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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Looking at Sutter's comments about the game, he's playing a bigger game here.
He chained up the hounds tonight, and is clearly giving the other side a false sense of security going into the season about playing us.
Unlike the Oilers side who went balls out in a pre-season game for the result, Darryl is obviously highly aware of the stakes and is operating as such.
One coach here has won two cups while the other is a middle of the road scrub who plays his stars 30 minutes a game in the pre-season. One coach is actually using the pre-season as it was designed to be used.
All bets are off in a couple saturdays and I think no one will be more taken aback than McDavid if he found his treatment tonight to be unfair.
That's what I've taken away from tonight from a coaching standpoint.
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I think Darryl’s comment of it being a no hitter means he’ll be all over the video tomorrow with the team showing them all the missed opportunities to punish the oilers.
They had 30 minutes of McDavid and draisaitl on the ice in a preseason game. That was an opportunity to abuse them. Lucic is not on the team to hug draisatl in the corner to give the oilers a powerplay. He’s here to make opponents feel it when he takes a penalty on them. Darryl will hate the holds and the hooks… those are lazy penalties. I doubt he’ll ever have a problem with punishing cross checks and charging calls that lead to other teams hesitating going into corners. If you’re going to take a penalty on McDavid or draisatl… make sure they’re going to feel it tomorrow.
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