Oilers were overwhelmingly #1 cup favorites going into the season. Are they still #1 today?

[geebster]

Don't have them first, definitely in my top 5. Can't definitively say top 3 since... I have no idea how you can strictly rank cup favourites like that at this point of the season.

Also very very difficult to get back to a finals two years in a row without some real injury luck. They are good enough, no doubt, but they are far more likely to have injuries this year by the time they get deep since they really didn't get to rest guys like other teams did.

 

[jetsforever]

I'm most surprised that they were originally Cup favourites

 

[sensfan4lifee]

That makes more sense. Just a shit opinion based on nothing fact

Not really you need more than metrics to judge a defense and I don't think there is such thing as a shit opinion, this is why I hate Oilers fans you over rate your team and players while attacking people personally when they disagree honestly a trash group of fans.

 

[MikeyMike01]

I thought they overachieved last year. I didn’t think they were a favorite before and I don’t now.

 

[John Mandalorian]

I'm most surprised that they were originally Cup favourites

So you weren’t overwhelmed by it then?

 

[majormajor]

They weren't overwhelming cup favorites, no one was. And no one is.

But I wouldn't put them first of the pack either. Tampa suddenly looks very deep up front again and they've got better D and goaltending than Edmonton. The Vasi advantage over Skinner is huge. They've got 5 point per game+ forwards. Even assuming Hyman gets back to that level, that's only 3 for Edmonton. The Oilers needed some guys from the Arvidsson, Skinner, Podkolzin, Kapanen group to break through and find chemistry with Draisaitl and McDavid, and none of them are scoring much.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Not really you need more than metrics to judge a defense and I don't think there is such thing as a shit opinion, this is why I hate Oilers fans you over rate your team and players while attacking people personally when they disagree honestly a trash group of fans.

Ya bruh

Oilers suck defensively. Trust me. I dont watch games either cuz they're all blacked out and start at 10:30pm.

But trust me bruh...they just suck.


McDavid dives for a Penalty, and then banks a puck off Draisaitl for an easy goal.

But it's just a McDavid show with Draisaitl leeching easy points and they suck defensively.