Brookbank
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Yep. As you walk towards the main entrance of Rogers Place , they have huge murals of each cup win on the side of the building. Then the last mural is the draft of McDavid. They really think that it's written in the stars that they will relive the 80's glory.Every Oilers writer is trying to re-live their glory days of covering the Gretzky Oilers. It's pathetic. The days of doing coke with Mark Messier are over and will never happen again, and the current iteration of the Oilers hate their guts for asking braindead questions after every game.
The days of questioning if Hoglander is an NHL player are over. But that's what you are doing. NHL players have bad games and stretches. So what.I have to disagree.
He had a great start to the season, with most of his impressive play coming on the fourth line. He has 0 playoff goals of any type in 8 games, 1 assist, 4 shots on net, -2, under 10 minutes a game, 2 take aways, 1 give away, 1 blocked shot and 9 hits. IN 8 GAMES! That one hit a game better be truck like, but honestly I can't remember a single one, nor do I remember any particularlygood,or even decent plays. He's been absolutely non existent and as much of a non factor as someone can possibly be without being an outright detriment.
Here's an old article on his play from early in the playoffs. Nothing has changed.
JPat: Analyzing Nils Höglander’s surprisingly silent start to Canucks’ postseason
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s be clear. There are players high...canucksarmy.com
I have no clue what you're taking about with yes-men. Don't think you know what you're talking about. Cole is the 5th/6th defenseman, he is 5th in ice-time, barely ahead of Soucy. Cole is getting ice-time because he has to. Myers and Hronek are both over 20 minutes, as is Hughes, and Zadorov, who partners with Cole. So Cole gets important minutes when Zadorov gets important minutes. Really all the defence are playing important minutes. No Lundqvist's like on Dallas only playing 4 minutes a game. Tocchet doesn't have "yes-man", he barely has enough players to ice a starting line-up.
Cole has had a couple struggles and could get a rest at one point but we're also 6W-3L with him and all the other "yes-men" in the lineup.
On his day, Hogs can get 5 on 5 goals against good teams. Karrlson can't do that.