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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Oscargasm wrote on Fri, 20 December 2019 11:40 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 20 December 2019 12:28 |
Nuge had good success with McDavid setting him up last year. Perhaps if that happens, they will leave McDavid and Leon apart. I think long term, they are a better team if they separate them.
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I realize I’m likely in the minority with this thought however, you know how we often hear that the Oilers need a 3C? I’m of the thinking we need a 2C and a 3C. Sheahan is a good 4C and PKer, McDavid obviously a 1C. Drai seems a better winger and you can’t deny the chemistry he and McDavid have.
Nuge is not defensively responsible enough for the 2C role and without capable wingers he’s a more expensive (and more offensive) Yak. (Maybe not THAT extreme but... I just said it).
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I like Nuge on the wing. He is not consistent enough to be a top 6 C. Maybe he gets there one day, but he still isn't. His playmaking 5v5 is weak as well. He needs to play with a playmaker and he needs to primarily be a shooter on his line. You put him with guys like Chaisson and Neal and you should expect not much to happen. Nuge can't set them up, and they can't set up Nuge. It's just 3 guys with minimal ability to create anything with passing.
Although, funny enough, in the 100 minutes Neal-Nuge-Chaisson were together, they actually had good analytics :) and 50% GF which is the stuff of miracles for a line without McDAvid on this team. Still, I stand by that if you left that line together longer, it would be just as meh as most of what we put in the bottom 9.
[Updated on: Fri, 20 December 2019 12:34]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
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