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Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37) [message #796931 is a reply to message #796927 ]	Wed, 05 January 2022 16:59

Adam
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Kr55 wrote on Wed, 05 January 2022 16:34

Basically we need a goalie that has unwavering confidence, which is maybe a few guys in the entire NHL. Mike Smith may be one, but could be because he is so old he doesn't give 2 craps.

Or, we could be a team that doesn't grind down the confidence of every goalie we have that isn't one of 2 or 3 in the NHL with unwavering confidence.

I choose #1. Let's try to find one of the few goalies in the NHL that just plays their best no matter what crap is happening and trade Drai for them. And we'll probably grind that guy down into nothing too still and dump him as a loser in a few years, but at least we tried.

I took a soccer course in University with some of my free credits. It was a fun one - I actually liked it a lot better than the hockey course I took that was taught by some OHL burn-out. The soccer class had a lot of on-field stuff, but there was also an element of coaching theory. One of the things that was brought up was how hard you can ride a player is inversely related to the pressure of their position. If you're a striker, you can be a bit of a whipping boy over your mistakes, because you're getting no immediate negative results other than that. You make a dumb play and the other team still has to go through 10 other guys. Goalies get their negative stimuli immediately after they make an error - it's a goal against and the other team is celebrating and they're the goat. And not in the Pele sense of GOAT either. The theory was that it made sense to be a little more reticent to yell and scream and point fingers at the 'tender for this reason. That's not to say that they're immune from criticism, it's just that you don't need to really lay in to them because the immediate sting of that mistake isn't something they likely forgot.

Tippett apparently understands at least some of this. Here's what he said about goalie mistakes today:

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“Goaltenders, when they make mistakes, it has an impact on the game. We’re a struggling team, and those are mistakes that ... affect the outcome of the game,” Tippett said Wednesday in Toronto. “When a winger makes a mistake, you never notice it. A centre? A little more. A defenceman? A little more. And goaltenders? They’re front and centre. It has an impact on the game. There’s a frustration around our team.”

But apparently he never understood the other side of that equation though. I also think it's again glaring how differently he treats different players. Mike Smith has had a lot of stinker games in an Edmonton Oilers uniform and I don't remember him ever even just saying his favourite goalie had an off-night. Smith lost a game the Oilers scored five times in last week with some incredibly weak goals against. What were his comments that night?

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"Rollercoaster game. I thought we started well, and then we take a penalty and boom, it's in our net. We get one right back, give one back again, and then between a so-called challenge that wasn't a challenge, I think four of the six goals against us were at some point deflected and bounced in the right direction."

"It's one of those games where a lot of bounces were going the other way. You just have to stick with it. We had some guys play very well tonight and some guys put in really good efforts. We've got to stay with that and go into tomorrow the same way."

Smith let in a stinker very early in that one, and then another weak goal in OT to give the game away. It's a shame for Koskinen that he's not one of the coach's guys.

Good news though - someone else is!

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Daniel Nugent-Bowman
@DNBsports
Dave Tippett was asked today who is keeping the team together. He first said the leadership group. “You know who’s been really good? Duncan Keith’s been really good. His veteran leadership is really strong. On the bench during games, in between periods, it’s been really good.”

"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
~~#FireLowe~~ #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky

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Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Adam on Wed, 05 January 2022 16:26
Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Kr55 on Wed, 05 January 2022 16:34
Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Adam on Wed, 05 January 2022 16:59
Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Kr55 on Wed, 05 January 2022 17:40
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