 RDOilerfan
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| Adam wrote on Thu, 19 May 2022 11:23 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 19 May 2022 11:08 |
So it's Nuge's wingers fault on that second goal? Go watch the play. The wingers aren't involved nor should they be involved.
I am not saying Nuge was the only reason the Oilers lost but there is Exhibit A of a lack of engagement by the Oilers and an unwillingness to play the game hard that is 100% a requirement for the playoffs. When you default to the soft play, you lose every time. A guy who has been on the team for 11 yrs and supposedly is sick of losing as much as Nuge says he is, shouldn't be the one doing that crap. But it's golden boy Nuge who does no wrong so it's someone else's fault of course.
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I know you hate Nuge. It's okay.
I didn't mention the second goal at all. There were a lot of mistakes by a lot of players last night, and they pretty much all ended in the back of our net. I'm not Todd McLellan, so I'm not going to go through each one, break them down and assign blame.
Every player is going to have giveaways at some point, and some result in goals. We shouldn't be evaluating players based on single high profile plays. That's how mistakes are made.
Nugent-Hopkins is a big piece on this team, and he needs to be put in a position to be successful, especially if he is going to take relatively hard minutes - which is pretty much assured with Draisaitl injured and McLeod a rookie who hasn't yet shown he can do anything close to what Nuge can.
If you're playing with inadequate, out-matched wingers, it hampers what the line is capable of. Because Archibald sucks hard at puck retrieval, we get next to zero zone time with him. That means that we're always playing in our zone or the neutral zone, so any turnovers are going to be more glaring. It also tends to be more exhausting.
I think that the weaker wingers also necessitate more off-the-glass-and-out plays, which again, cede control to the opposition and result in more defending.
At no point have I said that Nugent-Hopkins is playing his best hockey, but I think he needs to be in a position to succeed and giving him Archibald and Ryan isn't the route.
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I don't hate Nuge what so ever. That's a completely made up lie on your part. I just don't give the guy a free pass like many Oilers fans do.
He's an 11 yr Oiler, the longest serving Oiler, he is one of the main guys that set the standard as to how the team plays and what is acceptable. The play on that goal is not acceptable if you want to be a winning team. If this was his first year and first playoff game, then I could let it slip. It's not. He's been in the league for 11 yrs, he's supposed to know better. The Oilers have decided that he is one of the guys they want around showing the way for anyone who becomes an Oiler for the next 7 more years. That's not acceptable. If it was a bad read or you didn't see/expect a defender and you made a bad pass for a goal against, I can accept that. Mistakes happen.
He made a choice not to engage. He made a choice to try and make the easy way work when the harder way is the only way that works. That isn't me "hating" on poor untouchable Nuge, that's voicing frustration at a player who should know better and who is a guy that young players like a McLeod will look too for guidance. McLeod isn't blessed with McD abilities, a more realistic goal for McLeod is a Nuge type player who can be decent at both ends of the ice. I expect better from an 11 yr player.
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