 RDOilerfan
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I said to start the series, for the Canucks to win, they needed breaks and Skinner to lose the Oilers games.
- 5 posts. As good as Silovs has been, he got beat clean 5 more times last night and they missed by an inch. Perry should have had a goal. The puck was going over the line. The pocket where the puck sits was over the line, it's not sitting in the palm of the glove, it's in the pocket. So it's a goal. But they can't see the puck in the glove so no goal. Another break. With all the technology they have in the world, cars that can drive themselves, how they can't put a sensor in the line or something to prove it's a goal is a mystery to me. So the Canucks are getting a ton of breaks, the Oilers none.
- Skinner has been out goaltended. First couple of games, he let in multiple bad goals. Last night the first 3 goals were good looks. The 4th goal was a weird goal where Lindholm was standing on the puck and managed to kick it to his stick without falling then jam it in. As a goalie, you aren't expecting that but at some point you need your goalie to make a freaking save. They can't all just be routine. No matter how good defensively you are, or how good your dmen are, they can't stop every shot, they are going to give up a few grade A's. You need your goalie to stop something and Skinner hasn't.
On top of that. Depth scoring is gone. I have been called out of touch and a Neanderthal in my thinking of how hockey should be played. Hockey in the regular season now is all about speed and skill. It's not tough, nasty or physical. Playoffs hockey is prison rules. It's physical, nasty and cheap. To score a goal, you have to go to the net and be prepared to be beat on. So in my opinion, and here comes my Neanderthal thinking, the reason the Oilers depth scoring dries up is because there are too many players who make up their depth who will not play playoff hockey. They will not play with any kind of physicality, they will not with any kind of edge and will not go to the net because they know they will pay the price.
- McLeod - He has 40 playoff games under his belt and he has 3 goals, 9 pts. He hasn't scored a single goal in his last 20 playoff games. He as a ton of skill and speed that works great in the regular season. But in the playoffs when interference, hooking and holding are allowed and you have to pay a price to get anywhere close to a shooting spot, he's invisible. He is great defensively but a winning team can't have a guy as your 3rd line center or even a winger scared to play playoff hockey.
- Foegele. He has the size and speed where he should excel in the playoffs. There is no reason why that guy shouldn't be a wrecking ball. He doesn't do it. He disappears. On top of that, he can be proned to the 5 star, brutal give away like last night.
None of those 2 get PP time so they will not score much in the playoffs because it has to be 5 on 5 scoring and 5 on 5 scoring requires you to pay a price.
- Nuge. I said it before. Longest serving Oiler, supposedly wants to win, he's a guy that NEEDS to step up. He doesn't. Nuge's production (assists) is supplemented by how much PP time he gets. He tends to be the first touch on the PP to McD who sets someone else up. Take away his PP time and he hardly scores. 11 pts last year 9 PP assists. 9 pts this year, 6 on the pp including his only goal which was an unreal pass by Leon for a tap in. Last 20 playoff games, 2 goals. Not even close to enough. Nuge gets his points on the PP where the hockey is different 5 on 5. You don't have to pay a price to get looks because the other team protects the net and on the PP, Nuge passes it to McD then watches him do his thing.
All 3 of those guys are very good regular season players but when the playoffs start and the hockey gets nasty, they don't step up.
Kane also needs to pick it up. He doesn't shy away from the nasty hockey, he does well in it but this year, he needs to bury some of his chances. They need him too.
There is the Oilers depth scoring. Those 4 are the main ones who need to chip in. Henrique was also supposed to help with that, unfortunately he's been hurt. But the 4 guys I listed above are vets with all but Kane having never stepped up in the playoffs.
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