November 6, 2021 /

Edmonton Oilers Gameday Reviews: We are blessed, Oilers fans…

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Cult of Hockey

Player grades: Connor McDavid’s wizardry puts wicked spell on New York Rangers in thrilling comeback win
  • Connor McDavid, 10. We are blessed, Oilers fans.
  • Leon Draisaitl, 8. He made major contributions to eight Grade A shots at even strength.
  • Jesse Puljujarvi, 8. A statement game from Puljujarvi. The big man, the aircraft carrier, cruised the wide open ice and was dangerous all night.
  • Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 8. He led the Oil’s most efficient — though not most spectacular — forward line of the night, which outshot the Rangers 15-6 when he was on the ice.
  • Zach Hyman, 8. Battled, battle and battled some more, often with great results.
  • Devin Shore, 4. Got frozen out on defence on New York’s first goal, allowing a dangerous pass into the slot. He left the game with injury in the second.
  • Warren Foegele, 4. Major ugly turnover on New York’s second goal.
  • Zack Kassian, 4. Meh game for the most part.
  • Brendan Perlini, 4. Quiet game in just five minutes of ice.
  • Darnell Nurse, 8. Solid game, solid 29 minutes of ice time, many good plays, but he gave up too much gap on Zibanejad’s goal in the third…
  • Tyson Barrie, 8. Great game on the attack. Six major contributions to Grade A shots at even strength.
  • Mikko Koskinen, 4. Not his best game, as he struggled with rebound control and was short on great moments.

BLH’s Thoughts: The good skaters were great and the mediocre skaters were poor. I feel like the Oilers bottom-six got outplayed by New York’s  and both clubs’ goalies struggled, but lucky for Coach Tippett, McDavid came to play. 

Did anybody notice Evan Bouchard’s demotion or is it being framed as Tyson Barrie’s promotion? Bouch had a couple of tough shifts and was walked again by a Ranger on the outside. The faster more aggressive teams can discombobulate a young defender in this league, so I won’t hold that against this young man. He’s been really good to start the year while Barrie was sputtering out of the gate and now that Barrie has found his form, sending Evan to the 3rd pairing as he’s being  groomed to become a top-pairing NHL blueliner isn’t the worst idea. 

Something I’m really enjoying about the Hyman/Nuge/Yamo line is when all three are flowing they are ridiculous in the muck. How good were they along the walls last night? The Rangers defensemen couldn’t handle the speed, strength, and intensity of Edmonton’s 2nd line and they looked like a trio that will thrive in a playoff scenario. The line’s cycle game was on point and New York couldn’t do a thing to stop it.

Edmonton Sun

Oilers rally to beat Rangers on Kevin Lowe banner-raising night
  • McDavid, whose 97 will be retired in 20 years or so, up there with Lowe, Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, Glenn Anderson, Al Hamilton, GM/coach Glen Sather and The Voice Rod Phillips, had one of those other-wordly goals with the clock ticking inexorably down.

  • And so it was that the Oilers won in a game out of 1981, not 2021 as Jesse Puljujarvi also got two goals, one on ripper off the right-wing looking like Kurri, who buried 100s of those off Gretzky passes.

  • The Rangers, where Lowe won a sixth Stanley Cup ring after five here, led 1-0, 4-1 and 5-4 but the Oilers refused to go away. Filip Chytil beat Koskinen in the game’s second minute when the goalie lost his stick. In the second, Kevin Rooney, Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad with his first of two scored in the first seven minutes to get their three-goal advantage.
  • In the third period the Oilers outshot the Rangers 15-4, and Draisaitl buried the winner from 20-feet in OT for his 10th goal on the season. Draisaitl has 23 points on the season, McDavid has 22 in the first 10 games.

  • Oiler centre Devin Shore didn’t play after the second period (lower-body injury). They may be recalling a forward from Bakersfield for their five-game road trip.
  • The Oilers were 2-for-2 on the power play and are now 15-for-30 on the season.
  • The Oilers said there will be a honoured player wing inside Rogers Place, for guys not in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Probably players like the NHL’s most famous 94 Ryan Smyth, Doug Weight, Charlie Huddy, Dave Semenko, Craig Simpson, Esa Tikkanen, Jason Smith, Randy Gregg, Bill Ranford, Andy Moog, Curtis Joseph — either former captains, Cup winners or iconic figures.

BLH’s Thoughts: I’ll tell ya what, when it was 4-1, I was about ready to head to bed. I didn’t think that with the way the Oilers were playing that they’d be able to pull of a comeback of that proportion.

Egg on my face. 

Leave it to this roster to bring back the kind of hockey folks in Edmonton used to witness on a nightly basis in the 80s on a night when one of the greatest defensemen to ever play for the club was getting his number raised to the rafters. I know it’s cliche to say that, but it’s a fact. I don’t think Gretzky could’ve scored a goal like McDavid did, but he would’ve done something equally as jaw dropping. 

So McDavid’s Oilers own the best start in franchise history… All he has to do is taken them to the glory land now.

Detroit is next, lead by upstart rookies Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond. Dylan Larkin is away from the team and that’s a huge blow to that team. I expect another victory for Edmonton, but two nights later it’s Taylor Hall and the Boston Bruins in Bean Town. A much more difficult task in my opinion and if the Oilers can beat them, they can defeat anybody. 

The Daily Goal Horn

  • “The whole process was a pretty long one,” Eichel told Elliotte Friedman. “For awhile I thought maybe I was going to Minnesota and there was a short time where I was like, ‘Wow, I really think it’s a possibility I’m going to go to Colorado’ and that seemed like it could’ve gotten done.”
  • The Calgary Flames were legit contenders. Sabres GM Kevyn Adams refuted a rumor that Matthew Tkachuk was in the deal, but some believe that Sean Monahan may have been in the mix along with Connor Zary.
  • Trade talks continue around Joonas Korpisalo… Per Lyle Richardson of The Hockey News, he believes the three most likely destinations are the Coyotes, Sabres, and possibly the Canadiens. Montreal would make the least sense, but Price may need some time before getting into game action coming out of the NHL players assistance program.
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