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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Goose wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 15:49 |
| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 14:38 |
Those stats are elevated this year too because of Drai's heater at the start of the year which gets lumped with the "without McDavid" stats. When McDrai were put on the same line around half way through, the "without McDavid" stats absolutely cratered. And of course we decided that was the smart way to go in the playoffs. 3/4 of your lines getting owned every night.
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This is the infuriating part. We know that McDavid and Draisaitl will score more than they will give up. The pp right now is one of the best units we've seen in a generation so the special teams is going to be a plus. All we need is a bottom 6 that is remotely competent and the Oilers will be one of the best teams in the league (goaltending aside), and instead we're stuck with bringing back one of the worst groups in the league.
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We've gone through 10+ years now of the Oilers thinking the Bottom 6 needs to be all specialists and that at least 4-5 of them need to be seen as "excellent penalty killers". Never mind that I think system is as important or more than personnel on the PK, if these guys get 10 minutes a game and 8 of them are even strength, then that is more important than the 2 minutes of penalty killing.
The weird thing in this "copycat league" is that the Oilers don't really bother copying the winners, not really. The Blackhawks won Cups with guys like Andrew Ladd, Dustin Byfuglien and Teuvo Teravainen in their bottom six forwards. Those guys have all gone on to be pretty impact players elsewhere - but they were great at outplaying the depth of other teams while with the 'Hawks.
The Oilers themselves had success with that in 1990 - the Kid Line was the fourth line and they generally weren't killing penalties, nor were they there just to try to stay level and throw a few hits. They helped us win series that year.
It's so clearly a flawed approach, and yet somehow the team is completely married to it and has continued to go that way even as they've shifted GMs. I'd love if someone could explain that stubbornness.
"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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