The Edmonton Oilers’ Untold Secret: What Keeps the Hype Alive Year After Year?
Unless Babcock can get these players to buy into team defense, a concept the previous Oilers tried and failed with, the Oilers aren’t going to be successful. Though to be fair, Knoblauch got the players to buy into that concept, going on extended winning streaks in his first two seasons. The players were able to protect Stuart Skinner and Calvin Pickard.
Given how Babcock wants to play with pressure on the puck in the offensive zone and needing numbers coming back, it is going to be a challenge for some of these guys to keep up. Not to mention that the Carolina Hurricanes’ defensive zone structure isn’t coming to Edmonton to protect Frederik Andersen. He is going to be asked to do a lot more. Can he do it coming off an injury in the Stanley Cup Final?
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