Come on. Give the guy some credit. He took a mediocre borderline playoff team and turned it into a mediocre borderline playoff team.
I think we’ve lacked great coaching for such a long time that it’s forgotten what it even looks like. Tippett ain’t it, man. We’ll just agree to disagree.
@5 Mins 4 Ftg @foshizzle
I’ll make you guys a deal:
If you guys get a room, @Behind Enemy Lines and I will do the same.
Did I say he built the team? I had said it was reported by media that he had a significant voice in the room for who to bring in this offseason. How do you know hes not consulted despite the reporting? Do you know Mcdavid personally? Source in the GM office?
If you just think its just complete coincidence that pretty much everyone who trained w/ Mcdavid this offseason was either extended, signed or traded for then I dont know what to tell you.
And again, before Im straw-manned, Im not saying it his fault the roster is built like this. Its 100% on the GM to build the roster. I actually think its a good thing to consult your best player when making moves, but its up to the GM to decide on what to do w/ that information.
I don't see any links to the widely known physics in that article by an acoustics firm. Must purely be a blog, I think we will need you to provide a link to back up the science behind how a falling tree would make a sound mechanically. Hopefully from a peer reviewed paper so we know it is replicable.You asked. If you didn’t want one, you shouldn’t have asked.
@5 Mins 4 Ftg @foshizzle
I’ll make you guys a deal:
If you guys get a room, @Behind Enemy Lines and I will do the same.
Dude, I'm so there. Would much rather chat this through over a few tasty brews. But regardless, always respectful conversation.
I don't see any links to the widely known physics in that article by an acoustics firm. Must purely be a blog, I think we will need you to provide a link to back up the science behind how a falling tree would make a sound mechanically. Hopefully from a peer reviewed paper so we know it is replicable.
Just wait until I throw a few of those @5 Mins 4 Ftg gifs into the conversationDude, I'm so there. Would much rather chat this through over a few tasty brews. But regardless, always respectful conversation.
I don't see any links to the widely known physics in that article by an acoustics firm. Must purely be a blog, I think we will need you to provide a link to back up the science behind how a falling tree would make a sound mechanically. Hopefully from a peer reviewed paper so we know it is replicable.
Now only Bettman can stop Kane to Edmonton!
... and he probably will
I’d argue they did pull the chute on Tippett; Holland was and still is just too stubborn and hesitant to make the required change there.McLellan and Eakins survived the Oiler blender for second chances. Hitchcock. Pat Quinn. This team went through coaching like poop through a goose. Lack of stability was essentially called out by their elite players. The players are dialled into Tippett with no sign of a Travis Green chute pulling to be seen. Had this team wanted its head coach to be gone or felt he was responsible for the collective poor on-ice play of its personnel, Tippett would likely be gone. Trotz is an example where organizations didn't panic and throw the Trotz baby out with the wash, he got long tenures, and finally, finally broke through to win after endless chances with likely the best goalscorer in NHL history.
If Trotz can go from perceived loser to winner and back to loser, I'm inclined to look at the personnel and wonder what is/was missing. Oilers clearly lack average or above NHL goaltending. Depth past two elites is getting better and might breakthrough if Kane and Holloway can join them upfront. But again, no team and no coach goes unscathed losing its top net minder for essentially the whole season. And if you're backup is Koskinen, well we know how that plays out.
Do you have someone to help you with the big words?
Just need to keep a certain finger taped downI’m staying calm.
I’d argue they did pull the chute on Tippett; Holland was and still is just too stubborn and hesitant to make the required change there.
The problem with the Oilers continually going through coaches is that now it scares you from making an actual needed coaching change. Failures of the past should not deter you from making a needed change.
Holy f*** drop it already. I don’t give a flying f*** what you believe.
@5 Mins 4 Ftg @foshizzle
I’ll make you guys a deal:
If you guys get a room, @Behind Enemy Lines and I will do the same.
Kane just needs a few more days to finish loading his baggage.
Koskinen is the only one who has been thrown under the bus, and it was the head coach who did it. That's tough to come back from.I definitely don't think this team or its leadership group specifically have quit on Tippett. They rightfully point the accountability finger at the team's personnel/aka themselves for the situation they are in. Conversely in Vancouver, it was outright mutiny with in-fighting (Horvat and Miller) and outright rebellion when Miller loudly questioned one of the practise drills being done.
We don't see those cracks in Edmonton. Team pushes hard, gets down and chase games, their structure and process breaks down to lose and often lose badly. But the will wasn't been broken. No one's been thrown under the bus despite horrendous goaltending through the sustained losing streak.
Holland is not Chiarelli who panicked into franchise setting bad trades and the rather quickly pulled the pin on his head coach who had within his tenure taken this sad sack franchise into second round of the playoffs.
Holy have you guys been talking about this all day lmao?