News and Blog Report: EP: At what point does belief become delusion for the Edmonton Oilers?

[OilerSuperstar17]

Does anybody have unfettered access to this article? I would love to read it.

At what point does belief become delusion for the Edmonton Oilers? - EP Rinkside

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[EchoesoftheEighties]

Somewhere around 2019

 

[Shaquille Oatmeal]

I couldn't read the article because I don't have 'EP Premium'. I doubt I'm missing much. The title alone is vomit inducing click bait.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Does anybody have unfettered access to this article? I would love to read it.

At what point does belief become delusion for the Edmonton Oilers? - EP Rinkside

Check your PM box. Decent article I thought. Says Tippett is the wrong coach for the Oilers, our goaltending sucks and Holland is failing as the GM.

 

[BlackDogg]

Check your PM box. Decent article I thought. Says Tippett is the wrong coach for the Oilers, our goaltending sucks and Holland is failing as the GM.

So nothing new then lol

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

So nothing new then lol

Was just like reading the forum.

 

[Rpenny]

Somewhere around 2019

2016

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Was just like reading the forum.

I do wonder sometimes if the fans of the team would actually run this organization better than the supposed experts that are employed by the team.

 

[Barrsy]

Hey,I’m a guy that scours the internet for articles critical of the Oilers. Cause I’m mad. Can everyone who finds a critical article please post them.
Cause I’m angry. .

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

I do wonder sometimes if the fans of the team would actually run this organization better than the supposed experts that are employed by the team.

True sometimes hey! Chiarellis case doing nothing at all was light years better than what he did.

That said Fans can’t agree on which way is left or right. It would be a bloodbath in the boardroom over hiring a coach lol.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

True sometimes hey! Chiarellis case doing nothing at all was light years better than what he did.

That said Fans can’t agree on which way is left or right. It would be a bloodbath in the boardroom over hiring a coach lol.

Probably, but I'd like to think we'd have a better drafting regime than what we've had for the past... oh... 20 years.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Probably, but I'd like to think we'd have a better drafting regime than what we've had for the past... oh... 20 years.

Try 35 years. Oilers haven’t drafted well since the early 80’s.

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

I couldn't read the article because I don't have 'EP Premium'. I doubt I'm missing much. The title alone is vomit inducing click bait.

It's like they were told "Uhh we need content for premium users" and worked their way backwards.

 

[AM]

Oiler fans delusion is the same order of magnitude as every other team in the nhl.

 

[AM]

I do wonder sometimes if the fans of the team would actually run this organization better than the supposed experts that are employed by the team.

You have correctly identified the delusion.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Hey,I’m a guy that scours the internet for articles critical of the Oilers. Cause I’m mad. Can everyone who finds a critical article please post them.
Cause I’m angry. .

Hey I am a guy who bends over hard to defend this team.Anytime someone posts negative about the Oilers I get mad. Why can't people just be constantly positive about the Oilers. I am angry.

 

[CycloneSweep]

You have correctly identified the delusion.

HF Oilers could have absolutely ran the team better than Chiarelli.

There was that article a few years ago where a guy figured out that if you just drafted the next guy up with the highest point totals in their draft year, you would succeed at drafting at a higher rate than any NHL team.

The fans would struggle with the day to day and making of trades and stuff but NHL GMs love making moves that everyone knows are terrible the moment they make them.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

You have correctly identified the delusion.

Considering how almost everything the Oilers have done over the past 15 years has been incorrect I don't think it's a huge leap to say that the fans could probably do a somewhat better job.

Didn't this fanbase once scream at their team on the draft floor in 1995 to draft Shane Doan and the smartest guys in the room drafted Steve Kelly instead?

 

[AM]

Considering how almost everything the Oilers have done over the past 15 years has been incorrect I don't think it's a huge leap to say that the fans could probably do a somewhat better job.

Didn't this fanbase once scream at their team on the draft floor in 1995 to draft Shane Doan and the smartest guys in the room drafted Steve Kelly instead?

My crystal ball must be foggy. Last time I checked that wasn’t it’s indication at all. As far as I’m concerned this is an entertainment. The oilers have an entertaining team. I don’t bleed angst over it beyond that.

 

[GOilers88]

True sometimes hey! Chiarellis case doing nothing at all was light years better than what he did.

That said Fans can’t agree on which way is left or right. It would be a bloodbath in the boardroom over hiring a coach lol.

The team would also be firing players after every shift. The team would cease to exist after the first game.

 

[CornKicker]

Check your PM box. Decent article I thought. Says Tippett is the wrong coach for the Oilers, our goaltending sucks and Holland is failing as the GM.

so they took 40 pages of a HFboards thread, coles notes'd it and put it behind a paywall?

lol

 

[CornKicker]

Considering how almost everything the Oilers have done over the past 15 years has been incorrect I don't think it's a huge leap to say that the fans could probably do a somewhat better job.

Didn't this fanbase once scream at their team on the draft floor in 1995 to draft Shane Doan and the smartest guys in the room drafted Steve Kelly instead?

i think its a huge leap and i cant remember off the top of my head but things like this were posted ad nasuem

Trading eberle for kyle clifford
dumping puljuarvi or 4th round picks

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

i think its a huge leap and i cant remember off the top of my head but things like this were posted ad nasuem

Trading eberle for kyle clifford
dumping puljuarvi or 4th round picks

Well we turned Eberle into nothing so Clifford would've been better.

Almost every move this franchise has made in the past decade has been wrong, with some blowing up in their faces in hilarious fashion.

 

[Smartguy]

I do wonder sometimes if the fans of the team would actually run this organization better than the supposed experts that are employed by the team.

I’m 1000% sure if every Oilers trade/draft pick had to go through a 24 hour poll on this sub the team would no doubt have been better off the last decade. The Reinhart and Hall trades would have been refuted.

The only instances I can think of the last few years that the board would have hurt the team would be Puljujarvi would have been traded for a bag of pucks, “cause he’s a locker room cancer who doesn’t want to be here”, and no chance Smith is brought back last year, and he had a Vezina calibre season.

 

[Rengorlex]

The fans would struggle with the day to day and making of trades and stuff but NHL GMs love making moves that everyone knows are terrible the moment they make them.

NHL is a big old boys club and the whole sport is filled with people with no formal education or work experience other than playing sports ball in a coddled environment.

There's an advantage to be taken by meeting the standards that any comparably large company outside sports bubble does.