Gino Reda se joint à nous pour discuter des Oilers d’Edmonton et de leur disgrâce actuelle. Ils sont désormais à égalité avec les Sharks de San Jose au dernier rang du classement.
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Gino Reda se joint à nous pour discuter des Oilers d’Edmonton et de leur disgrâce actuelle. Ils sont désormais à égalité avec les Sharks de San Jose au dernier rang du classement.
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What's next? I'll tell you what's next. First overall pick from the draft lottery! You can never have enough first overall's on your roster!
No… NOT rock bottom. It's gonna get worse.
The Oilers are tanking on purpose. There is no way that that roster is that bad. They are losing on purpose and here is why.
Draisaitl gives the appearance of a player who won't sign again in Edmonton. So expect Draisaitl to be traded in the next 12 months. With Draisaitl gone, it is unlikely that McD signs an extension and so look to McD to be traded within 24 months. It appears that the Owner and Management have realized that Drai and McD will be lost to FA for FA, so they have made a hard decision. There is no future with Drai and McD, so they need a strategy to deal with that.
It would have to be the Oilers management that has instructed the rest of the roster to tank, so the team can get some higher first round draft pix to replace Drai and McD. Conner and Drai are pissed because management is making a power play that makes them look bad and they are powerless to do a thing about it. The next two years are reallly going to suck in Edmonton. But the simple reality is that the Oilers have to deal with their 2 superstars bolting to the FAM ASAP.
Who do they trade lol? The only guys worth trading are the two guys they should've built a team around 😂
The Oilers were not a Stanely Cup contender. Those that thought so know nothing about hockey.
StAnLeY cUp oR bUst
Why does the interviewer call the Oilers a "Stanley Cup condender"??? They never really were, and certainly arent now.
The Oilers as of 9.40 p.m. Friday Mountain Time, have as many points (5) as the Sharks but have played 1 less game -> on tiebreakers the Oilers are 2nd-last in their conference while the Sharks remain dead last. Sharks are in action against the Golden Knights but after 40 minutes are behind 2-0. Get 1 point against the Knights, and these Sharks will pass the Oilers to move into 31st from 32nd. Sunday MT will feature a game against the Ducks so if the Sharks don't get a point from their away game against the Knights, these Sharks will have another chance to do so against the Ducks. Win the Saturday MT game against the Kraken, and the Oilers will have a chance to:
– leapfrog the Sharks back into 31st should the Sharks beat the Knights or lose to them in OT or a shootout
– remain ahead of the Sharks should the Sharks earn @ most 2 points between the away games in Vegas and Anaheim (as the Sharks will, even before Sunday MT ends, have still played, after last preseason, more games than the Oilers)
They are already worse then the decade of darkness and good luck trying to rebuild as Holland has made it impossible to move all their aging players with those silly no move contracts
It is still astonishing to me that before the season started the so-called experts proclaimed that Edmonton was the favorite to win the Cup. What were their reasons or logic? Probably most people at that point would have agreed they were contenders, but that's the very best you could say. They didn't even get to the conference final last year and they didn't improve their team over the summer. So why did people think they would be significantly better this year? And by the way, there is this team from Las Vegas that actually won the cup, retained most if not all of their players and play in the same division as the Oilers. How could Vegas not be the first choice in the west? There is another team called the Avalanche (just trying to remind all the experts) who recently won the cup and is still very strong. How about the eastern conference where there are probably at least 3 teams there that were a better bet for the cup (at the start of the season) than the Oilers. All of these other teams were real "teams" not just composed of a couple of stars and a bunch of plumbers. Too bad that he Oilers have lost their way, but they were never, ever, good enough to be called a cup favorite.
In this league any team can beat any team any night. Oilers problem is, all the teams are beating them all the nights.
Vancouver ex coach Bruce should have a go …
Move the franchise fellas
the oilers have not reached rock bottom toronto has made the oilers rock bottom
What options do they have. I don't know how about they work their way out of it. Instead of firing another coach.
The Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s had Gretzky, Messier, and an excellent supporting cast and they had a goalie by the name of Grant Fuhr. Save for a gaffe by Steve Smith in 1986 and the trade that shook the world in 1988, they were unbeatable. They also had a terrific coach in Glen Sather. Fast forward to today and the Edmonton Oilers have McDavid (who's clearly hurting and doesn't have the same explosiveness), Draisaitl (who needs McDavid at his best or is not nearly as effective), and an ok supporting cast and their best goalie is Stuart Skinner?
I rest my case.
The Oilers could fire Jay Woodcroft and hire Gerard Gallant.
The Oilers could also acquire Juuse Saros from the Predators.
Both moves are two year fixes at best before the 97/29 era ends in Edmonton with nothing to show for it.
No Oiler domination reminiscent of the 1980s and an Oiler team that suffered the embarrassment of being swept by the Jets in 2021.
Oh the irony.
Lol *uck
Easily and by far the lowest point in franchise history
NO GOALIE!!!! Haven’t had one since 2006, it’s not rocket science. I’m not quite sure how they were considered Stanley cup favourites without one. Show me a team that won a cup with there goalie save percentage under 9.0. How this was not Hollonds number one priority since he has been in Edmonton is beyond me.