Fair that’s one. I think he’s a great goalie. He played unbelievable last year and still finished with only a 908. That Mrazek behind our team finishes with some of the best numbers in the league imo.
Again, I would love to know what you're basing this on other than just feelings. Take a trip through the thread on him in the Ducks board and take a shot for every instance of the words "buyout" or "underperforming". I found this post of particular interest:
You're probably right, but I don't think the notion of "Well he's on a good team now so surely he'll be better and try" is accurate. After all, we're seeing it up close and personal with Jeff Skinner.
I agree, that said Henrique comes with Savoie and McLeod doesn't.
On the flip side we are not that far off from the division lead. Luckily no team has run away with it.
I would say that “Success” in the case of this list means they ended up atleast a Top 4 Dman for the acquiring team. Varied levels of success for sure, but it’s just a quick and dirty list to show that your more likely then not going to atleast get a player out of it.
a 7 point deficit isn't easy to overcome, especially since we've had trouble stringing together wins so far this year. And this is without the usual death march through the eastern conference that plagues us every year.
If we win the next game in hand we are 5 points back.
They think they're getting a young, cost controlled legitimate top 4 D with term for Hoglander+ haha.
Doubling your shooting % was not going to last? That's not what Nucks fans said last year
For a good idea of how hard it is to overcome, the Oilers were 19 points behind the Canucks on Dec 20th, the day before the start of the 16 game win streak with 4 games in hand on Vancouver. Fast forward to January 28th, the day after the Oilers had won their 16th game in a row. They still sat 12 points behind the Canucks with those same 4 games in hand. Granted, the Canucks were on a little run of their own at the time so they didn't make up much ground. Vegas, who was 20 points ahead at the start of the win streak (also had four games in hand on), had seen their lead shrink to 5 points (and the Oilers still had five games in hand).
You are talking about a cinderella crazy shooting % team. That is not the norm lol. Look at them now.
You make good points, but what I am saying is Vancouver isn't the same team as last year and Vegas isn't Vancouver of last year.
Skinner will figure it out. He’s struggling just like every other forward not named McDrai.
It's possible but we still have to have a few things go our way.
It's not about shooting percentages or anything like that. It's about having to be on a better pace than the teams in front of you for the remainder of the season. Vegas is without a doubt the best team in the division right now, and my big worry is that the Oilers still have go out East into Tampa Bay, Florida, and Carolina. Those teams typically don't treat us very kindly in their barns. The Oilers have had an extremely light November schedule where we didn't even leave the country and still have only managed a 6-4-1 record with games in Utah and Colorado left, the latter of which could be extremely troublesome.
He needs to be stapled to the Top 6. He’s a Top 6 or nothing player and we need to do what we can to make him work here. Can’t have 3M of dead cap if we want to contend. When we signed Skinner with all his warts and all, we knew what we were getting. Knob was in the room when the decision was made, he knew what he was getting. JJ and the scouts in the room were like us on HFboards, “he’s never been on a winning team, think of his goal scoring alongside Draisaitl”.
Your telling me the NHL gave the Oilers a 24th on average hardest schedule this year?
The Oilers have had a remarkably soft schedule so far that they haven't taken advantage of. Thank god for the Preds I suppose.
I 100% agree. His skill set is being terribly used. He played on the same team for a decade no kidding it takes some time to adjust.
Yeh we really just need to ride or die with this guy. 3M isn’t just 3M. 3M is the loss of decent players like Holloway. This is the experiment we chose and we have to see it through and make it work.
Not sure how the current version of these hardest schedule metrics is devised. Would prefer a simpler games against playoff vs non playoff teams. For instance we played Nashville 3X I had them pegged to miss playoffs even though most figured they could be a contender. I'd wonder how they are being considered in the metric of hard vs easy. For the Oilers certainly its easy.
Yes I’d agree with that. But usually that balances out at the year end. That stat seems to indicate we’ve been given a soft schedule to start and end the year.
