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Kr55 Messages: 9609
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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ziltoid wrote on Wed, 11 July 2018 16:12 |
WhoreableGuy wrote on Wed, 11 July 2018 12:37 | It's just what the Oilers are banking on. Hiring Yawney and Gulutzan, adding PK'ers Reider and Brodziak. Talbot plays even a little bit better I think the Oilers are in Playoff contention.
It's not as doom and gloom as it seems. See, I'm optimistic.
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Being "in playoff contention" at the start of the season when you have a McDavid is not good enough... not even close. Any team that has a generational player should be "in cup contention" at the start of every season. Anything less than that is a managerial failure.
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That failure kinda already happened though. The only option now is to wait for "The Pan" to work out.
Team is not a move or 2 (that can be done in summer) away from being a true contender. Lack the assets, not to mention the managerial skill. Even a top end manager stepping in though, not sure they would have a choice aside from waiting for more building of assets via the draft and waiting for the cap to go up.
[Updated on: Wed, 11 July 2018 17:11]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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