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Sportsnet (Spector)
Q&A: Oilers’ Tippett on Keith, Hyman, turning hard lessons into playoff wins
Are you ready to turn playoff lessons into playoff wins?
- We’ve taken some steps forward in the regular season, but it hasn’t translated into playoff success. That’s something that we have to own.
Does it concern you how the game changes come playoff time?
- We have a saying we use all the time: Every play counts… So the more adept you are at dealing with the ‘Every play counts,’ the better percentage your chances are of winning (in the playoffs).
Adding Hyman, Foegele and Ryan, how much better are you up front?
- The one thing that’s different between the regular season and a playoff series is, you have to be able to score grinding goals where you create off the forecheck… And those guys I just mentioned, they’re all players who will enhance our group in that part of the game.
The Oilers have looked ready before, and it turned out they weren’t. Are they ready now?
- There have been a lot of really good teams on paper, but they don’t turn out to be good. It’s our responsibility as players and coaches to maximize what we have, and be a good team.
BLH’s Thoughts: One thing that bugs me about Tippett, he’s non-committal with his answers. He does the non-answer answer well and it’s boring as hell. That said, if you don’t have the answer to the question or you do and don’t want to give it, there’s nothing better than a non-answer answer which, in this case, has me wondering if Tippett is as high on his club as the guys covering it.
Now, as the reader, you’re only getting portions of his quotes here, but they’re the best parts in my opinion. So, you can head over to Sportsnet and read the full interview if you’d like but I don’t feel like you’ll glean any more there than you will here.
Oilersnation (Laing)
Edmonton Oilers announce training camp details
- The club announced Thursday that its main training camp will kick off on Sept. 22, with the rookie camp kicking off on the 15th of September.
- Here’s the full list of players:
Goaltenders – 3
- Ilya Konovalov
- Olivier Rodrigue
- Ethan Kruger
Defencemen – 9
- Phillip Kemp
- Dmitri Samorukov
- Simon Kubicek
- Markus Niemelainen
- Filip Berglund
- Michael Kesselring
- Philip Broberg
- Max Wanner
- Yanni Kaldis
Forwards – 16
- Dylan Holloway
- Matvei Petrov
- Dino Kambeitz
- Henry Rybinski
- Drew Englot
- Brady Burns
- Josh Prokop
- Tim Soderlund
- Devin Brosseau
- Xavier Bourgault
- James Hamblin
- Ostap Safin
- Jake Chiasson
- Raphael Lavoie
- Tyler Tullio
- Kirill Maksimov
BLH’s Thoughts: Naturally you’re going to want to get a glimpse of the big names on this list like Lavoie, Bourgault, Holloway, Samorukov, and Broberg, but I encourage you to watch out for the Russian goalie Konovalov. This guy’s got some real talent and it wouldn’t shock me at all if he absolutely dominated this rookie camp and put himself in the competition for the backup job in Edmonton.
Other players I’ll be curious about are winger Matvei Petrov, skilled forward Brady Burns, defencemen Phil Kemp and Michael Kesselring, as well as the hulking 6’5″ Ostap Safin.
Who are you excited to see from that roster?
Spector’s Hockey
BALLY SPORTS MIDWEST’s Andy Strickland hosted St. Louis Blues head coach Craig Berube on his “Cam and Strick” podcast on Sept. 7. Asked about Vladimir Tarasenko’s trade request, Berube doesn’t expect the 29-year-old winger to be moved.
- Strickland followed up on Twitter the next day, suggesting a third team might have to get involved if Tarasenko gets traded. “There’s at least one team willing to retain a portion of Tarasenko’s salary,” he said.
BOSTON HOCKEY NOW: Jimmy Murphy recently reported the Carolina Hurricanes may have put themselves into a bind for the next offseason because of their successful signing of Jesperi Kotkaniemi to an offer sheet.
- Murphy cites an NHL executive suggesting the addition of Kotkaniemi could create difficulty for the Hurricanes to re-sign him and their other key free agents. Kotkaniemi and Martin Necas are restricted free agents while winger Nino Niederreiter and center Vincent Trocheck are unrestricted.
