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Adam Messages: 6881
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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Goose wrote on Mon, 07 March 2022 10:48 |
I think under the new coaching staff the Oilers are at least close to maximizing their roster right now (although I'm not a huge fan of Woodcroft basically only playing 3 fwd lines - maybe this is how he's signaling to Holland to call up Marody), but they're still not a great team. I think if Woodcroft had been the HC from the start of the season, the Oilers are probably solidly in a playoff spot right now. As it is it looks like is going to come right down to the wire.
And while I don't think that Flames are elite right now (I think the 4 elite teams in the league are Colorado, Florida, Tampa and Carolina), but Calgary is right below them. Of course, McDavid could score 4 tonight and then it's all irrelevant
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The deployment is interesting and I wonder how much of it is situational. He started out playing at least 10 forwards decent amount of minutes and reducing some of the minutes for the top guys, but those have rebounded and he's been using at times as few as 8 forwards for over 10 minutes. McDavid's been back up around 22 minutes and Draisaitl at 24 with some PK duties.
But the injuries have taken a toll on the roster and for some reason everytime someone goes down, Holland's been calling up another grinder. Marody, Griffiths or Holloway would probably be better options.
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