can we put the Barons scores on the sidebar until the NHL season starts? I'm tired of seeing the 3-0 loss to the Canucks from last season

Can't help but sound snarky with this one... but... rather than the Oil Patch kids learning to win in the AHL, they've instead taught the farm team how to lose. Can't blame Renney on this one, Steve.

This sucking with a lot of talent on the team is a great experience for these guys. The lesson that effort and teamwork matters is a good one that will play dividends when they find themselves in the same situation in the NHL.

^ Mother of god.

Schulzyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Also, Teubert facewashing Baertschi straight to the ice was great, even it was worth 2 minutes.

Fist GDB of the year.

Good to see the battle of Alberta on TV.

Looking forward to seeing Schultz & Fedun tonite.

I guess no Hall tonite as its a back to backer .

Barry Brust eats people.

I expect the Barons to play much better tonight. No Hall? Yikes, he was the one I was expecting to have a big game.

Id rather trash talk the nhlpa

I was at the game last night. Score was totally indicative of the game. Barons totally flat. I don't get Eberle on the point for pp, why is your sniper on the point?

Hope Hall gets his skating legs back quickly.

Looks like all the Barons were starting to believe all of their good press. I haven't seen any highlights or anything but the results are disappointing to say the least. Pretty tough to make the argument that the play is too scrambly when they are all playing together (not last night) and are not producing. They should be all near a point a game pace I would think. The most disturbing is the brutal power play. This is basically the unit that the big team would throw out there.

The play is indeed quite scrambly. It takes more than 3 forwards and 1 defenseman to create the flow. The play is affected by the other Barons, the other team's players, and the brutal refereeing. Watch one period of any NHL game then compare to the AHL. It is vastly more scrambly.

I get that there are more players on the ice but in the case of the power play you would think with that group they should have the puck 90% of the time so I don't care what the opposition or the referees are doing at that point. Going ofer on the PP is downright inexcusable.

Any online streams ppl have found?

Dude. It's on SNW. Channel 223 on the SHAW HD dial.

Something's fishy here. Sportsnet is showing highlights from last night's game in HD! So obviously they had decent cameras covering the game. You have to wonder why the heck the online feed is so bad...unless it's intentional.

Yeah, not near a TV tonight :( Oh well.

Channel 23 on peasant cable.

It's like farmer vision, but for cable.

I only have TFC, but found a FIRST ROW seat to watch the SPORTS eh!

Damn Harti and parvi look good

Just holding them off for now I guess?

Geez you Oiler fans are really something else. So is this the official narrative, that the play in the AHL is "too scrambly." Can't wait to hear the new excuses for why your team still can't get out of the basement in the NHL. Oh wait, yes I can. Oh snap!

Oh and the flameouts are such a good team give me a break buddy will see who win the next cup between the two I kno.w who my moneys on

Neither?

Flameouts will be the ones in the basement very shortly and with only Sven and MAYBE Horak coming I got a real good feeling they will be there for a helluva long time.

Put it this way it sure as hell won't be the flameouts.

Yeesh, Baertschi's not having the best game tonight. Then again, most of the team is struggling a little.

Haha ya Hallsy

What a shot roof daddy

I'm Oilerguy, and I want to put my money on the Flames winning the cup before the Oilers.

Roof daddy indeed, it was a nice shot. So just to confirm, we are planning the parade, right?

Really like the way the boys are hammering on them.

Boo Yah! Let me say it again. BOOOOOO YAAAAHHH!

Tweety bird

Haha just like that flameout boys lol

So what's your guys excuse oh yeah right..... You guys suck that's right.

The Oilers were not in the basement last year...the Blue Jackets finished last.

The future Oilers will be SOOOOO much better than the future Flames.

Now hang your head.

Lord god, I was there. Ebs' 'stache... ack... can't handle the glory... the majesty..'

ROOF DADDY! WOOOOOOO! LET'S GO OILERS AFFILIATE TEAM!

I hate to be that guy, but Ebs curling like that and feeding Schultz kind of reeked of Gretzky and Coffey...

I had the good fortune of attending the game.... Hall sure ripped that goal and missed on a couple other chances. He looked a little rusty at times and gave the pic away a couple of plays. He doesn't quite have his legs back yet. Shultz shot was a perfect wrister in ot. Hard and high and on net.... He beat the goaltender clean. Harti was interesting to watch.... A couple of nice plays and he likes to hit..... Paajarvi looked big and raw. Nuge and Ebs made a couple of nice plays.... Ebs was all over the puck and Nuge quietly made a couple of beauty passes to hall. A great game to see live.... That rink in Abbotsford is nice.... Like the lower bowl in any given NHL rink. Nice screen and good beer. It was a full house which always makes it loud and fun. Really glad I saw the boys live, the one good thing about he lockout I guess.

