The Cult of Hockey's "Mike Smith steals another for Edmonton Oilers over Senators" podcast
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2021
- Let's do this!
Mike Smith stole another win for the Edmonton Oilers, a 3-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators. But the Edmonton team hasn't been getting outchanced in recent games. What's up? Bruce McCurdy and David Staples of the Cult of Hockey dig in. By the Faithful and for the Faithful.
17 points ahead of flames, life cant be better
first place over the leafs? haha i feel u tho!
Winning the Cup?
I’m glad to hear you point out how hard JP works. I’m enjoying watching him develop. He’s holding his own working alongside elite players.
He was not going to miss that empty net!!
i guess I am quite off topic but does anybody know of a good site to stream new movies online ?
@Benicio Atlas Flixportal :D
@Bruce Khalil Thanks, I signed up and it seems to work =) I appreciate it!
@Benicio Atlas No problem :D
Jujar..Archie and Shore are a force to be reckoned with.
Archie is 5'10 but has 134 hits... and he is just a work horse, such a good pick up by Holland
No. 14, 15, and 16 . . . The teenage line?
@@DanielBelzil ...maybe the "Getting a Raise Line" ?
Wait until Jesse has 100 games in this role under his belt. He's gonna be a 30/30 man before he's 25.
He is basically still a rookie at this point and he is made some major progress.
I hope Yamo joins Jesse in the Onetimer clinic in summer! The lecturers should be Dr Barrie and Professor Draisaitl.
Let Nuge take it too. He misses the net way too often
Listened to CHED for this one. Caught the 3rd period. Great win. Mike Smith -so happy for him.
They'll probably have a week off. That's a window to call up some Condors.
People saying “it’s just the sens” please show me another team in the north division that’s done it this year. I’ll wait
It's great an all, but we pretty much beat up on the lower half of the division. Get ass whooped against the better teams more often than not.
Only the Caps have swept a series in their division this season, but did allow a loser point.
Kassian looks like he's just floating around out there. Looks so disengaged
Kassian has been useless lately.
Pylon even.
Archibald is the new kassian. Love that guy
@@ToddSnow even Mcdavid is hitting more than Kassian lol
I hope he's just trying to recuperate and stay healthy for the playoffs. Because they're definitely going to see the playoffs this year.
I might add the Hitchcock certainly saw the player that he could be...
I don't know why the Oilers haven't addresses the lack of winning faceoffs more seriously. This component of the game cannot be ignored,...IMO.
Not that I completely agree with him but David has stated multiple times that he thinks faceoffs are extremely overrated. I tend to lean on his side because if you look at Tampa’s, minnisota, and a bunch of other solid teams, their faceoffs are even worse than ours
there are rumors of Oilers trading for luke glendening from the redwings, he's a solid 3rd line center with winning 60% of his faceoffs
This comment deals with the Oiler overall record. Bruce McCurdy mentioned more than once the Oiler 9-0-0 record against the Senators and 16-14-2 against the rest of the division.
Looking at it another way shows that the Oilers are the real deal.
They are 2-6-1 against the Maple Leafs and 1-3-1 against the Canadiens, so when you add the Canucks, the Flames, and especially the Jets to the Senators, the Oilers are 22-5-0!!!
What a blast to the past Bruce near the end of the podcast when you mention Arizona. Those games drove me nuts, cause we sucked but Arizona wasn’t great but it looked like an easy win but alas not so. I still can’t believe that streak number
I think nurses game is so polarizing, that in most cases with a d man, if you don’t notice him they are usually doing a good job. But nurse is always involved in the play and a high event player so you def notice him. Yeah he’s got knocks on defence, but I think he could stop slot of goals if he gets stronger on opponents stick in front of the net.
The coaching staff is really losing out and risking failure by not getting behind Nygård! First thing I thought when you said RNH was hurt was JN would be a great fill in!
I know he made a bum play like 10 games ago but damn, other skaters have been less deserving in that time as well.
