Pavel10
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Something like 5m should be thrown at tulsky.If they actually hire a competent, progressive GM, I think we might be surprised at how some of these issues can actually be managed.
Something like 5m should be thrown at tulsky.If they actually hire a competent, progressive GM, I think we might be surprised at how some of these issues can actually be managed.
You can't squeeze other GM's in this league.
Trades are hard to make.
Dollar in; Dollar out.
He had an excuse every f***ing year on why this team simply couldn't go all in. Those are just 3 of them. There's plenty more in his wheel of excuses.
Something like 5m should be thrown at tulsky.
Yeh. I don’t know how much this can put on KK. Maybe a lack of an inspiring speech to up the boys intensity is the only thing I can say. But what if he did that and the boys just didn’t respond. We easilly win this if our PP gets 1 out of 5…. The margins in this game were thin.I have a hard time blaming KK when the PP goes 0/5 and the top guys let them win it in the last minute…
Can't go all in, yet he is always setting himself up to have no flexibility at all even if he wanted to. Just the worst possible GM we could have hired for the stage we were at in this rebuild. Zero creativity in making moves. Zero planning and foresight. Just a guy flailing and always in a rush to blow every dime on whatever idea looks ok in the moment.
pk adjustments alone.When I see you agreeing with my posts, I know for a fact its the truth.
Knoblauch's getting his ass outcoached this series.
pk adjustments alone.
But other things too. Gooning it up in series is something a Nucks team has to do to slow us down. They checked those kinds of boxes. Also unlike LA Nucks haven't been running around taking really dumb penalties. We still got jobbed on what should've been suspensions to both Zad and dumber, but I also can't believe how timid our response has been since that. Nucks are beating us in games and the in the ring. Thats historically not an Oilers kind of thing to be on the wrong end of that.
I thought/hoped Jeff Jackson could be that progressive that could bring some more intelligence to our moves. I was disappointed to see him enter a scouting meeting LATE on the drop episode about the TDL. And then in the meeting he was silent it seemed like Holland was in full control directing the moves and focus of the scouting group.If they actually hire a competent, progressive GM, I think we might be surprised at how some of these issues can actually be managed.
We got a week off between series. Blaming fatigue is laughable. Ever seen triple Ot games? How’s Dallas look after going to game 7 in a war with the champs? It’s a joke anyone has even brought that up.
The Oilers didn't have the puck for two periods. Very little o-zone time. Their zone exits were limited to flip the puck out or hammer it around the boards. There was no flow. Line 4 was the most effective line after the first period creating a goal and support PK. Nothing happened after 1. All began in the face-off circle where they were always chasing after losing them.Where I disagree is the bolded. The Canucks didn't take it. We gave it away. Especially our topline. and top unit.
We had a 5 man unit of McD line and Booch and Ekholm for much of their shifts in this game. Much of the time they were just knocking the puck up ice or flips up ice. When they did get even a rush on net they were shooting wide or passing from the slot. It was like an exhibition in how to throw it away. A unit that good should establish every night. That they could be this off, and really for a couple games in a row is uncanny. Wasn't just nucks either. Guys like McD bobbling and fumbling wide open pucks. Hyman tonight looked like he was playing without a stick. may as well have been.
We would have lost to the Flames if these guys were awful in that series. You can't have your top 5 unit being this bad for two games in a row.
He probably doesn’t want to micromanage everything. At least he’s willing to make major moves that Holland wouldn’t do, like firing Wright.I thought/hoped Jeff Jackson could be that progressive that could bring some more intelligence to our moves. I was disappointed to see him enter a scouting meeting LATE on the drop episode about the TDL. And then in the meeting he was silent it seemed like Holland was in full control directing the moves and focus of the scouting group.
Agreed. But technically the last nickles he left us went UNUSED as we had cap space left on TDL day.Can't go all in, yet he is always setting himself up to have no flexibility at all even if he wanted to. Just the worst possible GM we could have hired for the stage we were at in this rebuild. Zero creativity in making moves. Zero planning and foresight. Just a guy flailing and always in a rush to blow every dime on whatever idea looks ok in the moment.
The final and most consequential year of his 5, he just blows it all, plus an extra 3M next year for someone else to deal with on a busted Connor Brown. Doesn't try to fix anything else. No effort to free space and fix the obvious things that sank us vs Vegas (which sank us in the first games of this series). 34 year old Henrique with the last nickles he left himself. Just embarrassing.
Help me believe. What does that look like?If they actually hire a competent, progressive GM, I think we might be surprised at how some of these issues can actually be managed.
Tulsky didn't go any further than the Oilers.Something like 5m should be thrown at tulsky.
A hiring search for directors of pro and amateur scouting would have been nice. Instead of bringing on two FAILED scouting directors from Detroit.Help me believe. What does that look like?