Don't worry, once Bouma gets back I'm sure the baby Oil (or big ones when the NHL gets going again) will experience sweet justice. ;)

I was only able to watch the last 10 min of the 3rd period.

The OKC defense was playing very well together last night from what I saw.

The first transition is starting from really high in the defensive zone,and this looks to me like a hurry-up type of first transition,which I am all for,however in the interests of mixing it up and remaining unpredictable maybe its time to look at a second approach or maintaining two basic gameplans,opposition teams are keying in to our transitions so we need to scout them better and develop an alternative look so we can begin to mix it up from period to period and game to game.

We might want to start our transitions deeper in our own zone and compensate for the transition start position change by having our d-men wait for the forcheck to clearly engage then after they are committed and spread out we threaten with the straight up the ice sprint --just ten or twelve feet-- to back the forcheckers off,this mean good communication between the d-men,try Fedun and Schultz,let them work a short sprint off the end boards backing the forcheck down and turning it into a give and go but dont let the forcheckers engage,thats why we need to head straight at them right off the hop------forchecking is most sucessful if the d-men are on their heels and try to pass the puck--------if the d-men immediatly come at you full speed for ten to twelve feet you are forced to reset your onice timing,and you lose the momentum you were trying to generate with the forcheck.However if the d-man sprints to far into the forecheck and engages he risks getting burned ,hence the ten to twelve foot limit and the give and go--this is important so the speed generated by the short sprint is utilised and not wasted,this first short sprint changes the face of the give and go with the defense partner --it makes it a very high speed neutral zone exit play,the difference seems small and it is but it is also critical. We need to focus on the speeds our forwards are exiting the zone at as well because they are the ones setting the opposition defenses initial posture and positioning until they again key on the puck carrier--we need the forwards to not use top speed as they get set up around the neutral zone do a little East/West cycle or a criss-cross--hang it up a wee bit and make the opposition d-men slow down their backwards movement and posture dont let them get set so early and so far back or they will be in a set zone position when our offense arrives .

This is to set up the opposing d-men better for our coming offensive transitions,remember to note WHEN the opposition defense is forced to make their first assesment and adjustment of the developing play and then use the forwards to dictate how the opposition defense makes that critical first choice.Draw the opposition defense into a longer more drawn out backwards posture so when our high speed offensive transition hits them they are out of position and flatfooted.

I dont know what to change if anything,this is just an adjustment suggestion.

This should bring our initial shots and our rebound recovery a bit closer in timing and give immediate second shot results.We just have to remember to allow Schultz to decide when we use this tactic----we must remember to key OFF OF HIM ,let him communicate with his guys make a code word or a certain sign he can use to let the boys know when he wants to bust it through and then they can hang the defense up for him to burst through on his way to the net.

I just think we need to see J Schultz starting to catalyse his plays from deeper in his own zone as he will be forced to do by the speed and elite forchecking at the NHL level.And because of the way he can control the game at the level he is at he isnt learning everything he needs right now.We shouldnt change anything maybe ,but we should have an option to our current first transition of the puck wether it starts in the neutral zone or behind our net---yes we want a lot of shots but its easier to generate elite shot numbers when half are rebounds you recover after initial shots---this is where we have been lacking.

I only watched ten minnutes of the third and the OT so how much can I really be seeing eh??

Besides if we pay more attention to using three distinct zone transitions our passes shorten and our speed increases and our communication is better because of all the give and goes,three transitons will force better teamwork and set a slightly slower more controlled pace that will give us room for another gear change at a different time,instead of coming out full speed we sprint--pause-and let the give and go recipient blast through the neutral zone at exceptionally high speed .Its a varient to the upspeed man setup we are already using successfully.To be blunt we have been using the upspeed man a wee bit incorrectly--not wrong just for the wrong reasons--we are trying to use the upspeed man to scoe on a rush play,when we need to use that man and that dynamic as a second shot generation dynamic,we need to use the upspeed man to penetrate a spread out opposition after the initial shot has been generated--UNLESS Schultz lets the boys know he wants to steamroll it through---we keep using the upspeed man but we change the man to a d-man and the timing and dynamic result from rush type scoring chances to rebound recovery and second shot generation--.We lose nothing we simple add to what we are doing.A baseline for Schultz to work off of and to keep the rest of the guys focused,everyone needs to know when Schultz is going to bolt and they all need to help him set it up upice---so so moma2 says we need a stable steady three transition approach using the upspeed man to generate second shots UNTIL J Schultz signals the option play,or any d-man decides to signal the option play.We just need to add another level of communication.

Good thing I didnt see the entire game eh???

what makes me chuckle about this is that it was the Edmonton writer who was already whining about how rough and mean the boys are in the AHL, picking on the oilers' "stars" hahaha

so typical of edmonton - trys to dish it, but definitely can't take it without whining! hahaha

Good game...I hope they show more AHL games (Not Leafs affiliate only!)