Now you are saying OEL and Bush wouldn't be a bad pairing if OEL was better? What the hell are you smoking? Bush looked good because of OEL, not the other way around. Bush has improved, I'll give you that, and I enjoy watching him, but on a good team he's sitting in the press box drinking vodka. I think I need one after reading some of these comments.
Now you are saying OEL and Bush wouldn't be a bad pairing if OEL was better? What the hell are you smoking? Bush looked good because of OEL, not the other way around. Bush has improved, I'll give you that, and I enjoy watching him, but on a good team he's sitting in the press box drinking vodka. I think I need one after reading some of these comments.
Now you are saying OEL and Bush wouldn't be a bad pairing if OEL was better? What the hell are you smoking? Bush looked good because of OEL, not the other way around. Bush has improved, I'll give you that, and I enjoy watching him, but on a good team he's sitting in the press box drinking vodka. I think I need one after reading some of these comments.
Fine...
You two can continue your mutual back-slapping session about a player you’ve never seen beyond HF while everyone else watches.
Good thing we have OEL and Chychrun under contract long-term. LD much easier to fill than RD. Im not worried about filing our bottom pairing Ld position.
We clearly do not. Look at the contracts coming off the books and figure out the line-up for defense next season and beyond. You also want variability in your line-up to matchup against certain teams. Sometimes we're going to want two big heavy defenseman in the line-up in Provolnev and Lyubushkin, and other times we can go with the finesse guys only. You're also completely disregarding injuries and completely disregarding getting players who can pair up in the AHL to properly play the system so you don't have something like only finesse guys getting paired down below and then coming up and not knowing how to play with a stay-at-home partner.
We have a farm full of depth Dman, and a couple playing for the Yotes as we speak, and if we don't resign Bush and Toaster bring up one of them. We can't win with a bunch of depth Dman.
I just think we’ve reached the point to move on. The errors that OEL seems to be making consistently are things he wasn’t doing in his early years. Its mental. Either he’s overthinking or he’s not focused.
OEL is fine as C. Need a supporting cast and he never had any. Look who Doan had while he was C. Big difference is character.
I think OEL will be traded, but he if playing fine this year. If I was him, I couldn't wait to get the hell out of Dodge.
There is only one Doan, but you better list those teams and you will see Doan's supporting cast. Most on these boards wanted Domi the meat head as Captain, so I'm happy with OEL. I don't think any of us have heard of any rumblings that players are not happy as OEL being Captain, or about his character. I think you are the only person in mankind that can tell a person's character by looking at him. For OEL's sake I hope he leaves, he deserves so much better. I think Doan would have left also if not for his family.
We will never be close to a SC contender during OEL's remaining years because of where we are at the moment. RT can't coach, Will his replacement be any better? Is BA any better than our previous GM's? For me personally, I'm not giving the team any more excuses and if I don't see significant improvement next year, I think I will throw in the towel on this team. I have watched and supported this team thru thick and thin and I thought I would always support them, but I guess their futility has worn me down. Hope BA is a miracle worker because that is what we need.
