 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 19 December 2019 09:45 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 19 December 2019 08:18 |
| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 18 December 2019 21:34 |
More annoying thing about games like this is how the GWG against is the kind of goal we pretty much never score. No team let's our guys walk into the slot right in front of our goalie like that for 1-timers from a guy passing behind the net. This team remains pretty darn leaky defensively. I don't mean to just pick on McDavid either who just decided to not care on that one. Lots of guys on this team do that. Still waiting on Tippett to get this team fully mentally engaged, if it's possible. Maybe it's not.
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It isn't just McDavid, it's all the big guys. Leon had moments in the Leafs game where he did fly byes. The best "2 way forward" on the team, walks on water Nuge had moments where he didn't pick up his man that caused goals or good chances. Coasting into the zone and not picking up your man has nothing to do with who are your wingers. Those moments can't happen. Early in the season when the Oilers were playing really well and got off to their good start, those things didn't happen. They have come back. Until the big boys clean that up, the results won't improve.
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I think the huge minutes LD and McD have been pulling is starting to catch up with them, and showing at times, maybe not just physically but mentally, they'll be good, this is where the Toby Cup contenders should be carrying the load at times during these games that is missing, other teams have it, Oil do not.
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O'Reilly played over 23 mins last night. You don't see O'Reilly coasting into the defensive zone letting his man skate freely to the net. It would have taken McDavid maybe 2 strides to be shoulder to shoulder with his man to lift his stick, instead he coasted into the zone. It's not like his man snuck in behind. He saw him all the way.
In my opinion, playing lots has nothing to do with not picking up your man or not getting the puck in deep or all the little mistakes that cost the Oilers. It's a mindset. It's a commitment to doing it every single time. It's not flying the zone to try to get a stretch pass, it's waiting that extra second to make sure the puck gets out. It's no trying to deke through 2 guys late in a shift when your linemates are changing because you can do it sometimes. It's get the puck in deep. It's not flinging a hope pass out into the slot trying to put it through 3 defenders where if it works, holy man will that be a highlight goal. It's putting it into the corner if you have too and live to fight another day. All these things we see the Oilers best players do time and time again. We don't just see them at the end of the night, it's early in the game and all times in between.
The Oilers do have flaws in their line up but if they as an entire team which includes McDavid and Leon committed to doing all the little things every single time, they have shown they can stay in games with any team. Then with 2 top 10 players in the world on your team, you have a chance to win every game because most teams can't match up man for man with them skill wise with those 2. But it's a mindset, you have to want to do it every play and it starts with 97 & 29. If those 2 commit to playing the right way every single time, the rest will follow.
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By: OilFans on Wed, 18 December 2019 21:00 |
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