Post-Game Talk: Endgame

[Soundwave]

Chiarelli left this team with nothing.

All those ludcurious trades you think where other GMs trade us pieces for junk won't work.

Ill evaluate him after this summer.

What's magically going to happen this summer? Besides drafting another player 4 years away.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Wow PGT out before the end of the game. Reminds me of the darkest days of the Decade of Darkness.

 

[Beerfish]

This team has the best player in the world and another guy who is a supreme talent. They should be able to be a playoff team after a year of the GM is good. Holland had 3 jobs this off season. To add legit secondary scoring what was done with Neal for a few weeks. (but he makes up for that by being awful 5 on 5).

To improve goaltending, which was a big fat failure and to really improve the bottom six which has been a huge failure.

The new coach by all appearance is the same as the last couple of system coaches we have had.

The Calvary is not coming either, our prospect pool is poor overall.

 

[CycloneSweep]

I had the unpopular thought at one point of the idea of trading Drai when he was at his absolute best at beginning of the season (sell high). I wouldn't have done it, but the haul would be quite good. And quite honestly, the return would have been better than what we have now.

The crazy thing, and I don't think we should ever do it but like, if you trade McDavid and your gm is thinking enough, you could keep Drai and get enough in assets back for McDavid to build an NHL team thru other trades etc. Like the Duchene trade set Colorado up for years. Imagine what a smart GM could do with a McDavid trade.

That said we shouldn't give up McDavid and should build around him.

 

[McVirginOil]

Oilers need to invest in analytics before puck tracking becomes widely available. But I don’t expect them to do anything.

 

[I am the Liquor]

Chiarelli gave this team no cap space. What was Holland supposed to do? The Lucic trade was amazing.

He is supposed to improve the team. He has not. And he doesn’t seem too concerned about it either. The players he brought in have been flops. He is not above criticism.

 

[3IR]

I’d trade this team for Arizonas team.
I’d trade this team for almost any other team in the NHL.

 

[BlackDogg]

Wow PGT out before the end of the game. Reminds me of the darkest days of the Decade of Darkness.

think we are into the Fourth Quadrennium of Darkness now - or the Quad Qaudrennium of Darkness.

 

[CycloneSweep]

This team has the best player in the world and another guy who is a supreme talent. They should be able to be a playoff team after a year of the GM is good. Holland had 3 jobs this off season. To add legit secondary scoring what was done with Neal for a few weeks. (but he makes up for that by being awful 5 on 5).

To improve goaltending, which was a big fat failure and to really improve the bottom six which has been a huge failure.

The new coach by all appearance is the same as the last couple of system coaches we have had.

The Calvary is not coming either, our prospect pool is poor overall.

None of our forward prospects are really worth a damn, our goaltending prospects look like shit and our defensive prospects either suck defensively or way to far away to even think about them helping the team soon

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

He is supposed to improve the team. He has not. And he doesn’t seem too concerned about it either. The players he brought in have been flops. He is not above criticism.

He didn’t bring in a good coach either. I swear I’m watching Hitchcock hockey.

 

[TheUltimateOiler]

Haas is probably our 4th best forward right now but isn't getting the ice time

Honestly. Haas is better than nuge.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Honestly. Haas is better than nuge.

Yeah, I'd say Kassian is 3rd right now

 

[Moregoalspls]

Oilers look as apathetic as the majority of the fans.

 

[OfCorsiDid]

Sadly, I feel like the only way to fix this team is by blowing it up completely. The return for McDavid alone would be something we have never seen before.

Could you imagine what a laughing stock that this organization would be after that? That would be more something we’ve never seen before. The team would be known as the group that got dealt a pair of aces, then managed to f*** up everything possible and then folded. Return or not, the damage team’s reputation would be a lasting scar.

It would likely be the end of me following the Oilers and probably hockey altogether.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Could you imagine what a laughing stock that this organization would be after that? That would be more something we’ve never seen before. The team would be known as the group that got dealt a pair of aces, then managed to **** up everything possible and then folded. Return or not, the damage team’s reputation would be a lasting scar.

It would likely be the end of me following the Oilers and probably hockey altogether.

I think not being able to ice a competitive team with McDavid makes them a laughingstock.

 

[McVirginOil]

Forward ranking def goes:
McD
Drai
Kass
Gagner
Haas/Nuge/Neal

 

[redgrant]

What's magically going to happen this summer? Besides drafting another player 4 years away.

Crappy contracts come off the book.

Can you give me 3 trades you'd like to see right now?

Then take a step back and evaluate what new holes they've created. This isn't a team with a ton of depth.

 

[BlackDogg]

He is supposed to improve the team. He has not. And he doesn’t seem too concerned about it either. The players he brought in have been flops. He is not above criticism.

"I'm hearing the trade is one for one. McDavid for Gaudreau. Oilers retain some salary. More details to come."

 

[Cloned]

Yeah, I'd say Kassian is 3rd right now

McDavid
Kassian
Haas
Drai

 

[Studz]

Hard to tell if they are worse offensively or defensively.

Holland did nothing for five weeks while the season went down the tubes. Not even a call to Bakersfield to try something new.

Thats because this team sucks bad and no amount of minor tweaking will fix it.

 

[Moregoalspls]

They should record all the terrible back passes this game and show it to there players

 

[CycloneSweep]

Could you imagine what a laughing stock that this organization would be after that? That would be more something we’ve never seen before. The team would be known as the group that got dealt a pair of aces, then managed to **** up everything possible and then folded. Return or not, the damage team’s reputation would be a lasting scar.

It would likely be the end of me following the Oilers and probably hockey altogether.

What reputation? This organization is already the laughing stock of the league

 

[Quality Oil]

Remember when we were almost 6 games in hand and shit talking the Flames? Peppridge Farms remembers.

 

[McVirginOil]

Can’t wait for 2024 to see McDavid deke and embarrass the captain of the Oilers Zack Kassian.

 

[BlackDogg]