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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| nullterm wrote on Wed, 18 June 2025 12:28 |
Does McDavid need a Yzerman reinvention of himself?
... and Draisatl?
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Anyone who thinks that McDavid and Draisaitl are the issue is a complete idiot. They are the reason we're in the finals. Both made many good defensive plays during the post-season and they also led the league in playoff scoring for the second straight year.
The Yzerman stuff is completely overplayed anyhow - he surprisingly started winning when the Red Wings actually put a decent team around him. No matter how well he played two-ways in his early career, he wasn't going to win Cups. He didn't have the team.
The Oilers have not built a great team. The depth has been paper thin, and they keep just signing people well in to the back-nine of their career, most of whom are light on the offence that they bring. We have a starting goalie who's been repeatedly pulled in every playoffs he's been in - and the Oilers decided that they wouldn't make any changes to that position - leaving the second option as another guy who's only playoff experience has come in his 30s when relieving Stuart Skinner.
They made moves at the deadline - and Walman was a decent pickup, but they hardly maximized there. Florida's adds were way more consequential and played a much bigger role.
We had a constant issue with health this year - playing injured players over and over, with really poor results. We saw that too in the post-season. We have guys who there's a question whether they were really the best option given health.
The coaching in the finals was all fear-driven. They didn't want mistakes. As McDavid said last night they wanted to see if they could win some 2-1 games. Why??? Is that what we should be striving for? Risks are an essential part of the game, and when you play too conservative, it's hard to get and build leads. And we saw the results.
This team has a lot of issues. The biggest is whether the management is actually any better than the GMs who've come before and whether they can remodel this team over the summer to find a way to get us over the hump (hopefully including a McDavid signing). The coaching needs to be better. We need depth players who can contribute at above fourth liner abilities. We need defence that isn't porous, and that has enough depth that it can handle an ill-timed injury. And we need goaltending.
McDavid and Draisaitl? Those aren't the problems.
"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
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