The Oilers are an old team

centipede2233

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Where they find the cap space to sign Bouchard is another story. I’d laugh if he signed an offer sheet.

Lots of skill up front, bottom 10 D core and Goal combo. Not a great cup contention mix.
If you look at all cup winners, the one thing every cup winner had was a good team defence with a really good defence. Edmonton doesn’t have that
 
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Andy Dufresne

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They should put their 3 youngest forwards together and call them 'the kid line'.
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It's hard to believe there's a team with only 3 forwards under 30 and those guys are 28, 27 and 23. I guess the consolation is they're loaded with top prospects, The future sure is bright lol
 
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jackjohnson

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McDavid after 3 games loss to start the season:
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They should put their 3 youngest forwards together and call them 'the kid line'.
Draisaitl-Mcdavid-Podkolzin
It's hard to believe there's a team with only 3 forwards under 30 and those guys are 28, 27 and 23. I guess the consolation is they're loaded with top prospects, The future sure is bright lol
I would call them the 'cup or bust line'
 
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Fatass

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I rather zadorov at 5 mil. Bigger and tougher and higher IQ, while being almost 50% cheaper while signing his contract when cap is going up.
Nurse is a top four D man. Zadorov is a bottom pairing guy who finds himself in the press box every season. Both are bad. I guess Zadorov is the lesser of two evils because he’s paid less.
 

jackjohnson

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Nurse is a top four D man. Zadorov is a bottom pairing guy who finds himself in the press box every season. Both are bad. I guess Zadorov is the lesser of two evils because he’s paid less.
Nurse is a top 4 dman in the AHL. He would not be a top 4 Dman even on Canucks who have a thin blueline
 
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Habby4Life

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Nurse is a top four D man. Zadorov is a bottom pairing guy who finds himself in the press box every season. Both are bad. I guess Zadorov is the lesser of two evils because he’s paid less.
Nurse is paid like a top 2, plays like a 5/6.
 

HugginThePost

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I agree with thie wholeheartedly.

I'll just add why some of us Oil fans type these things.

The second a team scores on us and we go down 1-0 the same posters come out of the woodwork

Drai is leaving
Connor is leaving
Nurse can't play in the NHL
Skinner is ECHL
Oilers are the worst team in the universe
Bouch is ECHL
They have no chance of making the playoffs

Like the comments are damn near instant.lol

That's why we write shit like 'this happened last year'.lol

But yes, trying to replicate last year is a bad idea.lol Czech goalies Vladar and Mrazek are undefeated against us on, most likely, non playoff teams. That is not good.lol

Let's be honest here........

.....your own board does this, minus the first two.

Expecting the Mains no to is crazy.
 

Matty Sundin

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They seem to be playing very passive like having an adrenaline dump still after the playoff run they had and also getting snake bitten and bad luck at the same time. Call it a hobo cup hangover. They’ll probably be fine though waking up sooner then later is more ideal as I don’t think they wanna go on a 16 game winning streak again because they have to not because they can.
 

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