Official 2015 tank thread IV

[KennyFnPowers*]

We just got shutout 7-0 by "dumbass"

 

[MayDay]

Glad that the tank is on track, but I would rather they weren't getting plastered night in and night out.

Ideal scenario would be to lose every night 2-1 or 3-2.

 

[Revelate]

Nikitin is worse than Schultz. Just casually centering the puck in front of his own net.

 

[sabres4ever]

damn. just damn.

 

[CrazyPsycho]

scrivens is awful

 

[sjci]

Glad that the tank is on track, but I would rather they weren't getting plastered night in and night out.

Ideal scenario would be to lose every night 2-1 or 3-2.

No, remember what happened last time everyone wished they were a bit more competitive..? They went 10-3...I hope this team loses 7-0 every game. Half of this team will not be here in 2 years!

Mezaros, Benoit, Weber, Enroth/Neuvirth, Stewart, Stafford, Strachan, Kaleta, Flynn, Hodgson. More likely than not, most (if not all) of those players will be gone.

 

[Zip15]

The East is so bad. I don't know how the game will end, but Edmonton is easily outplaying the Lightning in Tampa through 40 minutes. Watching that game and comparing it to our "performance" in Tampa last Friday, there's no contest.

(Unfortunately, they'll now try to sit on their one-goal lead, lose momentum and the lead, and then probably lose late in regulation. )

As you can see, I've watched a tad too much Oilers hockey this season.

 

[KennyFnPowers*]

son of a.... thanks a lot oil.. THANKS!

also, anyone see Georgy pouring his heart out there? I thought he was about to cry.. =\

 

[flashy]

As you can see, I've watched a tad too much Oilers hockey this season.

Its addicting isn't it? You think they might win but they always find a way. I'm not going to lie though, Buffalo is definitely scaring me, a young up and comer that looks like it could dethrone the champs of suck.

 

[sabres4ever]

Cmon, tie it Edm!

 

[Fail4Nail]

You know your team really sucks when you spend more time follows the Oilers than your own team

 

[sabres4ever]

Holy cow, I thought their announcer was going to blow a gasket.

 

[Sabretooth]

****! Oil outshoots tb and loses. When the sabres won, they were the ones getting outshot 2:1. Key to winning = don't shoot

 

[1972]

Arizona sucks, Edmonton finds a way to lose. This sucks, can't wait to be done with this ****

 

[sjci]

Oil should be alright, they outplayed Tampa for most of the game. Our game in Edmonton at the end of the month is going to be huge!

 

[Montag DP]

They've been outplaying teams for most of the game all season, but still finding ways to lose. That said, the way it's going we might not win another game this season.

 

[ZeroPT*]

Arizona sucks, Edmonton finds a way to lose. This sucks, can't wait to be done with this ****

Yeah I'm probably not going to watch the Sabres for a little while.

 

[Mcnofool6110]

Sorry guys. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 2009

 

[1972]

Yeah I'm probably not going to watch the Sabres for a little while.

i'll watch, it's just so mentally draining. At least we can all say we stuck it out in the worst years in franchise history, I am sure this board will grow by the hundreds over the next few years with bandwagon fans.

 

[EichHart]

Sorry guys. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 2009

9 years of no playoffs and still embracing the tank. Props to you guys.

 

[misterchainsaw]

Its addicting isn't it? You think they might win but they always find a way. I'm not going to lie though, Buffalo is definitely scaring me, a young up and comer that looks like it could dethrone the champs of suck.

You do realize Buffalo finished last place last year, right? The dethroning already happened. A two point lead at this point in the season (built on shootout prowess and not any actual hockey ability, no less) doesn't change that. A cursory glance at the advanced metrics (and not so advanced ones like goal differential) shows that Buffalo is a far worse team as well.

EDIT: Hell, the last two seasons worth of hockey are definitively the worst two seasons any team's put together back to back at least since the first lockout, and has to be in any discussion about the worst ever considering the way standings are compiled now and the structure of the league (w/r/t having a salary cap and the overall parity of the league)

 

[sjci]

Oilers have 16 games remaining against the East. They're 7-6-1 currently against the East, so Even if they get slightly worse results than what they have so far, that's still probably another 6-7 wins for them, and while the Oil only have 3 wins against the West so far, they have 8 OT/SO losses, so maybe they'll get around 6-7 wins in their final 21 games against the West. That would give the Oilers around 22-24 wins, so most likely around 57-62 points.

For Buffalo to match that record, they would need to finish the year with around 10 more wins and 8 OT/SO losses. Buffalo has benefited greatly the first half with SO wins. Nearly 50% of our current wins are from the SO.

There's definitely a lot of hope right now that the Oilers will pass us, and we finish 30th, but there's a lot that could still go wrong. The Oilers could hit a bad stretch again, Arizona could go full tank and have a bad swing, Buffalo could pull a few WTF wins again. I see last place this year having probably around less than 58 points, more likely closer to 50 than 58, and for Buffalo to get to that point, they would need to finish with less than 10 wins in their remaining games. But right now, Buffalo doesn't control their fate fully, still have to count on a few other teams to pull out some more wins.

We have 37 games left, including @EDM, @ARZ, vs ARZ, and vs Carolina. Those 4 games will most likely have huge standings implications. With Buffalo 2 back of EDM right now, than game could be the difference of being tied with EDM for 30th, or going up by 2 games (4pts). It's going to be a tight race to the finish

 

[1972]

Sorry guys. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 2009

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[sjci]

They've been outplaying teams for most of the game all season, but still finding ways to lose. That said, the way it's going we might not win another game this season.

EDM fans said the same thing during their 1 win in 20 games or whatever stretch. I will feel much better when the Oilers are ahead of us, than the current situation.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

9 years of no playoffs and still embracing the tank. Props to you guys.

Not much else to look forward to when you have:

The worst management in the NHL
A defense that would barely make it in the AHL
A pair of goalies who couldn't stop a clock
An overrated forward core who couldn't score at a brothel
An(other) AHL coach who was promoted without even the slightest glance at anyone else
An owner who would just as soon send the team to Seattle than receive playoff revenue, who will never, ever look the problem in the eye and realize that the team is ****ing godawful in every facet...

Well, you get the idea. Basically the Oilers are a mess in every conceivable way and until the twerkers at the top are given pink slips it's going to be this way for a very long time.