Let me ask you a question before we get started: what was your mindset leading into last night’s Toilet Bowl against the San Jose Sharks? I honestly had no idea what was going to happen. Both teams are so bad right now that I felt it was almost as likely that the game got spontaneously cancelled like the good ol’ COVID days as it was in a win for either side. Then again, why shouldn’t I have expected the Oilers to lay an egg against the worst team in the NHL, which they are now tied with for dead last? This season is a nightmare. Final Score: 3-2 Sharks
— Jason Gregor (@JasonGregor) November 10, 2023
The only positive thing to come out of last night’s disastrous loss is that Jason Gregor now has to grow his hair out for the next seven months. He was so damned sure that the Oilers were going to beat the Sharks that he made a bet that will turn out to be arguably the best part of this season. Sure, the team we love may be a garbage fire in every way, but at least we’ll get to watch Gregor’s new look evolve over the rest of the season. Frankly, I’d be way more mad about losing to San Jose had it not been for his incredible generosity. I think he’s going to look incredible. The content will be fantastic.
As much as the first period was angering for the way the Oilers outshot the Sharks and just couldn’t score, the second period drove me insane because of the way the boys completely took their foot off the gas for the first 17 minutes. I know the stats say the Oilers finished the period with 10 shots on goal, but that total was only at three until the clock started winding down. Did they see the time was running out and started throwing pucks on net as a means of catching up? It was like they felt the job was done after Darnell Nurse tied the game in the first couple of minutes and decided to take the rest of the period off. I don’t understand how they can look like a respectable hockey club for 20 minutes only to stop caring all together for the
I don’t know how to accurately express how annoying it is to watch the Oilers outshoot their opponent by a 2:1 margin early in the game, only to find themselves down at the intermission. For the second straight game, the Oilers heavily outshot the opposition — I’m not saying it was a great start for Edmonton by any means, I’m just talking about SOG — but instead of getting any of them past Blackwood, they got goalie’d until eventually giving up the first goal of the night. I don’t know what kind of voodoo is hanging over the Oilers right now, but this group couldn’t score if their lives depended on it, and I’m starting to believe that we need some kind of exorcism.
Bye, Woody. Thanks for everything. Should be Ken Holland, but you're the one that'll pay for it first.
— Baggedmilk, Oily Boy (@jsbmbaggedmilk) November 10, 2023
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