K1984
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Outside of Nurse I don't see it that way. McD, Drai, Nuge, Hyman, Ekholm, Bouch have carried this team and deserved a modicum of respect, and not stuff like the bolded.
Overall the 6 I mentioned are among the hardest working players in the world and carry this team every year. We have hardly anything this year outside of that group and particularly with Kane out all season.
I wouldn't doubt either that the Oilers are wanting players like Skinner to show up. Actually both of them, and do their part. Nurse seems to be a lost cause, on planet Space.
I already asked. Jimmy got sent to his room over that side discussion.
Meanwhile they are the only players still here among a group that does this over and over and over and over again.
They'll be better, like they always are. But it would be naive to think that they aren't some part of the problem when they've been part of this formula for a decade while everyone else has turned over around them multiple times. Speaking about McDavid, Draisaitl and Nuge specifically, who were all individually abysmal last night. In fact, other than Skinner, you could say that all players with letters on their sweaters were our worst players last night relative to individual expectation.
Leadership players focused on pulling their team into a better start don't end the night with 0 shots. McDavid and Drai were garbage last night, and it just isn't acceptable, ESPECIALLY in the first game of the season after the debacle last year. When the prevailing culture here seems to be "well we're better than that so I guess we'll try again next time" instead of "that was a pathetic joke that was completely unacceptable," you get the results we get.