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Originally Posted by calf
For the love of god, get pucks on net. It'll be nice to see shots not hit a defender and rebound out of the zone, setting up odd-man rushes or breakaways for the oppositon.
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Originally Posted by icarus
Get back to shooting the puck more. Not so many cutesy pass attempts through traffic that allow the Oilers transition game to take flight. If no shot or clear pass options try to take it deep and wait for support from behind the net.
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Yes, along with not layering the defence against McDavid and just playing him one on one, the other huge error was puck management. Sutter said their goals all came off plain old mistakes. Bad plays between the faceoff dots and the blue line. The biggest zone times have been when the fourth line management to get pucks in deep and forecheck hard.
The top line is good at cycling once they establish in deep. But they also tend to try things at the blue line that, if they fail, go the other way fast. same with almost all of Calgary's D.