CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 16:37

Adam wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 16:31 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 16:26 Adam wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 16:22 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 16:15 Goose wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 15:54 Adam wrote on Thu, 10 June 2021 14:37 Worth noting - this even takes in to account the bump up that the results get when Draisaitl is on the ice without McDavid! Imagine what it looks like if it's without the top two players on the ice!!!! The good news is that naturalstattrick.com has the answer! The bad news is that it's not good. 29 GF / 52 GA (35.8 GF%) https://www.naturalstattrick.com/linestats.php?fromseason=20 202021&thruseason=20202021&stype=2&sit=5v5&s core=all&rate=n&team=EDM&vteam=ALL&view=wowy &loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=2021-05-15&td=2021-06- 10&tgp=2000&strict=incl&p1=8478402&p2=847793 4&p3=0&p4=0&p5=0 Jesus. I mean we know it's bad, but holy hell is it bad. Those numbers are the kind that get people cut even from beer league teams. "Doug sure is a nice guy, but he sucks and we lose games because they score every time he's on the ice...can we just tell him a veteran we used to play with moved back to town and we need to give him the spot?" My slow pitch team cut a 50 year old guy because he played second base like a broomstick stuck in a pail. It sucked but the team wanted to win and we had a better chance with random girl infielder than with him. Yep - I've run a men's league hockey team for 20+ years. None of us are high level athletes, but there's still been a few players who a bunch of the team has lobbied me to send packing because they're not even good enough for whatever sucky division of beer league we're in. People want to win, and players generally know who's costing the team more than others. There's such a divide that I do worry at some point that it causes issues with the team. You have the guys who everyone relies on to win and then the group that you rely on just not to screw it up. It's a weird relationship and it harkens back a little to Craig MacTavish and the whole "core players" and "non-core players". Total disaster for team culture when that happens. Which is fine when you're half drunk playing sports with guys who have bad knees, but the Oilers are allegedly a professional sports team. We should expect them to be run just a little bit better over the same 20 year span.

The Oilers are basically the team manager who comes back and says "I know he sucks, but he's my cousin and I'll hear it from my mom and my aunt if I cut him."

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