Oilers just oiled. They hung around and capitalized on our mistakes until McDavid was able to McDavid and then that was the game. It's literally their entire gameplan, and it's a pretty good one when you happen to have a McDavid on your team. Pretty much the only two things in hockey you can count on: McDavid is going to get 100+ points, and opposition teams will make mistakes. Pretty easy to draw that up on the board. There's just one X and one O... the X is McDavid and the O is "let them make mistakes and then high-five McDavid."
I will say that early penalty on Looch was an absolute horsesh#t call if I've ever seen one. The crosscheck call on Backlund was about as weak as I've ever seen, but at least it wasn't fabricated like the call on Looch.
Last edited by FanIn80; 10-31-2022 at 03:02 PM.
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