Ales Cooper wrote on Sun, 13 January 2019 02:22

shoop wrote on Sun, 13 January 2019 01:02 Ales Cooper wrote on Sun, 13 January 2019 07:34 Great GM. This is far from an nhl team let alone a playoff team. Geeezus. Talk about overly dramatic. Far from an NHL team? So there are 12 teams in a 31 team league that aren't "an NHL team"? In case you are wondering that's the Oilers plus the 11 teams they are ahead of in the standings. Overly dramatic? Take out Connor and Drai, where is this team? If it’s not for them, yes this is a glorified AHL team.

Sigh. Look at that Ales, now you’ve upset shoop, or Peter, or Kevin, or Craig, or Scott, or whatever his name is.

100% you take those two away and this team (as it’s built) is a bottom 3 team. Call it an “overly dramatic” take it you must but you’d be wasting your time.

As much as I’d love to see Oilers playoff hockey this year, it’s not happening. Watch the games and you see a team that can’t compete when Conner is off the ice, a team that is “overly dramatic” when their opponent takes a lead or controls the flow causing the Oilers to seemingly crumble.

They’ll stay close, thanks to the aforementioned Conner and Leon, but playoffs aren’t happening with the current makeup of this team, which you can’t lay blame at Hitch’s feet. It’s Chiarelli who built this roster, it’s Chiarelli that cap strapped this franchise. It’s Chiarelli who couldn’t clean up the mess left by the OBC, who likely lurk in the shadows pulling the strings.

We won’t see a full cleaning out of the upper management... realistically all we can hope for is that Chiarelli is sent packing and someone competent can come in to fix the cap issues and the compete on the ice.

My apologies if that’s too dramatic for you, Peter, Kevin, Craig, Scott, shoop.

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