EDMONTON — It’s not going to be a normal “training camp” if National Hockey League teams hit the ice some time after July 10. But why would it be?“It’s not like a training camp in the sense that you have 60 players and you’re looking at a lot of people. You know who you have, and you know where most of the parts fit,” beganhead coach Dave Tippett in a Zoom call Wednesday.
“We’ll go into it, have a little refresher course on exactly how we want to play and go about things, and we’ll look at our opponent coming up, Chicago. We’ll be ready to play.”, a five-versus-12 matchup between a Blackhawks team that gives up scoring chances at a league-leading rate, against an Oilers club that boasts the NHL’s top two scorers in Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid, and also the league’s best power play.
This is one of those series where the old cliche fits for Edmonton: If they worry about themselves, play as well as they can play, they should be able to beat a Blackhawks team that was 11 points behind Edmonton at the pause, trailing in points percentage .585 to .514. If you could get past the Blackhawks’ three Stanley Cups, won with many players who are long gone off the Chicago roster, this shouldn’t be a difficult one to predict. Normally, that is.
Alas, normal is as far in the past as Marian Hossa’s Stanley Cup mastery, or Joel Quenneville’s veteran presence behind the Chicago bench. Even Tippett can’t be sure when this camp starts, or when he’ll leave his summer place in Minnesota to head north.
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