Oilers hype: Is HF buying in on a 2024 run?

[Freudian]

Why not?

 

[hangman005]

Only the first game, but ... golly.

I'd even make that a by golly.

It's the first game and all the warts people were concerned about were on full display tonight. It will be interesting to see how the Oilers respond. For their sake I hope it lights a fire under their ass. For my sake and especially evil hangman, if they could fall apart more it'd be really funny.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Takes more than a pretty looking roster with lots of points to win a Stanley Cup.

You want to know which teams win in a cap league? The teams that have the roster that has attention to detail. That is focused on winning the 1 on 1 battles. Know why "doing the little things right" is such a well worn hockey cliche? It's because it's f***ing true, it is an absolute truism of winning hockey. You need a coach that inspires that kind of top to bottom to a man play. The Oilers score goals and can score goals and will score many more goals. Unfortunately for them that's only half the game. The other half is keeping goals out.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Elkhom is a good defender but one guy playing or out unless it’s like Cale Makar shouldn’t be a deciding factor to automatically fix your D or have it turn to absolute shit. Just one game but Jesus Christ that entire team was bad tonight

Yeah, while everybody is staring at the 8, I'm looking at the 1. No 5v5 goals, only a single PP goal by Draisatl. Not sure what's going on with the Oilers, but one gets the feeling that deep down something is just not right and it is something more fundamental than merely a defense that is an insult to Swiss cheese.

 

[jackjohnson]

Takes more than a pretty looking roster with lots of points to win a Stanley Cup.

You want to know which teams win in a cap league? The teams that have the roster that has attention to detail. That is focused on winning the 1 on 1 battles. Know why "doing the little things right" is such a well worn hockey cliche? It's because it's f***ing true, it is an absolute truism of winning hockey. You need a coach that inspires that kind of top to bottom to a man play. The Oilers score goals and can score goals and will score many more goals. Unfortunately that's only half the game. The other half is keeping goals out.

The Oilers have some big weaknesses that gets overlooked by many people here. Number 1 is their goalies which are not great and below average. Number 2 is their depth on D. They keep talking about Elkhom being injured as the reason for not looking good on D but that is such a cliche excuse imo. Their D is dependent on some individuals to be present on the ice to look good, like they don't have a system or D by committee strategy that Tocchet is employing. Injuries can and will happen and if you can't play without one of your players then you are not really a cup contender. So if injuries hit the Oilers or Elkhom gets injured they are screwed, if McD gets injured they are screwed and if their goalies don't pickup their game they are screwed. Lots of weaknesses for a top 3 contending team. And last I checked, cup winning teams usually have a decent goalie between the posts.

 

[kp61c]

another season, the same old crap from them

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I am ALL IN on the Oil

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

I only watched the highlights but man, the whole team looked completely lost.

 

[who_me?]

They had an extra 2 weeks of training camp guys, they were just tired.

 

[Video Nasty]

They’ll adjust. Get your hits in now because odds are, they’ll be holding the Cup 8 months from now.

 

[deleted user]

They’ll adjust. Get your hits in now because odds are, they’ll be holding the Cup 8 months from now.

Keep on believing. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

They’ll adjust. Get your hits in now because odds are, they’ll be holding the Cup 8 months from now.

Not likely. But anything’s possible.

 

[Three On Zero]

They’ll adjust. Get your hits in now because odds are, they’ll be holding the Cup 8 months from now.

Sure, for those fans that play NHL 24.

Edmonton is a playoff team that has yet to show they can be considered a contender, let alone have people think they can actually win the cup

 

[ijuka]

Well perhaps Oilers are planning on scoring 9 goals per game.

 

[canuckslover10]

Goaltending is their main issue not that generally skinner has been bad but they need a goalie who can steal games on a consistent basis, they are not built to win with just good enough goaltending like Vegas and Colorado, although credit to Vegas and AVS goalies they did step up but they really could have plugged any slightly above average goalie and won the cup. The Oilers need a star goalie someone Hellebuyck,Sorokin, Shesterkin,and Vasilievsky esque.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

I'm just wondering what they did during the captain's skates. Might as well have enjoyed their vacation.

 

[God]

I wouldn't pay too much attention to this result. It's what happens when you have bottom third defense/goaltending and face the deepest forward group in the league.

 

[All Mod Cons]

No

 

[hangman005]

They’ll adjust. Get your hits in now because odds are, they’ll be holding the Cup 8 months from now.

Correction.... they'll be holding their cup. Vegas will be holding The Cup

 

[CycloneSweep]

Edmonton crumbles under expectations. Has for a decade.

 

[archangel2]

Nurse in 9th in even strength points amongst D men the last 5 years.

21st in +/- over that same 5 year period.

This while playing some of the most difficult minutes and hardest quality of competition.

But yeah, “tire fire” most nights.

he is a tire fire on most night

 

[34]

I have always said it about the Oilers. Trash D and goaltending.

 

[KeydGV21]

Pinnacle has Edmonton Oilers as the favorite to win the Stanley Cup, and by a significant margin. It looks like:
Top tier: Oilers
Second tier: Avalanche, Hurricanes, Leafs
Third tier: Devils, Golden Knights, Stars, Bruins
Rest

Publications might care about this stuff, but sportsbooks such as Pinnacle care about making money, so they're only motivated by making as strong predictions as possible.

Their initial odds are predictions to an extent…but ultimately the odds on futures are based on how the public is betting them…

All the Oilers being the favorite at Pinnacle means is that Pinnacle is on the hook for a lot of money if Edmonton wins the cup and they are trying to get money spread out elsewhere…

 

[Warden of the North]

McD still in his prime.

They can win it on that alone.

 

[LevelingSolo]

Second year in a row they came out completely flat in the season opener