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Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55) [message #730171 is a reply to message #730135 ]	Sat, 09 February 2019 23:04

Skookum Jim
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Hitch calls it. Article from Staples.

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Hitchcock told reporters that the Oilers had as many odd man rushes as San Jose, but the Oilers can’t do that, as San Jose has all kinds of players who can finish off a play.

“When you put skill in ahead of work, you get burnt. And there’s just too much of that going on. And I don’t know.

“We didn’t even give ourselves a fighting chance. The game was over. When you turn it over that many times and you make casual plays like that, you give yourself no chance. We did it on the first, second goal.. we did it on the fourth goal.

“I don’t have the answers but we can’t play this way and actually expect to win hockey games, not at this time of year, quite frankly ever, maybe in an exhibition game. For the players it has to be really unacceptable to play that way with so much, to be able to move two or three points within seven and eight, to play this way, it just can’t be acceptable.

“We can’t do the things we’re doing to ourselves and expect to be playoff team.”

On Leon Draisaitl’s weak backcheck on San Jose’s second goal, Hitchcock described it as a “symptom of something of much bigger. To me, it’s priorities and it’s what’s important. I mean, look at the fifth goal, it was a change goal, we just dribbling went to the bench (again this was Draisaitl), turned it over in the neutral zone and just walked to the bench and changed. It just can’t be acceptable.”

Hitchcock then went nuclear: “At this time of year, the coaches can’t want it more than the players. That is number one. At the end of the day, it’s going to be decided whether we want to play the right way cause it’s successful, or whether we just want to do our thing. And to me today was a game we just wanted to do our thing and paid dearly for it.

“I mean, how many times did we lose board battles in the offensive zone where we had size advantage and they walked right off of the boards and ended up exiting. That’s just flat determination… It just happens too many times. That is work. This is a second and third effort league. And it’s a league of discipline, especially between the bluelines and when you do what we do, and to me this is typical of what’s gone on in four of the last six games, especially at home.”

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