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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 16 March 2021 10:30 |
Smith gave them a free goal. I appreciate how his puck handling can be an asset sometimes but I wish he would dial it back a little. I can't figure out what he was trying to do on that goal. He totally crossed up his dman with whatever the hell he was doing and it cost them. Overall, it wasn't his best game.
McD did not have a good game. Just too many bad giveaways and he knows it. Missed several wide open shots. Hit the net man!!
Bear struggled a lot. Maybe it's the dreaded sophomore jinx but he is a shadow of the player he was last year. It's not just the concussion, he wasn't good before.
Neal sure has had the wheels fall off. If you are only going to put out a guy like him 7 mins, time to play someone else.
Lagesson had a rare off game.
Nuge. I don't know if maybe the contact is really bothering him but he's nothing like the player I am used to seeing. He's never been a line driver but 5 on 5, he's just not good at all this year and lately only marginally better on the PP. He got set up by Leon on a point blank, middle of the slot, as premium of a scoring chance as you get on the 1 and only PP and couldn't even hit the net. 5 on 5, it's next to nothing. He was -3. On the 4th goal, he sort of tried to check the guy but didn't go after him, kind of tried to block it but didn't really and in the process screened Smith. Smith reaction as he looked at Nuge said he screened him. Either take the man, commit to the block or get the hell out of the way. He didn't do all 3.
The reffing the last few games, just god awful. I don't like to blame refs too much but just call the damn penalties. Both ways. Guys getting tripped, held, thrown to the ground. McD just gets mauled. Fans want to see speed and skill. No one wants to watch hockey where the unskilled players and excel because the refs let them cheat.
For next game, I would put Kahun back in there for Neal no matter what the injury situation is. I would reunite the DRY line, not for the team but for Nuge. You can't have a guy playing 20 mins a night being almost a blackhole 5 on 5.
If Khaira is in:
Ennis/Kahun - McD - JP
Nuge - Leon - Yamo
Shore - Khaira - Arch
Kahun/Ennis - Haas - Chiasson
If Khaira is out:
Ennis/Kahun - McD - JP
Nuge - Leon - Yamo
Ennis/Kahum - Shore - Arch
Nygard - Haas - Chiasson
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Smith - I do not believe that Tippett is going to tell Smith to stop that. He actually criticized the defence for not helping - although on the replay you can see that they are doing what Smith wants when he goes out to play the puck, looping out to give him passing lanes. The only thing you could say on that maybe is that they should have waited to make sure that he actually was going to get the puck first. Spector was banging the drum to protect Smith last night - for whatever reason, he seems to be the guy that everyone around the organization seems always hesitant to put any blame on, and who they're always in a hurry to praise when things do go well. It makes me really nervous that the team does believe that he can be the guy to take them in to the playoffs...it'll be painful if we give up assets for a run and don't get a goalie as part of the return, but I can definitely see it happening.
Saw someone post on twitter that Bear's PDO currently is 91%. That is extremely bad luck. It means that any mistake right now is ending up in the net, which amplifies things. I don't think he's playing as well as he did last year yet - he may still be hampered by whatever injury he had earlier this season, or he may just be a young defenceman with some growing pains. I do think that Oilers fans (not so much in here, but definitely on twitter) need to put away the pitchforks for young defencemen and stop expecting perfection - especially from puck-movers, who because they're moving the puck up ice more, and more likely to have times when they have a turnover. I think that's one of the reasons that people always love the young tough defenceman who just hammers it off the glass - it still cedes possession, but it looks more intentional. A stretch pass that gets intercepted is more dramatic and looks like a bigger mistake, even if the result is pretty much the same either way and the stretch pass can lead to a successful transition to offence, where off-the-glass-and-out just sets up another attack from the opposition 90% of the time.
I'm not worried about Neal and Chiasson's line not getting icetime yesterday. When down a couple goals, Tippett was playing the top two lines a lot more. There was one stretch last night where the shifts were 1-2-1-2-3-1. The guys at the bottom of the lineup were getting less time because Tippett felt his best chance to catch up was to play the top guys more. On top of that, with Khaira injured, the team was running short-handed on forward anyhow.
That almost always will reduce 4th line time since someone from the top lines is double shifting anyhow. I don't have any issue with that. No matter who we have on that fourth line last night they weren't going to get a lot of third period icetime since we were behind for all but 90 seconds.
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