Bottom 10? Edit: 6th worst, trending down, season over

[McDrai]

It is so, so, so pathetic that we are at this point so quickly into Chia's *disastrous* tenure as GM. He was gifted a team with McDavid and Drai on ELCs, Hall and Eberle for supporting scoring, and Nurse and Klefbom as young dmen. He then turned that into: McDavid and Drai on over-paid contracts, Hall and Eberle traded for Larsson, and nothing added to help on the backend other than a TERRIBLE Reinhart trade where we gave away a 1st rounder for nothing. If it wasn't for Chia falling arse-backwards into a Maroon trade, and Sather doing us a favor with the Talbot trade, he would have made exactly ZERO positive moves with this team. Ridiculous that this man still has a job, simply ridiculous.

We are likely going to have to go into a mini-rebuild for the next 2-3 years. Stop and think about that.

Yup, another rebuild. The only good thing about this next rebuild is that we have a great core. The bad news is that we do not have the right people in management to actually rebuild our team properly

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Because we only have 22 games left in 2017, so we'd have to go 15-7. Not going to happen.

disagree, especially if we get Sekera back soon
but you are more than welcome to give up on the team

 

[nexttothemoon]

The wildcard team in the West right now (Dallas/Vancouver) is on pace for 87 pts so while it's an uphill battle for the Oilers... it's not over yet by a long shot.

65 games to go and they'll need 73+ more pts (considering the pace the current wild card team is on).

33-25-7 would give them 87 pts on the season. That's 33 wins and 32 losses the rest of the way and that likely puts them at least within striking distance of a playoff spot.

Oilers have 10 pts in their last 10 games... not exactly red hot... but even with that... they are just 4 pts back of a wildcard spot.

Their corsi/fenwick/shots/scoring chances/high danger scoring chances ratios have been (and continue to be) top 3 in the NHL since the season has started.

I have always been someone who views actual goals for/against and the actual SCORE of each game as the most important because obviously that's what wins and losses are derived from... but even I see that the underlying stats are decent and the team is ever so slowly improving their shooting and save pct.

The improvement has been slow though and we'd all like to see them make a more dramatic turnaround... but I do think it's starting to come around. Those stats need to keep improving and they'll start clawing back into the playoff picture slowly but surely.

 

[Weitz]

It is so, so, so pathetic that we are at this point so quickly into Chia's *disastrous* tenure as GM. He was gifted a team with McDavid and Drai on ELCs, Hall and Eberle for supporting scoring, and Nurse and Klefbom as young dmen. He then turned that into: McDavid and Drai on over-paid contracts, Hall and Eberle traded for Larsson, and nothing added to help on the backend other than a TERRIBLE Reinhart trade where we gave away a 1st rounder for nothing. If it wasn't for Chia falling arse-backwards into a Maroon trade, and Sather doing us a favor with the Talbot trade, he would have made exactly ZERO positive moves with this team. Ridiculous that this man still has a job, simply ridiculous.

We are likely going to have to go into a mini-rebuild for the next 2-3 years. Stop and think about that.

With Chia at the helm we won't be doing much of anything ever I'm afraid. He just isn't cut out to manage a cap and build a team.

 

[PinSeeker]

Repost from another thread:

This is the turning of the worm, so to speak, if the Oilers can take advantage.

Tough game coming up against StL, however we then play Dallas, STL again, Det, Buf, Bos, Ari. That should be 4 wins.

As of now we are:
- 2nd in NHL in high danger chances for %
- 2nd in Corsi for %
- 2nd *LAST* in high danger goals for %
- *LAST* In high danger shooting %

The last two simply cannot last forever at their historically bad levels. All signs point to a levy break coming up, unless Talbot goes sour again.

 

[yababy]

Oilers won 3 of the last 4 and still at 2nd worst in the western conference. That how tough it is to dig yourself out of a hole.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Oilers won 3 of the last 4 and still at 2nd worst in the western conference. That how tough it is to dig yourself out of a hole.

No, STL is up next, that's how tough it is. Loved the game last night, loved that the Oilers were able to score a lot but this is playing a team that the wheels fell off who have been playing in front of 5 different goalies. What happens on a team like LV when your first 3 goalies go down with injury is you end up playing in front of someone you don't trust. So you start trying to control the puck all the time, you over commit to doing that because you figure any shot taken will be in the back of your net. You could see it out there so much overplay from Vegas, overpursuit, overpressure, really bad game and even from the guys like Neal who lost his mind several times last night.

We played Vegas at the exact point that guys are going from "well it felt good for awhile, to feeling like playing for an expansion club"

To the Oilers credit they spanked them real hard, Vegas was in a tailspin anyway but now they will be really in a world of hurt. Its hard for competitors like Neal to find themselves in this situation.

Anyway the game could be a turning point, but we don't find that out until STL. That's a real legitimate test.

