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 Oscargasm
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| Adam wrote on Mon, 12 April 2021 20:44 |
| mightyreasoner wrote on Mon, 12 April 2021 19:18 |
| inverno76 wrote on Mon, 12 April 2021 19:11 |
| JPro wrote on Mon, 12 April 2021 16:33 |
I bet we'll look back on this year and wonder "what if?". Easy peasy division, prime AND healthy McDrai and we blow it on another year in the name of developmental/patience/burn bad contracts.
A second round win would be a miracle. Well as we always say: "next year will be THE year!"
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Hate to be the one who says it, but we could still make it out of the North. Toronto looks good on paper, but they were cruising and today could screw that all up.
Today wasn’t ideal, but if past history has taught us anything, the TDD has more victims than victors. We just choose to remember 2006 and selectively forget every other year.
I am just trying to be rational, although I am upset we couldn’t take advantage of a a buyers market.....consolation prize? Next year should be a buyers market again.
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Oh for sure. Anything can happen. Price could get hot and Montreal knock Toronto out early. Edmonton could go on a run. But if we are looking at which GM bolstered their lineup to give them the best chance of success, it's hard to argue Toronto isn't a fair bit ahead in that regard. Anything could happen, Toronto just made moves to increase their odds, I guess.
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I think one of the best things about taking a swing on deadline day is that it provides a bit of a morale boost to the players. Management really believes in us and is willing to mortgage a little of the future on the back of that belief.
In the McDavid era, we’ve only seen that one time and Covid short-circuited it.
We really haven’t seen the Oilers step to the plate in any other year outside of 2006, so it was a little jarring to hear Holland say that you can’t do it every year. Worth noting, there’s not been a lot of quiet deadlines for the Penguins in the Sidney Crosby era. They are always going for it.
If you’re going to be quiet, as GM you should bring some swagger in to the press conference. “I believe in this team and think there was nothing available that would have significantly improved on what we already have. Matty, you keep talking about holes in the lineup but I just don’t see that - what’s our record over the last 30 games?” The combination of not doing anything and then doing a presser and a series of shows where you basically say you A) don’t think the team is good enough to bother spending a pick now plus B) admit that you never considered any cap creativity is a killer. He’s slapped his players in the face and said there is no belief from management today. Even as we have the top two scorers in the game, a goalie riding an unbelievable hot streak and probably the weakest division in the game.
This is actually pretty similar to 2017 when Chiarelli literally said the Oilers weren’t ready despite incredible health and a good goalie and a star on the rise and then gave the Oilers David Desharnais as the only reinforcement.
There is still a chance we do okay. It is an Oilers tradition to beat the Jets for fun in the playoffs so I look forward to seeing that continue. If the Oilers play really well and get a little lucky, we might be able to beat Toronto too (and should beat Montreal if they upset the Leafs in the first round). But today management said they aren’t believers so anything that happens in the playoffs is on the backs of the guys on the ice with no help to the guy in the head office.
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His message in the room ahead of the next practice is that he’s playing poker, telling the media we’re not in a position to make THE move but really, I believe in you guys. I’m playing poker.
But, Rishaug, next years the year.
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