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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:22 |
| smyth260 wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 13:07 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 09:34 |
| Adrean wrote on Mon, 05 December 2022 10:21 |
It's looking good
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Tom Gazzola
@TomGazzola
Kailer Yamamoto ready to go for tonight.
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I assume since Yamo is finally ready to go, that means Hyman who got drilled into the boards and was cut even thought he played over 21 mins, will be too sore to go. Just how things are going this year.
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Eh, our best two players have been healthy all year. Good teams have to overcome injuries. Bruins have lost only 3 games despite missing McAvoy and Marchand for half of their season.
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Marchand missed 8 games.
I don't follow the Bruins but I don't think they have been missing 4 of their top 9 forwards all at once.
Yamo was banged up out of camp and has missed 12 games.
Kane has missed 11 and counting.
Foegele has missed 5 and counting.
McLeod has missed 4 and counting.
Bruins missed 1 guy, not 4. Injuries happen, teams have to deal with it but missing that many guys out of your top 9 is pretty tough and the Oilers have hung in there.
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McAvoy, who scored 56 points from the blueline last year, has missed 13 of the Bruins 23 games. That's a more significant loss than any of ours. I'd argue that 8 games of an 80-point player in Marchand is also a more critical loss than maybe all four of those guys you mention.
The point is correct - good teams adapt and deal with injuries. Those guys only account for 11 of the Oilers goals on the entire year (Kane 5, McLeod & Foegele 3, Yamamoto 0) so while they leave a hole, it's not like they were filling the net or a real key to the success we've had in portions of this season.
The team still seems to entirely rely on McDavid and Draisaitl to win games for them. It's frustrating. I was pretty impressed by some of the things I saw out of Woodcroft last year, but he seems to be retreating to his inner McLellan or Tippett. He's struggled to adapt, and he's been stubborn at times refusing to make changes. He's got to be better. I think he's having Campbell-level struggles.
"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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