bruce cassidy on the oilers controlling play: "they have the puck and they held onto it. they were strong on it. cutbacks, you name is. the o-zone support below the goal line, all those things. stuff we didn't do well enough to tilt the game back in our favour. we weren't hard on the puck. guys we rely on offensively, they need to understand that. go through any line, we didn't have the puck enough. if we're going to beat a good team that's attack-oriented, the highest-scoring team in the league, you have to have the puck. they got the races and battles, especially in the first period, they won 'em all."
The #1 complaint from people here is Draisaitl. Here's why he's not even a consideration for me:
Let's choose the most generous stat (xGAR, which skews towards individual shooting talent), over the most generous period of time (5 years, starting in his first 100-point year)...