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GoldAppleCorps

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  1. The high sticks were soft, but yeah, they were legit. Stripes didn't feel like calling anything else soft.
  2. Nothing to do with Otter. Sacrificed to get the team some life. Apparently, there's none to be had.
  3. Looks real familiar thus far. Heading for a familiar result if nothing changes
  4. This is like playing the old "Mike Tyson Punchout" when you got to Tyson. It's doable, but you gotta play perfect. I think Cody Ceci (he wasn't the only one guilty) put like 3 lazy passes across his own defensive zone. EDM jumped on each one, and began a barrage on Otter. Those small hiccups just can't happen at this level. When did Corey Perry become a serviceable hockey player?
  5. Deserved a better fate, but this is the way to win this game
  6. Now this looks like intentional hockey!
  7. At this level, precision has to be taken for granted. The Oilers have it, the Stars don't. I mean that Oiler passes are going rink-wide, across zones, and landing in stride on tape. Dallas finds their target, sends it off a step slow, and then it lands on a heel or just between the feet. The receiver has to stop, dig the puck out, and lose sight of the play. Simply, we're taking too long to execute. Even with their lethal speed, the Oilers are going just a bit faster. A couple of times, we've gotten them chasing. They can be had, but we've got to stop thinking and play instinctually as fast as possible. If the turnovers are going to happen anyway, let them happen at full bore - preventing the Oilers from cleanly attacking. The assignment was always to win at least one of this pair. Get home ice back and see what happens. That's still there (remember, we got destroyed by the Avs in the games they won. We won 4 games by barely being ahead), but we can't play timid. If we're not going to clamp down defensively on their talent (almost impossible), then send the puck into our offensive zone. Right now, we're doing not enough of either. Never give up until the handshake line, but tonight determines if we've got a series or just a nice season.
  8. McDavid doesn't play near the boards that often. Trying to line him up for a hit is really tough because he cuts and shifts like a video game. Hitting him with any authority would really require a charging or boarding penalty. Those are dirty hits.
  9. You grind and grind, then the best player in hockey shows his quality. Like Messi in his prime. Just a game changer.
  10. Two goals while we should've been on the PP
  11. Well, his next port is local community college. 😃 Knoblauch doesn't really have much to adjust. His previous game plan worked like a champ until his team took penalties and couldn't kill them. You can't tell a team not to take penalties. They know that already, and when a team attempts to minimize penalties, they end up playing timid. Sticks don't get lifted, bodies don't get tied up, poke-checks don't get made. Having a solid PK really gives a team the freedom to play to the echo of the whistle. You still don't want to be stupid, but if a penalty happens, you're confident it won't be immediately costly. I guess they could work on Stars PP formations, but since there's not much film of Seguin, Rantanaan, and Heiskanen on the ice at once, I'm not sure how useful that would be.
  12. To be fair, none of those goals were really howlers. The keeper was screened or beaten on good plays (OK, on Duchene's goal, I don't really know why it took Skinner so long to migrate from his left post to the right). It's just that, at this stage of the playoffs, I need big saves. Last year, Skinner was a huge part of getting the Oilers by the Stars. Yes, there were other factors, but he took a lot of goals off the board. It's a small sample size, but right now, he appears to be the opposite. In the end, both teams finished with two 5 on 5 goals. Dallas just got 3 PP goals to Edmonton's 1. I've got what I hope is the last of graduation season tonight (my son is a high school senior). However, I'm asking that the Stars, having seen the true speed of McDavid and Draisaitl, are ready to mitigate (not eliminate) the Oilers ability to play defense with their offense. DeBoer has the pieces and the voodoo to reconfigure the team to facee hyper-skilled speedsters or physical defenders. We've got home ice thus far, but Edmonton is almost in a do or die mode already.
  13. Stars have to get the Jets dump truck force out of their head and remember the Avs-style finesse. We played MacKinnon and Makar already, so we know the energy that it take to compete with (notice I didn't say "beat" - McDavid and Draisaitl are top tier) that level of skill. All I ask is that we don't make them even better than they are. They're deserving of respect, but play them honestly. If you're backing off, they're going right around you. Stick tight and make them play in a phone booth (they'll still do damage, but you give yourself a chance). It's just one period of one game, but Edmonton has to reconsider defending. It's clear that Skinner isn't going to erase mistakes, and the shutouts against Vegas were likely more of a function of the futility of the Knight attack rather than defensive brilliance. If the Oilers are going to play defense with their offense, Dallas has to burn them for it.
  14. Perry is still a punk. He knows there's more games, right?
  15. Now we'll see if we took 200ft shot practice over the break.
  16. Bisch seems to know how to defend McDavid. Close space, put body on him when you can, and don't stab in on his inevitable spin move.
  17. Can't argue with these penalties.
  18. We got 1 minute of PP time to pee on the fire hydrant.
  19. EDM hitting tape to tape passes while we're needing 3 or 4 stabs at the puck to find it.
  20. If we're still considering winning this game, we gotta kill this one.
  21. Do you even Aleister Crowley bro?
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