Broberg Speed
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You do realize Foegele was a healthy scratch in the playoffs?I actually think Foegele is a big loss personally
You do realize Foegele was a healthy scratch in the playoffs?I actually think Foegele is a big loss personally
But Draisaitl spent most of his year with Hyman/McDavid, some would say the new guys are a downgrade.
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My biggest issue with Foegele isn’t even the streakyness I can live with that. We had 3 runs with the guy and he didn’t have one good playoff run. His streakyness ran dry when it mattered. I wanted to move on.Kane was hurt all year and RNH has never been great at evens
Foegele had a good year for us, but it seemed like a one off in a contract year tbh.
I’m what you call a “sore winner”
Almost no Oilers fan consider Foegele a big loss. The vast majority of his scoring was against bottom feeders, although I will give him credit for playing well in the finals. Wish him the best personally, as he seems like a great guy, so glad to see him score a big bag with LA. Hope he has a great season and earns his paycheck, I really do.I mean he’s not wrong. Skinner IS soft and one dimensional. Arvidsson IS often injured.
I actually think Foegele is a big loss personally
I think Oilers had a solid day however.
The player with broken ribs and finger no showed?
Or the player that had 8 points in two elimination games to drag the oilers back into the series and won the Conn Smyth?
Seriously, you won the cup and you should have went and enjoyed yourself at the Cup parade with other 650 diehard Panther fans.
But Draisaitl spent most of his year with Hyman/McDavid, some would say the new guys are a downgrade.
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Best forward group or not, that wasn't the problem. The problem was their BEST players vanished when it mattered most. You can't win if your 2 best players show up for 2 or 3 of the 7 games.
Skinner, Kane and Perry. Good grief.
Except for the fact that Draisaitl has played the majority of his career minutes with McDavid lol.Nuge has never been a big even strength producer. It's pretty well documented that he's an average 5 on 5 player most years with good 2-way ability and a power play specialist. Nuge also had 38 even strength points this year, and much more in the playoffs. Kane played through a sports hernia the entire year.
There's very little chance Foegele replicates last season, and his playoff performance was atrocious. Arvidsson and Skinner both have extremely long resumes of being much better even strength performers than Warren Foegele. The Oilers upgraded on Foegele immensely and their 2nd line just upgraded beyond anything even close to what Leon Draisaitl has ever played with.
Even under Knob the duo was still the most common linemates. With the addition of two potentially better wingers that will likely change next season. Forward depth has always been an issue with the McDavid era but we could be finally seeing that come to an endAt the start of the year McDavid was hurt so they stuck him on the wing and put Draisaitl at center since he wasn't really able to take draws. Besides that they'll load up sometimes if they're chasing a game or after a PK / end of periods. With Henrique returning they should still have the flexibility to be able to do the same thing this year
McDavid played with RNH and Hyman mostly under Knoblauch. Woodcroft definitely played him and Draisaitl together more often
When that one dimension is scoring goals, and McDavid was playing next to Warren Foegele during the last playoffs, that's not likely to be much of an issue.Yeah adding soft one dimensional Jeff Skinner and often injured Arvidsson doesn’t really do much for them. I mean I guess Mcdavid can carry them to the finals and then no show the important games at best.
Cool. Digging the direction that the pens are taking as well.Can’t wait to see the Oilers deal withCupFinals hangover this season and plummet back down to Earth.
The lack of class and humility from that fella is grossHow are you this bitter? Your team won the cup and this level of bitterness is still in your life.
Sure early in his career and under some coaches who kept going back to the McDrai well time and time again because the depth scoring on the team was awful. Team's far better when McDavid and Drai and running their own lines, but historically that has left Draisaitl with 3rd line wingers. This will be the first time in his career that he's had two top 6 wingers when he's centring his own line which is more what I was alluding to.Except for the fact that Draisaitl has played the majority of his career minutes with McDavid lol.
Draisaitl-Arvidsson is great. I think Skinner-Draisatil might drive the coach up the wall though.
They need to go farther in the playoffs this year before I'll bite.Will believe it when I see it.
Its not a loss if Skinner (34 ESP), Ardvisson (10 ESP in 18 GP) and Henrique (36 ESP) are on the team.he had 37 even strength points last year. Ranking him 4th on the oilers. That is a significant loss of even strength production
The guys a cancer, the only out for him is a buyout. Unless they have any arbitration cases they won’t get a second buyout window.They need to get rid of Evander Kane.
McDavids was RNH and Hyman:Even under Knob the duo was still the most common linemates. With the addition of two potentially better wingers that will likely change next season. Forward depth has always been an issue with the McDavid era but we could be finally seeing that come to an end
He’ll be the same as this year. Depth forward.What are they going to do with Derek Ryan?
Most likely will be in the AHL to start the year unless they dump Ceci to open up cap space to carry a 22/23 man roster.What are they going to do with Derek Ryan?