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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| mazankowski wrote on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:36 |
Honestly, the Nurse Russell pairing is having a difficult time. Nurse had an awful third period in particular. The 2-2 goal, he can clearly see that there's back pressure on the puck carrier with a pretty bad angle to the net, and yet he draws towards him rather than taking the only threat to score, being the man cross crease. This is simple simple hockey, stuff I teach my Minor Bantam's. If the puck carrier is going to drive the net, or shoot it, and he somehow scores, then that's on the goaltender. But this was flat out telegraphing the play to the puck carrier of what to do.
The Strome goal, my god, close the gap man. If Nurse steps up instead of back tracking, that puck is deflected or dumped into the corner and the transition from defence to offence is initiated. But no, he literally gets caught flat footed, screens the goaltender and knows there is only one place where the puck is going and that's to the house.
The goaltender interference play is a toss up. I see that the contact is initiated outside of the blue paint, but once the player comes into the crease with the goaltender, is that not when the goaltender interference begins to impede the goalie from getting across to try and make the save? The argument could be made there is no way in hell Talbot can shuffle from one side to the other in time. However, I counter that with the argument that could he have done the back roll in desperation to try and make the save or even tried to lunge? Bottom line, the goaltender was not allowed to attempt to make the save because a player was in the crease with a skate between his pad and his leg, decision done.
The Caggiula goal I had already gone to bed because I live in Toronto and it was about 11pm and I was hating myself for staying up. Until this D core including the down low forward (which usually is a C) can identify where the scoring areas are, and that plays starting from down low don't go any lower, but rather only come higher (points, slot, half wall), then there's no point in breaking down the play.
Rant over, the hockey IQ is a real issue and likely due to an overwhelming amount of minutes being fed to Russell and Nurse.
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I ranted and raved at the start of the season and through in to the start of the Hitchcock era about overplaying a group of 7 or 8 guys. The Oilers have persisted in doing it, maybe because they have AHL-quality players in so much of the rest of the lineup, and it's caught up to them. I'd guess there's a fair amount of fatigue for all the top guys - and I think that's why we've seen even McDavid's numbers drop off a little bit.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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