 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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I have said it before, until the team and more specifically the top guys have a mindset change where they view their job as playing winning hockey vs thinking their only job is to score, the team won't take a step forward.
- Playing winning hockey means making the correct play that might be simple and boring vs making the very low percentage, risky play that if completed, potentially scores you a goal.
If there is the option to dump the puck in when your team is changing, chip it off the glass when you are under duress, pass the puck 10 ft to a guy up the boards OR you can try to go 1 on 3 or 4 on a line change, do a spin move or try to stick handle out of a problem, try for a 60 ft cross ice pass with defenders in the middle because if you complete that pass, man you will get on the highlights, you can bet your ass the Oilers will go for the risky play because if they make it, oohhh baby will it be a sweet goal.
- Playing winning hockey means you always backcheck hard, always pick up your man in front, always battle hard in the corners, always forecheck and pressure when you are supposed too, never fly the zone before your team has the puck under control, always get in the shooting lanes, always get into the passing lanes, always doing your assignments and never cheating your assignment for offense. Doing those things is hard work, there isn't any glory, it's not fun, you won't get points for it and you won't make a highlight package. Playing defense has nothing to do with god given talent, it's not something that only certain players can do well and others just can't. Playing defense is a choice. Playing defense means you might have to sacrifice some offense at times to make the right play so you won't score that shift. Playing defense means you might have to do something you don't that isn't in your comfort zone and that you don't like to do.
The Oilers roster isn't perfect but what needs to change with this team has to start with the top guys. I go look at last nights stats. Leon -2, McD -1. I think about the Caps first goal that was a soft as hell, BAD give away whatever the hell Leon was doing basically pass to a Caps player in his own zone. He's a top 5 player in the world with the puck on his stick and he gave it away. Can't happen. Second goal, McD on the PK. He was standing right beside Oshie, he could literally touch him. The Dmen are busy covering other guys and trying to deal with the puck. That's your man. Tie up his stick. He didn't. He did nothing but watch Oshie fire it in. What defensive system would say "just leave a guy wide open in the slot and watch him score.
So McD and Leon were both on for 2 goals apiece in a 3-2 game. Could they use more depth scoring? Yes, a lot of their supposed depth scoring is hurt but they could use more. Could they use a few better bottom 6 guys? Sure. Could they use another dman? Sure. But having those guys in doesn't fix what happened. Until the top guys decide they will play right all the time which might mean you sacrifice a little offense, the team won't change. The top guys need to set the standard then hold the rest of the team accountable.
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