“The best player won the series for them,” said Sutter.

[ronduguayshair]

Asked whether the better team won the series, Sutter pointed to McDavid as the difference-maker overall.

“The best player won the series for them,” said Sutter.

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[Pucklington]

Technically it's true... McDavid had the overtime series winner.

 

[super6646]

He was great.

Sutter should probably self-reflect on some of his decisions too. Like not line matching or game planning against the best player in the world for 3 f***ing games, or keeping his ice cold starter in till the end.

 

[A1LeafNation]

A good coach would find a way to shut him down.

 

[PuckG]

While technically true with the OT winner...did Draisaitl, Kane and Hyman not rip Calgary to shreds?

Not to mention contributions from Nuge, Bouchard and Nurse throughout..

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

If you swapped McDavid & Draisaitl with Tkachuck, Gaudreau & Lindholm, the Flames would’ve won in 5.

 

[Jee]

or maybe the worst player lost the series. markstrom was putrid

 

[ronduguayshair]

Everyone agrees he's saying Calgary is the better team right? I mean I'd agree but not in this series. And I wouldn't have said what Sutter said.

I picked Calgary to win the cup...but goaltending.

 

[ClydeLee]

A good coach would find a way to shut him down.

Lol what?

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

While technically true with the OT winner...did Draisaitl, Kane and Hyman not rip Calgary to shreds?

Not to mention contributions from Nuge, Bouchard and Nurse throughout..

Kane, Hyman, Nuge, Bouchard & Nurse wouldn’t be half as effective offensively without McDavid & Draisaitl. 2 players won this series for the Oilers.

 

[PuckG]

Kane, Hyman, Nuge, Bouchard & Nurse wouldn’t be half as effective offensively without McDavid & Draisaitl. 2 players won this series for the Oilers.

Yes, if you remove 2 of the best players in the game from a squad, the offence will go down - that shouldn't be a shocker to anyone. The point is, the series was won by the Oilers as a whole and that was demonstrated on the ice and on the scoresheet. All 5 of the listed players contributed extremely well.

 

[General Disarray]

Flames had one more win than Oilers this season. These two teams are closer than he thinks.

 

[pman25]

A good coach would find a way to shut him down.

So true, a good coach would have found a way to lock McDavid in his hotel room for like 5 hours. Sutter failed. AGAIN

 

[BagHead]

A good coach would find a way to shut him down.

How many few good coaches do you think there are in the NHL?

 

[CupofOil]

If you swapped McDavid & Draisaitl with Tkachuck, Gaudreau & Lindholm, the Flames would’ve won in 5.

If you swap MacKinnon and Makar with O'Reilly and Tarasenko, the Blues would be up in the series.
If you swapped Crosby and Malkin with the top players from the other team, they probably win no Cups.
If you swapped Gretzky and Messier with the top players from the other team, they don't win all those Cups.

Point is, so what? My aunt doesn't have balls so she's still my aunt, not my uncle.
The Oilers TEAM beat the Calgary TEAM. Calling it anything else is just drenching your face in salty tears so Sutter can go back to his cattle ranch and drench his salty tears in horse manure.

 

[hockeyisgud]

both

 

[MessierII]

So the guy with 17 points in 5 games or mcdavid?

 

[joestevens29]

Last change and twice Lucic was out against McDavid. With the opportunity to make perfectly good line changes that wouldn't have disrupted the play.

Sutter might have beat himself.

This whole best player thing is quite ridiculous considering Drai was a full point per game better than Connor. Hyman/Kane with 11 goals. Nuge 6 points.

I guess technically he's not wrong if you want to say the best player in the world won that game, as technically McDavid did score the game winner. But there seems to be a lot of talk about him and not the others.

 

[MikeK]

While technically true with the OT winner...did Draisaitl, Kane and Hyman not rip Calgary to shreds?

Not to mention contributions from Nuge, Bouchard and Nurse throughout..

The entire EDM team was just flat out better than their counterparts. Which makes CGY fans crying about that disallowed goal even crazier. It was a 4-1 series victory for EDM. It really wasn't even that close. Just about every top player for CGY disappeared.

 

[cowboy82nd]

A good coach would find a way to shut him down.

Maybe the coach doesn’t have the players to do the job.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Sutter's analysis is a bit simplistic imo, especially when his team just got bounced in 5 games.
Draisaitl had 4 assists in that elimination game and leads the team in points so saying that McDavid won it is just not true. Hyman and Kane also played great.
I'd say:
1. Edmonton's best players played great.
2. Calgary's best players including the line with three 40 goal scorers and Markstrom were just not good at all.

In the end, when you lose in 5 games you can't blame it all on one player.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

Draisaitl: *Cries in 26pts*

 

[zar]

Kane, Hyman, Nuge, Bouchard & Nurse wouldn’t be half as effective offensively without McDavid & Draisaitl. 2 players won this series for the Oilers.

Best players were their best playerS.

The Oilers wouldnt be the same without $21m of their payroll… well no shit!

 

[Pucklington]

If you swapped McDavid & Draisaitl with Tkachuck, Gaudreau & Lindholm, the Flames would’ve won in 5.

So what your saying... is the Oilers best players are better than the Flames best?

Not exactly a stretch to say.

Oilers depth showed up, and Flames didn't. That's why it was 5 games.

 

[Fitzy]

Asking the coach of the losing team if the better team won the series is dumb to begin with.