At first I thought he was drunk or something but then it hit me. He is just stupid.
GDT: Peter Chiarelli vs HFOil | End of Season Presser | 12:00 PM | Streamed
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CantHaveTkachev
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He didn't have much of substance to say. He certainly didn't say anything to alleviate my concerns. Typical Chiarelli presser. We should get a better idea of the direction the team's going in over the next two weeks as decisions on management and coaching staff are made.
syz
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"Small sample size" is the story of the year. Chiarelli put his faith in like 8 guys he had no business putting his faith in. They all predictably regressed and now here we are.
Well they were missing the guy I would say was their most important D man last year. But yes, their poor start and poor season was due to them having a lot of players who aren't good at hockey being expected to play bigger roles than they are able.
Whoops we thought Broissoit was ready after just 8 games. Whoops we thought Kassian was worth $2M. Whoops we thought Cagguila was actually a top sixer. Whoops we thought some combination of Russell and Nurse could replace Sekera. Whoops we thought Letestu would score 15+ goals again. Whoops we thought Eberle was done because he had 13 bad games in the playoffs...
Crazy how so many of these bets didn't pay off. I wonder what that tells you?
McShogun99
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He put a bunch of bets on the rookies taking a step forward. Brossoit, Caggiula, Slepyshev, JP and Benning. None of them took a step forward this past season.
Trafalgar Sadge Law
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And the ones he let go (Pitlick and Oesterle) were killing it this year.
CantHaveTkachev
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CantHaveTkachev
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Klefbom?
Cause apparently the narrative is without him injured in 2015-16, the season turns out differently...
To me that was the biggest error in the off season. Goaltending from Talbot was terrible early on but we had nobody to lean on. It sounds like they want to create a more competitive goaltending environment and give TMac someone he trusts as a back-up.
It probably does along if you also factor in the loss of a certain back to back Art Ross trophy winner.
But of course you're ducking the issue here.
McFlash97
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You dont need Strome anchoring your team down when the gods have gifted you the greatest player of this generation to go out and win cups and we have him through his prime years. Strome is not good enough we need to improve there.
oilynutz
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What a dumb comment. Oiler fans like you make the rest of us look bad.
Speed220DChalavan
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Another day of CantHaveTkachev spending all his living hours defending the honour of Peter Chiarelli.
Mr Positive
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There really wasn't much to that conference or whatever you call it.
He did say some things that fans will be puzzled by, like that Lucic's skating wasn't his big issue. I suppose you could say that if he were scoring more, fans would overlook the skating, but I don't think there's any angle to defend Lucic on.
He said that he'd be willing to trade his 1st rounder... Okay. That's nice.
He said again he wants an offensive D, and wasn't married to the idea that it had to be right wing. That is good. However Chia, you've been saying you want that player for the entire time you've been here and given us Auvitu.
Nicholson earlier in the year saying we need a top pairing Dman was just cringe x10. Yeah, no $@*# There's only exactly 31 teams that would like another one too.
He did say some things that fans will be puzzled by, like that Lucic's skating wasn't his big issue. I suppose you could say that if he were scoring more, fans would overlook the skating, but I don't think there's any angle to defend Lucic on.
He said that he'd be willing to trade his 1st rounder... Okay. That's nice.
He said again he wants an offensive D, and wasn't married to the idea that it had to be right wing. That is good. However Chia, you've been saying you want that player for the entire time you've been here and given us Auvitu.
Nicholson earlier in the year saying we need a top pairing Dman was just cringe x10. Yeah, no $@*# There's only exactly 31 teams that would like another one too.
Jesus Take the Wheel
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I wonder when people will realize that a lot goes on internally with hockey teams and not everything is black and white. Improvements and changes can be made without firing office staff and upgrading players. People on hfboards too often make running an organization like playing NHL18.
I think there are some improvements that need to be made to the roster, but as Chia/TMac have said in their interviews there is a lot more then just that when it comes to figuring out why the team had such a bad year
I think there are some improvements that need to be made to the roster, but as Chia/TMac have said in their interviews there is a lot more then just that when it comes to figuring out why the team had such a bad year
McFlash97
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The epitome of low IQ is when someone instead of simply disagreeing with an opinion, goes of on a tangent starts calling posts and people dumb, I dont believe Strome is our guy anchoring our third line when we are cup contenders. Is there a problem ....keyboard warrior...
McFlash97
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Strome hasn't shown enough this season to have him our 3rd C moving forward. If he proves me wrong this upcoming season..great, I just dont see it.
Throttlehead
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And we had the room to keep Eberle and trade him this year at deadline if we weren't in playoff hunt. Is Chiarelli the only guy that didn't think that Eberle would bounce back from that 8-9% shooting percentage? We likely would have received a first rounder for him this year or a better prospect than Strome. It was a un-needed dumb move.
Now it sounds like Chiarelli said we are looking for a Justin Schultz type dman.....astonishing.
McDNicks17
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I think that's a bit of a case of the grass being greener.
Pitlick scored like most of the players in the Oilers bottom 6 and Oesterle fell off pretty hard after a good start.
Oscar Acosta
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Sum of the presser is all transference blame shift.
“Maybe I sucked at my job but not as much as the players I traded for sucked, that let me down and certainly I didn’t suck as much as the coaches who I will be looking at hard. Because they sucked and I hired them but didnt fire them so what a disappointment they were”
Ok everyone I think we should all be fine now. Well except the fans, your divinity as media and Nuge who is going to be traded for Johnny Boychuk 1 for 1.
“Maybe I sucked at my job but not as much as the players I traded for sucked, that let me down and certainly I didn’t suck as much as the coaches who I will be looking at hard. Because they sucked and I hired them but didnt fire them so what a disappointment they were”
Ok everyone I think we should all be fine now. Well except the fans, your divinity as media and Nuge who is going to be traded for Johnny Boychuk 1 for 1.
Eh. Strome 100% is a solid 3c. Still don't think he was worth Eberle but as a 3c he is a good fit.
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