blupye*
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I was watching the Detroit St.Louis game the other night. During a stoppage in play, the camera panned to a press-box. Inside the press-box was Chiarelli talking to the Blues GM. Shattenkirk?
Klefbom
RNH
McDavid
Davidson
tough to win when your top 2 centers are out, your top pairing d-man is out and a good young player like Davidson is out
why can't these injuries come to our scrub players? no luck in that department
goal for the last 33 games: get to .500...it's a daunting task but McDavid is back Feb 2nd, hopefully Klef and Davidson are back then too...and maybe RNH by the beginning of March
I've posted this before, but we are getting screwed by the economics of the league.
1. The no-trade and no-movement clauses reduce the pool players we can acquire.
This is true.
2. Edmonton isn't a premier destination for players or their families. "Trade me to EMND please!" said no one ever.
Ryan Smyth
3. There seem to be unwritten rules among GM's about sending valuable dmen to non-play-off teams. The good teams trade with each other almost exclusively.
Seth Jones
4. Free agency for dmen is non-existent. They are underpaid as a group, so teams always resign them rather than risking going without. IE, we can't even get decent UFA dmen.
Sheldon Souray
5. We've drafted BPA forever in round 1, foregoing the 1st round defensemen that other teams have slowly accumulated. We are empty on the farm.
David Musil
IMO, the ONLY way out is to convert the high end forwards into dmen. Or to offer sheet an RFA dman. My plan: offer sheet Seth Jones. Then trade Ebs for another good dman.
A few years back the Sens lost their #1 center (Spezza) their #1 goalie (anderson) and their #1 norris winning dman (Karlsson) for the year and they made the playoffs.
Yes that is an exception but almost every excuse we use for the oilers gets blown out of the water and one time or another. This team was struggling when all the players you mentioned were healthy.
I was watching the Detroit St.Louis game the other night. During a stoppage in play, the camera panned to a press-box. Inside the press-box was Chiarelli talking to the Blues GM. Shattenkirk?
Just checked: last year the Oilers had their first regulation losses by an average of 2.5 goals. This year it's down to 1.9. If we factored in empty net goals, that number would be even lower and the change even more significant. This is with the man-games lost having skyrocketed this year. So the team is definitely heading in the right direction, even if we're tired of saying that.
I was watching the Detroit St.Louis game the other night. During a stoppage in play, the camera panned to a press-box. Inside the press-box was Chiarelli talking to the Blues GM. Shattenkirk?
A few years back the Sens lost their #1 center (Spezza) their #1 goalie (anderson) and their #1 norris winning dman (Karlsson) for the year and they made the playoffs.
Yes that is an exception but almost every excuse we use for the oilers gets blown out of the water and one time or another.
This team was struggling when all the players you mentioned were healthy.
Guess who..again...
Guess who..again...
I look forward to the day he is no longer an Oiler.
I think we need anther three or four years of lottery picks so we can rebuild the defense through the draft since nobody wants to trade Nuge or Eberle.
Remember on Oilers Now when Bob was saying we needed to be patient the way we were with Paul Coffey........pretty ridiculous in hindsight
How long did we wait to trade Paul coffey?
Guess who..again...
what was Jultz thinking with that pass? even if he puts it on Drai's tape, he probably gets hit hard or the puck knocked off his blade
what a dummy...hammer it into the corner
He literally could have just played it up the left boards and out. There was no one there. He has god awful hockey sense, especially in the D zone.