oilinblood: i couldnt believe barkers dumb penalty. what an idiot. what a rediculously stupid time to take it and if i was his teammate i would have been disgusted at it. stupid stupid penalty. i dont care how confident you are in the pk, that was a healthy scratch for 20 games kind of dumb decision. all that hard work for 50 minutes gone.

Couldn’t agree with you more! That game may still have gone off the rails anyway but at that point it was 4-3 & the Oilers had some really good opportunities to tie it up. So far Barker has had about 8 shifts that I appreciated, the rest were a glaring example of why this guy has been bounced around & put on waivers previously. He doesn’t have any ambition to dig up pucks or throw his weight around to regain the puck when he has the chance; kinda like MAB except with less point production. Would much rather see that spot go to Petry on a full time basis now that Sutton is back.