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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Tobias Rieder scored more goals than the Oilers tonight. Lucic got an assist too.
So the bottom six (eight actually) forwards are on pace for 8 goals this year...that, in case anyone is wondering would be a new record in a landslide. One tally in the first 10 games, and an 8-game scoring drought now. That's a problem.
Nugent-Hopkins hasn't been as good as we have come to expect him either...6 points in 10 games means he's on pace for a 50 point season, but 5 of his 6 points have come on the powerplay. When he's away from McDavid & Draisaitl, not much is happening. Someone would have to go look at the numbers, but I'd hazard a guess that of the 31 goals the Oilers have scored, there's not more than 4 or 5 that have happened with neither of 97 and 29 on the ice. Maybe it's less than that even.
It looks like the top guys might be ailing this week - possibly the flu has bit them. Draisaitl played the second least amount of minutes that he's played all season - which is odd given the fact the Oilers were trailing all game. Between the two of them, McDavid & Draisaitl only accounted for three shots tonight.
But it's worth noting that as long as there's no scoring from anyone but those guys, the strategy from other teams is just going to be to focus everything on stopping them (and avoiding penalties), because we're going to lose the game in the 36-41 minutes a night they're not on the ice.
It's not often you need to be concerned about a 7-2-1 team, but there is a lot of red flags here. If they're not addressed, it's going to be pretty easy to fritter away some early gains. I was disappointed the team elected not to play Gagner tonight. Hopefully this convinces Tippett of the error of his ways.
"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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