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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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I want to write a more insightful piece here eventually, but in the short-term, some quick thoughts:
- Mike is right about the WWE-quality of last night's game. The Panthers were allowed to just grapple and tackle people all night long, and when you add that to just dreadful ice, it's not a great recipe for great hockey. The NHL got a big viewership last night as people were really excited to see a final battle between two really good hockey teams, and the product that gets delivered was probably the worst of the Finals.
- This kind of thing leads directly to the fact that after every playoffs we hear about all these players fighting through grievous injuries. Some of those will happen no matter what, but you look at a bunch of the injuries our top guys have suffered in the last couple of playoffs, and it's avoidable stuff - I'm thinking of the Mikey Andersen takedown for instance, or the rabbit punches from Bennett & Tkachuk in this series, etc. The NHL glories in the toll that the playoffs take and so they prefer to allow full-on mugging of its stars and grind it out ugly hockey to allowing skill to thrive. I'll never understand it. Maybe someday when Bettman, Campbell, Parros and others are gone from the league offices it gets better.
- This loss ultimately isn't on Darnell Nurse, Cody Ceci, Ryan McLeod, Stuart Skinner, or Leon Draisaitl (who mind-bogglingly was getting blamed in the GDT). It's on the GM who did extremely little last summer, leaving us short on depth at forward, defence and goalie and then didn't make use of all the tools available to him to make his team better during the year either. Tarasenko was an important player for the Panthers in the finals, and he cost a fraction of what we paid for Adam Henrique who played a significantly lesser role. There were opportunities out there and Holland just couldn't find a way. Just an epic failure of a GM over the last five years. Two solid moves in five years just isn't enough for the highest paid GM in the league with a team that has a tremendous top-end. He wears the goat horns here - more of a villain in this story than even Tkachuk or Bennett.
- Someone mentioned earlier here about the need for a new GM fast...it's going to be interesting to see what happens there. We don't have a lot of time - we certainly won't have a new one in time for the draft unless the announcement is, like, tomorrow. I wonder if Jackson is going to interim it through free agency?? I just pray that they don't go one more year on Ken Holland...that's a worst case scenario.
- All that said, it was a tremendous ride. The spring has been an exciting one. My kids cared more about Oilers results in the last month than I've seen their entire lives. The last 10 days were electrifying in this city, and I had people from around the country and even out of the US commenting to me on work calls about the hockey and sending hopes and cheers for the Oilers. It has been pretty awesome. Thanks to the players for that. I know they're all dashed right now. I'm feeling rather sad about it myself today. But we were definitely entertained and I'll take these tough disappointments at the last possible moment any day over early exits and first overall picks.
"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
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