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Re: Review: Washington @ Edmonton (Game #26) [message #815005 is a reply to message #815004 ]	Tue, 06 December 2022 15:59

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RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 06 December 2022 15:51

Adam wrote on Tue, 06 December 2022 15:39

Kr55 wrote on Tue, 06 December 2022 14:34

Apparently Bouch was benched after that 3-2 goal? I didn't pay much attention to the game TBH, but I did see how that goal developed, and am a bit confused how Bouch is singled out.

Bouncing puck comes to the blue line and Kulak decides to skate into it and try to make a fancy pickup. 3 Caps players anticipate Kulak screwing up and take off. Kulak ends up putting it right on one of their sticks. Bouch, with a huge error in judgement, had faith in Kulak making a play so he's already being beat by a cap who is almost fully up to speed leaving the zone. Bouch does his best to try to catch up and gets to the side of the forward and is able to force him to one side. The forward seemed to know our forwards we not going to be close to the play and he could pass back to a wide open guy. Bouch stops from running into Skinner after trying to cover his man and before he can turn around and the 3rd man is already happily picking his spot wide open in the slot. Even if Bouch had crazy awareness and spun around to challenge the 3rd man, not sure he could have made a dif.

But in the end, that was all on Bouch and media guys are on board with it too and he had to answer for his mistake today in the scrums, and last night with the benching.

I did think his dive from way behind the puck carrier was a silly effort and put him out of position to respond to any other threat, but I agree. The team was miserable from top to bottom last night. Kulak, Ceci, Nurse all had major gaffes. Barrie got walked MULTIPLE times. Only guy I can't remember being just embarrassed on any plays was Broberg, and that may be just my memory, as opposed to him doing anything right. I guess maybe someone needed to be scapegoated, but it's not a particularly fair one when they were all brutal.

I think it's definitely more complicated than "Draisaitl and McDavid don't care enough about the details" or whatever the most recent Mark Spector talking point is. Either Woodcroft just changed style completely, or Holland is interfering in how he wants the team run, or something weird is going on, because we absolutely have reverted to the style of play that made us so unsuccessful under our last few crappy coaches. And if those two are asked to carry the team every night then we will see mistakes from time to time because A) they need to push to create offence because no one else is doing it and B) they're probably overplayed, and tired players make more mistakes.

I loved seeing the McDavid shortie last night, but does he really need that responsibility lumped on top of his already significant workload? Penalty killing is tiring work and he's more likely to get injured blocking a shot. As for the PP goal against, I'm not blaming him there. Someone was asking why Ovechkin still scores PP goals, and that was the answer. Because if you have someone cheat towards him, then you open up an opportunity for someone else. The Oilers played the PK last night with a design to stopping him from shooting and so everyone else on the PP blasted away (17 powerplay shots). Even with the Oilers keying on it, OV still had five shots last night. McDavid can't abandon up high to try to tie up sticks from people in front of the net, because the second he's committed there, then Ovechkin is wide open in his office.

One little defence of Woodcroft - the team we're icing includes Ryan (who looks a shell of even his last year version), Shore, Malone (I'll never understand what we see in that guy) and Hamblin in his second NHL game. We played big minutes for Yamamoto in his first game back from injury. That's not a lineup built for success - although I still think he makes some weird choices with ice times down the lineup, and his lack of patience is crazy. If a winger doesn't score in the first period on the McDavid line, it's 50/50 that he's on to a new option in Period #2.

I agree with you on Ryan. I thought last year he was a pretty decent bottom 6 guy. 10 goals, 22 pts, 55.8% on draws. This season, he to me looks like he is turning 36 in Dec. He's even having a rough year on draws. 45.2% when he is a career 55.2. That's a massive drop off.

36? or 56? He's just a complete non-factor now. His lack of speed and faceoff success is a factor on the PK.

And at the end of the game, we used a left-shooting center on the left dot...and you have to think if we had a righty who could win a draw, that's a better spot for him...

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