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I guess the coach doesn’t agree with you. And I agree with him. No blender please. Work with the players you have to work with and in any given game the group that is showing can have their minutes pumped. He does it all the time.
The big picture is to be a better team than the one that lost in the Finals last year. Not just kinda/sorta/maybe ... we invested 7 million into two players in Arvidsson and Skinner to give us MORE scoring, not just to match watch Foegele/McLeod's totals from last year.
In the 3/4 Cup Finals games versus we lost to Florida, we struggled badly to score against Bob. The year before when Vegas beat us we struggled to score after Hill came into the series. We need scoring outside of just McDavid/Draisaitl/Hyman in these situations.
Putting guys who were signed to be top six wingers into your (gasp) top six isn't a "blender" either, lol. That's just playing them where they should be.
In the dynasty Oilers days, Sather often ran Gretzky + Kurri when the other winger spot open and cycled everyone from Nilsson to Anderson to Tikkanen to shit even Semenko there at times. It would get those players going.
There's no reason we can't do the same with blank-McDavid-Hyman.
Being a 104-106 point pace regular season team is no big deal and it's not the goal, not even close. This team has had good regular seasons, that should be an automatic at this point. What we should be building for is the playoffs and you're not doing that if you're not properly integrating new additions to the team as a coach. These guys need to score some goals to get their confidence going here.
If Knob didn't want these players he should have said so on July 1, but now that they are here it's his responsibility to get them integrated and producing with the group and that means giving them some chances with McDavid as that's the best odds they have to break out here.
