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 Adam
Messages: 6930
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Mon, 04 April 2022 16:07 |
| Adam wrote on Sun, 03 April 2022 20:44 |
I am really, really happy to have Tippett gone and no more of the Oilers calling off the dogs whenever we get a couple goal lead. The killer instinct is great to see.
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How different does that game go if we start going into a shell with a 1 or 2 goal lead? Even 2-0 one bad goal against and we go into our panic mode. We had some lull periods in that game where things could have got ugly if the game got tight and we were on our heels already.
Such a nice buffer you can build if when you actually keep attacking when your team is playing well, regardless of the score.
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You can really see it in the shot counts in some of these games, even where the Oilers don't score as much as they did last night. They keep pouring on the pressure, and that keeps teams on their back foot. McDavid and Draisaitl are so dangerous that you have to respect them if they are looking for more offence. When the team sat back, that wasn't always so.
It's refreshing to see. I think the Oilers fluked in to a good coaching tandem here, and I have to say, I'm pretty nervous about the team's unwillingness to extend them so far. Take that in to the summer and I just don't have faith that the team will make the right choice if they search for someone else. We'll likely just end up with another old coach with name recognition if they do that.
Fingers crossed they do the right thing with found money.
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