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Adam wrote on Sat, 08 August 2020 14:41

Kr55 wrote on Sat, 08 August 2020 14:22

travgwhite wrote on Sat, 08 August 2020 02:14

I wish we had played this team like we played Calgary. Aggressive and hitting. We played the way a small team needed us to. Usually we crash and bang and then loose pucks go in cause Drai or McDavid pounce. We are out because we tried to be fancy.


Nurse gave that in a quote, that the game they played with the most intensity was vs Calgary. Almost would have been better if they lost that game. Their first game against Chicago was a clown show.


Moving my response to this so as not to clutter the thread about when we win Lafreniere.

Koskinen was really good against Calgary. I'm still just at a loss as to what Tippett was thinking in this series. He really failed:

- Starting Smith was a terrible decision. Leaving him in to get destroyed for 5 goals in under half a game was even worse.

- Where were the adjustments? I understand that this is a tougher playoff to adjust in than usual, but we were getting killed with point shots and the Oilers didn't modify their approach. They were passive rather than pressuring the puck carrier there, and they seemed more intent on trying to have the defence block than the forwards...that seems a recipe for disaster. You can't be square to the shooter AND cover the guy in front of the net.

- We didn't adapt our powerplay to deal with what adjustments Chicago was making - they were very high pressure and the Oilers efficacy dropped as a result. The team seemed to just try to continue doing what they'd been doing and it stopped working. Not only was their powerplay less deadly in scoring later in the series, but they weren't getting as many shots and were getting more often disrupted.

Frustrating.


Yeah, whole series our forwards were in no mans land in an area between the points and the front of the net. It was just so ridiculously easy for Chicago to not only get point shows through near the net, but then they also had forwards open around the net to try tips and look for rebounds. The D were all obsessed with blocking shots rather than tying guys up and making sure the goalies could see shots. Forwards seemed to enjoy getting out the popcorn and standing around our D behind out net too, leaving lots of chances for wide open guys in front of the net.

Did they just totally forget how to play defense during the break? I swear we were not THIS bad during the season. But, maybe we were, and Chicago did a good job scouting us and building a game plan to exploit our bad habits. In the end, we never figured out what we were doing wrong.

PP for sure got figured out. The cute stuff between Nuge and Klef. They started to just ignore our guy on the right wall and looking for the little plays on the left side, and boy did that start to work well for them. We just kept on trying it.

Was there just some collective mentality by our team that Chicago should have been easy to beat?



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