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Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55) [message #730180 is a reply to message #730175 ]	Sun, 10 February 2019 08:50

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Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 10 February 2019 01:06

ziltoid wrote on Sat, 09 February 2019 23:14

Skookum Jim wrote on Sat, 09 February 2019 23:04

Hitch calls it. Article from Staples.

Quote:

Hitchcock told reporters that the Oilers had as many odd man rushes as San Jose, but the Oilers can’t do that, as San Jose has all kinds of players who can finish off a play.

“When you put skill in ahead of work, you get burnt. And there’s just too much of that going on. And I don’t know.

“We didn’t even give ourselves a fighting chance. The game was over. When you turn it over that many times and you make casual plays like that, you give yourself no chance. We did it on the first, second goal.. we did it on the fourth goal.

“I don’t have the answers but we can’t play this way and actually expect to win hockey games, not at this time of year, quite frankly ever, maybe in an exhibition game. For the players it has to be really unacceptable to play that way with so much, to be able to move two or three points within seven and eight, to play this way, it just can’t be acceptable.

“We can’t do the things we’re doing to ourselves and expect to be playoff team.”

On Leon Draisaitl’s weak backcheck on San Jose’s second goal, Hitchcock described it as a “symptom of something of much bigger. To me, it’s priorities and it’s what’s important. I mean, look at the fifth goal, it was a change goal, we just dribbling went to the bench (again this was Draisaitl), turned it over in the neutral zone and just walked to the bench and changed. It just can’t be acceptable.”

Hitchcock then went nuclear: “At this time of year, the coaches can’t want it more than the players. That is number one. At the end of the day, it’s going to be decided whether we want to play the right way cause it’s successful, or whether we just want to do our thing. And to me today was a game we just wanted to do our thing and paid dearly for it.

“I mean, how many times did we lose board battles in the offensive zone where we had size advantage and they walked right off of the boards and ended up exiting. That’s just flat determination… It just happens too many times. That is work. This is a second and third effort league. And it’s a league of discipline, especially between the bluelines and when you do what we do, and to me this is typical of what’s gone on in four of the last six games, especially at home.”

This is a direct result of management. McDavid, Drai, Nuge, etc. are fully aware that they are carrying the team, and that management has given them nothing in terms of a supporting cast. At some point the frustration is going to boil over and they are going to give in to the futility of it all and just ride out the season.

I haven't seen even a hint of quit or frustration in McD, or RNH. IMHO LD disengages way too often for a guy that's supposed to help lead the team.
The part that bothers me the most is exactly what Hitch said about the board battles, it doesn't take elite skill to win a board battle, many of the Oilers problems start and end with lost board battles, they lose them getting a puck out of their own end, they lose them in the opponent's end allowing breakouts against, and they lose them in the middle of the ice trying to move the puck up .. often going back the other way, out numbered against.
It used to be that the team's players were small and/or Belanger-like, now they have teh size, but refuse to use it.

Nobody, except for a few guys, finishes a check, ever. They actually seem to avoid contact.

Leon has an off night and McDavid doesn't get a point. Oilers lose. They need some help.

Watching this game it was evident that our talent level is so thin compared to the Sharks.

I don't like to single out players but.........Wow.

Brodziak, Reider, Manning, Gravel.

You can't sit them all and they aren't going to get much in a trade but man what a pile of inability and extreme detriment to this team.

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Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: OilFans on Sat, 09 February 2019 19:30
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: g2k on Sat, 09 February 2019 19:42
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Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Oscargasm on Sat, 09 February 2019 19:52
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Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Oscargasm on Sat, 09 February 2019 19:48
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Oscargasm on Sat, 09 February 2019 20:52
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Ragnarok73 on Sat, 09 February 2019 21:02
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Skookum Jim on Sat, 09 February 2019 23:04
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: ziltoid on Sun, 10 February 2019 00:14
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Skookum Jim on Sun, 10 February 2019 01:06
Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: stotto on Sun, 10 February 2019 08:50
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Re: Review: San Jose @ Edmonton (Game #55)	By: Oscargasm on Mon, 11 February 2019 17:18
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