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[Hockey Duckie]

The Oil had twice as many HD chances, 12 to 6. Great job on Dostal keeping us in the game while we somehow scrounge for goals. We tied the game up, but fell short.

 

[dracom]

now's a good time to fire cronin. seems like the team has figured out how to play decent enough defense, now we can get a coach that can teach offense and not destroy the development of young forwards?

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

McDavid really had zero shots tonight? Maybe the most impressive thing they’ve done defensively all season

 

[LuGBuG]

now's a good time to fire cronin. seems like the team has figured out how to play decent enough defense, now we can get a coach that can teach offense and not destroy the development of young forwards?

If he wasn’t fired yet no chance it’s right now.

 

[ohcomeonref]

Lacombe is a wide dude actually, wtf

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

11 pages seems about right for that game. Not a hell of a lot to say about it. Dostal was an acrobat, Strome/Vatrano/Terry have settled in to being a first line, Leo and Mac were awful.

 

[dracom]

If he wasn’t fired yet no chance it’s right now.

too late to wish for a christmas miracle?

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

So Cronin shortened the bench in a back to back? Fking idiot

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I would have to re-watch the Draisaitl goal but it seemed like it was another instance of Lacombe overcommitting and getting caught. Maybe I’m wrong.

Wanted that one - it was there. Hard to be mad at the effort though.

McTavish couldn’t be bothered on their third goal. Maybe it should be him riding the bench not Cutter.

When the puck switched sides after the scrum along the boards, Leason followed the puck instead of looking around him to find the open guy or collapse back toward the middle of the ice. Oiler #27 peeled back into the neutral zone.

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Leason overcommitted instead of collapse towards the middle of the ice. LaCombe saw this and left Draisaitl in order to prevent Hyman from getting a great scoring chance in the middle of the ice. LaCombe's defending did prevent Hyman from attempting a HD scoring chance, but it caused the puck to ricochet by him and onto Draisaitl's body. Draisaitl settled it down to score the goal. Mac was still late coming down from the scrum, but it was Leason who overcommitted and caused the chaos.

I think Mac took a second to figure out where he was at after that scrum along the board b/c he didn't immediately dart down.

 

[ScarTroy]

When the puck switched sides after the scrum along the boards, Leason followed the puck instead of looking around him to find the open guy or collapse back toward the middle of the ice. Oiler #27 peeled back into the neutral zone.


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Leason overcommitted instead of collapse towards the middle of the ice. LaCombe saw this and left Draisaitl in order to prevent Hyman from getting a great scoring chance in the middle of the ice. LaCombe's defending did prevent Hyman from attempting a HD scoring chance, but it caused the puck to ricochet by him and onto Draisaitl's body. Draisaitl settled it down to score the goal. Mac was still late coming down from the scrum, but it was Leason who overcommitted and caused the chaos.

I think Mac took a second to figure out where he was at after that scrum along the board b/c he didn't immediately dart down.

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No watch the video. He didn’t take a second to figure out where he was, he lazily skated back. I’m not absolving Leason, but that was terrible from Mac. Benchable to be honest.

 

[MCB]

I'm not even mad. Earlier this season I was saying I'd be ok with losses if they were at least hustling and giving the effort. Given the road trip and back end of b2bs, it was a good game

Exactly my thoughts, and maybe I've become jaded to losing, but it was an entertaining game and I felt there were a lot of positives. Biggest in my book is lacombe, I take back ever considering him as a toss in/extra piece in potential trades and I'm very glad to be wrong about that. It's great to see youth finally showing progress in development (hopefully more to follow).

Edit: and yes I know lacombe is older than our other youth dmen, but I choose to hold on to the few bright spots in this rebuild.

 

[Ducks DVM]

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[ohcomeonref]

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Pass.

Let me know when @duckaroosky is serving Ranch Water again, like the Almighty intended.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

No watch the video. He didn’t take a second to figure out where he was, he lazily skated back. I’m not absolving Leason, but that was terrible from Mac. Benchable to be honest.

