Beukeboom Fan
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On this horrible stretch. 15 losses in 16 games. 11 were one goal games (2 of which had an empty netter at the end of the game). The Oilers did have a tonne of 1-goal game losses. That doesn't mean they were playing well though. The team was playing awful, unmotivated, sloppy hockey.
Agree with this. Just from my perspective - most hockey games are 1 goals games, so losing by 1 while getting pretty consistently getting outplayed isn't exactly a "moral victory".
And while I really dislike the Oilers braintrust, and optically it's bad for one of the "good old boys" to take over as coach (even temporarily), from my perspective MacT is at least a legit NHL coach, something that Eakins wasn't. MacT did a pretty good job as Oilers coach for something like 8 years, and for much of that time the Oilers had a pretty significant talent gap with the rest of the league.
I guess I look at it like MacT knows a hell of a lot more about coaching than GM'ing, and I don't see why so many posters in this thread are making it out like MacT will be a total moron behind the bench. Obviously, he's done a poor job as the Oilers GM with addressing the issues (coaching, center depth, legit top 4 dmen, etc.) but that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be terrible as the coach.