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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 16 November 2021 16:31 |
| Adam wrote on Tue, 16 November 2021 15:25 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 16 November 2021 12:52 |
Oilers lines.
Hyman – McDavid – Puljujarvi
RNH – Draisaitl – Yamamoto
Foegele – McLeod – Kassian
Perlini – Ryan – Turris
Nurse – Bouchard
Keith – Ceci
Koekkoek – Barrie
Koskinen
If McLeod has figured out that he doesn't have to run around hitting everything that moves with huge hits, just finish his checks, use his speed to go hard to the net and don't be a perimeter player, that 3rd line has all the makings to be good. Which would allow Ryan to be the 4th line center and he would be an excellent 4th line center.
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I wish Tippett would stop with trying to make Turris a thing again. I'd rather see Benson in there.
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I am not a fan of Turris but I don't think Benson is better. He's a square peg in a round hole. He's a cerebral, slow the game down, east-west set up man, when bottom 6 guys should be energy, speed the game up, forecheck, north south guys. At least Turris can shoot a little something Benson does not.
To me he is in the top 6 on a bad team or in Europe.
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This is old thinking. There's no such thing as what a bottom 6 guy should be that's any different from what a top-6 guy should be. If you just think your bottom 6 is for penalty killers and throwing a few hits, then you end up as the Edmonton Oilers - sucking whenever those lines are on the ice for years. Good teams put cheap young players who can move the needle offensively in their bottom 6 and try to outscore the other team's depth...especially if that depth is just running around trying to land a hit to provide some "energy".
Besides, if you have good scoring depth from your bottom six, it provides pressure on your top 6 players to keep producing or they'll be replaced by someone from behind. It would really be nice to see Oilers management leave this Dark Age thinking behind.
[Updated on: Wed, 17 November 2021 00:28]
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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