Yeah if you ignore the part where Chia actually added, you know, good players.
Like who? Marron has played about 15 games, Sekera has been so so. Talbot has been good most of the season but was dreadful early in the year.
You win in this league with depth and good D and, here's the kicker, not playing players above their level of ability.
Ah...So Chicago, La and alike care winning because of corey crawford, shaw, tanner pearson and not because of keith, doughty, seabrook, kane, etc.
No, you pay the price needed. That price isn't Hall, Nuge etc, though.
The above statement makes zero sense at all. We are going to trade for Vatanen and shattenkirk for Yak and pouliot. eh? Makes sense.
I can't tell if you're not reading my posts or are being obtuse on purpose or what. They need to make meaningful moves. But they don't have to blow things up to do so. How is this so hard to grasp?
I don't know if you understand the basis of what a meaningful move is or not. You do not get meaningful players for garbage players, it simply does not happen and changing the bottom of the roster for the 4th time in five years is not meaningful at all.
Whatever holes are in the top half pale to insignificance compared to the holes elsewhere on the roster.
No they don't we have shuffled the bottom holes endlessly and guys that play 15 mins a night do not have the effect that guys that play 20 plus do.
It's baffling that people can look at this lineup on paper, even when 100% healthy, and determine that the top of the order is what's keeping them from gliory.
It is though, the top of of roster is filled with inconsistent, skilled players who are not physical at all, have a tough time battling for pucks, with no dmen at all that can advance the puck or run a pp. Even the skilled part is up for debate because we contine to be one of the lower scoring teams in the league and often just fold when the going gets tough. If you think the Oilers are once again almost dead last in the league because of anton lander and mark fayne I don;t know what to say.
This was our opening night D-corps:
Klefbom
Sekera
Fayne
Reinhart
Schultz
Gryba
Two top four D, three bottom pairing D, one AHL D. And it got worse from there.
Yes, agreed about the defense, and you are going to fix this by???? Not trading anyone or value but doing a Harry Potter?
The bottom six:
Lander
Hendricks
Korpikoski
Letestu
Gazdic
Yakupov
With the possible exception of Yak, that's basically two fourth lines.
But sure, yeah: it's Hall and co's fault.