There were nights when Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock wasn’t sure if Leon Draisaitl would ever get there. And mornings when the player likely couldn’t stand to see the coach walk into the room. (SportsnetSpec)
CHOOSE PLAN Monday night in Nashville, after Draisaitl had been the best player on the ice by some margin, scoring both Oilers goals in a 3-2 shootout loss, Hitchcock sounded like a coach becoming vindicated. “Coaches get players to places they can’t get to themselves, and the tug of war that goes on until they get to that place is hard,” he said. “You’ve got to be able to coach through conflict, and the players have to be able to play through conflict.
He’s got 20 games left, and could well take a run at 50 goals, the first to score that many in an Oilers season since Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri in 1986-87. He had a shorthanded goal, and his 15th power-play goal of the season. “It’s my job to produce offensively, that’s what I’m getting paid to do,” he said. “I want to be a complete player and I take pride in doing the little things right and defending, faceoffs, penalty kill, whatever it is.” Said Chiasson: “He thinks the game.
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