Quenville please.................
I would have never imagined McLellan being as terrible as he is as coach. He's like Reinhart trade bad.
I wasn't happy when we signed him on board and have always called him the wrong todd... Honestly though he did serve a purpose last year. he managed to get them to buy into a game plan. I think that is why the oil where able to be good last year. after 6 or so seasons where the oilers could be depended on to not stick to the game plan (even a shitty one) they just surprised a lot of teams by displaying some sticktoitivness. This year they where not surprising anyone and the fact tmacs systems are ten years old and easily countered is now front and center. his message has run its course and if they stick with him next year is gonna be ugly by november.I would have never imagined McLellan being as terrible as he is as coach. He's like Reinhart trade bad.
Well if you read what Sharks fan thought the year he got fired, you knew he was a stubborn SOB. Hell, his first year, so many of us were already pissed at how stubborn he was with personnel and how he never adapts on the fly.
And don’t forget how he never uses his timeouts. Like ever.
I have hope for Yamamoto as he’s accustomed to the NA game. Just watching how he gets his goals in the WHL (like his GWG a few nights ago) show he at least can read the ice pretty good.
JP is huge question mark.
The other guys I don’t know much.
We gotta stop gambling on rookies
Rattie, Aberg and Caggiula should have no business being in the top 6 next season. If you count RNH as a winger now then we have 3 top 6 spots to fill. I was hop No they’d use JP during garbage time as a trial so we know what he have for next season.
Forget top 6, Aberg, Caggiula and Rattie should be fighting for bottom 6 spots with only one of them making it (Caggiula), the other being an extra forward (Aberg) and the other in the AHL (Rattie).
The bottom 6 for next season should be Lucic, Strome, Puju, Khaira, Kassian and Caggiula. That’s a bottom 6 I could live with and where those players belong.
Like you said, 3 spots to fill in the top 6. Chia better find some bargain contracts if he is to return next season. We just don’t have the cap space to waste money and we better not see Yama in the top 6 as a solution.
Just watched the condensed game.
Wow, looks like we got our asses kicked and the final score was generous.
In the 9 minute video the only time Dubnyk was tested was when McDavid got in and was tackled by Parise. The other 'offensive highlights' were unscreened point shots that Dubnyk had zero problems with.
On the other end Talbot had to stand on his head to not make it a 6 or 7-0 game.
Embarrassing.
Oh you know we will... Why develop our prospects when we can just assume they'll supplant actual NHLers. Seems to be working with JP after all.Forget top 6, Aberg, Caggiula and Rattie should be fighting for bottom 6 spots with only one of them making it (Caggiula), the other being an extra forward (Aberg) and the other in the AHL (Rattie).
The bottom 6 for next season should be Lucic, Strome, Puju, Khaira, Kassian and Caggiula. That’s a bottom 6 I could live with and where those players belong.
Like you said, 3 spots to fill in the top 6. Chia better find some bargain contracts if he is to return next season. We just don’t have the cap space to waste money and we better not see Yama in the top 6 as a solution.
And when is the rebound fairy coming to Edmonton? You sure that's a guarantee?
Colorado is also having an Erik Karlsson like season from Tyson Barrie (scoring at a 70 point pace). Feel free to do that any time, any Oiler d-man.
Colorado also missed the playoffs 3 years too. And they might not even make it this year.
A lot of players are still on their usual career paces. The forwards just aren't that good with Lucic being the only guy that's really struggling. The defense is struggling but part of that is that Talbot isn't covering for them anymore.Talbot, Sekera, Klefbom, Larsson and Lucic all had career worst years. Draisaitl outside of a hot stretch really didn't have that good a year especially on the PP and they got virtually nothing from the rest of the roster, can't see that happening again no matter how dire it looks now.
Not saying that some upgrades aren't needed (I'm including the coaching in there too) but this was a season where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. I get why everybody is upset but this team isn't nearly this bad. I expect bounce backs from a lot of players next season.
Rantanen is a complete game changer for them too ... you're talking about a 75+ point winger added upfront.
MacKinnon + Rantanen + Landeskog + Barrie + E. Johnson + Varlamov
is probably a better core group than
McDavid + Draisaitl + RNH + Klefbom + Nurse + Talbot.
McDavid is better than MacKinnon probably but the way MacK played this year it was a wash. Barrie + EJ + Varlamov > Klef + Nurse + Talbot though.
A lot of players are still on their usual career paces. The forwards just aren't that good with Lucic being the only guy that's really struggling. The defense is struggling but part of that is that Talbot isn't covering for them anymore.
I wasn't happy when we signed him on board and have always called him the wrong todd... Honestly though he did serve a purpose last year. he managed to get them to buy into a game plan. I think that is why the oil where able to be good last year. after 6 or so seasons where the oilers could be depended on to not stick to the game plan (even a ****ty one) they just surprised a lot of teams by displaying some sticktoitivness. This year they where not surprising anyone and the fact tmacs systems are ten years old and easily countered is now front and center. his message has run its course and if they stick with him next year is gonna be ugly by november.
Just curious what his system actually is? I see a lot of people make this type of comment without specifying.
A lot of the wingers are young so we don't know what their career pace is yet. I don't expect Larsson, Klefbom and Sekera to be as awful as they were this season. Talbot has never been this poor in his career although he needs a 1B to push him. I know everybody hates him right now but I actually expect better from Lucic next season.
They need some upgrades on wing and a PMD if possible but one of the main issues is the coaching. Lifeless, unimaginative, unsupportive. There's no way, absolutely no way, that a team with McDavid, Draisaitl and RNH should be dead last in the league on the PP. Don't care who your wingers are, with those 3 guys you should be a middle of the road PP at minimum.
You're not wrong but if you're outplaying teams and losing that generally means you aren't that good. The Oilers had many benefits the previous year including almost complete team health. No doubt better special teams would help but maybe not allowing prime scoring chances in the first five minutes would help too?Everything has gone to **** recently as far as their overall play is concerned but there was a long stretch earlier in the season when the season still meant something when they were outplaying teams at even strength routinely and were done in by poor Special Teams. Sure, some of that is on the personnel but a lot of it is on coaching with poor systems and failure to adjust when something wasn't working. If they had a halfway decent PP and PK in that stretch, the season could have gone completely differently.
Roughly as many times as theyve been scored on with the first shot on net.
That i believe is just the first shot of the game. when you factor in first shot of the period things get reaaaallllllllyyyyyyy ugly.Sadly I think it is 9 shutouts and they have let in the first shot like 19 times or something crazy like that.....