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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 20 November 2023 16:45 |
| Adam wrote on Mon, 20 November 2023 15:26 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 20 November 2023 15:10 |
I'm still puzzled by what's up with McD. People say he's injured yet he doesn't miss a practice. Maybe practicing won't make it worse but if he's actually hurt, why wouldn't you take a few practices off, get some rest and extra treatment. Nothing about how McD is playing and if he's supposedly playing through something makes any sense with what he's doing on non game days.
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There's a lot of things I doubt the Oilers on, but with McDavid's health, I'm just going to trust him that he's doing what he feels is best. McDavid at 60% is still much better than subbing him out and adding Erne at 100% in.
And practices? I mean, he's probably not pushing it beyond what he can comfortably do in a practice.
I believe he did have a maintenance day last week too.
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I'd like to agree but this is the Oilers and McDavid has spent 8 years living and breathing Oilers Hockey™. I think they would be wise to practice some amount of load management on their meal ticket. If they're willing to burn Skinner out with 9 starts out of 10, why wouldn't they be comfortable pushing McDavid to come back a few games early... especially when McDavid wants to come back early to play in the Heritage Classic.
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Oh, I can definitely see them pushing him a little there...especially since they got dummied while he's out.
But participating in practices? I don't see the team pushing him to be out on the ice in practice if he didn't think he could handle it.
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