I too thought Mclellan handled him well EXCEPT that he didn't give him any PP time. The best way to give a young offensive minded player confidence is by putting them in a position where they can create offense and giving him an opportunity on the PP where he would have had time and space to create could have given him a much needed boost of con
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I too thought Mclellan handled him well EXCEPT that he didn't give him any PP time. The best way to give a young offensive minded player confidence is by putting them in a position where they can create offense and giving him an opportunity on the PP where he would have had time and space to create could have given him a much needed boost of con
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So if we are only good because of McDavid, that means their team isn't good at anything?
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I guess so. 5 players on the Flames can't stop our one trick pony for 60 minutes. Woe, thy name is Oilers.
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Nope. I'd rather forfeit the game than play against him. I bet you Jagr is teaching them to 'give up' while you are ahead.
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Pretty much agree. Did same thing with JP last year. Put Yamamoto on the PP2 over Cagguila. Put him in a position to succeed. Hopefully he gets a better opportunity against Vancouver.
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Not sure whats better, beating the Flames, or hearing the newly acquired Jagr talk about how McDavid could score 100 goals in his first press conference as a Flame
Loved the Oilers playing this song during the pre-game warmup. Sending a message to the Flames?
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So... this McDavid kid. Is he for real? It seems like he is a puck hog who never passes and is only concerned with goals? Who does he think he is - Stamkos?(do I have to add the
Yeah...I am not so sure what to think of this McDavid kid.
I think I need a bigger sample size.
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I still would like Jagr on the Oilers even if he spends most of the time in the press box. There's huge value in having a legend like that on the team.
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We can pick him up at the deadline whe the flames are out of the race
Loved the Oilers playing this song during the pre-game warmup. Sending a message to the Flames?
Hehe. I liked that song for a number of different reasons. Mainly the African rhythmic phrasing and the cool inclusion of the
I like this post, but I'm not certain that gloating is the right word to describe Jagr's feelings there though. Perhaps so incredibly impressed that he wants to make a "church of McDavid" happen!
We probably have left over material from building the arena for trade.We can pick him up at the deadline whe the flames are out of the race
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Klefbom with 72 CF%(39-15), 79 SCF%(19-5) and 80 HDCF%(12-3) and people don't think he was by far the best defenseman on the ice?
(CF = Corsi For, SCF = Scoring Chance For, HDCF = High Danger Chance For)
(CF = Corsi For, SCF = Scoring Chance For, HDCF = High Danger Chance For)
Most seem to think he was the best D on ice.
Maroon has better CF% and SCF% than McDavid, doesn't mean he was better though.
It was a dominant performance by the 1st line / 1st pair. Separating these guys based on Corsi after one game is not really relevant. I am not against using advstats but many of these numbers are completely dependent on large sample sizes.
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I think that McTrashboat pretty much summed up my thoughts on this. Very tight game and the kid was apparently a bundle of nerves. I have no issue at all with the way McLellan addressed that...he would have a better feel than anybody about how much ice time Yamamoto should get and when he should get it.
I suspect we will see a lot more of Yamamoto in the Vancouver game.
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We're not talking about a small difference between Klefbom and Russel though.
It's blatantly obvious who was better last night, by the numbers.
I am not arguing Russell was better than Klefbom, I would be arguing that these numbers are not proof he was.
Klefbom most common line mates:
Larsson, Drai, Maroon, McD, RNH, Lucic.
Russell's:
Benning, Strome, Jokinen, Caggiula, Kassian
... and they faced more or less the same level of opposition.
With that in mind I am not really surprised at the numbers and I don't think they are representative of their individual performances.
Still, Klefbom was better. But Russell played a very different role.
My point was not that Russell is better than Klefbom.
The point is that using those numbers to prove it is not the right way. It would be like me saying that Russell was better than Klefbom and Larsson since he had 0 give aways on the night while the others had 2 and 3 respectively. Of course it is not significative, but neither are the corsi numbers after 1 GP and independent of external factors.
Anyhow, I will stop here since I think I am derailing the thread with this and it really is not that important.
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