Anyway, cheers: )
Agreed David, I'd like to see Benson or McLeod up, but after hearing they only have 4 total moves left (including Taxi squad and the farm, yikes) before the playoffs they may have to wait longer on that. Though you might also want to bring one of these guys up quicker so that if he can settle in and be a factor, he'll have time to prove it.
We're golden boys and girls. All we need to do is make sure the Senators and Flames make the playoffs over Tor and Mtl and we are going to the conference finals.
😂 Truth.
You clearly don’t know what brewing behind the scenes. Louis Ericsson will be an oiler soon and take us to the top
I'm really nervous about Nugent-Hopkins being out. He is our third best player behind McDavid and Draisaitl. I think bringing Benson up would be the best move until RNH comes back, or if they do something at the trade deadline...
How was Smith not a good thing?
I guess he was the obvious choice. Kurt gave him a 9 on player grades, so he got some recognition.
maybe give that line a nick name like the retro line... 14, 15, 16, MacTavish, Conacher ,Hughes,, they play with some grit and tenacity
Like that you guys mentioned Messi last time I saw a interview with Leon he said that Coner is not a good soccer player So I see him playing bad but doing it really really fast
Good time to play Bouchard get him ready for the playoffs!!!!!!
I saw the Ottawa goal on a combination of the Yamamoto turnover and Kris Russel not pressing aggressively enough to the shooter especially since everybody else was covered. I wouldn't put that on Haas, in fact I think it's a classic, guy was trying to fill in for the other player's mistake but looks ends up taking the blame.
I wouldn't blame Yams on that goal. Every coach would tell him to do what he did and pinching on that play will work 9 times out of 10. Should he have had that man? Yes! The play wasn't a horrible gaff, just unfortunate.
Great play YTD so VAN CGY OTT can NOT catch Oilers...so pts don't matter. WHAT MATTERS seems to be using 15 remaining games to get better vs TOR & MTL... for this Yr & Next. 3-6 vs TOR & 1-4 vs MTL. What do they need to do? Coaching system? Personnel? Develop Bouchard others? D & 2nd line a bit shaky? Who has to be traded to bring in a sniper? Smith Great! Give Ott credit- no McD/Drais but still pretty close.
OK... we knew we could beat the SENS with one line. Although this one needed help from Shore to get it done. Now could we please separate 97/29 so that we can have a chance against a team with 2 actual scoring lines? Speaking of SHORE, how about him on 97's LEFT SIDE?? Couldn't hurt to try.
The question now is how do we want the top 6 set up when nuge is back and we separate Mcdavid and Driasitl what I really want to see is Yamo play with Mcdavid yamo Mcdavid and puli playing on the same line good luck against that Forechecking and then you put nuge on a line with Driasitl and Kassian nuge looks much better with Driasitl a better shot in Driasitl then mcdavid that you need to fly around just to keep up with him and much less of a shooter then Driasitl would really work well with nuge then you maybe play Kassian on the right side it’s not perfect given two right wingers with Mcdavid but nuge doesn’t work well with Mcdavid just isn’t finishing enough this season nuges playmaking and pace match Driasitls game much better maybe his shooting gets stronger if nuge just sat and worked on his shooting I think he should have a better shot just needs to be better then maybe he can still play with Mcdavid
Why in the world would you call up minor league players to sit on the bench? I'll trust Holland's take - they are in the perfect place right now playing 20 plus minutes/night in the A. Calling up McLeod now is dumb.
I disagree. Good chance McLeod is better then Turris or Haas. He's big and can fly. Could be effective in the playoffs.
@@mrfake675 He has never played a game in the NHL and is developing very nicely in Bakersfield, plus he would have to quarantine at least for a weak. I tend to saying better keep him there developing.
trade mike smith to Avs for a 1st and 3rd then resign him in the summer
Tippett is making the same boneheaded mistake as Todd Mcclellan by playing Draisaitl with McDavid. Yes, those two make flashy plays and score big goals, but this only works against bad teams like Ottawa and Calgary. It will not work against tough teams like Montreal or Winnipeg. Plus wasn't Tippett's whole reason for not reuniting the Dynamite line the need for "balance"?!!! How does loading up the first line achieve this? Why not at least try Kahun or Gaetan Haas as 1LW?? That way the Oilers could split up McDavid and Draisaitl and just maybe the team would be deeper. But as the season goes on, the team seems like it is getting less deep and more reliant on its superstar players.
