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inverno76 wrote on Tue, 25 May 2021 07:28

Depth got blatantly exposed. 10 man roster(somehow Shore made the cut?) for 4 periods and as soon as deviated they scored. Bad cough up by McDavid, but at 46 minutes of ice time he is allowed and if nothing for a horrendous change it was a nothing play.

I avoided all things Oilers for the past few days. This one hurt. Blown leads. Wild officiating (although this was the most 5 on 3’s I’ve seen in years). Questionable coaching tactics (didn’t realize you could bank timeouts).

This off-season will be the most pivotable in years. If we do not make some good decisions, I think we will see something dreadful happen.


People are calling that a bad change, but it's a long change, and they aren't expecting the turnover at the blue line. We had full control and just gave it away.

It's not surprising - Tippett played the wheels off those guys at the top of his roster, but that's not on the change. Not sure how anyone expects Bear to get all the way to the far bench, and his replacement to get all the way back in the time it takes McDavid to go blueline to blueline.

Ridiculous roster management in an extremely long game, and a complete indictment of what management has provided to the coach. He clearly didn't feel he could trust any of them.

Of course, part of that is the fact he almost never dressed his best rosters. Some bizarre decisions in this series. Tippett decides that Jones is persona non grata, and replaces him with a guy coming off a major injury with one game back - a game we lost and looked awful in. He put in Russell coming off injury for the final game, and played him 32 minutes. Nurse's minutes were obscene and ridiculous. The 5-minute shift included several faceoffs - he just got left on forever. One mistake and he's scratches two defencemen for an hour - and then throws them out for a penalty kill an hour later?! Bear had had a pretty decent night until the mistake.

If players fear they can't make any mistakes without getting benched, they're more likely to make mistakes. Busting Puljujarvi to the 4th line makes zero sense. So you don't have him on the first...why is Shore playing on the second line!? Shore was a healthy scratch for the first two games of the series and suddenly he's the guy getting the push? Worth noting, he didn't embarrass himself with those minutes, but even so...

I don't understand why they threw out the game plan after the first couple games with the Oilers dominating chances. They made it easier on the Jets to shut down the top guys.

Tippett followed in the footsteps of McLellan in meekly accepting that the Jets were going to mug our guys and he couldn't say anything more. You know - changing the message after a tough Game 2 loss might have been helpful...what a great time to point out that at that point there'd been 4 minors called on the Jets in 7 periods, despite flagrant fouls. Do something to take pressure off the team and change the narrative. Know that it's the same damn refs every game, so maybe calling them out will have some impact - the NHL will be watching them and it'll cost them money if the public impression is that they're doing a crummy job. Say something!

Instead, all we got was his lame admission after Game 3 that he thought about calling a timeout but thought he'd just wait for the TV timeout instead...

Tippett is better than McLellan, but that's a low bar. Under him we've got a better powerplay and PK, but very little adjustment in that series again other than throwing Draisaitl back with McDavid. Didn't change the breakout - which clearly was challenged and gameplanned for by the Jets - didn't adjust the PK to counter an effective Jets PP. Didn't adjust much of anything, just hoped that what worked before would suddenly start working again. I don't think Maurice is a master tactician and he just owned Tippett. Second year in a row we're outcoached.




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