Post-Game Talk: Classic Oilers

[Cloned]

What? Even that wouldn't fix this team in anyway. Lucic is far from our only problem.

6M in cap space.

 

[Spawn]

What??

You can't call players up from junior leagues.

 

[booyakasha]

What??

He's in junior

 

[Hopelesslucicfan]

There's too many problems to fix.
Why even bother? We need 8 wingers, another 2 centers, 6 defenders, and 2 goalies.

We need an expansion draft, except instead of a new team, the Oilers get to pick more players.

 

[CycloneSweep]

What??

You can't recall a player from the CHL. You never could. Once they return them to their club, they are their till the end of their season.

 

[CycloneSweep]

6M in cap space.

6 M in capspace doesn't get you 2 top 6 wingers and a top 4 defender and like...an entire bottom 6.

 

[MessierII]

The only positive about another wasted season is that -- once management realizes the team is screwed, and they're usually the last to do so -- Bouchard and Bear will get called up (they both should be playing now, IMO), and Chiarelli will be fired.

Bouchard can’t be called up until the junior season ends.

 

[Cloned]

6 M in capspace doesn't get you 2 top 6 wingers and a top 4 defender and like...an entire bottom 6.

I didn't say it fixes everything. But it's the only way to have any sort of hope at a quick fix.

 

[MessierII]

You can't recall a player from the CHL. You never could. Once they return them to their club, they are their till the end of their season.

In emergency circumstances you actually can call them up but you need a crazy amount of players on both your Nhl and ahl team to be injured.

 

[CycloneSweep]

In emergency circumstances you actually can call them up but you need a crazy amount of players on both your Nhl and ahl team to be injured.

Usually only goalies

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

Agreed.

I think for the last ... 12 or do years I somehow managed to convince myself that with the right moves the Oilers would be a legit contender, only to be let down every single year.

At this point, I've completely given up hope.

Of course I'd love to see a new management group, but even the best gm in the world couldn't turn this team around in less than a few years.

Outside of our very few productive player, we have nothing to offer, and trading them away always leads to us getting bent over.


We went from having amazing winger and center depth a few years ago, to having to play our centers at wing because we're so shallow, while remaining just as weak in every other aspect

I've gone from scheduling my evenings around watching oilers games, to checking hfboards at 930 only to realize there was a game on I forgot about.

How one team can be so consistently depressing is beyond me. Oiler fans deserve so much better.

id say the defense improved....slightly.....but yah.....pretty much accurate.

 

[MessierII]

Usually only goalies

Most often goalies but it does happen with skaters upon occasion. The Flames had to call up Baertchi back in I think 2011 or 12.

 

[GMofOilers]

Talbot has 4 wins in his last 14 games.

Way to help the team when it needs you.

 

[booyakasha]

Agreed.

I think for the last ... 12 or do years I somehow managed to convince myself that with the right moves the Oilers would be a legit contender, only to be let down every single year.

At this point, I've completely given up hope.

Of course I'd love to see a new management group, but even the best gm in the world couldn't turn this team around in less than a few years.

Outside of our very few productive player, we have nothing to offer, and trading them away always leads to us getting bent over.


We went from having amazing winger and center depth a few years ago, to having to play our centers at wing because we're so shallow, while remaining just as weak in every other aspect

I've gone from scheduling my evenings around watching oilers games, to checking hfboards at 930 only to realize there was a game on I forgot about.

How one team can be so consistently depressing is beyond me. Oiler fans deserve so much better.

do we though?

 

[Soundwave]

do we though?

For those defending Chiarelli still, nope, lol.

 

[Soundwave]

Talbot has 4 wins in his last 14 games.

Way to help the team when it needs you.

Bad teams tend to lose a lot though.

The whole "this team needs to ride the goalie!" thing only works if you have a Lundqvist, prime Price, or like Kipprusoff.

Talbot and Koskinen aren't good enough to put a franchise on their shoulders like the Oilers are asking them to do.

 

[Ck1]

Oilers defence get puck they throw it to the corner and behind the net every other team there defence throws it at the net resulting in scoring chances.

 

[Patch101]

Its a .500 team. No better or worse. Just Average at best.
Bottom 5 without McDavid.

 

[Oilhawks]

They have 7 roster players injured right now and they kicked the **** out of us both times we played them this month. It's ridiculous that they're even still in the playoff hunt.

Never said this team was good.

 

[GMofOilers]

Bad teams tend to lose a lot though.

The whole "this team needs to ride the goalie!" thing only works if you have a Lundqvist, prime Price, or like Kipprusoff.

Talbot and Koskinen aren't good enough to put a franchise on their shoulders like the Oilers are asking them to do.

Dont need to be great just average. With Talbot in net you need 4 to win every game. Its why he is 9-13-2

 

[DaGap]

we've done it a few times

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Our bottom-6 hasn't scored in 12 games. And even then it was a defenseman (Larsson).

Pathetic.

 

[TheRebuild]

Does Katz even watch the games?

I actually think Katz is a huge fan of ALL the other teams in the NHL.

 

[The Panther]

Its a .500 team. No better or worse. Just Average at best.
Bottom 5 without McDavid.

You're probably flattering them.

And I would say they're definitely the worst team in the League without McDavid.

 

[Soundwave]

Dont need to be great just average. With Talbot in net you need 4 to win every game. Its why he is 9-13-2

You do need to be great here to get consistent results because this team makes a lot of mistakes.

This team should be able to score 4 goals against a depleted Coyotes team, sometimes you do need to score 4 goals, only in Edmonton is that some monumental undertaking.

This team isn't good enough and if they want to do the whole "ride the goalie" thing then find a Lundqvist type guy that can do that, the Talbots and Koskinens of the world can't cut it.