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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| mightyreasoner wrote on Wed, 02 December 2020 15:40 |
I guess we could also pick the season before where McDavid and Draisaitl were #1 and #2 in league scoring and the Oilers missed the playoffs if we want a larger sample size. Or the season before where they were 1st and 30th and missed the playoffs.
The forward depth has improved since then. The defense has some legitimate prospects in Bear and Jones (with Broberg and Bouchard). The defensive core (Klefbom, Larsson, Nurse, Russell) has remained largely the same.
Bear and Barrie are legitimate additions to the Top-4. Maybe Jones too. Not sure you would consider any of them top-pairing players. Maybe Bear.
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While I agree that the loss of Klefbom is a big one and that we will miss him, I don't think it's the biggest hole on the team and I'm less concerned with the defence than I am with the other one we didn't change at all. Goalie is where the Oilers have fallen flat the most over the last two years and it edged out poor coaching decisions for the biggest reason the Oilers blew it in the summer's playoff round.
Defence - we do have Bear and Jones ready to play a larger role. That helps significantly. If Russell is playing less, we're better. Benning is a loss, but not a big one and maybe is replaced by Barrie and/or Bouchard. If Bouchard is really an impact player, this is the point where he should be ready to make the jump. He tied for 2nd in scoring on the Condors last year, so there's some up arrows. It's time for him to show it at the NHL level.
Only challenge for him will be that the team just put Barrie in to the mix, and he's likely to play a very similar role.
The defence could be challenged by a declining Larsson, an over-used Russell, and growing pains from young players - but it's not the weakest spot on the team. I think not only is it stronger than the goaltending (by far the worst weakness for the team), it also is stronger than the team's bottom six forwards. The team still is missing at least one top six forward too, which means that we're playing someone up the lineup who probably should be a third or fourth liner. It's far from a perfect roster, but I really think defence isn't the worst part of it - even with Klefbom missing.
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