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 Dragon_Matt
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Registered: January 2009
Location: edmonton
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When your system isn't working, you look at those who do work. I'd be analyzing the hell out of Boston to see what they're doing this year that is so vastly different than the Oilers.
1) PK - I said it last year and the year before and the year before. We try to play a positional defense, but stop just short of putting real pressure on the puck carrier, whether he's in the neutral or offensive zone. The few teams that successfully stymie our PP attack the puck carrier constantly. Yamamoto has done more of this in the past week than our PK has done all season.
2) fleeing the zone - I agree that McD and Drai likely feel the pressure to score since nobody else can do it, and they're likely playing in a D-zone system designed to give them more freedom, but why do we see Derek Ryan doing the same? I see our d-zone looking for break options at the sacrifice of safety. Peewee problems. We need to slow down our exit to make sure we're exiting. We make too many giveaways to flee the zone hoping to catch a pass.
3) Zone Entries - I understand on the PP giving McDavid the puck to let him do the carrying. Whether he attacks the net or gains the zone to set up the PP possession (as long as he's not heavily harassed, then we lose it like point 2) But 5v5 is different. He should be 2nd in the league in zone entries because there isn't the extra room for his skating. we can see in his 5v5 stats that it's just not as successful and a different plan of attack needs to be implemented. You can't attack with the same strategy 5v5 as you can 5v43, but the Oilers don't seem to understand that. Give the puck to McD and Drai all the time, every time, and they'll make it work seems to be the game plan.
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