness, and grit that u like when he’s defending.. Ceci is also not that shut down guy, he’s a puck mover. So before Ekholm these guys played roles not suited for them. Nurse should fight more, and go for big nasty hits and piss off the opposition. Kinda like Phaneuf in Calgary days.. offensive, big hits, and decent d and he’ll look more worth it. Us oil fans need to stop thinking we got a 50 point shut down guy. He can get 50, joining rush. What he isn’t going to do is get 50, playing a shut down style role.
I couldn't agree with you more, Tyler. Dude is the backbone of the Oilers D and has been FOR YEARS. He is playing, most nights, with guys much less skilled than he is and, on many nights, at many times, certifiable rookies. He's constantly battling the other teams best players and top lines and on top of that, he has to battle the constant criticism of the supposed Oiler faithful (faithless more like) who blame him for everything that goes wrong. Out of all the 220+ defensemen in the NHL, he is easily in the top ten percent, night in , night out.
He deserves the highest level of respect the team, and the fans, could possibly give him.
He gets walked by all day long. Worst 9milly dman there ever was by far. If he concentrated half as much on playing his position as he does pinching way too deep he might worth half his salary..
When I can stop counting on him to make egregious defensive errors and letting the puck go past him with ease when he is stationed on the o zone blue line then I'll give him his props but until he plays like the player he's paid to be and the role he has had he will get nothing from me
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Thing about Darnel Nurse; he has a place on the team, just not for 9.24mil or whatever his contract is set at. Campbell however I have little confidence in. If we face LA in the first round, we'll have to run Skinner the whole time.
Good defence of Nurse. There may be some unwarranted complaints about him- I don’t follow everything. But we can certainly say he deserves some criticism. It’s the type of blunders he makes too. They really stand out and look ugly sometimes: getting caught in no man’s land, doing the crouching flamingo to try to block a shot, and missing obvious coverage for goals against gives a bad impression. It’s hard for people to forgive all that when a lot of the things he does well are subtle. The optics work against him.
It’s not his fault he makes 9.25…if someone offered me that, u bet I’m taking it..He has been oil best d last few years let’s be honest..he’s been playing the shut down top guy minutes, he’s not really that guy though.. nurse at his best is an offensive defensemen with size, toughness, and grit that u like when he’s defending.. Ceci is also not that shut down guy, he’s a puck mover. So before Ekholm these guys played roles not suited for them. Nurse should fight more, and go for big nasty hits and piss off the opposition. Kinda like Phaneuf in Calgary days.. offensive, big hits, and decent d and he’ll look more worth it. Us oil fans need to stop thinking we got a 50 point shut down guy. He can get 50, joining rush. What he isn’t going to do is get 50, playing a shut down style role.
I couldn't agree with you more, Tyler. Dude is the backbone of the Oilers D and has been FOR YEARS. He is playing, most nights, with guys much less skilled than he is and, on many nights, at many times, certifiable rookies. He's constantly battling the other teams best players and top lines and on top of that, he has to battle the constant criticism of the supposed Oiler faithful (faithless more like) who blame him for everything that goes wrong. Out of all the 220+ defensemen in the NHL, he is easily in the top ten percent, night in , night out.
He deserves the highest level of respect the team, and the fans, could possibly give him.
Quite simply, he's worth EVERY PENNY.
Nurse is playing very well.
He deserves it now. Not earlier in the year lol
Got to do better for $9.2
He gets walked by all day long. Worst 9milly dman there ever was by far. If he concentrated half as much on playing his position as he does pinching way too deep he might worth half his salary..
If he moved his feet playing his position like he did on that breakaway last night we would be in a lot better shape.
All talent- zero heart!
When I can stop counting on him to make egregious defensive errors and letting the puck go past him with ease when he is stationed on the o zone blue line then I'll give him his props but until he plays like the player he's paid to be and the role he has had he will get nothing from me
Nurse isn't white…..that's his biggest crime. If he was white he wouldn't get anywhere near the criticism that he does.
Nurse is great people hate on him cause the money he gets but that’s not his fault his agent got him a payday