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 Mike
Messages: 2004
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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Though it's a little discouraging to be going to LA tied at 1, what is very encouraging is that I think we've thoroughly outplayed the Kings for at least 100 of the 129 minutes so in this series. Probably even more.
How about Connor Crusher McDavid? Jesus is he ever laying the body! Like hard hits - everything that moves. I saw people commenting on him not having done much - assuming they didn't watch the games and just looked at the box scores. He could have had 5 points last night. Like McDavid said to Scott Oake, Korpisalo was very good. But other than that, he's asserting himself physically like I've never seen. And how about some of those defensive efforts? I think he's been great, and if he keeps playing like that the points totals will inevitably start shooting up.
On the other end of the physicality spectrum is McLeod. There was this one play in the 3rd in the offensive zone where he was easily going to get to the puck first, but there was an LA Dman heading for the puck as well, so he most assuredly would have needed to take a hit to make the play. Instead, he slammed on the brakes and waved his stick at the puck. King defender took the puck and fired a pass up to his winger and the Kings got a solid scoring chance out of it. I don't want to make him a whipping boy, it's just that he's got so many great tools and potential to be a really good player for this team, and I want to see it happen. But his refusal to engage and even bailing out of plays because he might get hit (at least that's what it looked like) is frustrating to see. I've not been happy with Yamo's results, but at least he seems to be giving it his all out there. Anyway - maybe someone can go kick McLeod's cat before the next game and get him riled up.
Ekholm with his 2nd minus game in a row after only having 1 in his 21 regular season games as an Oiler. What a bum. Seriously though - what a pickup this guy was. That entire D corps looks completely different since his arrival.
And though not something used by many other teams, I really like this 11-7 setup. That first goal does happen if we were 12-6. I think horses like Drai and McDavid can easily handle 7-8 minutes that a 4C would be getting, and it actually makes them a threat to score rather than just hoping to not get scored on. And if you were to lose a Dman early in a game, it not nearly as catastrophic as going down to 5 guys, especially if the game gets to OT.
Interestingly (to me anyway) - our 7th dman, Broberg, only got 4:39 of ice time, but he managed to get a shot on goal, 3 hits, and a +2! I thought he looked fine in his limited action.
Anyway - mostly great effort by the boys. Little lapse there in the 2nd, but hopefully having let 2 goal leads slip away twice in a row incentivizes them to keep at it for the full 60 from here on out.
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