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 Kr55
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Location: Edmonton
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| Goose wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 12:52 |
| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 11:34 |
Ryan Rishaug @TSNRyanRishaug
Tippett on McDavid-Draisaitl together: 'It set a 40-year record for the rest of the forwards not scoring'
I still find it hard to believe just how bad our depth performed last year. Scoring was up around the league and we still manage to get a record amount of futility. It must go beyond just the personnel. There must have been a firm belief among the depth players that the game plan assumed they were completely useless and everyone just needs to sit back and watch the McDavid Drai and nuge show.
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My fear is that not much has really changed in that regard, other than Draisaitl playing away from McDavid on the 2nd line.
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Tippett discussed the bottom six, and specifically the third line centre.
“I had talked about trying JJ (Jujhar Khaira) there a bit, but that might change a bit with the addition of Sheahan. We have a lot of guys competing for that spot, but I don’t look at a number three centre exactly. I see it as we have a top six and a bottom six. Our bottom two lines might be geared a bit differently. One is a maybe a little heavier line, and the other a quicker line with the ability to score. Both full of special teams players, guys who will kill penalties. It always looks good on paper in the summer, and then you figure out the pieces and where they fit though camp.”
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So the expectation is that at least one of the bottom six lines won't really score, and everyone should be able to kill penalties. mightyreasoner brought this up before, but you don't really need 8 penalty killers. Couple that with waiving Gagner and not picking up anyone off waivers is not an indication, to me at least, that the bottom 6's primary responsibility will be to score.
https://oilersnation.com/2019/09/09/dave-tippett-outlines-pa rts-of-his-plan-for-edmonton-oilers/
And even more concerning is that Tippett's record on the penalty kill in Arizona was not good:
From thesuperfan.ca:
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But I remain skeptical, mainly because Dave Tippett and Jim Playfair didn’t exactly have much success shorthanded in Arizona.
Below is a summary of the Coyotes penalty kill, including goals, Fenwick and shots against per hour. Included is the team’s ranking in the league.
Season Goals against/60 Fenwick Against/60 Shots against/60
2009/10 5.66 – 6th 77.51 – 24th 54.51 – 19th
2010/11 8.12 – 26th 89.35 – 30th 63.84 – 30th
2011/12 5.2 – 8th 79.6 – 29th 55.62 – 27th
2012/13 7.53 – 22nd 70.24 – 20th 49.63 – 19th
2013/14 7.73 – 27th 77.97 – 22nd 57.36 – 21st
2014/15 8.42 – 29th 86.39 – 30th 62.69 – 30th
2015/16 8.09 – 28th 71.9 – 10th 50.79 – 12th
2016/17 8.29 – 26th 80.98 – 27th 53.84 – 16th
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https://thesuperfan.ca/
edit: apologies for the table, I can't get it to format very well. Go read the piece, it's informative
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Those PK stats are scary. The org has been consistent since before Holland and Tippett were here that bottom 6 not sucking and PK were their top concerns, and that carried through all the way through to Tippett and Holland’s latest interviews. Sadly, a not historically bad bottom 6 probably only means a handful of extra goals, and the PK is wildly unpredictable, especially with the mystery we have in net.
Ooooh well, this is just life as an Oilers fan.
Side note, someone on HF claims that after cancelling their season tickets, the Oilers called him up this last week and offered him free tickets for tonight as long as he agreed to meet with them so they can try to convince him to buy season tickets again. Basically time share sales techniques are being used now by the Oilers hehe. Saw on twitter that tonights game still isn’t sold out. Yikes.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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