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Pat Quinn's postgame media conference had some quality insight. The best line was this one: "our veteran guys were the ones who abandoned the work, or went to individual habits early on."It's been a problem for some time, and I think it may go back to that "generation gap" people talked about last season. I thought Gilbert Brule was flat last night, Pouliot not a lot better and Robert Nilsson reminded us about what happens when talented players aren't fooling anyone.The bigger concern has to be that Sam Gagner and Ales Hemsky are floundering. It's time to end the split squads, bring the veterans together, take out the trash and send in the clowns.Lubo plays tonight, Oilers posted the following roster:G- Jeff Deslauriers, Devan DubnykD- Lubomir Visnovsky, Steve Staios, Jason Strudwick, Taylor Chorney, Dean Arsene, Alex PlanteC- Shawn Horcoff, Mike Comrie, Marc Pouliot, Milan KytnarL- Patrick O'Sullivan, Ryan Stone, JF Jacques, Steve MacIntyreR-...
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