Solid outings from Martin Marincin and David Musil and some positive moments for Colten Teubert and Martin Gernat show there are good things in the pipeline.
I thought Taylor Fedun showed very well, he's definitely a puck mover.
Best of all, an update (click photo on right) from our friend at Swedish Oil (on the blogroll) about Oscar Klefbom.
He's good to go!
If only for a moment, the world is in balance.
Thank goodness Klefbom is okay.
ReplyDeleteeatier-what I have to do while reading Lowetide in the morning and still make it to work on time
Hey LT a few thoughts from the game last night.
ReplyDeleteRNH was really smooth and didn't look nervous in his first game at all. He showed great vision and made a few really sweet plays and would have had 4 or 5 assists if Hamilton had better luck finishing. Looks as good as the big 3 did last year in Pentiction.
Musil was great and defended off the rush very well.
Marinson has all the tools and made some nice plays. He jumps up when he can, has a nice first pass and keeps his head up. Only one problem though. He doesn't hit anything. Ever. He passed up chance after chance to hit guys and because of it he got beat wide several time when he easily could have taken his man to the boards. He has a good stick that covers it up quite a bit, but if he doesn't start to use his body more he'll get killed in Oklahoma. He's gonna end up back in PG this year for sure. Contract limit back to 48.
Teubert was good as well. We sat right next to the Oilers tunnel and joked around with him as he was waiting to get back on about how bad the Canucks hand must look. He thought it was pretty funny. He just couldn't get his nose to stop bleeding but he wanted back out pretty bad.
Lander was the full package and he'll be with the big club very soon. He looks every bit as ready as Hall did last year and looks even bigger on the ice. He's very quick and has a stride like Magnus, just not quite as qucik, but then again not many are fast like 91.
Hamilton was quite good and has very good speed for his size. He had some bad puck luck or we'd have been taking about his hat trick today.
Gernat was excellent as well. He was always involved in the play in a positive way in both ends of the rink. If Kelefbom is better thenthis guy (which he is believed to be) we have so gems on D. They need a bit more polish but quite a few of them are going to shine.
The crazy Finn was excellent as well. Can't wait to see more from him.
it may take up to two days before we can determine if he sustained a concussion
ReplyDeleteAnd over in north america we can sort this out after 5 minutes in the dark room?
LT, don't know if you caught it on the radio last night but Pitlick is good to go. He tweaked his ankle a little in the summer camp but has been able to do his training. He said he is 100%. He will be playing Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteHe sounded a little pissed off when Tencer asked if he planned to be back in Medicine Hat this season.
Loved Tyrvainen last night. The big club needs a crazy chirping Finn almost as much as a #1 D and #1 Goalie. Cheering like hell that he makes it.
ReplyDeleteI think RNH's first year in the NHL is going to be a lot like Magic Johnson's rookie year. Magic used to bean a lot of his teammates in the head with the basketball because they just weren't ready for his creativity and vision. RNH's vision and ability to see a play before it happens is already far ahead of his peers.
I was really impressed with Gernat last night. His goal was flukey at best, but he made some very smart plays all night long.
ReplyDeleteGreat news about Klefbom, as well. From the small bit I heard about his possible concussion, it sounded like it could have been very serious. Great to hear he's fine.
i am very pleased with the quality of our picks. MBS has really done a great job of at least building up what was once a pretty pathetic system.
ReplyDeleteLT way off topic but what do you think are the chances ST offers up his aging, Russian bad back goalie to Lokomotiv?
ReplyDeleteI think the Oilers will set NK free next summer if he doesn't perform well. Or gets hurt.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought that this summer too.
Hopefully the Bom can stay healthy for a good portion of the season. This year is critical for his development.
ReplyDeleteLT: I still maintain that NK was kept because two hefty buyouts (real dollars, not cap dollars) in one summer is too much for Katz to stomach, and Souray was a more urgent cut.
I hope NK can turn things around this year in a part-time role, not only for the Oilers, but so we can deal his last contract year at $3.75M to someone else at the deadline.
Rick: Yeah, I'd agree with that (the money). At some point, enough is enough and NK can always go on IR if he's killing us.
ReplyDeleteAn actual game thread must have gone straight to my head. Woke up with a complete NHL monopoly board formed in my mind. Weird shit.
ReplyDeleteHalf asleep, my mental monopoly board had three colour groups on each side of the board--obviously the league expansion pack--in a 2/3/3 3/3/3 3/3/3 3/3/2 configuration.
Slogan: In Lowopoly, it pays to develop.
==Back to the drawing board==
Low rent side leaving Go.
