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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Thu, 20 April 2023 16:38 |
| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 20 April 2023 15:15 |
| tardigrade81 wrote on Thu, 20 April 2023 08:38 |
Imagine if McDavid gets going how lethal we will be
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Drai getting lots of deserved love. Just one defense for McDAvid and his line. The Danault line is LA's 100% defense line and McLellan is not buying that Drai is better than McDavid still. Danault is an extremely good defensive guy, one of those old school glued to your hip centers. Moore and Arvidsson are very good 2-way forwards too. McDavid is still getting the harder defensive matchup while Kopitar, with Kempe and Byfield, is out there trying to score with a power vs power matchup with Drai that provides more room. I guess I can't say if Woodcroft is trying to get this match intentionally or not, guess we will see in LA. I'm not sure it matters that much either way for us, we are still getting chances on both lines, but I think McDavid's wingers are having more trouble than Drai's with the matchup that has been happening.
That's just gonna be what McDavid has to deal with. Like when Kesler was riding on his back and Drai more free was going back and forth with Getzlaf back in 2017.
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Not just the forward line - McDavid's getting the top d-unit too generally.
And I think that plays to our advantage. Sure - try to throw the blanket over McDavid and spend all your best players just trying to grind to a draw there...and then Draisaitl's line will mop up your scrubs/second liners.
Want to try to stop Leon? Okay, well then it's McDavid who runs rampant. There's literally no team in the league who has the one-two punch that we have, and it's extremely difficult to stop both.
Honestly, even with all the above said, Danault hasn't actually contained McDavid. Doughty hasn't contained McDavid. Korpisalo has just made more good saves on him. In two games, McDavid has 11 shots. Draisaitl has 9 shots. Hyman has 8 shots. Nugent-Hopkins has 6 shots. Evander Kane has 5 shots.
McDavid is -2, but that's not indicative of his play. The goals he was on for were:
- first goal in game 1. 4-on-4 and McDavid has a rush. Tries to dish to Draisaitl and gets picked off on the pass. They counter and score on a meh chance.
- second goal in game 1. Scrambled faceoff that bounces straight to Kempe.
- second goal in game 2. Desharnais gets picked off, and the Kings score on the ensuing rush.
You could potentially give a little blame to McDavid on the first of those, but not on either of the others. He's created WAAAAY more than he's given up and he's been a little unlucky in that at least two of those goals were pretty stoppable chances.
I think he was on for the 6-on-4 goal against in game one too...but again, that's a 6-on-4...
If you're worrying about McDavid's performance right now, you're fretting about the wrong things. I'm more worried about a couple of rookies showing some early playoff butterflies, and I hope they can just play through those. Otherwise, I think the team looks good - much better than LA - and should win this series handily.
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Yeah, as good as Danault can be shadowing and all LA's effort to have their players run back to a defensive posture and try to trap, McDavid is still McDavid. His line breaking out should be inevitable. And if the kings keep getting lucky with McDavid out there, ah well, we have 1 other elite line and 2 pretty good ones also rolling and getting chances too.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
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