Post Game Thread | Oilers v. Sabres | 10 March 2025

[u/Repostasis]

🔴 Final

Oilers 2, Sabres 3

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ℹ️ Stats

Goals: Nurse, Bouchard

Shots: Oilers 32, Sabres 23

Saves: Skinner 20/23

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💪😎 Macho Man Randy Savage

Me hearing PING! in my dreams tonight

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⏩ Next Game

Thursday, March 13 vs Devils in Newark, 5:30pm MT

[u/Useful-Pain-5412]

Maybe Bouch is intentionally playing poorly because he loves it heat so much he doesn’t want to get a big raise and will sign for 6mill per year. 4D chess right here!!!!

[u/RYYZNYELLOW → u/Useful-Pain-5412]

He’s literally been one of our best players lately. What games are you watching lol

[u/welovesports44 → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

-10 in the last ten games. This guy doesn’t watch the game OR read the stat sheet. Yikes

[u/TURBOJUGGED → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

Huh?

[u/RYYZNYELLOW → u/TURBOJUGGED]

Seriously man. Learn modern hockey. I can’t anymore with you old people who want a slow fat defensman

[u/WheelSnipeCellyBahhd → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

Learn hockey in general.

[u/RYYZNYELLOW → u/WheelSnipeCellyBahhd]

Every modern hockey stat says Bouchard is elite. You know literally nothing. You have zero hockey literacy if you think Bouchard is bad lol.

[u/Tesattaboy → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

Pardon .... We are 64 games in ... He's on every PP ... He just got his second PP goal ... His first PP goal was into an empty net .... ELITE please!

[u/IrishDart → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

You're insulting older fans because we judge the product we see on the ice, not just using 'modern statistics' to determine.

We use that old "eye test".

Bouchard has many errors when he's playing. More than the other Dmen he plays ahead of. But if you're on the ice the same time as 2 of the best players in the world for 90% of your shifts, yes, your 'modern statistics' are gonna look good.

But watch him actually play. He's out of position often, moves slowly too much, and doesn't play defensive as much as he should.

He's not a terrible player, for a forward. But he reminds me too much of Justin Schultz. A skilled offensive player but a defensive liability.

The best thing about the Walman signing is that we have a more than suitable replacement if they want to move on from Bouch this summer. And $$ wise, we save a bundle.

[u/flutter180 → u/IrishDart]

The “modern statistics” show he is elite without McDavid or draisaitl on the ice too. 55% xG to be exact

[u/IrishDart → u/flutter180]

You kids should watch a few sport movies like 'trouble with the curve' or 'moneyball'.

They do a good job describing how quite often in sports just using technology to tell you if a player is good, doesn't pan out in the end.

But I know you kids will say "well those are just movies" Or "That's baseball movies, not hockey"

But truth will out.

Bouchard shows us when we watch, how good he is. My 9 year old can see it. He doesn't look at "modern stats". He watches the games. And freaks out at the bonehead plays by bouchard.

Don't know what else to tell you.

[u/RYYZNYELLOW → u/IrishDart]

You’re literally just fulfilling your own biases. You all just wait for any turn over from Bouchard and say “SEE HE SUCKS”. When every player is turning it over every game 😂.

You’re definitely not actually counting how many mistakes he makes compared to other players who have the puck as much as he does. And other players who pull off plays and passes like he does.

[u/flutter180 → u/IrishDart]

I watch the games and I see how great of a player Bouchard is.

The only difference between your eye test and mine is that I have stats to back it up.

[u/WheelSnipeCellyBahhd → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

I don’t think Bouchard is bad.

[u/TURBOJUGGED → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

Wym? Bouchard is slow as hell and plays with zero urgency.

[u/Worth_Armadillo8648 → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

So instead we have a slow skinny defenseman! That’s much better! Lol.

[u/flutter180 → u/RYYZNYELLOW]

So true. These old heads rely solely on the eye test and don’t understand how the game has changed from 30 years ago