with the lack of depth due to the Oilers useless management and hockey operations people, expect McDavid to go to Edmonton. That team has very little in the way of pride of fight so they'll probably go through the motions.
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What I fully expect to see from this is the same thing that we have seen throughout this regime in Edmonton (and from their fans): excuses, and acceptance of failure.
And a complete and utter contrast to the Calgary Flames.
Backlund, Stajan, Colborne, Raymond and Ferland down. One C with more than a dozen career face-offs on their resume. And everyone in the organization treats the next game like every other game: go do your job and win.
Oilers get a couple injuries and you see what we saw from them in the LA game (and last year... and the year before...): it's tough to win with injuries, but hey, they tried hard!
Driving the net is reckless? Hall is one of the few Oilers who play the game the way it should be played.
The fact that he has little to no situational awareness is his problem. He is one of the most talented players in the league currently, but he puts himself in bad spots all the time and it leads him to get banged pretty good, either by players, the boards or in this case the net.
If you're getting rocked so often, it does begin to take a toll on the body. If he doesn't smarten up, I wouldn't be shocked if he falls off a cliff talent wise in his late 20's early 30's like Dustin Brown has (he's been knocked around quite a lot in his career as well and his skill seems to have left the building)
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Driving the net is reckless? Hall is one of the few Oilers who play the game the way it should be played.
It's just the way he does things.
He didn't have a step on Tanev, he had a bad angle and he had no support.
Sure, drive it hard, but if you don't have the angle, peel off, hold up, regroup.
It's earily similar to the massive hit he took two weeks ago from Callahan that he was lucky to avoid injury on. Didn't have the angle, didn't have the step, went for it anyway, got buried.
Hall plays like he's still in junior, like he's just better than everyone else, bigger, stronger, faster, and in the NHL, he isn't.
At some point courage turns to stupidity. It's admirable that he plays the game hard, it's not admirable that he takes risks and chances with low completion percentages because it puts him at risk and can hurt his team. It's amazing he isn't injured more than he is.
You have to protect yourself.
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