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Adam Messages: 6837
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Kr55 wrote on Mon, 17 August 2020 21:30 | I tend to agree with this assessment:
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey /greatest-failing-of-edmonton-oilers-in-2020-playoffs-nhl-co mmentator-nails-it
Basically that our D are not good enough to allow our forwards to be flying the zone, looking for stretch passes or one of our D to be skating the puck out of the zone. No kidding...but we didn't seem to want to acknowledge this.
I keep looking back at what the Pens did when they switched from Bylsma(king of the endless stretch passes)/Johnston to Sullivan. He made those forwards stay in the zone and help out the D. Grinding to win back pucks, ensuring guys were open to give their D multiple options. This was especially a must for their 2nd win as they had a whole bunch of mediocre D playing every night with Letang out. But, worked out fine. A guy like Lovejoy never missed a beat.
Obviously the Pens forwards were a lot deeper, hence being able to win a cup with a mediocre D group. Not really expecting that from this team. But, I do at least expect us to play to our strengths, and making guys like Nurse try to make 2 zone passes all night, or even 40 ft passes to guys camping near the blue line...it's just dumb and we paid for being stretched out in our zone looking for winning back pucks and starting the transition to always come easy.
Obviously the best way to fix this is to actually get some good D that can make good passes under pressure. Badly need at least Bouchard to pan out soon.
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Is that it though? Tippett does have his forwards in fairly deep. It's one of the reasons that they were so bad at stopping point shots - they wingers were being asked to play fairly deep in our zone, with all five players below the top of the circles for much of the time.
I do agree that puck-movement from the back-end is a challenge. Larsson isn't great, Nurse skates well, but he doesn't make great passes regularly. Russell can only be counted for on a d-to-d pass...Anything forward goes off the glass for him. Bear struggled in this series, but he's a young defender.
Jones and Benning were actually pretty solid in limited minutes. Jones shot share stats were very highly tilted in the Oilers favour. I think that Tippett overplayed his top couple pairs and underplayed the third pairing despite results.
Worth noting - the Oilers outshot and outchanced the Blackhawks through the series, so it's not really fair to suggest we can't play with them. We did. We also scored well throughout the series too - enough goals that our players were sitting 1st, 2nd and 5th in scoring...but we just let in a lot of goals to the point where our goalies had the worst team save percentage and goals against average in the playoffs...
"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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