Officially the worst start in team history

[booyakasha]

I swear... I would dread being in a crisis situation with a lot of the people here.

 

[Jesus]

Tommy Salo never posted better than a .914sv% nor did he ever have 30 wins in his career.

Funny fact about Dubnyk. He's had the best 2 seasons in Oilers history in terms of sv% playing at least 15 games.

Not to be a pedant but he put up a 30 and 36 win season with the Oilers. He was a very good goalie for the club until his Olympic gaffe.

 

[Spawn]

Not to be a pedant but he put up a 30 and 36 win season with the Oilers. He was a very good goalie for the club until his Olympic gaffe.

Ah my mistake. You were right.

 

[Connor McOilers]

I'm trying to look at the positives here because odds are we probably weren't quite a playoff team this year anyways and a top 5 pic > 10th-14th... but no, **** it, I just wan't to be .500 for once

 

[McJadeddog]

we're not even 3 full weeks into the season...

and the season is already over... we're in "next year country" already people, as sad as that is

 

[Suxnet]

1 step forward, 2 steps back. The team is good at faceoffs and can hold its own 5v5 this season but goaltending, d-zone coverage and now our special teams are beyond terrible. The only way it could get worse is the dummies in upper management get ripped off in a trade involving the big 5.

 

[Replacement*]

That 92-93 season was such a killer. Team went from conference finals the year before and a decent club to one of the worst and started the thud going;

Edmonton 1-8-1 3 24 50

just look at that scoreline, ouch, getting clobbered in games. The last one of that stretch being Oct 25 and a 4-0 loss to the Flames.

That was the year the wheels totally fell off. Team without any swagger left, after some deadline deals rebuild was on and team lost the last 11/12 games. A cold winter.

Whats more is the team was so bad and lineup so bad by years end you knew the suck was going to be on for a long long time.

 

[TimeForAnOilChange]

we're not even 3 full weeks into the season...

lmao, you keep hanging on to that bud....look at the standings and do some quick math...Cgy and Phx have games in hand on us and are still leaving us in the dust and they aren't even in a playoff spot...if you think those teams above us are going to collapse (all the while, we go on a huge winning streak, pfft yeah right, not likely), you have a huge reality check coming in the mail.

Time to pull your head out of the sand, the season is OVER!!! There haven't been too many teams in any sport that starts this badly and still make the playoffs (and no, the CFL doesn't count when there is only 4 teams in your conference and you can get into the playoffs being several games under .500). Just doesn't happen, especially when the team has zero morale.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Tommy Salo never posted better than a .914sv% nor did he ever have 30 wins in his career.

Funny fact about Dubnyk. He's had the best 2 seasons in Oilers history in terms of sv% playing at least 15 games.

That means nothing. Goalscoring is way down these days. Are you suggesting Dubnyk is better than Fuhr?

 

[McJadeddog]

lmao, you keep hanging on to that bud....look at the standings and do some quick math...Cgy and Phx have games in hand on us and are still leaving us in the dust and they aren't even in a playoff spot...if you think those teams above us are going to collapse (all the while, we go on a huge winning streak, pfft yeah right, not likely), you have a huge reality check coming in the mail.

Time to pull your head out of the sand, the season is OVER!!! There haven't been too many teams in any sport that starts this badly and still make the playoffs (and no, the CFL doesn't count when there is only 4 teams in your conference and you can get into the playoffs being several games under .500). Just doesn't happen, especially when the team has zero morale.

the playoff cutoff is roughly 95 points each year.... we have 3 point through 8 games, which means we would have to pick up 92 points in the next 74 games, or a .622 winning%... in 2012-13 there were only 5 teams that had a .622 winning% or greater, and in 2011-12 there were only 8 teams

for us to sneak into the playoffs in the 8th spot, we'd have to play like a top-5 team in the ENTIRE LEAGUE for the rest of the season! lol... this year is done, it's not even close really... unless you believe we're going to win at the same rate that vancouver did last year.... yeah, didn't think so

this year is over, how anybody could argue anything else is beyond me

 

[Replacement*]

the playoff cutoff is roughly 95 points each year.... we have 3 point through 8 games, which means we would have to pick up 92 points in the next 74 games, or a .622 winning%... in 2012-13 there were only 5 teams that had a .622 winning% or greater, and in 2011-12 there were only 8 teams

for us to sneak into the playoffs in the 8th spot, we'd have to play like a top-5 team in the ENTIRE LEAGUE for the rest of the season! lol... this year is done, it's not even close really... unless you believe we're going to win at the same rate that vancouver did last year.... yeah, didn't think so

this year is over, how anybody could argue anything else is beyond me

Playoff cutoff is not going to be 95pts this year. I doubt it.

