 RDOilerfan
Messages: 3908
Registered: January 2016
3 Cups
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I get that it's Ottawa but Ottawa came out and played HARD. They really wanted to win this one. I actually really like this win because it was a win where both McD and Leon weren't very good in my opinion. I thought both top 6 lines really didn't do a hell of a lot. This was a win won by the bottom 6, mostly the Khaira line, the defense and the goalie. When a person describes the Oilers and points out the pros and cons of the line up, the bottom 6, defense and goalie usually would not be in the pros. I read that the Oilers had not won a game in which McD and Leon went pointless since Nov 2017.
I thought Koskinen was good. If he plays like that most nights, he will give his team a chance to win every night. I thought the defense was pretty solid. Sure there was the occasional mistake but generally they were decent defensively and they scored 3 goals.
Khaira had another really good game. He's still awful at faceoffs but other than that he was physical, got the pucks out, got pucks in deep, went in on the forecheck, his line brought energy, wasn't a disaster defensively, solid on the PK and chipped in some offense. Exactly what a bottom 6 guy should be every night. We have all seen stretches where he looks really good before and then it disappears so my fear that this is just his usual spurts and he will go back to being useless again. But I do hope that he got whatever wake up call he needed and he's finally figured out what he has to do to be a full time, effective bottom 6 player because what he's doing right now I feel is easily repeatable for him.
Bouchard is showing he's going to be really good. He just makes plays. When Bear is back, I don't know who comes out because I am not a fan of guys playing on their off side.
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