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K.McC#24 Messages: 2827
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
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Well, thats it for this spring, where at the end of the regular season, the Oilers arguably iced the best team they've had in over 30 years. All for nothing.
So many things went wrong for the Oilers in this series, but I still favored them in game 6. Didn't happen. Just couldn't find any consistent play in the series or the playoffs.
You have to do several things right and get breaks to get to the conference finals and beyond and the Oilers didn't do enough right or get many breaks.
- When 97 and 29 were nullified pretty well at different points, they got very little from their top 6 wingers 5v5. Nuge, Kane, Hyman, Yamamoto. I thought guys like Kostin did quite a bit with very limited ice time, but Woodcroft never elevated anyone else into the top 6, or dropped some skill down with bottom 6 guys who were going. The Oilers I think probably move on from KY.
- The back end had few answers for Vegas. Nurse and Ceci were abysmal. Nurse should be a stud, but the brain isn't there alongside the physical gifts. Too bad that contract is such a significant miss. He should be somewhat embarrassed that Ekholm had to be ridden like a rented mule. Ceci is just in over his head. In the d zone, I don't know what was up systemically, but not sure a high puck flip to the neutral zone constitutes an effective breakout. Vegas had the edge in terms of competence on the back end.
- In the last couple games, you can point to moments where a key stop would have made a big difference. Vegas got significantly better goaltending, from a guy who had to have planets align to be on an NHL club. Starting Skinner again in game 6 backfired on Woody.
- I also think that the Oilers weren't prepared for game 1 of the series, and didn't have a systemic answer 5v5 for Vegas, or the Vegas puck pressure. Woodcroft wears some of that.
In the end, Vegas deserved this series as a team more than the Oilers. There were crappy things that broke against the Oilers, but it came down to Vegas doing the right things way more consistently. Vegas can get fecked, though. I don't care what happens in the playoffs going forward, otherwise.
These guys aren't going to ever win playoff hardware until they defend better as a team, stop more pucks, and respond systemically earlier in series. Pretty disappointing, but I can't say I'm not used to it.
Have a good summer, everyone.
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