GDT: Rocky - Oilers v Flyers - 8 PM on SN1

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tardigrade81

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When McDavid and Drai aren’t playing well they have a tendency to make things more difficult on themselves rather than simplify.

It will likely take some random luck that gets them on the board to shake them out of this at this point. On their own volition they are doing nothing whatsoever that will result in goals.
Good point
 

OfCorsiDid

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Agreed, Leon should be sat for that selfish, boneheaded play, but they won’t do it. Knob has zero control of this team.

I can't believe we're saying this shit again.

We've had 5 different coaches in the McDrai era and all of them have behaved more or less the same to them. At some point we gotta put the spotlight on the magic twins.

I thought it was dumb to fire Woodcroft when we did. I would think that firing Knob is unspeakably stupid.
 
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Shizuka

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I don't like that McDavid didn't immediately challenge that 1 on 1 there. In years previously he would have turned on afterburners and gone for it. WTF has happened to his defining 5th gear? Where's the confidence?
 

CrazyJoeDavola

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I don't like that McDavid didn't immediately challenge that 1 on 1 there. In years previously he would have turned on afterburners and gone for it. WTF has happened to his defining 5th gear? Where's the confidence?
He's tired from the long run, still getting his legs back, likely still banged up to a degree, and he's been losing his top end speed year after year. He'll never be as fast as he was a few years back.

He's been slowly declining since kneeordano, but he's still elite. But you can notice a small fraction of his speed decline every year since
 
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