Oil spill on aisle 3

[Reclamation Project]

Oilers management should be ashamed of that team. Absolute garbage. I can't believe a team can be so awful and so incompetent for so long. They need to be thrown out of the NHL.

 

[kovacro]

Oilers management should be ashamed of that team. Absolute garbage. I can't believe a team can be so awful and so incompetent for so long. They need to be thrown out of the NHL.

It's almost sad to see but then I think about all the glory years they had in the 80's and I don't feel that bad for them after all.

Continue to suffer Oilers, continue.

 

[kingsfan]

Oilers management should be ashamed of that team. Absolute garbage. I can't believe a team can be so awful and so incompetent for so long. They need to be thrown out of the NHL.

This is why you don't turn the reigns over to alumni. It was a nice story when Lowe and MacTavish cme into the picture but other than 25 good playoff games in 2006 they have done nothing of substance since returning to Edmonton in management roles. And likely because of those roots to the glory days, they have held onto their jobs for far to long and have somehow both gained promotions.

This team could easily be picking first overall again this summer. That'd be four 1st overall picks under Lowe and there is zero reason to believe this team will be much better next season outside of hoping Scrivens and Fasth can provide good goaltending. How Lowe not only has a job but also enough security to bring back a coach and freidn he fired as the GM is beyond me.

It all starts at the top and the owner is a tool with deep pockets by the sounds of it.

 

[Butch 19]

This is why you don't turn the reigns over to alumni. It was a nice story when Lowe and MacTavish cme into the picture but other than 25 good playoff games in 2006 they have done nothing of substance since returning to Edmonton in management roles. And likely because of those roots to the glory days, they have held onto their jobs for far to long and have somehow both gained promotions.

This team could easily be picking first overall again this summer. That'd be four 1st overall picks under Lowe and there is zero reason to believe this team will be much better next season outside of hoping Scrivens and Fasth can provide good goaltending. How Lowe not only has a job but also enough security to bring back a coach and freidn he fired as the GM is beyond me.

It all starts at the top and the owner is a tool with deep pockets by the sounds of it.

all this ^^^^^ Ex-players in management is very rarely successful.

How DOES Lowe still have a job? If Dave Taylor had had 3 number 1's in a row (+ another 1st-3rd coming), we would be looking at a very different Kings team. How do you screw that much up?!!!

Lowe must be scared to answer the phone.

 

[Scottkmlps]

Oilers management should be ashamed of that team. Absolute garbage. I can't believe a team can be so awful and so incompetent for so long. They need to be thrown out of the NHL.

I'm thinking the players are looking to get a certain coach, that has no business coaching in the NHL, axed.

 

[BigBrown]

It'd be awesome if the NHL would implement the system in play in Swedish hockey where the top teams of the 2nd tier league play bottom teams of the top tier for their place. It's brutal, potentially franchise ending stuff. If you think your normal playoff series are stressful, imagine if losing it would stick you in the AHL for lord knows how long. Completely unrealistic with the money at stake for the NHL obviously, but it'd sure discourage tanking

 

[Reclamation Project]

I'm thinking the players are looking to get a certain coach, that has no business coaching in the NHL, axed.

The Watergate scandal really set the wheels in motion.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

I have a hard on for Gaborik as well but people keep ignoring his injury history when they factor signing him. I'm sure the Kings will re-sign him and the injury history along with his age should drop his cap hit by $1M minimally. I hope they do re-sign him but I'm still waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under us. It isn't a matter of if, but when he will get hurt and how bad. Hopefully he can make it to next year's training camp without missing any time.

Also, I swear Sutter put King/Kopitar/Gaborik out there for a shift in the second period with Gaborik on the right wing. Anybody catch that or was I smoking some good stuff? I just thought it was interesting and I would've assumed it were just the middle of a line change but Gaborik and King are both playing LW on different lines.

