News Article: Chiarelli thinks that the Oilers will not make SC playoffs

[Broilers]

What are you guys thinking do we have changes to make playoffs. I am leaning to the direction that the ship needs to be turn around quickly. Sekera will be back soon but if we are below 0.500 hockey I do not see a chance.

I read the following blog
Chiarelli talks Oilers struggles and #GeneralDisappointment

Chiarelli's comments were absolute shock. If we are out of the race would you fire him or trade expiring contracts at dead line and let him fix the problem

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[Kagomeboy]

what up with this thread?not needed Oilers will make the playoffs.

 

[CycloneSweep]

We are currently at 11.2% chance to make the playoffs.

 

[FlameChampion]

What are you guys thinking do we have changes to make playoffs. I am leaning to the direction that the ship needs to be turn around quickly. Sekera will be back soon but if we are below 0.500 hockey I do not see a chance.

I read the following blog
Chiarelli talks Oilers struggles and #GeneralDisappointment

Chiarelli's comments were absolute shock. If we are out of the race would you fire him or trade expiring contracts at dead line and let him fix the problem

At this point I think its like 50-50 % chance that they will make the playoffs (in my opinion) not statistically.

They have some things going for them: 1) they play a lot of western games and their record is better against the west than the east 2) a lot of the other good pacific teams are struggling. 3) I think they are better than their record indicates

There are times watching this team I think they are going to break out. I thought it before the Detroit game. I thought it before the St. Louis game. This team just cant seem to get ahead. I want to believe in the team but it also feels like its not really their year. The next month or so will be really important. They need to start putting some winning streaks together.

 

[StevenF1919]

Not much we can do now except to ride it out and hope that McDavid and Talbot go beast mode.

 

[McShogun99]

We win the next 2 games then we are 9-10-2 at the quarter mark of the season. If we play .600 hockey from game 22 on then we finish with 92 points which might be good enough to get in.

 

[Del Preston]

Here's another article with a few more quotes from Chiarelli.

Chiarelli: Oilers ‘losing runway’ to turn season around - Article - TSN

Chiarelli disputed the notion the Oilers have gotten slower – though a lack of speed has been voiced as a concern by head coach Todd McLellan and McDavid – instead saying the Oilers are just “playing slower.” They aren’t “thinking fast, playing fast, breaking the puck out fast, reacting fast."

“I know there’s been a lot of talk about the slowness of this team. By no means is it slow,” Chiarelli said. “You end up playing slow. We have been. Having said that, up until [Thursday] night, we haven’t been playing slow the last five or six games. I thought we had a real good road trip [2-1-1 vs. East]. I believe that area is coming around. It’s just consistency and executing right now.”

 

[SomeDudeOTI]

Here's another article with a few more quotes from Chiarelli.

Chiarelli: Oilers ‘losing runway’ to turn season around - Article - TSN

In a nutshell:

The team isn't slow, they just play slow.
They have to figure it out because there's no help coming and we're running out of time.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

What are you guys thinking do we have changes to make playoffs. I am leaning to the direction that the ship needs to be turn around quickly. Sekera will be back soon but if we are below 0.500 hockey I do not see a chance.

I read the following blog
Chiarelli talks Oilers struggles and #GeneralDisappointment

Chiarelli's comments were absolute shock. If we are out of the race would you fire him or trade expiring contracts at dead line and let him fix the problem

If your going to get hung up on anything Bagged Milk writes you might as well slit your wrists tonight and save yourself the trouble of living.

 

[Del Preston]

In a nutshell:

The team isn't slow, they just play slow.
They have to figure it out because there's no help coming and we're running out of time.

2014-15 = Visually Better
2017-18 = Mentally Slower

 

[The Panther]

2014-15 = Visually Better
2017-18 = Mentally Slower

Yes, we need a McTavish presser to get some better quotes.

"The team were visually better last year."

"This year, they're statistically worse, but conceptually better."

"The team's current record is indubitably horse manure."

Might take some heat off Chia.

 

[Todd from Leduc]

Buh buh buh I drafted and signed Connor guys.

 

[Broilers]

Not much we can do now except to ride it out and hope that McDavid and Talbot go beast mode.

It seems to me that Talbot stole 10 pts for us in the last year. Sekera injury means 5 pts as well as Eberle trade. If Talbot does not get back to his game we will have 80-85 pts

 

[La Bamba]

Every team that has made the playoffs since the shortened 12/13 NHL season has not had a record worse than what the Oilers have now. That kinda solidified it for me.

The Oilers should try to move out as many contracts as possible at the deadline. Find a GM who can build an actual supporting cast and not pay bottom pairing D men 4M for 4 years with a NMC.

 

[RandomGuy79]

Waive half the team and fold the team. It's impossible for this city to have a winning team.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Every team that has made the playoffs since the shortened 12/13 NHL season has not had a record worse than what the Oilers have now. That kinda solidified it for me.

The Oilers should try to move out as many contracts as possible at the deadline. Find a GM who can build an actual supporting cast and not pay bottom pairing D men 4M for 4 years with a NMC.

We have a lot of ufa/RFAs this year. But no one good.

Maroon, Strome, Letestu, Cammaleri

 

[La Bamba]

We have a lot of ufa/RFAs this year. But no one good.

Maroon, Strome, Letestu, Cammaleri

Maroon would bring back a good return TBH. His contract would be good for teams with little cap space.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Maroon would bring back a good return TBH. His contract would be good for teams with little cap space.

He would get us maybe a second or third

 

[La Bamba]

He would get us maybe a second or third

Knowing Chia he would probably get Brad Hunt and a 6th round pick in return

 

[Shathar]

A new year.

 

[Skobel24]

Oilers will make the playoffs. A 3-4 game winning streak and they'll be right back in it.

 

[Mr Positive]

It seem like the sample size is big enough to say there is something wrong with the team. Maybe getting Sekera back is enough but I think we should be acting like it is the deadline now. Why not have Sekera+?

 

[Spawn]

It seem like the sample size is big enough to say there is something wrong with the team. Maybe getting Sekera back is enough but I think we should be acting like it is the deadline now. Why not have Sekera+?

You need to have a team willing to be a seller right now.

It's pretty damn rare for anything meaningful to happen this time of year. Not impossible of course, but the time to make big changes was in the summer, or at the deadline.

 

[nturn06]

We are currently at 11.2% chance to make the playoffs.

I think we are currently sitting 4 points outside playoffs with 60 games left, that 11.2 % number is way off.

The method used to calculate those chances is somewhat accurate late in the season, with few matches left, but it is pretty broken this early in the season.

 

[Mr Positive]

You need to have a team willing to be a seller right now.

It's pretty damn rare for anything meaningful to happen this time of year. Not impossible of course, but the time to make big changes was in the summer, or at the deadline.

maybe we could find a move like the Cammy trade but a bit bigger. But maybe that would not happen with a team that's killing it now like LA, but maybe there is another team just like us out there that wants to shake up things, and do a win-win deal rather than a buyer-seller type of deal.

But even there, like you say it's probably way easier by the deadline than now.