DieSendungmitderMaus
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I'm pretty sure no one is a "natural born" leader.
I do get criticism of McDavid and Draisaitl because they're really poorer than they should be defensively and sometimes go overboard with shift length like in OT the other day which doesn't help the team. At the same time, can you blame them for feeling they've got to do it all by themselves? The Oilers have been an absolute disgrace without 97 or 29 on the ice AGAIN this season, and you can't even say it's because they take up too much cap room. Let's be real here, even if McDavid is sometimes guilty of not not playing a full 200ft game or doing too much himself, this is absolutely dwarfed in importance by the absolute clownshow he has been surrounded by his entire career.
Comparing him with Ovechkin and Crosby is kind of apt, as both of them won (goal) scoring titles without their team making the playoffs. Difference is their teams got them help. The Oilers, on the other hand, have had bottom 3 front offices for the entire cap era. People can't wrap their heads around this level and length of management dysfunction, so they decide that the superstars must be the problem, not that the roster around them is the 31st beat in the league (sorry Arizona).
I do get criticism of McDavid and Draisaitl because they're really poorer than they should be defensively and sometimes go overboard with shift length like in OT the other day which doesn't help the team. At the same time, can you blame them for feeling they've got to do it all by themselves? The Oilers have been an absolute disgrace without 97 or 29 on the ice AGAIN this season, and you can't even say it's because they take up too much cap room. Let's be real here, even if McDavid is sometimes guilty of not not playing a full 200ft game or doing too much himself, this is absolutely dwarfed in importance by the absolute clownshow he has been surrounded by his entire career.
Comparing him with Ovechkin and Crosby is kind of apt, as both of them won (goal) scoring titles without their team making the playoffs. Difference is their teams got them help. The Oilers, on the other hand, have had bottom 3 front offices for the entire cap era. People can't wrap their heads around this level and length of management dysfunction, so they decide that the superstars must be the problem, not that the roster around them is the 31st beat in the league (sorry Arizona).
