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Re: Review: Carolina @ Edmonton (Game #33) [message #749178 is a reply to message #749160 ]	Wed, 11 December 2019 12:02

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McDavid97 wrote on Wed, 11 December 2019 10:06

Game was pathetic, attended it live and it really shows how empty the stands are.
Two of the middle section on either side in the uppers were 90% empty.

Drai is either hurt, tired or tired of carrying this back on his team and it shows. He looks like 50% of his normal self.

Kassian was the best forward out there yesterday.

McDavid's penalty shot was suiting for the Oilers, can't even get a shot on a penalty shot.

Nuge looked bad out there again.

PP is so predictable for gaining the zone, defense hangs onto the puck towards the red line then drops it back at the blue line for Mcdavid while he's skating around our net.

This team needs a lot of changes.
Calgary will pass us soon in the standings and we will be dropping a lot in our division.

It's pretty sad with the good start we got this season we aren't much ahead of where we were last year point wise.

I know it's almost a crime against humanity to dare to question the blessed Nuge but when do people start to wonder about the guy? When you don't pair him with elite level players, he's at best a 50 pt center who relies HEAVILY on PP points to prop him up. He has 6 goals, 17 pts in 27 games which is just over a 50 pt pace and of his points 4 goals and 10 pts are on the PP. So he's barely pissing a drop 5 on 5. In an ideal situation, as a second line player who's primarily a set up guy, Nuge should be anchoring that second PP unit. So instead of playing the crap out of the top unit, you can give the top unit over a minute and then throw out the second unit for 1/3 of it and actually have some decent players on it vs the bottom 6 scraps they have now.

There has been TONS of talk that the Oilers need to go get Hall for Nuge. Stop and think about that for a second. Hall won the MVP 2 seasons ago. When healthy and playing well, he's an extremely good player wjo would be on most teams top line and one of their best players. I am not looking for Nuge to be flirting with 90 pts. How about over 60 consistently? Over 60 pts for a second line center is pretty darn good. If the only way you can get Nuge scoring at a reasonable second liners rate without being propped up by the PP is you have to get a top line player to play down on a line, isn't that a problem and maybe we should be looking not so much at the rest of the team but at Nuge? I completely understand that the Oilers need more wing help on the second line but I do question whether it's the players Nuge plays with or is it just as much Nuge who's the problem.

I like Nuge, always have but in the 8.5 seasons he's been an Oiler, I have yet to see him carry or elevate anyone on his line ever. Typically given the nature of the position and how hockey is played, a center even if he is ore a set up guy is usually the one that drives the line. So there aren't a lot of wingers out there who drive lines. The few that are out there, make CRAZY money and they make it for a reason. Now Leon can drive a line on the wing BUT he played up until recently nothing but center. Nuge has played almost exclusively at center, yet he needs a winger to drive the play other wise the line goes no where. So at what point do you either look outside of the organization for another second line center who can actually drive a line and tell Nuge that even though he thinks he likes center better, he needs t suck it up and become a winger or you move Nuge for other assets? I am just growing concerned because for years it's been "we need to get someone to play with Nuge" but I believe the only way you get that guy is to have a 8, 9 or 10 mill second line winger on Nuge's flank and I don't think a team can win when you have more than 2 really high priced players like that. They just take up too much cap space.

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