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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 03 January 2023 23:23 |
| clutchlikeeberle wrote on Tue, 03 January 2023 21:49 |
Wish I took the bet, when I said in October this team wouldn't make the playoffs. They are terrible. Lack of Leadership is showing through. Anyone who thinks Keith and Smith didn't bring locker room accountability have to be stupid. This is a sad sack of players. 97 and 29 won't be pleased when they meet with Holland when they clear out lockers while others are preping for the post season.
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You sound like someone who doesn't remember what last December and January was like. Keith and Smith were not the problem then and they're not what's missing now.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/EDM/2022_games.html
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I sure hope Ken Holland knows this. I could definitely see him working the phones furiously trying to land some guy on his last legs to "add leadership" to the room.
I am concerned about Jay Woodcroft and I wonder what happened to the innovative leadership we saw last year. He just seems like a different coach - like the old coaches who preceded him, actually.
Not only is he returning to the McDavid/Draisaitl combo whenever we trail in a game, but it feels like they're almost calling the shots. There was one shift in the third period that had to be over 2 minutes, with both players jumping up in to one more rush late, late in that shift. I know they're both horses, but the team is vulnerable when people take too long shifts, and wouldn't everyone be better served if they're hopping off at the 1 minute mark, and then after 45-60 seconds on the bench you send them back out if you want to see them get more chances to tie it? I think you would and I think it sends a better message, because if Puljujarvi or Hamblin or even Derek Ryan took a 2 minute plus shift with multiple opportunities to change, you know that the coach would be irate.
I get it from 97 and 29's perspective. They just feel that they need to get it done if it's going to get done...no one else ever steps up for the Oilers...but the coach needs to get their buy-in that he's going to do right by them. He did a good job last year getting everyone else to feel like they were part of this too - we need him to do that again, but the rules can't be different for a couple of the guys for that to work. They'll get more playing time, but they can't just take whatever time they want themselves.
Also - Manson had done such a good job with the defencemen in the AHL. I'm curious what he's doing this year. It's just a mess. Again - I do think that there may be a bit of a problem with different rules for different players.
I wonder how much of that is direction from the GM...
"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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