Oilers now 13-12-1: THE THREAD THAT'S FUN FOR EVERYONE

[Frank Drebin]

Oilers are currently on pace for 82 points this year and will need to play at a .600 pace to qualify.

A .600 pace is a 98 point pace....

They need to play like a playoff team from this point on in order to make the playoffs?

 

[SK13]

Oilers are currently on pace for 82 points this year and will need to play at a .600 pace to qualify.

I know that sounds like a big number to you, but the Oilers will probably be at more like a .660 pace or better in the final 60 games of the year. As they've done outside of their yearly bed wetting in each of the last three non-North division years.

Learn from history dude.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

So about the same spot they were last year at this time.

That was last year time to move on.

A .600 pace is a 98 point pace....

They need to play like a playoff team from this point on in order to make the playoffs?

That’s not correct. They are .500 and after 82 games….you think that’s 98 points?

 

[Frank Drebin]

That was last year time to move on.


That’s not correct. They are .500 and after 82 games….you think that’s 98 points?

Hahahaha, have a good night buddy.

 

[BurnabyJoe7]

If you shut down Mcjesus or injure him with a big clean hit, then they would be done. Oilers go as far as Mcjesus takes them. Prime example is how when McDavid went cold the whole Oilers team went cold and were piling up losses. Now McDavid and Drai are putting up points and all of a sudden Oilers are winning.

"If the best player in the world goes down, your team won't be as good". Genius take. Tell us another bud.

The Canucks rely on Demko just as much as the Oilers rely on McDavid. Only difference is that Demko is showing his human side as of late which was expected while McDavid is coming off an injury. I would say do the math but I know that and stats and math aren't your strong suite.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

I know that sounds like a big number to you, but the Oilers will probably be at more like a .660 pace or better in the final 60 games of the year. As they've done outside of their yearly bed wetting in each of the last three non-North division years.

Learn from history dude.

Right….history and learning. Got it. So status quo should suffice then? No need to upgrade anything at all? Given that goaltending bites the Oil every year….perhaps a playoff calibre goalie? Just a thought.

"If the best player in the world goes down, your team won't be as good". Genius take. Tell us another bud.

The Canucks rely on Demko just as much as the Oilers rely on McDavid. Only difference is that Demko is showing his human side as of late which was expected while McDavid is coming off an injury. I would say do the math but I know that and stats and math aren't your strong suite.

Huh? Shitty take alert!

 

[Spawn]

Right….history and learning. Got it. So status quo should suffice then? No need to upgrade anything at all? Given that goaltending bites the Oil every year….perhaps a playoff calibre goalie? Just a thought.


Huh? Shitty take alert!

If they want to win a cup they need to upgrade their goaltending.

They'll likely make the playoffs either way.

 

[Frosty415]

That was last year time to move on.

They did it the year before too.

Keep writing them off, so far it's not going well for you.

 

[SK13]

Right….history and learning. Got it. So status quo should suffice then? No need to upgrade anything at all? Given that goaltending bites the Oil every year….perhaps a playoff calibre goalie? Just a thought.

There are things they can upgrade to get better than they are. Goaltender top of the list.

It's just not going to stop them from finishing the year with over a 100 points, well inside a playoff spot. Like last year with functionally the same team, or the year before with a worse team, or two years before that with a substantially worse team.

Stop digging. You're gonna regret these posts in a couple months.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

They did it the year before too.

Keep writing them off, so far it's not going well for you.

lol, how’s that now? I said they wouldn’t be in the playoffs due to their slow start. What they did last year and previous years is literally irrelevant to the conversation and adds zippo.

 

[BurnabyJoe7]

These Canuck fans honestly show up once a decade for the bandwagon. They'll be gone in the second half once their team falls into a WC spot so everyone needs to just ignore the trolls until then.

 

[Frosty415]

lol, how’s that now? I said they wouldn’t be in the playoffs due to their slow start. What they did last year and previous years is literally irrelevant to the conversation and adds zippo.

They had slow starts the last two years also, which was the original point.

I feel you're trolling, you can't be spewing this nonsense with no research.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

There are things they can upgrade to get better than they are. Goaltender top of the list.

It's just not going to stop them from finishing the year with over a 100 points, well inside a playoff spot. Like last year with functionally the same team, or the year before with a worse team, or two years before that with a substantially worse team.

Stop digging. You're gonna regret these posts in a couple months.

Oooooo…now I’m digging! Cool.
So if the same team last year is good to go this year, then why was there a need to change the coach? I mean, if the blueprint is the same as previous years with the same team…why did they make such rapid changes?

 

[Bounces R Way]

 

[CupofOil]

But you don't understand that your team is still a joke. You guys have one NHL defenceman and no NHL goalies.

How can anybody take this nonsense seriously? Too much of this garbage on the main board and it should be called out for trolling to be honest.

Yes the Oilers defense has holes but one NHL defenseman? That's just stupid.

 

[SK13]

Oooooo…now I’m digging! Cool.
So if the same team last year is good to go this year, then why was there a need to change the coach? I mean, if the blueprint is the same as previous years with the same team…why did they make such rapid changes?

The Oilers yearly winter of discontent got Tippett fired before it got Woodcroft fired, but it would have turned for either of them.

