Yeah, say what you want about reuniting McDrai, or about double-shifting the top PP unit in a pre-season game, or about playing McDrai 30 mins (or whatever their ice time was), the reality is that the Oilers completely took over the second half of the game.
Having said that, Sutter's post-game comments did resonate with me (to a degree anyway). A couple of mistakes in the second period really turned the game, and those mistakes are 100% correctable, and I have no doubt whatsoever that Sutter will correct them. I wasn't sure I agreed about his "bad call" comments, and he seemed to double-down on the goalie interference call. I thought his Coaches Challenge there was not good and put a team and PP unit with momentum right back on the power-play. I agreed with his comments about this game being a "no-hitter", but can't for the life of me think that that was the game plan.
So in the end, it's a pre-season game that contained some important lessons. There were also bright spots: Top line obviously, more promising depth (Lewis/Richardson) compared to last year, and Kylington continues to thoroughly impress.
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