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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I've looked back at that Oilers series and am a bit more forgiving of Markstrom now.
In that series Sutter was stubborn and wouldn't tweak how they played against 97 and 29 and it killed them. They were bleeding high quality chances against those two (20.1 HD Corsi Against per 60 with those two on the ice!!!)
In that series we outscored the Oilers 15-8 when McDavid and Draisaitl weren't on the ice together, and got outscored 17-5 when they were on the ice together (14-5 at even strength).
They scored 8 high danger goals and had 34 high danger chances in the 5 games with those two on the ice together. (6 medium danger and 2 low danger).
Oilers shot 22.9% with McDavid and Drasaitl on the ice (17 goals on 74 shots - 0.770 save percentage)
They shot 8.3% without McDavid and Draisaitl on the ice (8 goals on 96 shots).
That series was as much a coaching failure as it was a goaltending failure. The Oilers should have played into the Flames hands by putting 29 and 97 on the same line but Sutter refused to actually create a line and pair to hard match against those two (and they abused Lindholm a bit going 11-3 with him on the ice in 42 of their 102 minutes on the ice together ).
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He flat out said you can't line match and shadow a player.
Sutter was supposed to be the difference maker, and he was for the wrong team. I think that series was when he lost the team, he was never the same coach again.