8/14 clubs make the playoffs in the west. Going to take a lot of 3pt games or wins against the East for West clubs to require that amount of pts. i see more like 90-92pts.
Still real uphill.

 

[TimeForAnOilChange]

the playoff cutoff is roughly 95 points each year.... we have 3 point through 8 games, which means we would have to pick up 92 points in the next 74 games, or a .622 winning%... in 2012-13 there were only 5 teams that had a .622 winning% or greater, and in 2011-12 there were only 8 teams

for us to sneak into the playoffs in the 8th spot, we'd have to play like a top-5 team in the ENTIRE LEAGUE for the rest of the season! lol... this year is done, it's not even close really... unless you believe we're going to win at the same rate that vancouver did last year.... yeah, didn't think so

this year is over, how anybody could argue anything else is beyond me

yeah, this is what i'm trying to tell some of these posters, at least i'm not the only one that sees it...and ftr, i'm usually one of the ones telling people to have patience and usually i'm one of the optimistic ones on here, but even I can see the writing on the wall for this year....even though we aren't technically out of it, realistically we are done like dinner.

I know there is a long season left, but its not even the point difference in the standings, its the morale of the team, its zero right now and that's a tough thing to get back, not to mention their play, which is sporadic at best.

 

[The Perfect Human*]

First 10 games of 2005-2006:

Oilers were 3-6-1.

We made the playoffs that year - we went to the SCF that year.

If we win the next 2 games (MTL, BUF) - we're sitting with that exact record this year.

 

[The Human Torch]

First 10 games of 2005-2006:

Oilers were 3-6-1.

We made the playoffs that year - we went to the SCF that year.

If we win the next 2 games (MTL, BUF) - we're sitting with that exact record this year.

That's a pretty big "if."

 

[oilers2k10]

That's a pretty big "if."

Yeah it took Chris Pronger about 10 games to get going that season..

 

[CorpseFX]

Tommy Salo never posted better than a .914sv% nor did he ever have 30 wins in his career.

Funny fact about Dubnyk. He's had the best 2 seasons in Oilers history in terms of sv% playing at least 15 games.

yeah, but inflated sv% from high volume of shots on goal = meh.

no team is "scared" to shoot on him so they just throw it at him waiting for the Kitty Cat to bat his paws around for flubbed pucks, cheat on angles, or play as a 5'5" goalie at 6'5"

Dubnyk was on pace to face 1921 shots last year - if he played in 70 games - at 27+ shots on goal a game. Tommy Salo, in his highest year, faced 1713 in 70 games (24 shots a game)... and that was a .914 sv%. Dubnyk was a tad better in save % but his goals against was worse (2.57) than Salo's 2.33. id rather have less pucks in the net.

 

[Oilking83]

First 10 games of 2005-2006:

Oilers were 3-6-1.

We made the playoffs that year - we went to the SCF that year.

If we win the next 2 games (MTL, BUF) - we're sitting with that exact record this year.

I'd be surprised if this team won 2 games the rest of this month...

 

[Gord]

Above average goaltending.

and they worked their butts off and played as a team?

that might have something to do with it, too.

 

[McJadeddog]

Playoff cutoff is not going to be 95pts this year. I doubt it.

8/14 clubs make the playoffs in the west. Going to take a lot of 3pt games or wins against the East for West clubs to require that amount of pts. i see more like 90-92pts.
Still real uphill.

you could be right about that actually, but even if it only requires 90 points (which is really low IMO) it would require a .588 winning% the rest of the way.... considering our winning% right now is .188, this is pure fantasy talk

 

[McJadeddog]

First 10 games of 2005-2006:

Oilers were 3-6-1.

We made the playoffs that year - we went to the SCF that year.

If we win the next 2 games (MTL, BUF) - we're sitting with that exact record this year.

so what do you think our chances of winning both of our next games are? 5%, maybe 15% if we're being generous?

even then, we don't have *nearly* as good of a team as we did in 2005-06... no pronger to settle things down and play 27+ minutes a night

 

[McJadeddog]

I'd be surprised if this team won 2 games the rest of this month...

100% this.... we have 6 games left this month and the only games i really see as winnable are the montreal and toronto games, because they will likely be willing to play our style... the rest are against the big teams in the west and washington/ottawa... all these teams are miles and miles better than us

 

[Jumptheshark]

Extra sad is the fact that this is probably the best they've played to start a season in years.

don't think we are watching the same game. If they were playing well and still losing most of this board would not be slitting their wrists. Last night they played well, most nights they have played like the washington generals

 

[Insta]

That means nothing. Goalscoring is way down these days. Are you suggesting Dubnyk is better than Fuhr?

Are you saying Salo and Fuhr played in the same era? Salo played in the dead puck era where goal scoring was as bad as it is now.