“There are games that you play where you set a standard for your team,' said EdmontonOilers coach Dave Tippett. 'Those are standards you’ve got to try to get to every night, and when you don’t get there it’s frustrating.” (SportsnetSpec)
There were times when that San Jose effort was expected; when you looked down the Oilers roster and didn’t expect much.
But this team, they haven’t spent 54 games in or near first place in their division by mistake. They’re not doing this with mirrors, or with two players carrying the entire load every night. It’s actually a pretty decent team that new GM Ken Holland has put together here, and one that should only get better as he builds it up. But any roster that can spend two-thirds of a season at this level has run out of excuses for two games as poor as the last two the Oilers have trotted out.
“There are games that you play where you set a standard for your team,” Tippett explained. “Against St. Louis, against Calgary, you set standards. You set new heights for your team. Those are standards you’ve got to try to get to every night, and when you don’t get there it’s frustrating.”“We said that in October. We said it in November. We said it in December,” said Tippett, whose charges face Nashville on Hockey Day in Canada Saturday. “It’s always the time .
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