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 nullterm
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Location: Port Moody, BC
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| Steve wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 18:09 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 14:56 |
| Steve wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 14:55 |
McDavid and Drai are not to blame, certainly, but I do think that their presence has a psychological effect that can have a negative consequence on the team.
1) The GM thinks he can stock the rest of the roster with AHL players and still win because the stars will carry the team. Multiple McDavid years have been wasted for this reason alone.
2) The depth players think they don't need to score because the stars will do it for them.
3) The coach plays the hell out of the stars thinking that they can win the games by themselves.
These aren't conscious thoughts for those involved, but I think it has an effect. It takes leadership at all three levels to break the cycle. It's not all on the stars to fix these problems happening around them.
We saw the coaching change help last year, but I don't really want the coached changed every year. We may not have the best coaches, but I don't think they are the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the supporting cast. Kane, Nuge and Hyman are the type of support players we need, but we need more of them. On defense I didn't think we would miss Duncan Keith as much as we are, but it's been a massive black hole on left D behind Nurse.
The margins for winning in this league are small. The addition of Kane back from injury and a solid defensemen could make a big difference.
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I still think that "We miss Duncan Keith" is just the biggest myth going. The guy was atrocious in the playoffs. His lack of foot speed was constantly exposed and he was burned for many, many goals against. He's a minus player in that playoffs, and almost single-handedly lost us the one game against Los Angeles.
The defence has all underperformed this year, but I don't really think the difference maker is Keith, and I think the system flaws are still there whether he is or not. He might actually make it worse given that he can't skate any more.
If we REALLY believed we need his leadership, then they should just pay for a flight to get him to come hang out with the team and impart pearls of wisdom.
I do miss the cap credit we should have gotten from his retirement though. Stupid NHL.
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To be clear, I’m not a fan of Duncan Keith either, but I don’t think ‘addition by subtraction’ worked in his case. They still needed to replace him with a better player. They didn’t. Even with his deficiencies, his D position is worse today than it was this time last year.
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This is why I worry anytime anyone gets excited about getting rid of a player, because I look at the roster and very very rarely the Oilers have anyone even close to replacing those minutes at anywhere near the same level of play. And even rarer are they able to replace them at the snap of a finger like management and fans think they will. Freeing up cap is a guarentee of nothing.
The group ready to buy Barrie the next airline ticket out of town are the ones worrying me. We don't have anyone close to the positives he brings, they just see the deficiencies.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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