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Re: Review: Montreal @ Edmonton (Game #4) [message #772804 is a reply to message #772799 ]	Tue, 19 January 2021 11:45

Adam
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RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 19 January 2021 11:21

I am really disappointed with the effort of the star players in that game and the effort of the star players for 3 out of 4 of the games. People can talk until their blue in the face of the importance of depth. Yes depth is important. Yes you need decent players on your 3rd and 4th lines. Yes you need decent players in your 3rd pairing defense but at the end of the day, if your star players, the guys who make all the money and get all the ice time play like crap, you won't win very often. For 3 out of the first 4 games, most of the Oilers stars have been mostly lousy.

Leon: Game 1, I thought he was really good and unlucky not to score more. Game 2, he was excellent. Games 3 and 4, he's been lousy. The difference between how good he was game 1 and 2 vs 3 and 4 is night and day.

McD: Game 1, I thought he was just OK at times but I expected him to be better and look like he was in game 2. Game 2, he was out of this world. Game 3 and 4 he sucked. No sugar coating he, McD sucked in those 2 games. According to some of the stats guys, last night he wasn't in on a single scoring chance, not 1. How a guy that fast and that skilled can't generate a single scoring chance baffles me. I don't expect McD to look like how he looked game 2, there is the other team trying to stop him BUT the difference between game 2 vs 3 and 4 is shocking to me and it wasn't all because the Habs are gods gift to defensive hockey.

Nuge: He was lousy game 1, looked good game 2 and sucked game 3 and 4. The question I have for him is did Nuge actually look good game 2 or was it because McD was so freaking good game 2, that it made Nuge look good. I am a Nuge fan, I want him to stay to end his career but if Nuge thinks he's a 7+ mill player, it's laughable because what these games have shown to me is just how complimentary he truly is. He's still a really good player but he is not a guy who can elevate a line so he shouldn't be paid like that. He NEEDS others to be good so they can drag him along so he can be good. If that wasn't the case, he'd be able to make some kind of plays even if McD isn't going guns a blazing which he hasn't. He's done nothing just like McD.

Those 3 combined make 27 mill which accounts for 33% of the total cap. If those 3 aren't playing at least decent every night, you won't win. Their PP has sucked because those 3 have sucked. That isn't an Oilers thing, that is a every team thing. Guess what, if Matthews, Tavares and Marner all played as bad as those 3 have the last 2 games at least, the Leafs with all their "depth" wouldn't win.

I can't get furious at the three guys who've carried tihs team on their back consistently over the last couple years. They're going to have the occasional off-game, and teams are going to focus entirely on them.

Sometimes your depth has to help out, and it's not doing that so far. Defence has been shaky, goaltending has been shaky.

I'm not blaming the stars for this. Could they be better? Yes, but they will be. Everything else is an actual question mark.

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