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CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 12 July 2019 14:01

Adam wrote on Fri, 12 July 2019 13:18

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CrudeRemarks wrote on Tue, 09 July 2019 17:19

Kr55 wrote on Tue, 09 July 2019 17:07

GabbyDugan wrote on Tue, 09 July 2019 17:04

And Ty Rattie's days playing professional hockey in North America are over:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/report-ex-oilers-forward -ty-rattie-join-lokomotiv-khl/

The guy should have had a better NHL career. He certainly had the opportunities, but couldn't make the leap forward.


That's too bad. Maybe he just gave up on the NHL because Hitch wasn't gonna be a HC anymore. What's the point if he can't play for Hitch? :)

I hear that coach over in Lokomotiv is a player’s coach. They’ve landed some studs this offseason!


So rather than pursue coaching and management tactical change with some barely NHL-calibre players who have obviously been miscoached/misplayed/mishandled but who want to play here, we're confident that unproven AHLers and random signings will gel quickly and turn this team around.... a full 360 degrees right?!?!?

Are we going to have a pool on whether we'll be in last place and planning for a rebuild by Halloween?

I seem to have lost my ability to cheer for the local hockey franchise...


To be fair to Holland, the bottom six from last year was a complete failure, so it does make sense to replace them. It will be interesting to see if bubble NHLer Jurco is better than bubble player Rattie. Both once had some optimism around their careers...both have never really lived up to it. But sometimes you do find a guy who just needed a new situation and thrives, so it's a low cost gamble.

I wish we could see the team address it's most glaring problems - another top-four right shot defenceman, a couple of sniper wingers to play on the top two lines, the complete purging of anyone in a Vice-Chair position - but it's not looking like we'll see those things happen this summer.

There's no way to replace a top 4 right shot D or sniper wingers this year. The Oilers don't have the cap or assets. So why bother doing a halfway job? Accept the team as it is next year and wait.


What about that vice-chair thing?



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