I watched it a few times. Mac shook his head and got turned around. It looked weird, tbh. And I said he didn't dart down. Everyone else did take off fast except for Mac. Sure, it's a benchable mistake, but I am concerned why he took that extra second to figure out he needed to get back into play.

 

[duckaroosky]

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That's expecting a lot out of me. I got booze, benadryl and half a bag of tortilla chips.

 

[Mr Rogers]

Doesn’t really meet the eye test for Leo, who looked awful tonight I thought not only offensively but defensively too. I guess some of it’s coming from that secondary assist on the Lacombe goal. If I’m being completely honest, I thought he looked perhaps the worst he has all year. I agree his conditioning is off but I think there’s some mental stuff going on too.

 

[Wheatens]

Doesn’t really meet the eye test for Leo, who looked awful tonight I thought not only offensively but defensively too. I guess some of it’s coming from that secondary assist on the Lacombe goal. If I’m being completely honest, I thought he looked perhaps the worst he has all year. I agree his conditioning is off but I think there’s some mental stuff going on too.

Outside of that very poor pass and perhaps tiring like everyone else later in the game, Leo was completely fine. I feel like that pass is just sticking in people's brains because it is fresh, due to it happening in the 3rd period.

 

[Mr Rogers]

Outside of that very poor pass and perhaps tiring like everyone else later in the game, Leo was completely fine. I feel like that pass is just sticking in people's brains because it is fresh, due to it happening in the 3rd period.

There was a couple other plays I remember where he coughed up the puck. On one of them, he actually ended up flubbing a pass to his and the team’s benefit because Edmonton wasn’t expecting the puck to essentially not move.and it’s not just when he has the puck, he never strips guys either.

Aside from being bad defensively tonight, and in his defense, the Oilers are a tough assignment, he and his line didn’t really sustain or generate anything. Again, I think it’s a matter of expectations which is essentially opinion. I don’t think he was perfectly fine (or even close to it) because I expect more out of him than what I saw. It’s why there’s a lot of varying opinions on the board of his play this year in general.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

Doesn’t really meet the eye test for Leo, who looked awful tonight I thought not only offensively but defensively too. I guess some of it’s coming from that secondary assist on the Lacombe goal. If I’m being completely honest, I thought he looked perhaps the worst he has all year. I agree his conditioning is off but I think there’s some mental stuff going on too.

They never told us what his actual injury was when he hit the net and hit his head.. They did mention he has headaches and neck stifness.. He is playing tentative and afraid of contact

 

[Mr Rogers]

They never told us what his actual injury was when he hit the net and hit his head.. They did mention he has headaches and neck stifness.. He is playing tentative and afraid of contact

He probably shouldn’t be playing right now or should at least watch a few games. Either he’s hurt and/or he needs a mental break.

 

[robbieboy3686]

Outside of that very poor pass and perhaps tiring like everyone else later in the game, Leo was completely fine. I feel like that pass is just sticking in people's brains because it is fresh, due to it happening in the 3rd period.

Those poor passes late in games are often the goals that cost a team. I’m trying to slow myself with judgement on carlsson since he isn’t playing with talented wingers and he’s still I hope going to become stronger as the years pass. He and minty major sophomore slumps. Luckily these sophomore slumps happen to a lot of players

 

[JAHV]

I thought Leo had a number of takeaways in this game. I actually thought his defensive game was very solid and it's just that bad pass clouding opinions.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

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Would it be too late to send Zell to the Blues for Fowler?

 

[FlyingV09]

I think we’re seeing the potential downside to rotating young players in and out of the lineup. It seems Minty and Zellweger are playing not to make a mistake rather than aggressive and assertive. Zellweger especially seems to be second guessing himself. It’s a rather stark contrast to the beginning of the year.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

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The new whipping boy strikes again