True but do they have the energy and same motivation as last year to go on long winning streaks? They went far last year and they are weaker this year
Their retool needs a retool since they did the retooling wrong this time and might need another retool.
Looks like they need another coach of the same type. This time it will probably be Hitchcock. Need to keep the tradition going...woodcroft, knoblauch then hitchcockKnoblauch is not a long term coach. He's the flavour of the year and he had a lot of luck going his way last year. So essentially he overachieved with that group.
I think teams now have figured out how to play against his system. The exact same thing happened to Jay Woodcraft. He was seen as a blessing in Edmonton when he was hired, only to be fired the year after?
I woukd agree that is the biggest of several.
LeBron won 4 championships, Mcdavid carried his team to one final loss after a decade of playing in the NHL and cried on Amazon prime and didnt accept his award because he was a sore loser. I guess you think McDavid's legacy of not having won one championship trumps the achievements of Lebron James
Yep, Unlike McBaby who tried to comeback against FLA and fell short.
McDavids 2024 run is good but its not even consistent. He barely got any points in the Vancouver series against Silovs and was physically abused by Zadorov. If it wasnt for Bouchard goals and Cole messing up, Boeser being out in game 7, Canucks would have won the series.
Yep, funny how everyone picked them.to win a cup. You dont need to be a hockey guru to know that 2nd pairing of Nurse and Demott is not good. That would be their downfall and Skinner is also part of the problem. Going from Broberg, Ceci and Deharnais to Dermott, Estorm and Stecher is a huge downgrade both in skill and size.
On the bright side, he might win something this year
so it isnt all bad Oilers fans
They went for flashy name players instead of actually building a contender. That butter soft jeff skinner will get his goals in regular season but will probably become a ghost in playoffs
I kind of wished Canucks would have offersheeted Broberg. But I guess we lacked cap space. He would have been perfect for us, great at passing and moving the puck and great in transition. Plus he is still young and will develop more.
They barely got by the injury riddled Canucks that didnt have their number 1 goalie and Boeser was out in game 7. It took them 7 games to beat Silovs, the backup backup goalie
I dont get why Oilers always hire retreads? Washed up, overrated or over the hill GMs that had their glory days long ago wishing to replicate the same success in Edmonton.
Last year Canucks whopped their butt back to back and they were divisional champs. This year its worst as they got shutout by Jets who many say are a bubble team and 2 non playoff teams in Flames and Hawks, one being a bottom 3 team.
and the Canucks lost to 2 non-playoff teams already as well...what's your point?
and then what happened?
Canucks got points out of those 2 games. 1st game they stopped playing but managed to get a point out of it. 2nd game, it was a coin flip shootout loss and we are still playing without our #1 goalie and Dakota Joshua. Whats Oilers excuse of not even getting a point out of all those 3 games with a healthy roster and getting completely blown out by the Jets?
At the end of it all, both teams won a banner that’s meaningless to the top players
What happened was Oilers getting lucky off of Canucks misfortunes and facing an AHL goalie who probably had played a couple of NHL preseason games before starting in playoffs. They got even luckier having Skinner's kryptonite in Boeser out in game 7. Guess there is lots of luck involved in winning playoff games, cant deny that
. The Oilers basically got lucky to draw the lousy Kings which they had experience beating in playoffs and the Demko-less Canucks. Thats how Oilers advanced to the finals. I doubt they will be this lucky this season.