First stop: Lanny McDonald and Tiger Williams as Mediterranean and Baltic. Lanny for the 'stache and Williams for style. Pennants and championships are hard to come by in this locale, but jersey boutiques are cheap and cashflow positive.
Second stop: Naslund, Bertuzzi, Cloutier. Collect all three! Some expectations may not arise.
Third stop: Alfredsson, Heatley, Spezza. It razzles, it dazzles, but not quite investment grade. Good times in the short term.
==Caviar cul de sac==
Winning isn't cheap. Neither is losing. You've got the dough. Can you find the right mixture of grit and polish?
First stop: Lindros, Leclair, Renberg. Man can not live on grit alone, but you can eat well for a year or two.
Second stop: Modano, Hatcher, Belfour. Getting warmer, even with the climate and karma against you.
Third stop: Roy, Sakic, Forsberg. Base jumping capital of the NHL has no shortage of supporting cast. Deal of a lifetime will get it done.
==Longevity lane==
Built to last.
First stop: Yzerman, Lidstrom, Federov. Deal for the Wheel, you can't go wrong.
Second stop: Bossy, Potvin, Trottier. High traffic zone downstream from Jail (which my mind swapped with Free Parking, but the board is bigger anyway, so this jail is kitty from Go). Good things come in fours.
Third stop: Richard, Beliveau, Cournoyer (pick any ten; the only team with a hockey legends family pack). Also in the high traffic zone, you'll tally in droves.
==Mount Bulrush==
Miracle babes of legend: bigger, faster, stronger, smarter--pick any five.
First stop: Coffey, Jagr, Lemieux. (Sorry, Ron.)
Second stop: Kurri, Messier, Gretzky. Accept no substitutes.
Third stop: Park, Orr. Don't let the small size get you down: three legs worth any six; Park Place is no slouch.
==Railroads==
The railroads represent journeymen: Yannick Perreault, Claude Lemieux, Mike Sillinger, Marty McSorley, each with special powers.
Sillinger: player landing on Sillinger unable to buy a house for two turns, even when otherwise compelled.
Perreault: owning player when directed to jail lands on free-parking instead.
Lemieux: non-owning player landing here must immediately mortgage highest income property for two turns; mortgage income can be transacted immediately to defray lost asset.
McSorley (situated in the middle of Longevity Lane): player landing here shakes one die instead of two until passing Go. Enjoy your dalliance through Mount Bulrush--if you can.
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ReplyDelete==Utilities==
YouTube and EA. Land on YouTube, you must immediately add one development unit (house/hotel) to your lowest income property, mortgaging as necessary; land on EA, same thing, but must add a development to your highest income property, as allowed by building code. This in addition to paying normal utility rent to the media mogul.
==Special==
Goodbye box rinks, hello celebrity endorsements.
Chance: Alan Eagleson
Community chest: Don Cherry
Luxury tax: Glen Sather
Income tax: Charles Wang
Go Directly to Jail: Pat Burns (do not pass Garth Snow, do not collect 200 million dollars)
Free parking: Ron MacLean
Go: Foster Hewitt
Jail: the picture shows bars, so I'm going with Harold Ballard. Prison of his own mind.
==Riders==
Developments in Montreal are half price until the first hotel on Roy. The old box rink immediately burns down, and all your cheap property goes with it. New developments are subsequently full price.
Naslund/Forsberg/Lindros cold war: first to build a hotel collects half revenue from each of the other two, e.g. player building hotel on Naslund collects from owner of Forsberg half the current rental fee for landing on Forsberg, ditto from Lindros owner.
Owner of the Oiler set *pays* 50 dollars when passing Go, but receipts are already high undeveloped. Gretzky with at least one hotel can be mortgaged for three times the normal amount. Player owning Gretzky who goes to jail and does not get out immediately must auction Gretzky to highest bidder.
First Oiler hotel permanently halts construction on Long Island (where hotels are half price for rapid build up).
Houses on Sakic cost double which slows construction. House for Sakic can be purchased at half (regular) price after each trade conducted with another player where property goes both ways.
Player owning Claude Lemieux can only get out of jail by rolling. Fined $50 for possessing a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Player building hotel in Dallas rolls only one die the next turn on account of bad ice. Dallas owning player with adjacent properties with unequal houses can claim the odd house lies on either side of the property line; furthermore, Dallas owning player can build on a property and collect from anyone already sitting there the marginal increase.
Each time Oiler owning player passes though Dallas with Gretzky mortgaged, Dallas owning player misses a turn.
But this is fine print and common sense anyway, and Kanadu is fading, so enough already.