I don't know what to tell you to educate you any further. The Oilers have been a pretty good team for half a decade now. If you don't want to acknowledge it because you were hoping this was the new normal, that's fine. You'll realize soon enough. And then probably forget it when the Oilers win like 5 of 14 games next winter.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

These Canuck fans honestly show up once a decade for the bandwagon. They'll be gone in the second half once their team falls into a WC spot so everyone needs to just ignore the trolls until then.

Too funny, it was Oilers fans that started the trash talk

 

[Soundwave]

All this reaffirms to me that McDavid is probably the best athlete in pro team sports, not just the best hockey player. Yes Jokic is amazing, but I think the Nuggets are still a .500 team without him. Mahomes has a great team around him.

Lets just look at what we're seeing here, he suffers a hip (hip flexor tear looks like) injury in game 4 of the regular season and the team falls apart and is near the bottom of the league.

Hip flexor tears take what? 6 weeks to fully heal? What happens at week 5? He starts scoring again at a Gretzky rate, team instantly goes from one of the worst teams in the league to the hottest team in the league the last 12-13 games.

Other players have miracle/stars aligning for them perfectly years, like Gaudreau a couple of years ago when he was an amazing +64 or something crazy ... but McDavid still beat him in the scoring race and then dominated him head to head in the playoffs.

This year? You got guys in the top 10 scoring having dream seasons, everything that can possibly go right for them is going right and then some ... and McDavid? Playing injured for half the season thus far (4-5 weeks/9-10 weeks in), couldn't even shoot with any velocity it looked like for a good stretch there ... and he's just going to casually overtake a lot of these guys before the week before Christmas arrives.

Other players' "dream season" production wise is just nothing to this guy, he just yawns and overtakes them. Oh and he's making another very green rookie head coach with zero experience look like a genius again.

This dude is just an alien, lol. What else can you even say.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

The Oilers yearly winter of discontent got Tippett fired before it got Woodcroft fired, but it would have turned for either of them.

I don't know what to tell you to educate you any further. The Oilers have been a pretty good team for half a decade now. If you don't want to acknowledge it because you were hoping this was the new normal, that's fine. You'll realize soon enough. And then probably forget it when the Oilers win like 5 of 14 games next winter.

I have no trouble if Oilers win, they are fun to watch. Constantly rotating coaches at the same time telling everyone things are fine is a hypocritical take.

 

[hangman005]

Not gonna lie.... I was having alot more fun when the oilers were sucking

 

[Tobias Kahun]

That was last year time to move on.


That’s not correct. They are .500 and after 82 games….you think that’s 98 points?

You're telling people that last year, its time to move on.

Yet you're using last years benchmarks of making the playoffs for this year?

You're not very consistent with your arguments.

 

[VainGretzky]

Then why bother responding? If you can’t understand just move on.

Oilers are 6th in GF and fourth in PP 17th in PK 3rd in shots per game 5th best in shots against per 6 players in the top 60 in scoring game none of that spells bottom feeder maybe you should sit this one out

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Too funny, it was Oilers fans that started the trash talk

This thread wasn't started by an Oiler fan.

Just another L to add to your resume.

 

[WestCoast CyberG]

All this reaffirms to me that McDavid is probably the best athlete in pro team sports, not just the best hockey player. Yes Jokic is amazing, but I think the Nuggets are still a .500 team without him. Mahomes has a great team around him.

Messi.

 

[Love]

All this reaffirms to me that McDavid is probably the best athlete in pro team sports, not just the best hockey player. Yes Jokic is amazing, but I think the Nuggets are still a .500 team without him. Mahomes has a great team around him.

Lets just look at what we're seeing here, he suffers a hip (hip flexor tear looks like) injury in game 4 of the regular season and the team falls apart and is near the bottom of the league.

Hip flexor tears take what? 6 weeks to fully heal? What happens at week 5? He starts scoring again at a Gretzky rate, team instantly goes from one of the worst teams in the league to the hottest team in the league the last 12-13 games.

Other players have miracle/stars aligning for them perfectly years, like Gaudreau a couple of years ago when he was an amazing +64 or something crazy ... but McDavid still beat him in the scoring race and then dominated him head to head in the playoffs.

This year? You got guys in the top 10 scoring having dream seasons, everything that can possibly go right for them is going right and then some ... and McDavid? Playing injured for half the season thus far (4-5 weeks/9-10 weeks in), couldn't even shoot with any velocity it looked like for a good stretch there ... and he's just going to casually overtake a lot of these guys before the week before Christmas arrives.

Other players' "dream season" production wise is just nothing to this guy, he just yawns and overtakes them. Oh and he's making another very green rookie head coach with zero experience look like a genius again.

This dude is just an alien, lol. What else can you even say.

You can’t compare an elite basketball player’s impact to that of an elite hockey player. The basketball player simply impacts the game much more. They’re on the court greater than 75% of the game while the best hockey players are on the ice just over a third of the game. Also the Nuggets have a 15-25 record without Jokic over the last 6 seasons.

An NFL quarterback is an entirely different level of influence to that of even an elite NBA player. No team sport athlete can compare to the level influence an NFL quarterback has.