Oilers Vs. Blackhawks: Post-Game
14 years ago
Edmonton Oilers: 3
Chicago Blackhawks: 4
What the Coach is Saying
“Our defence had a nightmare of a time trying to figure out how to stop what looked like a fast attack, which only comes about because your forwards don’t do a good job, and our forwards did a poor job.”
“Our guys that are supposed to be our high-end skill guys, in games like this they want to play the wide-open stuff, but what it shows is their skill’s not good enough to play there. If they think that’s how they want to play the game they’re kidding themselves; they better really get back to thinking about being a lot better without the puck.”
Fun With Numbers
Something a little different in today’s Fun With Numbers section – a look at the Corsi counts for last night, courtesy of timeonice.com:
Forwards
- Andrew Cogliano: +2
- Zack Stortini: -1
- Gilbert Brule: -2
- Ales Hemsky: -3
- Ethan Moreau: -3
- Dustin Penner: -3
- Sam Gagner: -4
- J-F Jacques: -6
- Ryan Stone: -9
- Patrick O’Sullivan: -10
- Shawn Horcoff: -10
- Mike Comrie: -11
Defence
- Jason Strudwick: -1
- Lubomir Visnovsky: -4
- Denis Grebeshkov: -7
- Taylor Chorney: -8
- Tom Gilbert: -8
- Ladislav Smid: -12
Those of you who watched the game (I know, shame on me) can decide amongst yourselves if that’s at all indicative of the way certain people played last night, but I have trouble seeing a guy like Shawn Horcoff having a good game when he’s that far into the red. I’ll grant that he probably played against very good players, and quite possibly a lot in the defensive zone, but he’s being paid very handsomely to be good in those situations anyway and last night I imagine he wasn’t.
I see Strudwick up at the top in terms of shots for and against for the defence; I’m surprised to see it not only because he traditionally struggles by this metric but also because based on his confusion on the Blackhawks first goal and his subsequent pull-down of Patrick Sharp (resulting in a penalty shot) would seem to indicate a poor game.
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