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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Right, he's absolutely the main reason they're so bad, because there are no other players on the Oilers, just Taylor Hall. If you put Taylor Hall on the Penguins they'd be a lottery team.
Do people think for even half a second before they post? Hall's two way game is no better or worse than Matt Duchene's and he's on basically everyone's roster, for good reason. Having every forward be a Selke nominee is a good way to lose 3-2 hockey games. Someone has to make things difficult for Ovechkin, which is why Toews and Bergeron are going (among other reasons). But not everyone has to be that guy. Someone also has to burn right past Olli Maata and rip one short side on Rask to put the game out of reach. That's Hall, that's Duchene, that's Stamkos.
Stop overthinking it and take your best players.
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Are you an Oilers fan? Do you even watch Hall? When the Oilers win the odd game he looks great but when they lose (a lot of the time) he coasts and turns the puck over. I have never seen a guy try to beat multiple defenders on his own so often. I'm not saying one day he won't play for Team Canada but he's not ready yet.
He's no different than Ryan in that his overall game isn't there although I don't believe the US has a surplus in talent that they can overlook a perennial 30 goal player but it appears that the decisions are made by committee so it's not like one guy makes the list and there obviously is something in Ryan's game that some team builders in hockey don't like. If they win gold or silver nobody will care who got left off.