Maybe he'll do it the opposite way around this time by not playing the Dynamite-Line all year and then reuniting them in the playoffs. :D
JP was a beast all over the ice . should have been a star
Sneak out a town with these points.
Nah, let’s March
This team is nowhere near ready to go on a deep playoff run. Nowhere near it. ... They have one main scoring line. Their 2nd line is a disaster - even when RNH centres it. (Tippet just refuses to try the Dynamite line [29 as centre] for any fair stretch of games.) They do not have 6 defensemen ready for playoff hockey; they have, at most, 3 -> Nurse, Larson and Russell. And, they continue to play Turris. ... I agree with another poster here that Toronto and Montreal (and I also think Winnipeg) would likely beat them in a playoff series. I don't enjoy typing this, but it is my impression of this team lately. (Maybe they will somehow raise their play ... I would hope for that.) Mike Smith has given them more wins than they deserve.
yea sadly it's true, I'm scared of jets in round 1 they have a solid team, especially if Holland doesn't trade nuge for a proper sniper Oilers will be done
@@michaelkerber3337 Nobody is going to take Nuge as a UFA without a huge sweetener.
@@thekiltedzombie8230 CBJ really want nuge actually cause they see him as a good fit for number 1 center
What the Oil needs is a dman that can be Charlie Huddy to Darnells Paul Coffey lol
This teams going to get wrecking balled out the playoffs
What ever happened to Koekkoek? Is he just in the dog house? Same with James Neal?
Koekkoek broke his collarbone. Neal apparently hasn't bounced back from covid
@@mrfake675 Thanks
Kind of another meh game. Seems like the Oilers have been playing quite a lot of those lately. I'm really just not sure, either we get blown out in the first round of the playoffs or this team is a whole new team come playoff time, because if you really watch this team in the past 10 games, they are BRUTAL at 5v5 vs any of the top 4 teams.
I'm not sold. I think as it stands Toronto and Montreal would murder the Oilers, they might have a chance against the Jets but I dunno.
Starting to look like 2 man offensive unit again, and if RNH is our 3rd best forward, going against those teams...
Good luck, that's all I gotta say because 5v5 he's just nowhere close.
If he thinks he's even STILL a 6 million dollar I think he's got another thing coming. If I'm Holland I'm holding firm at 5 mill for 3 or 4. Nothing mor
Yeah I don't disagree with anything you said there. Bang on
Totally feeling all this as well!
While we are winning overall, we (the fans) don't feel that we (the team) have control of the game. There is enough skill to dominate a game, but there are way too many nail-biters even against weak teams. There is no way we can beat the elite teams with this type of play. We are always last on the puck, pressured at the blue line, faceoffs suck, and we can't retrieve the puck in the o-zone. Our strength is the skating game. Most of our goals are scored on the fly rather than sustained pressure. I am hoping for a 2006 Roloson type performance from Smith.
Cagulla on waivers 700k hit ! ???? Would he help ?
my crazy trade idea would be trade Nuge, koski, rapheal lavoie, Kassian and demitri samorukov for Cam atkinson, Korpisalo and oliver bjorkstrand
The only way that would happen is if Chiarelli was the GM and had been drinking heavily for a week!
@@thekiltedzombie8230 why you think Oilers would lose that trade?
The Oil really need a Steve Dangle. Cause you guys have the energy of a stoned sloth.
Dangle is terrible and utterly annoying.
@@mikester7834 I hate the leafs, but I watch his content. He is a natural entertainer like Jay and Dan but for the youtube gen.
@@jessetracey5303 if you like that Moe then you don't belong here Joe. Peace out
Cult of hockey has much more hockey knowledge and I love their ways of grading. Dangle doesnt compare in that regard in my opinion. Thx for your commentary Dave and Bruce!!
Pls, we have Oiler-Fan-Steve already. Bruuuuce and David are deliviering quite splendidly. So shush!