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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 17 November 2021 13:13 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 17 November 2021 13:08 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 17 November 2021 12:55 |
This will be called "old time thinking" but the jets played the Oilers like the did in the playoffs. Clog up the middle, frustrate the Oilers. Wait for them to make a mistake and bullied them around. The secret to slowing down McD is to frustrate him by banging him and it work. He even took a penalty against Pionk. The refs didn't call much.
The Oilers bottom 6 is
McLeod - Doesn't bang or hard to play against
Perlini - Doesn't bang or hard to play against
Turris - Doesn't bang or hard to play agaisnt
Ryan - Doesn't bang or hard to play against.
Benson when he is in - Doesnt bang or hard to play against.
The Jets banged McD, took liberties and it worked like a charm.
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"Bang or hard to play against" isn't really a thing. It's irrelevant. Some of these guys are hitting, but the bigger issue is that they're bleeding goals and not scoring any. That's all that actually is important. Doesn't matter how you do it, you just need to be better than the guys you're out against. If that involves a heavy forecheck where you rattle the boards, great. If you're playing a puck possession game that involves slowing the play down? Great. All that matters is outscoring.
Right now, of all the bottom sixers we've employed, only McLeod is even for plus/minus. Everyone else is negative, with some far in to the minuses now. The plan the Oilers have isn't working so it needs to be tweaked. I think putting in different guys is one tweak and Benson's got less looks than anyone and has a higher ceiling than Turris at this point.
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Our goaltending situation degrading is making the "non-offensive" lines be in a very vulnerable spot now. Goalies are letting in 1 out of 6 shots with Ryan on the ice. I have a hard time blaming any player for that kind of stuff happening. Any line that can't play defense by keeping the puck in the offensive zone as much as possible can get into big trouble now if nothing shots are gonna be goals. I do question what Tippett's approach is for the team as well, if non McDrai lines are told to play in all situation like the whole team plays with a lead, which is just terrible hockey.
Until the last few games Ryan was >50% in most metrics, but super low PDO because of sav%. That is taking a hard turn for even worse now with goaltending taking more of a dive.
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I wonder about the line matching too...It doesn't seem to me like we're getting lit up by other team's depth guys, so has Tippett been careless about putting the 4th line out against the top guys on other squads?
The PDO for Ryan definitely makes him look worse than he probably is. But I do think they're giving up a lot of quality looks too.
I think it's more than just personnel - because it's a persistent issue with different players.
"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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