Are the 2024-2025 Edmonton Oilers the biggest preseason cup favourites of all time?

[PocketNines]

that's a description that would never have even occurred to me

are we just unfamiliar with past teams, or ... ?

 

[PB37]

As long as they all DIG....IN, they'll go far again.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

I'm an Oilers fan and I wouldn't even call us the top favourite TBH. We need to upgrade #4D still. I would throw us into a mix with about 4 teams

Most overrated team, yes. Literally have 2.5 good players and all these moronic "hockey experts" think they're going to win. Hysterical.

What an absolute horrendous take lol

 

[kingsholygrail]

Imagine picking the Oilers when the Devils already have 4pts.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Is this thread in the running for the most hyperbolic thread title of 2024?

 

[McJedi]

Literally every article I've read it's been Oilers all across the board. I don't recall seeing one team being such an overwhelming preseason favourite. Can you?

Canadian press trying to will it so, but here is the roster.

I see a crappy bottom line, weak in net, bad bottom 3 defenders, older roster, lacks speed and lost a lot of playoff grit. Any injury to a core player like Ekholm, RNH or Hyman will crater them.

And they are coming off a very long and ultimately disappointing season with a built in let down about to unfold.

Oilers are a playoff team. But overwhelming anything? Absolutely not. This is a team with a lot of holes in it, no depth, it's old and now it's pretty slow. And their goalie is suspect.

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[Ace Card Bedard]

Is this an attempted jinx thread?

 

[Soundwave]

Canadian press trying to will it so, but here is the roster.

I see a crappy bottom line, weak in net, bad bottom 3 defenders, older roster, lacks speed and lost a lot of playoff grit. Any injury to a core player like Ekholm, RNH or Hyman will crater them.

And they are coming off a very long and ultimately disappointing season with a built in let down about to unfold.

Oilers are a playoff team. But overwhelming anything? Absolutely not. This is a team with a lot of holes in it, no depth, it's old and now it's pretty slow. And their goalie is suspect.

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It's a salary cap world every team has a lot of holes on it.

Florida's bottom 3/4/5/6 D is not great either, Dallas' is unimpressive too (Dumba has been cooked for a while, he had a higher minus rating at -18 than actual points at 12, lol).

You need to have a coaching system that gets those pieces to buy into a system.

The last team that was genuinely "loaded" up and down the roster was maybe the 2022 Avalanche and that's only because MacKinnon was on a contract steal which is now over. Since then they've been nowhere near as deep or dominant.

The name of the game is having a top end that is good enough to blow games open while having a coaching staff that is good enough to make due with the lesser pieces. No one is getting like 3 great lines + a d-corps that's like 4-5 legit deep + great goaltending in this league.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

I feel like the 2012-13 Blackhawks were heavy favorites, pretty much everyone was expecting them to dominate and then they did.

Also Tampa Bay the next season after they won the bubble cup.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Becoming increasingly difficult to know if something is a joke thread before I click on it