 

[Moses Doughty]

It'd be awesome if the NHL would implement the system in play in Swedish hockey where the top teams of the 2nd tier league play bottom teams of the top tier for their place. It's brutal, potentially franchise ending stuff. If you think your normal playoff series are stressful, imagine if losing it would stick you in the AHL for lord knows how long. Completely unrealistic with the money at stake for the NHL obviously, but it'd sure discourage tanking

Well then you'd need to set up a completely new format for the AHL considering they aren't their own teams like in the Allsvenskan. Call ups and such

 

[Winger23]

I have a hard on for Gaborik as well but people keep ignoring his injury history when they factor signing him. I'm sure the Kings will re-sign him and the injury history along with his age should drop his cap hit by $1M minimally. I hope they do re-sign him but I'm still waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under us. It isn't a matter of if, but when he will get hurt and how bad. Hopefully he can make it to next year's training camp without missing any time.

Also, I swear Sutter put King/Kopitar/Gaborik out there for a shift in the second period with Gaborik on the right wing. Anybody catch that or was I smoking some good stuff? I just thought it was interesting and I would've assumed it were just the middle of a line change but Gaborik and King are both playing LW on different lines.

I saw king out there too, and if I remember it was right after their PP expired and Williams was on the 2nd unit.

 

[Minor Boarding]

I'm thinking the players are looking to get a certain coach, that has no business coaching in the NHL, axed.

I don't know. Putting the blame on coaching AGAIN seem to me like another excuse for the players performance. I'm sorry but the Oilers have changed coaches like baby diapers. I would think they need bag skating and early morning board-battle drills more then a new coach...

 

[BigBrown]

Well then you'd need to set up a completely new format for the AHL considering they aren't their own teams like in the Allsvenskan. Call ups and such

There are clearly a million reasons why this would never be implemented but it's fun to speculate what would happen. My local team here in Sweden has during my lifetime gone from Swedish champions of the top league to the 3rd league and back up to the 2nd. So much anxiety...

 

[kingsfan]

I don't know. Putting the blame on coaching AGAIN seem to me like another excuse for the players performance. I'm sorry but the Oilers have changed coaches like baby diapers. I would think they need bag skating and early morning board-battle drills more then a new coach...

What they need to do from a management standpoint is sign some character guys who have wore letters elsewhere and may not have much skill but have a ton of heart. Like when we signed Scott Thornton. Guy couldn't score on a soccer net but he worked his ass off and showed what it took to play in this league. Same with Sean O'Donnell. Remember the affect he had on Doughty?

What does Edmonton have? Andrew Ference was a decent start, but is Ryan Smyth really the guy to lead you? He may work hard but his attitude sucks. We learned that here. Boyd Gordon? Nice player but not a leader. Matt Hendricks?

Fourty-eight players have appeared in an Oilers uniform this year and only 19 are at least 27 years of age or older. Of those 19, only five played at least half the season with the Oilers AND are still on the team. And one of them, Smyth, is retiring after the season.

The reason Doughty came in at 18 and did so well is a bunch of factors, but one was having a steady reliable partner to work with in O'Donnell who showed him how to work hard. Who is leading the Oilers? Then they wonder why Yakupov is off in neverland, the team has a plus/minus of negative one million and no one wants to come there unless you massively overpay (Boyd Gordon = $3.5 million?).

That team has a huge cultural situation to change before anything else can be impacted. Can Lowe and MacTavish, bring in a veteran who has shown results and give him three years to help rebuild things, tell the owner to write the check and piss off, and then tell those kids that one of them is out the door if the work ethic doesn't improve.

To many fingers in the pie on that team and no accountability.

 

[Moses Doughty]

There are clearly a million reasons why this would never be implemented but it's fun to speculate what would happen. My local team here in Sweden has during my lifetime gone from Swedish champions of the top league to the 3rd league and back up to the 2nd. So much anxiety...

I'd only like it when LA wasn't being relegated