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Kr55 Messages: 9859
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Adam wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 17:19 |
Kr55 wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 15:30 |
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Adam wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 15:04 |
inverno76 wrote on Wed, 10 March 2021 14:03 | I feel like we are giving up two pints tonight. Just a gut feeling. I’m keeping my Oilers 4-1 score prediction.
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Nah! Draisaitl is due for a breakout performance.
Nuge too. (Who I think it totally capable of carrying a top-2 C role, since he's done it his entire career).
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Life has been hard for the Nuge without McDrai.
Since the start of 2015/16:
CF%: 47.4%
FF%: 47.3%
SF%: 47%
GF%: 44.75%
xGF%: 45.6%
OZ faceoff%: 49.11%
Most likely just another line McDrai need to make up for with spectacular play. Nuge off to a rough start with a -2 last game, so many he's due for a goal tonight.
I like the Nuge, out of principle largely. Still think he's a winger. And...maybe his money is better spent on an actual elite winger so we don't have to keep going back to McDrai. Pretty disappointed in Tippett here to be honest. 3 bad games and he just panics and goes full McLellan, and I guess all kinds of conclusions of what can work long term can be made from 3 games vs Ottawa?
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McDavid/Draisaitl are absolutely dominant on the ice though. I don't hate seeing it - even if just for a short stretch.
I don't think you can blame Nugent-Hopkins or his line for the -2 last game. First shot should just never go in. No mistakes from anyone but the goalie there...it was a weak shot from far out at a bad angle.
Second one, it's another long shot, and one that tips off Barrie's stick to go in on the far side. Both of those are low percentage plays that just worked out well for Ottawa.
Sucks for the line out there, but those aren't hard-earned minuses.
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Yeah hard to blame Nuge in isolation last game. Generally though, he's just not a player that drives much of the play. Has always needed a linemate better than him to consistently make things happen. That responsibility lays with Pulju I guess.
McDrai is definitely fun, but we've seen a lot of it over the year, and it rarely has led to consistent success.
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I think Nuge can be fine. Eberle/Pouliot and him were a really solid line other than the final season here. He has been overshadowed a bit by playing with Hall, Draisaitl and McDavid a lot of his career, and I think sometimes he plays a little too conservatively without those others out there (although I think that was by design in the McLellan days - I think only the first line ever had the green light to push).
It would be nice if we had one more high end forward. We've got two elite forwards, and one in that second tier in Nuge. After that, Yamamoto and Puljujarvi are on the next tier down and it's a ways down to the next guy.
One more on the Nuge level would leave a really strong top six.
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Eberle could drive play. Nuge...just never has, like, ever. Probably sounds like I'm hating on the Nuge as he's close to leaving, but I've had the same complaint about him for a long time. Nuge is a winger. Best asset is his shot 5v5 ;)
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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