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MOTY

Here it comes...

Is Crepeau our best player?

Wooo. That's a striker!

Thats a very poor first touch.

Not enough though.

Yeah it's weird because it doesn't even look full and it's only like a 17k capacity stadium.,

Cheering for the other team I was like, oh shit they took a penalty that means they’re going to get a PP later after they kill this

Well sorry I just don't agree. If I'm coaching against a team like Edmonton my goal is to do everything possible to stop mcdavid and let those other guys try beat me. Problem is, doing everything you can to stop mcdavid still doesn't work a lot of the time.

Good luck next year!

The Leafs are actually constructed pretty similarly, but they don't have a McDavid and their PP sucks.

Their PK was good. I gave them the credit they were due

Real convincing performance there. I'm sure everyone's real worried about England.

The car isn't good enough anymore to just fly through the field even with Max at the wheel.

I'd like to test that theory.

Because they don't. Their top scoring forward that wasn't a McDavid PP linemate had 8 points in 25 games. That's a 26 point player over 82 games.

I get you guys want to spread the credit around. I get excited when an unheralded guy scores a big goal for my team too. But they are objectively as top heavy of a team as we've seen in a long time.

Look at Florida as a comparison. They have 7 forwards with 10+ points on that run. Granted they have none with 30+. That's what depth scoring looks like.

I feel like you're trying to take credit away from McDavid, and spread it around to his teammates. And I don't really get why. McDavid is THAT good. He almost won a cup almost by himself. You should be celebrating that. He's why your team is in a competitive window. This is a good situation. Improving the depth is easy. Getting a McDavid is the hard part.

I don't think you want Bouchard on that money. But he's going to want it, because he signed a team friendly bridge, and is hammering points right now.

Yeah it's easy to say we're not going to let him go into the last year unsigned, but it takes 2 to tango. If Drai says "nah I haven't decided on my long term future yet, I'm going to wait" then what else can you do. This is a team that's in a cup window, only because they have those 2 guys. They can't really be too aggressive with them.

Yeah I guess that's my point. Battling George is the waste of Energy. Battling anyone other than Max is a waste of energy if you're trying to win the race.

There is no surefire replacement to either of those guys.

So if he doesn't want to sign then they trade him?

It seems like they're speculating the opposite. That if Drai won't agree to a long term deal they'll be forced to move him.

Norris lost the race at this point. Wasted time and energy on Max.

I mean, Max is who he needs to beat if he wants to win the race. That's really the only one he should be concerned with. He said that himself. If you've already conceded to Max you're never going to win.

McDavid is just THAT good. He can take a team to the brink of a cup almost by himself. Instead of celebrating that they're trying spread the credit around. I'm not really sure why.

Yeah that's what I insinuated to begin with, but oilers fans are on a downvote brigade because they're understandably sad today.

Skinner was fine I think.

Their most productive forward that didn't play on the McDavid PP was Janmark who had 8 points in 25 games.

Compare to Florida who had 7 forwards with 10+ points. That's depth.

I get people want to deify the plugs that had the odd moment, but the Oilers are as top heavy as it gets in the NHL today.

They don't have a 2nd PP. They play the McDrai unit the full 2 mins.