I'll take responsibility. Heard it was a pretty high pace game and turned it on mid way through
I saw McDavid had 2 goals and was thinking he must of heard me call his shot accuracy crap in the pre game thread haha.
Then I watched him in the second half and man he was flying.. generating so much. And to be quite honest.. making a mess of the plays when it came crunch time to score. That one pass that has been mentioned may have been the worst look off I've seen yet from him. I'm not saying this to slag him. I'm saying this because I think it's a microcosm of what's wrong with the team. There's a mental block in place right now up and down this line up when it comes time to finish a scoring chance.
Every game goalie x plays great.
Every game they score lower then any of the fancy stats say they should.
This team has confidence/mental issues when it comes to scoring. Which with the talent on the team it's quite a contradiction to what's expected. Which is funny enough, not shocking considering it's the Oilers.
I hope they break out of it quickly but I've said this a lot lately. They usually get out of this by introducing a real sense of Urgency.
I'm just not sure if it's the threat of the season being lost or if it's the guilt of a coach getting fired.
In 2021-2022 they weren't all that good until Tippet got fired about mid point in the season? Caught fire after to finish the second half.
In 2022-2023 they were a pretty average team at the quarter pole or even half way into the season with Woodcroft before having a big second half
In 2023-2024 they were awful and didn't respond until Woodcroft was fired near the quarter pole. Then were pretty damn good.
In 2024-2025 they're 2-4-1 and can't score for the life of them despite generating chances like a top scoring team. Will this continue until a sense of urgency or guilt is introduced? Season slipping away? they can't really fire another coach can they?
I hope they turn it around sooner than later. But history tells me there's probably another 5-10 games of this.