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Buffalo @ Edmonton (Game #32) [message #748946] |
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 Suomalainen
Messages: 900
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
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Drai was brutal in OT...
97.
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what is going on with 29 the last week? brutal
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overdue
Messages: 493
Registered: October 2014
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The dynamic duo weren't so dynamic in this one but over all not a bad team effort. It sucks to lose but a point is better than no points. Nygard with a really strong game.
[Updated on: Sun, 08 December 2019 22:01]
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Kr55
Messages: 10770
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Welp, we can lose the next 7 straight now in regulation and stuff have a better finish to 2019 than we did 2018 now.
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Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
4 Cups
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I'd like to try Bear in OT with McD and LD, Klef just doesn't seem mobile enough.
LD looking pretty dopey out there in OT, feet stopped moving, coaches needs to highlight that.
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| clutchlikeeberle wrote on Sun, 08 December 2019 20:34 |
what is going on with 29 the last week? brutal
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There was a play he was shaken up on about a week ago - can't remember which game, but I remember the commentators saying he looked hurt. He was back pretty soon afterwards, but I wonder if he's not nursing something. He looked off all night tonight.
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Leia
Messages: 410
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
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I can understand the reasoning, and I can't say in a similar situation I wouldn't do the same thing, but Tippett has to move away from McD and Drai as the only go to solution this team has. It was clear through the game that neither were particularly playing well and luck wasn't favouring either of them.
So why not send out the second unit first in OT, why did he persist with the first PP unit for so long when it wasn't working? We bemoan our secondary scoring, but if the primary scorers are having a off day, then give the others a chance, how must it feel to be stuck watching them two struggle as they did tonight, knowing that no matter what you won't get a chance.
I've seen Tippett do this a few times now and as I say I can see why he does it as all it takes is a bit of fortune for the top two guys, but I feel it hurts the team when it's clear it isn't going right for them. He'd bench someone off the other lines for the performance that Drai and McD put in tonight, and I'm not suggesting he goes that far, but reduce the shifts, let someone lead the team if they are playing well.
Apart from that moan, we blew this game in the first period, didn't really recover and once Drai had hit the post in the third you knew what was going to happen. I was just happy it went to OT, rather than them scoring with say 20 seconds to go which what would have happened a year or so ago.
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Adam
Messages: 7176
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Leia wrote on Sun, 08 December 2019 23:22 |
I can understand the reasoning, and I can't say in a similar situation I wouldn't do the same thing, but Tippett has to move away from McD and Drai as the only go to solution this team has. It was clear through the game that neither were particularly playing well and luck wasn't favouring either of them.
So why not send out the second unit first in OT, why did he persist with the first PP unit for so long when it wasn't working? We bemoan our secondary scoring, but if the primary scorers are having a off day, then give the others a chance, how must it feel to be stuck watching them two struggle as they did tonight, knowing that no matter what you won't get a chance.
I've seen Tippett do this a few times now and as I say I can see why he does it as all it takes is a bit of fortune for the top two guys, but I feel it hurts the team when it's clear it isn't going right for them. He'd bench someone off the other lines for the performance that Drai and McD put in tonight, and I'm not suggesting he goes that far, but reduce the shifts, let someone lead the team if they are playing well.
Apart from that moan, we blew this game in the first period, didn't really recover and once Drai had hit the post in the third you knew what was going to happen. I was just happy it went to OT, rather than them scoring with say 20 seconds to go which what would have happened a year or so ago.
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Worth mentioning - I thought McDavid was decent. Had some great chances, including that cross-bar. His linemates struggled to hit him with passes, but I didn't think 97 was the problem this game. I thought Kassian and Draisaitl both had tough games.
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Leia
Messages: 410
Registered: May 2003
Location: England
No Cups
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| Adam wrote on Sun, 08 December 2019 23:25 |
| Leia wrote on Sun, 08 December 2019 23:22 |
I can understand the reasoning, and I can't say in a similar situation I wouldn't do the same thing, but Tippett has to move away from McD and Drai as the only go to solution this team has. It was clear through the game that neither were particularly playing well and luck wasn't favouring either of them.
So why not send out the second unit first in OT, why did he persist with the first PP unit for so long when it wasn't working? We bemoan our secondary scoring, but if the primary scorers are having a off day, then give the others a chance, how must it feel to be stuck watching them two struggle as they did tonight, knowing that no matter what you won't get a chance.
I've seen Tippett do this a few times now and as I say I can see why he does it as all it takes is a bit of fortune for the top two guys, but I feel it hurts the team when it's clear it isn't going right for them. He'd bench someone off the other lines for the performance that Drai and McD put in tonight, and I'm not suggesting he goes that far, but reduce the shifts, let someone lead the team if they are playing well.
Apart from that moan, we blew this game in the first period, didn't really recover and once Drai had hit the post in the third you knew what was going to happen. I was just happy it went to OT, rather than them scoring with say 20 seconds to go which what would have happened a year or so ago.
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Worth mentioning - I thought McDavid was decent. Had some great chances, including that cross-bar. His linemates struggled to hit him with passes, but I didn't think 97 was the problem this game. I thought Kassian and Draisaitl both had tough games.
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He wasn't as bad as he was the other week, after he and Drai had done the whole of the 5 mins of OT. However, you know it's not his game when passes go astray and the PP looks like it has for the past few years. His control of the puck was a bit loose as well. Here's the thing, when they have a poor game they look ordinary, and on the same level as everyone and games when that happens are few and far between thankfully. However, my plea isn't about them two, it's about the coach having the courage to run with other players when it isn't going for them two. It cost us tonight as it has before.
Take me home, country road
to the place where I belong
to Alberta, to see the Oilers
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
5 Cups
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Tipps presser he was saying he was just like the fans standing on the bench watching the top guys out there while yelling “shoot, shoot”. Have to think this coaching staff made a point of telling them they don’t have to/can’t pass the puck into the net every night.
Get pucks deep.
Get pucks on net.
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