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RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 15:18

CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 15:13

RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 15:11

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.


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.

Already carving up the coach and they haven't even played a game yet.

So? What's wrong with carving the coach?


He hasn't done anything except fill out a line up card but I guess if carving the coach up game 1 gets you off, you go for it.

I'm reasonably sure Adam isn't getting off from carving the coach. I think he may be listening to what the coach is saying, disagreeing with the message, and providing a reasonable explanation why. Which, I believe, is allowed... even before game 1.

So what's with you carving Adam before game 1? He's as likely to be correct as the coach at this point. Maybe give him a chance before ripping a fellow poster.



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