 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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| K.McC#24 wrote on Thu, 03 February 2022 09:30 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 03 February 2022 08:47 |
I love me those 2 points. They came out super strong, Caps came on and started to try to run them out of a building. They weathered the storm, found a way to win. Doesn't matter how, just win baby! Getting 11 out of a possible 12 points, I will take that!
A bit off topic. What happened to this team? For a better part of a month, this team might have struggled to beat an ECHL team. Goalies couldn't stop a beach ball. PK couldn't stop anything. PP dried up. McD and Leon couldn't score or at times handle the puck. Other guys couldn't make a 2 foot pass. If there was a bad bounce to be had, it happened to the Oilers and they got zero bounces. It was bad and they looked totally defeated and ready to just roll over and die.
I am not a Tippett lover and I think if the day comes and they win a cup, he won't be the coach, I am not even sure he's here next season with his contract being up. But for now, he's still here so I don't see them dramatically changing their systems. All the assistants are still here. The same goalie coach is here. They did get a few guys back from injury and added Kane but the roster is basically the same and even the lines aren't that different. They started playing better before Kane was an Oiler and before Nuge and Hyman were back. So it's not just those few guys playing. I don't think magically Tippett and the coaches all of a sudden got just dramatically better so something mentally happened to these guys for a month and they just switched off some things because this team while still not perfect is night and day different with not a hell of a lot changing other than whatever it was they all clicked on in their heads.
I find it kind of frustrating that they let it go on as long as they did when in my opinion, it sure looks like they could have changed things if they wanted too.
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I think there were several things working against them and it got in their headspace. On 90% of other teams with similar expectations to the Oilers, maybe 100%, the coach is replaced. I hope they can find consistency and limit losses to streaks of 1 game, but given some of the remaining flaws, it is hard to say if they find that. Nice little run in the last 6, but I wouldn't be super shocked if it can go the other way again. The next game against Vegas is pretty large.
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Just strange to me. If they fired the coach and went on this run and look like a completely different team, everyone would point to the coach being the issue. They didn't and they went on this run and look like a different team. So while I don't think Tippett is the answer for them coaching wise, pretty clear to me a lot of their issues were between the ears.
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