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New Lines Worked For The Edmonton Oilers

03/08/2020 at 9:01am EDT

from Terry Jones of the Edmonton Sun,

Hello, Houston. It’s Apollo 97 here again. We think we have a fix for our re-entry problem. Mission is ‘go’ again.

While it totally goes against the old saying, ‘If it’s not broke, don’t fix it’, Edmonton Oilers coach Dave Tippett said he’s creating a new saying to fit the situation.

“If it’s not broke, you haven’t looked hard enough.”

It might be a good quote, but I’m not sure it’ll survive long as a ‘saying.’

When the Oilers took the ice Saturday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Tippett used his under-appreciated ‘third star’ Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to fix the Connor McDavid ‘helicopter line’ (no wings) problem....

So when they dropped the puck, it was McDavid with Nugent-Hopkins and Zack Kassian back after a seven game suspension and four-games of re-entry with the role of The Nuge now being played by newcomer Tyler Ennis.

James Neal and Andreas Athanasiou had been penciled in to be McDavid’s wingers upon re-entry but Neal had a pathetic performance returning to the McDavid line from injury. And trade deadline newcomer Athanasiou looked totally out of place in his auditions with McDavid, as well.

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