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Re: Review: Edmonton @ Los Angeles (Game #78) [message #820578 is a reply to message #820569 ]	Wed, 05 April 2023 08:29

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I have said it many times. When the Oilers were having struggles defending earlier this year, it wasn't the system, it wasn't the coaches, it wasn't the GM, it was the players.

At times they weren't getting the timely saves. They are getting timely saves.
I felt the big boys, the guys who get all the ice time, get all the chances and are the keys to the team, in many games they weren't playing sound hockey at all. They were doing whatever they wanted to do. Well now in the last month, they flipped the switch and as a team decided it's time to play sound hockey to get ready for the playoffs. Sure they still make the odd mistake but as a team, from McD down, they whole team is playing sound hockey. They are all backchecking hard, they are picking up their men, they aren't cheating for offense. They biggest thing of all, they are ADJUSTING THEIR GAME to find ways to beat teams.

The 2-0 game at home and last nights game against the Kings, if those games were played in November, there is no chance they would have won those games the way they did. The Kings play a 1-3-1 or even a 1-1-3. They stack the line. They don't attack, they sit back and wait. They want you to try to go through all of them so they can turn pucks over and go the other way. The Kings did that in both games. What did the Oilers do? They dumped it in and used their superior skill and speed to go get the puck. Dumping it in is in my opinion, the exact opposite of how McD, Leon, Nuge, the big boys and how they want to play. So them deciding to dump it in instead of doing what they would have done early in the year which is try to bring it in over and over again, only to be sent back, dumping it in to me shows maturity and shows they are about winning finally. They are doing whatever it takes to win. If they have to be patient and play boring, low event hockey to beat a team, they are prepared to do it now because they want to win. I have no doubt in my mind that if McD wanted too, he could have scored 70 goals but to do it, he probably had to give up a little defensively. So he made the choice to put WINNING over his own person stats and it goes down the line. It's truly an exciting thing for me to see. My team realizing what it takes to win.

I look at the Oilers and I see a team that can beat you how ever the opposition wants to play.

If a team wants to play wide open hockey. No problem, they love that hockey. The Oilers are the highest scoring team in the NHL with the 2 best offensive players in the world. They have a ton of speed, plus another 100 pt guy, plus another 80 pt guy, plus a 30 goal scorer in Kane who's just getting up to speed, plus offense on the back end, plus another 6 or 7 guys who can score between 10-15 goals. So if you want to play run and gun with the Oilers, good luck.

If you want to go play in the alley. No problem. The Oilers are big, physical, nasty, have guys who can beat the hell out of you and if you take a penalty, you will pay with their record setting PP.

If you want to lock it down, no problem. They can do that too.

The Oilers are an extremely dangers, deep team that for the last month has laser focused their game into playing playoffs hockey and doing all the things you need to do to win.

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