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Magnum wrote on Wed, 28 November 2018 11:44

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Magnum wrote on Tue, 27 November 2018 22:18

He sounds like he’s actually assessing the game and individual situations, with awareness and thoughts on solving the problems.



I hope it continues, it was always going to happen a new coach coming in and making assessments, but after the settling in period stops so does the assessment and we get back to cliche filled press interviews. I like the fact that he's taking some responsibility already for both Spooner and PJ.





His answers are fairly technical, which makes his comments far more objective.

It feels weird. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to handle someone in the Oilers organization operating like this.


It's pretty cool, I'm learning a bit more about positional play and player analysis. Very cool.


We will see how it goes. McLellan loved to dissect individual plays, and Hitch seems a bit more high level, although I hope he’s more careful than McLellan about what he says in to the microphones. I don’t think it’s helpful to have a coach acknowledging player flaws and faults to the press. It helps other teams with pre-scouting if it’s honest, and player corrections just don’t need to be public. I’d rather a coach combatively contest even the most obvious shortcomings of his players when asked about them by media than to give us long well thought out explanations of what a guy does wrong.

As for the game, I didn’t like the teams reliance on long shots. It looked like the game plan was shoot from anywhere, which is seemed really pointless. There were so many shots from far outside the danger zone and the Dallas ‘keeper wasn’t having trouble with any of them. Hopefully that was simply because they wanted to test an unproven netminder and not a feature of the system that we are going to be treated to on any regular basis.

Nice to get the win, although I’d love to see the team stop surrendering points to conference rivals in every match.



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