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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Sat, 01 May 2021 11:27 |
Curious why they wouldn't just try McLeod as a winger with McDavid. McDavid wings just rotate endlessly as we find sparks of chemistry here and there, and any winger that has some smarts and speed gets rewarded and can gain confidence. Putting McLeod at C on the 2nd line...that's pretty much trial by fire. Hope he does well, but that's just a weird spot to toss a guy a handful of games into his career. And yeah, this seems kind of insulting to Nuge too if McLeod is seriously gonna be out there playing the C role with faceoffs and on the defensive side.
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I think it might be if McLeod works as a center, he can draw better than RNH, or Haaaaaas, Shore .. which might find him on the PK sooner than later as well, in place of Leon having to take all the critical PK draws.
I'm sure he gets a couple rounds up at LW with McD as well .
Oilers need some answers before the playoffs, better to test drive McLeod now than in the playoffs when its win or go home. If you can't get anything going offensively in the playoffs (like last year), you don't want to turn on the blender at random, at least have some good ideas on what will work.
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