Your Bold Oiler predictions for the 2016-17 season
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DethOfDragnz
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Oilers start off great in the season then a ton of injuries reduces the team to bottom of the league in wins. (I hope I am wrong but this seems to always happen).
Jumptheshark
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I will go out on the crazy limb
1) Yak scores 30--just not not for the oilers
2) Hall gets 56 pts
3) Pool boy wins rookie of the year
4) Lucic scores 30
5) Oilers make the playoffs
6) Larsson and Klefbom will turn into one of the best D-partners till one gets injured in Jan
7) McDavids gets 80 pts
8) Pouliot gets traded by December
9) Fayne turns into a solid 5/6 guy
1) Yak scores 30--just not not for the oilers
2) Hall gets 56 pts
3) Pool boy wins rookie of the year
4) Lucic scores 30
5) Oilers make the playoffs
6) Larsson and Klefbom will turn into one of the best D-partners till one gets injured in Jan
7) McDavids gets 80 pts
8) Pouliot gets traded by December
9) Fayne turns into a solid 5/6 guy
I love when a sanctimonious clown gets a good slap by facts. Do I get a sorry sir you were right?
The Oilers start the season going 9-0 in October and take 9 of 11 home games in March to finish 7th in the West.
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The defense is a work-in-progress, but it's definitely head and shoulders above where it was a year ago (since, a year ago, the defense was basically Junior-B level).
What i'm a little worried about is secondary scoring. The Oilers seem to have good depth at forward, with three lines that can potentially score, but 'potential' doesn't mean "will". If lines 2 and 3 do dry up even for a few weeks, the losses could pile up, especially since there's (apparently) still no offensive help from the blue line.
I could foresee a lot of games like the Vancouver game the other day, where the McDavid line does its job, but the team still loses 3-2 to a not-so-great-teams because nobody else scored.
I think the key is either the RNH-line or Draisaitl-line needs to step up and really have a big season to support the top line. If they don't, Chiarelli's gonna have to figure out a way to get a D-man on the power-play who can actually score or put pucks on net.
With no secondary scoring and no blue-line help on the power-play, the team is going nowhere.
What i'm a little worried about is secondary scoring. The Oilers seem to have good depth at forward, with three lines that can potentially score, but 'potential' doesn't mean "will". If lines 2 and 3 do dry up even for a few weeks, the losses could pile up, especially since there's (apparently) still no offensive help from the blue line.
I could foresee a lot of games like the Vancouver game the other day, where the McDavid line does its job, but the team still loses 3-2 to a not-so-great-teams because nobody else scored.
I think the key is either the RNH-line or Draisaitl-line needs to step up and really have a big season to support the top line. If they don't, Chiarelli's gonna have to figure out a way to get a D-man on the power-play who can actually score or put pucks on net.
With no secondary scoring and no blue-line help on the power-play, the team is going nowhere.
It's definitely more than a little concern.
This team doesn't score a lot. Even with all the supposed "talent" they have, they haven't scored a lot in years.
Nugent Hopkins needs to drive a line, we'll see if he's up for it or not.
Our inept powerplay is also going to make scoring more than 2 goals a night a big challenge.
McDavid is gonna McDavid, I think Lucic is gonna bring it too, Eberle will probably be dragged along to his usual 60+ points, but everyone else on that forward group I have questions about how much acutal offensive production they're gonna bring to the table.
50 points again from Nugent Hopkins for example isn't good enough. Not by a long shot.
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