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Kr55 Messages: 9705
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Adam wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 15:01 |
Kr55 wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 12:34 |
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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This is a terrible take by Tippett. The rest of the forwards didn't not score because McDavid and Draisaitl were together, they didn't score because we employed an AHL-level group on lines 3 and 4 and traded away the couple guys who had showed any ability beyond that in Strome and Caggiula.
Nuge scored a career high number of points, playing mostly without 97 and 29 and still almost no one else got any goals.
Playing Nuge with Draisaitl instead of McDavid and Draisaitl isn't going to increase the number of goals from the bottom half the roster.
The fact of the matter is that the Oilers were 20+ goals worse than 29 other teams in the NHL for depth scoring so the performance has to be much MUCH better just to be mediocre.
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That isn’t reason enough for it to be that bad though. Teams have iced worse bottom 6 groups before through years of crap budget teams, expansion teams, many through the dead puck era. There was something pretty painfully wrong with how this team was approaching games last year, right from the start, and Hitch IMO made it worse with his idea to have all forwards hanging around our own red line to start offense. Secondary scoring went from bad to zero under Hitch.
In any case, even if it is better it is doubtful it is enough. And the Goals against issue has many ways to be bad.
[Updated on: Wed, 02 October 2019 15:16]
"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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