 RDOilerfan
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 16:27 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 14:51 |
| Ragnarok73 wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 11:30 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 08:38 |
Yes I am pushing the narrative that the Oilers scoring was part of the problem. People need to get it into their heads that no matter what they do system wise, the Oilers are NEVER going to be a high end defensive team. NEVER. Their 2 best players, the guys that play a ton and will always play a ton no matter what your depth is like are not wired to play like Bergeron or Kopitar or Danault. Can they play better defense and have they learned to play better defense? Yes they have. But I believe what you see is what you are going to get with them. I don't see McD winning a Selke ever. As much as he likes to say it, I don't see Leon winning a Selke ever. Guys who win Selke's don't throw blind backhanded passes or try to go 1 on 3 when your team is doing a line change. Those things are part of McD's and Leon's game and are part of what make them so amazing offensively because they can do those things and they work. But the Oilers are not ever going to be a high end defensive team, not unless they drastically change the players. Can they improve and be better next year? 100% they can but their bread and butter as long as they have McD and Leon on the team is offense. So they need to play to that strength.
So Nuge being lousy offensively did impact the team. The Oilers didn't play well in game 1, Nuge was very bad but they lost 6-4, the 6th being an empty netter. So 1 goal would have made a difference. Game 5, they lost by 1 goal. So a goal by Nuge, a guy who scored close to 40 goals and 100 pts, would have made a difference. Nuge is on a good contract and I agree, replacing him at the price point probably wouldn't happen but his job is to produce offense and he didn't do his job.
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The Oils' D does not have to be a high-end group, just good enough to complement the scoring power they have up front and not cough up leads like candy to their opponents. They are not good enough, period, as guys like Vinnie and Ceci have shown that they can't compete in the playoffs. We don't need a young Duncan Keith or Kris Letang or Chris Pronger, we need a group that can avoid making mistakes in their own end of the ice. As I have said many times before, having more D-men like Ekholm in the line-up would have been enough to give the Oil a good enough group to contend for a Cup. Ekholm is not a superstar, he just gets the job done and doesn't make catastrophic errors.
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I think if they were to swap Ceci for a slight upgrade on him, someone who's more consistent defense wise to play with Nurse. They basically need an Adam Larsson type. Just a solid, right shot defender who's usually in position to allow Nurse to just concentrate on his game and what he does well. In my opinion, with Ceci supposedly hurt, he wasn't able to be in position all the time or get to pucks so that caused Nurse to start to roam all over the ice trying to compensate. As soon as Nurse gets running all over the place, mistakes happen.
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Ceci, especially if healthy could be your 3RD, replacing Desharnais, but we should be trying to find a replacement for him.
2RW is also a big hole that needs addressing.
Nuge isn't a problem and I am not making any big decisions on him based on a playoffs that he'd probably like to have done better in - unless there's someone who's really buying high on his 100 point season.
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I don't see how any team can afford a 3.25 mill 3rd pairing dman. Every team needs some super cheap guys to fill out the line up to offset the cost of your stars. I don't see an issue with have Desharnais as your 3rd pairing guy. He was a rookie and should improve next year.
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