Sure, you can lose to the SanJoseSharks. But get outworked by the San Jose Sharks? In your own building, in the thick of a playoff race? The EdmontonOilers still need to establish themselves as contenders and play hard every night. (SportsnetSpec)
Fans will talk about how their team should have capitalized on losses by all the teams around them in the Pacific standings . But that’s not how it works.
You don’t play harder because Minnesota beat Vancouver. You don’t win that puck battle because Nashville won in Calgary. If you’re Edmonton, you try to establish yourself as a true contender by being hard to play against every night — not just some nights. By being a team that refuses to lose two in a row, not when the second one is against a team well below you in the standings and you’re back on home ice.
It’s great to get up for games against Calgary and St. Louis. But winning teams, like winning players, learn to pay at a certain level every night. It doesn’t mean you win every night. It just means you compete to win every night.“When you are in a battle,” he explained, “there are two guys going to the net side by side. One guy wins and one guy doesn’t. We didn’t win enough of those.
“The St. Louis game, the Calgary game, they were simple hockey games. You put the puck ahead and you go hard after it, you compete on loose pucks you get pucks going to the net.Edmonton didn’t compete hard enough on Thursday. They didn’t work hard enough, weren’t committed enough to their game, and watched a 2-0 lead fade into a 6-3 defeat because they played loose, pre-season hockey during a stretch-run game.
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