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valkynax said:
6-2, ouch...

Yeah they HAVE to find a better goalie, Skinner and Pickard are not gonna cut it.
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They're not even looking. (lol)
Org said its riding with skinner as the #1 and Only adding a depth defenseman, and have no cap space.
They're so cooked its unbelievable.
 
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Steve Tambellini grinning like an idiot while they draft Yakupov when the absolute last thing they needed was another winger.
 
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rypper said:
Steve Tambellini grinning like an idiot while they draft Yakupov when the absolute last thing they needed was another winger.
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Brian Burke in his interview a few years back said Leafs put Yakupov on no-draft list, as the kid was showing a shit attitude (Leafs had 5th overall which eventually became Morgan Reilly) and allegedly almost got into physical altercation with one of the coaches.

Putting some young cocky kid with such major attitude problem with a dumbass coach like Eakins probably didn't do him any favors either.
 
Flames leapfrog the Canucks, and the Ducks/Blues/Utah are closing in.

Hard as it is to wrap your head around after last season, if this latest Canuck swoon continues, their first round draft pick could well come in somewhere in the top-10.
 
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VanJack said:
Flames leapfrog the Canucks, and the Ducks/Blues/Utah are closing in.

Hard as it is to wrap your head around after last season, if this latest Canuck swoon continues, their first round draft pick could well come in somewhere in the top-10.
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I'm not worried about the Flames, I am worried about the Blues, and the Ducks will be a very good team next season I'd imagine.

Why concede defeat? Momma told me before my first ball game, if you're going out, go out swinging.
 
valkynax said:
6-2, ouch...

Yeah they HAVE to find a better goalie, Skinner and Pickard are not gonna cut it.
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Goaltending isn't good but the problems are beyond goaltending. The blueline is awful. The forward depth is just as bad. And honestly you still have McDavid not playing any real semblance of a 200' game.

credulous said:
the last time y'all talked this much about how bad the oilers are they nearly won the cup
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They aren't as good of a team as last year. But a focused McDavid and Draisatl can carry a team a long way. And Skinner has shown the ability to get hot for a few weeks.

edit: apparently McDavid has no 5-on-5 points in 11 games.
 
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Jerry the great said:
Spending $10MM on olds (Arvidsson, Henrique and Skinner) while moving out $9MM of fasts (Broberg, Holloway and McLeod) was a questionable decision when made and father time's influence isn't helping at all. All three guys they punted have leveled up significantly, while the olds - unsurprisingly - are trending in the opposite direction.

It will be fascinating to see if McDavid re-signs there this summer. I can't imagine why he would.
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Not to mention that Broberg and Holloway would have signed for considerably less prior to receiving the offer sheets.
 
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racerjoe said:
I mean he is absolutely going to. I bet he and Drai talked about it last summer.

I doubt I would if I saw what was happening, but a lot of players seem not to, and chase money or something instead.
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They absolutely may have talked about it at the time, and McDavid might also have noticed the moves made in the offseason to supposedly help him get closer to a cup have been disasters (as they have every other year). Maybe he's dumb enough to stay and participate in the clown show, but I sure won't be surprised if he leaves. Other than some sense of bizarrely misplaced loyalty, why would he stay?
 
Jerry the great said:
They absolutely may have talked about it at the time, and McDavid might also have noticed the moves made in the offseason to supposedly help him get closer to a cup have been disasters (as they have every other year). Maybe he's dumb enough to stay and participate in the clown show, but I sure won't be surprised if he leaves. Other than some sense of bizarrely misplaced loyalty, why would he stay?
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How much would you bet he leaves?
 
McDavid leaving the Oilers is a fun fantasy but there's a reason that they hired his agent to run the team.

This is McDavid's team. The only real question is how much he extends for. If it's a penny less than 20% of the cap, he's done them a huge favour.
 
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Ernie said:
McDavid leaving the Oilers is a fun fantasy but there's a reason that they hired his agent to run the team.

This is McDavid's team. The only real question is how much he extends for. If it's a penny less than 20% of the cap, he's done them a huge favour.
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At some point he's going to really care about his legacy. The thoughts will come slowly and then all at once. Crosby won his second cup when he was 28. McDavid has none, and the team around him is horribly constructed with little in the pipeline and one other core piece...two if you count Bouchard. If they get bounced out of the playoffs early, the doubt is going to start to creep in and then the finger pointing will start.
 
Jerry the great said:
At some point he's going to really care about his legacy. The thoughts will come slowly and then all at once. Crosby won his second cup when he was 28. McDavid has none, and the team around him is horribly constructed with little in the pipeline and one other core piece...two if you count Bouchard. If they get bounced out of the playoffs early, the doubt is going to start to creep in and then the finger pointing will start.
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You're probably right in that he should do this. But he won't.
 
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