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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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bcurlock @bcurlock
The Edmonton Oilers have three of the top eleven scorers in the NHL.
At 5x5 those three players are -1 in GF/GA.
I hi-light 5x5 because of its importance late in the regular season and the playoffs.
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This is another area that got better under Woody last year, but has now reverted to problems. The best players on the team aren't even outscoring the opposition at even strength. They're relying entirely on the powerplay to save the day, and we know that we won't get those opportunities in the playoffs - at least not to the same extent. The fact that the PK is also bad even erases some of our advantage at special teams.
This is an area that has declined during the last decade or so. Even with Taylor Hall, the Oilers had the same issues around depth, but they made up for it in part because Hall's line was typically pretty dominant at even strength. When they were off the ice we were terrible, and the special teams were all bad in those days, with the rotating cast of coaches all struggling to figure out even where to put Hall to be effective, while trying to set up Eberle as the trigger man much of the time. But at even strength, when our top line was on the ice, we had the puck a lot of the time, and generated chances.
McDavid and Draisaitl haven't had that lately - I think in part because they take too long on the ice too often, and our transition game is pretty flawed if the puck isn't in McDavid's possession.
"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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