 

[GMofOilers]

Oilers won 3 of the last 4 and still at 2nd worst in the western conference. That how tough it is to dig yourself out of a hole.

Hhahhahahah yeah, and 4 points out of a wildcard, and 5 points our of 2nd in the Pacific. 64 games to play.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Hhahhahahah yeah, and 4 points out of a wildcard, and 5 points our of 2nd in the Pacific. 64 games to play.

why look at the glass half-full when you can look at it half-empty?

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

also, we are only 3 points off our pace from last year (19pts. vs. 16pts.)

 

[Drivesaitl]

why look at the glass half-full when you can look at it half-empty?

Confucius says that he who looks upon glass as half empty, he know that water is precious and not die of thirst.




Just jk and your question is rhetorical but for some people (myself obviously included) the most painful experiences in life are elation followed by dejection. So that those are the ones you learn to avoid.

On the contrary I take great pleasure in the beauty in the world that is lasting, just not as much in things that are cursory. Attach yourself to cursory things and pain will be learned.

I think I had some strange tea this morning..

 

[Faelko]

Individual stats are coming around as well.

McDavid on pace for 100 again
Draisaitl 78
RNH 63
Maroon 54
Lucic 50

Bottom 6 is still ugly

 

[PinSeeker]

If Maroon pots 54 points that would be a heckuva year. That's about right for everyone else

 

[SK13]

Oilers won 3 of the last 4 and still at 2nd worst in the western conference. That how tough it is to dig yourself out of a hole.

It's a parity thing. They're also 4 points out of 3rd in the division. I'm unhappy with how the team was built, but wholly unconcerned about this deficit as it relates to the season "being over".

Oilers were 14-15-3 against the East last year and 33-11-6 against the West last year. They're currently 4-2 against the West and 3-7-2 against the East. Sekera a couple weeks out, vast majority of our games coming up against the West. I expect they'll be competitive in the conference by Christmas break.

 

[Jet Walters]

also, we are only 3 points off our pace from last year (19pts. vs. 16pts.)

And that was after a 7-1 start if memory serves. Lots of time to not only get back into the playoff race, but also the division title.

 

[GMofOilers]

And that was after a 7-1 start if memory serves. Lots of time to not only get back into the playoff race, but also the division title.

No one believes that, we have 50 pages of doom and gloom in this thread, even though there is over 60 games left lol

 

[SupremeTeam16]

Confucius says that he who looks upon glass as half empty, he know that water is precious and not die of thirst.




Just jk and your question is rhetorical but for some people (myself obviously included) the most painful experiences in life are elation followed by dejection. So that those are the ones you learn to avoid.

On the contrary I take great pleasure in the beauty in the world that is lasting, just not as much in things that are cursory. Attach yourself to cursory things and pain will be learned.

I think I had some strange tea this morning..

Why did you get naked and kidnap those people?

 

[Drivesaitl]

Why did you get naked and kidnap those people?

haha, somebody got the reference. That was one strange story. Still not sure what happened with all that or what kind of tea those people allegedly drank. A lot of that story sounds odd.

But no, I'm harmless for the most part..

 

[SupremeTeam16]

haha, somebody got the reference. That was one strange story. Still not sure what happened with all that or what kind of tea those people allegedly drank. A lot of that story sounds odd.

But no, I'm harmless for the most part..

Lol yeah it was quite odd. can't wait for the rest of the story to come out.

 

[nexttothemoon]

Update on my Russell vs Hamonic avatar bets with the 3 wise men that took the bet against me:

Russell 6 pts plus 2
Hamonic 2 pts minus 5

Too bad Drivesaitl chickened out on the bet or I'd have the 4 stooges to design avatars for at the end of the season.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Update on my Russell vs Hamonic avatar bets with the 3 wise men that took the bet against me:

Russell 6 pts plus 2
Hamonic 2 pts minus 5

Too bad Drivesaitl chickened out on the bet or I'd have the 4 stooges to design avatars for at the end of the season.

I didn't chicken out on the bet I know a ruse leveraged bet when I see one. I'm good enough at designing bets people fall for myself..

 

[redgrant]

This team quite simply needs to go on a run. They go on a 7-1 run like they did last year and this board is only gonna have 1st round matchup opponents to discuss.

 

[McDrai]

This team quite simply needs to go on a run. They go on a 7-1 run like they did last year and this board is only gonna have 1st round matchup opponents to discuss.

Yes they sure do. They seem to come out flat after a huge win so it would be refreshing if they could carry over their positive play against Vegas and channel that into a win against St. Louis tonight

 

[guymez]

If Maroon pots 54 points that would be a heckuva year. That's about right for everyone else

Maroon is actually on pace for 55 points.

 

[GMofOilers]

Win tonight we are 2 points out of a playoff spot and 3 points from 2nd in the Pacific. 6 points out of 1st in the pacific.

Shes over folks, only 63 more games, no way we can make it up. LOL