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Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37) [message #796850 is a reply to message #796846 ]	Tue, 04 January 2022 12:31

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Adam wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 23:55

CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 22:24

Adam wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 22:01

CrudeRemarks wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 21:23

Kr55 wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 20:21

g2k wrote on Mon, 03 January 2022 20:19

Tippett saying the team played well. Goalie let them down.

Couldn’t battle back.

Every team fail reduced to one thing that went wrong. Makes it seem like such an easy fix. I'm sure they will figure it out

The good news is Holland did some other GMs some favours last offseason. Time to call one in.

Haha. It must absolutely baffle the Oilers when they learn it doesn't work that way.

Also this must be disheartening - the first cracks show in the Edmonton Sports Media:

Quote:

Robin Brownlee
@Robin_Brownlee

The Oilers need a better roster from the blue paint out. If Ken Holland can't make that happen, and in a hurry, then the Oilers need a new GM.

After a month of the lot of them calling out fans for daring to suggest any sort of change in coaching or management, here's the first suggestion that Holland may not be the right man for the job. Don't expect to see that amplified by any of the other mouth-breathers though. Matheson just this morning was tweeting about how many games Tippett has coached as a reason that he shouldn't be let go.

add a #FireKatz to your signature you coward

I don't think there's any options - not that will be excited to keep the Oilers here at least. We're stuck with Katz, and can only really hope that he finally learns that completely passive ownership is a mistake. Your owner SHOULD have his finger on the pulse at least a little - and if the guys he has running the organization are foolish old sots who are stuck in the past, then that's the time to get rid of them. Well, it's past time to get rid of them, but they've played around the edges with little tweaks to the management team for so long that they've squandered a lot of precious time.

It is too bad that they gave Holland last summer to do what he did. It's not an easy fix for the next GM. He needs to clear out salary and re-purpose it better. That's not impossible though. If we were to make a change, there's a few moves that should be fully examined as soon as possible:

- get a real analytics department. You don't need to trust them on everything, but you should have someone who's capable of crunching the numbers on players and giving you advice on who you should acquire, how much you should be willing to pay to get them, and where you can find bargain players who'll out-perform their value. I'm sure the guy who books the travel is also a whiz at powerpoint too, but something tells me he needs at least a little more support here.
- trade Kassian. Someone will take him. He's big, he's got a reputation as someone who COULD be a bit of a disturber. Everyone is looking for the next Tom Wilson or Ryan Reaves, and guaranteed there's still a GM out there who thinks they can unlock Kassian.
- trade Barrie. He makes too much to be a third pairing guy and that four year deal is painful. This isn't a great move to have to make, since we don't have anyone who's a right shot who can step directly in, but either move a leftie over, or acquire someone who's more appropriately priced and it's about $3.03.5MM you can better spend elsewhere - you'll need it to pay Bouchard sooner than later anyhow.
- get a goalie, exit Koskinen. Ideally, that would happen pre-trade deadline but even if this year is a write-off thanks to the incompetent current GM and coach, then you need to do it in the summer. The team needs to upgrade.
- while we're on the topic of goalies, maybe you sit down Mike Smith and explain that his injuries appear to be career-ending at this point. He gets paid, we get relief, and we move on.
- I might also try to convince Duncan Keith that he too has suffered some real tough injuries in his career and they've clearly added up to making him no longer capable of playing NHL hockey next season. Thanks for the memories, but please don't come back. I'm probably hoping that one of the young LHD can make the jump in 2022-23 because it might be hard to afford a really decent LHD now.

If you can make those 5 exits, then you have freed up ~$20MM. You'll need to spend some on Puljujarvi, and I bring back Yamamoto if he's still on a cheap deal too. You get two new goalies and a 3rd pairing right shot defenceman. Hopefully the new coach is getting more out of the third and fourth liners we have, because everyone's signed again for next year, and the ones you can easiest move are likely the ones you shouldn't move. You may even have a little cash left over for another upgrade somewhere else in the lineup if you spend wisely.

Oh, and spend some time looking for a coach that isn't stuck in the 1990s. How many of these old re-treads do we have to cycle through?!?

I saw a tweet about team analytics departments yesterday. Can't find it, but pretty sure we were middle of the pack for team size now with 2 people! Mahe, and Mahe. Guess we hired the 1 guys brother. Or maybe he was already there and we just started saying he was doing analytics too.

Good news IMO. We were doing a bang up job. Now we just doubled the Mahe factor.

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Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Kr55 on Mon, 03 January 2022 20:21
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Re: Review: Edmonton @ NY Rangers (Game #37)	By: Kr55 on Tue, 04 January 2022 12:31
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