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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Win is a win but I think tonight we saw some of the old bad habits creep back into their game. They were really passive in the last few minutes and were very fortunate. Still three straight wins despite Tkachuk, Backlund, and Gaudreau struggling mightily is good. Starting to get a little worried about the Gio and Anderson pairing. They have some awful stretches at times.
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Agreed. The win was well deserved, and they were the better team, but I thought that was the most passive we've seen them under Sutter (bot all night, just sometimes). Lots of fumbling the puck, lots of waiting for someone else to go get it, too much standing still, and too much east-west hockey - especially from Gio/Andersson.
Nonetheless, a tremendous effort, and a great job on Mcdavid - though you'd never know it listening to Hrudy.
Of course the transition will take time, we all knew that. And this game will provide plenty of coaching opportunities for Sutter. I expect we'll be better Wednesday. And we were already better than the Oilers tonight.