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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Rocksteady wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 09:45 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 15:56 |
I still think that "We miss Duncan Keith" is just the biggest myth going. The guy was atrocious in the playoffs. His lack of foot speed was constantly exposed and he was burned for many, many goals against. He's a minus player in that playoffs, and almost single-handedly lost us the one game against Los Angeles.
The defence has all underperformed this year, but I don't really think the difference maker is Keith, and I think the system flaws are still there whether he is or not. He might actually make it worse given that he can't skate any more.
If we REALLY believed we need his leadership, then they should just pay for a flight to get him to come hang out with the team and impart pearls of wisdom.
I do miss the cap credit we should have gotten from his retirement though. Stupid NHL.
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We? We miss Duncan Keith? No... no no no my dear friend.. Evan Bouchard misses Duncan Keith, and you can tell by how Bouch has played to see this. He is lost without his mentor on the ice and while Keith the player wasn't the player he was in Chicago and he was all but used up when he got here, the knowledge the tutoring to Evan is sorely missed.
Evan misses Duncan Keith.
I'd even go as far as the entire defensive group misses Keith, he was a stabilizing force back there, and while he couldn't play the game AS WELL as he once did, he still had something the Oilers of today need.. stability.
No analytics or anything will chart the stability this guy brought to the team. We had one year of it, we needed more evidently.
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It's a great narrative, but it's just a narrative. With Keith and Smith in the lineup, we were badly underperforming until February of last year. The same issues were there then too. Those two were then awful in the playoffs too.
It's not just Bouchard who's looked worse this year - it's the group. The systems that the Oilers are employing, and that the coaching group has stubbornly stuck to, do no favours to the defence. It makes them all look bad.
Remember Kulak through the end of the season and the playoffs? Limited Keith exposure, looked really solid. People thought it was great to sign him long-term as a top-four guy...annnnd big step back. Nurse, Ceci - both steps back. It's not like this is just Evan Bouchard.
Duncan Keith was not a big loss for the Oilers and should have been easily backfilled, especially with the tax relief that came with his and Smith's departures. The Oilers signed Ryan Murray and hoped that Broberg and Niemelainen were going to be the bandaid they'd need. Maybe that even works, if the system doesn't suck and make breakouts more difficult. We miss last year's Woodcroft much more than we do Duncan Keith...even if he would tell people to smarten up every so often.
"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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