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Adam Messages: 7130
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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Kr55 wrote on Fri, 14 June 2024 11:39 |
Rocksteady wrote on Fri, 14 June 2024 11:31 |
nullterm wrote on Fri, 14 June 2024 10:20 | McDavid 0 goals
Draisatl 0 goals
Hyman 0 goals
Nuge 0 goals
Bouchard 0 goals
Kane 0 goals
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Just like it was for New York, Just as it was for Boston, just as it was for Tampa. All superstars were silenced with Florida's tight checking and seamless switching from zone to man to man back to zone coverage. Solid goaltendign helped too.
It's been a ride, we may get one more after this but it's over man.
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Wonder if Zito, while he was on Columbus's farm team in 2019, would have taken $25,000,000 to build a team around McDavid and Drai.
Sadly, he wasn't Bobby Nicks first call, and he also wouldn't have taught Bobby the amazing term for prospects being "overripe", when Bobby was calling friends in 2019 to learn what a GM and POHO are supposed to do in the NHL. Bobby said "overripe" in every 2nd sentence for the next month.
Kenny, when Bobby came calling, in a scramble trying to learn what an NHL front office is actually supposed to do
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Zito was apparently on our interview list, although it's always been unclear whether any interviews actually happened, because as much as Nicholson talked up how important it was to finally interview for that role, they learned that the Legendary Ken Holland was available, and that ended the process.
Zito's built a much more complete team. Here's the forward scoring for the Panthers to this point:
Barkov 21
Tkachuk 20
Verhaeghe 18
Lundell 15
Reinhart 15
Bennett 13
Rodrigues 12
Luostarinen 8
Tarasenko 8
Lorentz 3
Koposo 2
Cousins 1
Stenlund 1
Lomberg 0
Compare that to the Oilers:
McDavid 34
Draisaitl 28
Nugent-Hopkins 20
Hyman 18
Kane 8
Henrique 5
Brown 4
Foegele 4
Holloway 4
Janmark 4
Mcleod 2
Carrick 1
Ryan 1
Perry 1
That middle tier is completely missing from the Oilers. The Panthers have 7 forwards with over 10 points compared to just 4 Oilers. Nine of their guys have more than our fifth highest scoring forward.
At some point, some team is going to slow down your top guys, at least for a bit. It's inevitable, especially in the NHL where they don't do anything to protect the star players, and the playoffs are open season for cheap shots. So you need other people to step up. You need the Fernando Pisanis. The 2006 team didn't have the high end firepower, but they had 8 guys score double digit points in that post season.
It's the depth that has let the team down. I feel like Zito would have done a lot better job taking care of that. Probably doesn't wait a full five years too...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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