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Old 01-07-2015, 10:30 PM   #41
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Had this ready to post in the game thread, but may as well stick it here. To everyone whinging about our PP:

Our PP is 17th in the league. Last season it was 24th. Boston, Anaheim, Montreal, Dallas, Colorado all have a worse PP ratio than we do, with all their elite forwards and expensive rosters. We have 25 PPGs halfway through the season. Last season we had 39 total.

Our PP is not garbage, not terrible, not awful. Its not great, but what do people expect? We have no elite forwards. We have arguably one power forward. We have no real PP specialists like Shattenkirk, Giroux, Kane etc. For our PP to operate at this ratio with the units we have is pretty good I think.

As for the game, a few silly mistakes get punished yet again. Bad turnover by Raymond and Oilers level defending by Engelland for the first. Monahan lost Zetterburg for the 2nd and our PK is what it is. I felt Johnny really missed Hudler, he had a few shots but other than that was pretty ineffective.

I didn't feel like we played a bad game tonight, Detriot just used their extra experience to wait for our mistakes and punish them. They jumped on every turnover and every bad play and then just held onto it as they so good at doing.

As for us in a good sense, Backlund was excellent, easily our best player tonight. Not bad considering how long he has been out. Also seemed to help give some extra energy to Jones, Byron and Raymond.

Got to look at beat Florida now ahead of the brutal road trip we have coming up. Hope Ramo is ok too.
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