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Originally Posted by FanIn80
From an NHL.com article... (it's about how happy Tkachuk is to be in Florida, and I skipped over all that stuff. I don't want to read about that, I'm only interested in the impact he's had and what players say about him)
Edit: He's had a very quiet, very disciplined, very 200'-focused playoffs... yet still leads the team in points. Crazy. The way he chased down McDavid on that breakaway in the 3rd last night, disrupting him without taking a penalty... that's a new kind of Tkachuk.
https://www.nhl.com/video/bobrovsky-...-6354780248112 |
That play epitomizes why the Oilers won't win the cup this year. Drysaddle and McDavid rarely, if ever would be spotted making that kind of defensive play to prevent a goal.
Even with their crazy point outputs this playoffs, the team has what? One 5-5 goal in the last five games? The top 5 Oilers players pretty much piled up the vast majority of their points in the first two rounds against two of the weakest playoff teams and since that time the PPG pace they are on simply isn't enough to close the gap on teams with competent, deep rosters.