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Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39) [message #816138 is a reply to message #816136 ]	Thu, 05 January 2023 11:56

Adam
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CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 05 January 2023 08:25

NetBOG wrote on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:48

CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:00

Same as Woodcroft, right? The Oilers were exposed in the playoffs for what they have always been. A team that can sometimes outscore their problems. Kane makes it a little easier to outscore the problems, but they can't do it all the time. Especially when they finally get up against a real contender.

More importantly, he's probably still months away from coming back and we don't know if he'll be able to shoot.

Exposed in the playoffs? They won 2 rounds and ran roughshod over the darling of the talking heads. Ran into the champs in round 3. 28 other teams WISH they were exposed that way.

Yes, exposed. And yes it was the nicest way possible to get exposed, but they were exposed. Any pretense the Oilers had of being a Stanley Cup contender should have been erased from your mind after the playoffs last year.

Babaganoosh2.0 wrote on Thu, 05 January 2023 00:01

No kidding. Take a breath people. I know we all wished we were leading the league right now. This still a team with the two best players in the world. Our goaltending can only get better. Kane will come back and inject some heart and hopefully we can rent a d-man or two at the deadline. Not time for doom and gloom yet. We could go on a 8 game win streak ffs.

Even with Kane coming back, the goaltending maybe getting better, and somehow renting D with no cap space the Oilers are still an obviously flawed team. That's not doom and gloom, it's just how I see the club. An 8 game streak won't change that.

They're still fun to watch, largely because of their flawed nature.

Yeah, it's hard to look back at the playoffs and think that it showed this team is on the cusp. We got taken to the limit by a weak LA team coached by a guy who doesn't believe in making adjustments based on what the other team is doing. Then we beat the Flames because McDavid and Draisaitl were otherworldly and their goaltending was a disaster.

We got swatted aside easily by Colorado.

McDavid and Draisaitl led the playoffs in scoring despite getting eliminated in the third round. The production drops off precipitously from there, and just like always, our depth guys don't contribute a whole lot. Here's the goals from forwards not in the top 5:
McLeod 3
Yamamoto 2
Puljujarvi 2
Kassian 2
Ryan 1

Cody Ceci out-pointed every Oilers forward but McD, Drai, Nuge, Kane and Hyman. He tied Yamamoto.

People who want to talk about leadership vacuum seem to forget that Keith was dreadful too - 1-4-5 and -4 in 16 games. Directly responsible for a lot of goals against because he was so damn slow. And Smith and Koskinen weren't good either. Smith had some good games against LA, but then got exposed in the next two series, allowing a lot of bad goals against including one from Red Deer.

So yeah, the Oilers didn't look like they were on the cusp of a championship, despite some incredible individual players on this team. They looked poorly managed - like a team where our only hope is our superstars playing at a level no one has seen in decades to overcome the shortcomings of the rest of the roster.

Worth noting, it seemed in the playoffs that Woodcroft became a more conservative coach, and he's failed to regain his early form since. Maybe he doesn't understand what made him successful last year either.

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Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: OilFans on Tue, 03 January 2023 21:30
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: inverno76 on Tue, 03 January 2023 21:36
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Tue, 03 January 2023 21:41
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: clutchlikeeberle on Tue, 03 January 2023 21:49
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Tue, 03 January 2023 23:23
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Wed, 04 January 2023 02:16
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 04 January 2023 08:32
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Adam on Wed, 04 January 2023 09:41
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 04 January 2023 10:09
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Wed, 04 January 2023 21:16
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 04 January 2023 21:59
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Wed, 04 January 2023 22:53
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:00
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:14
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: NetBOG on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:48
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Thu, 05 January 2023 00:01
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Mike on Thu, 05 January 2023 07:21
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Thu, 05 January 2023 08:25
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Adam on Thu, 05 January 2023 11:56
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Kr55 on Thu, 05 January 2023 13:26
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: Babaganoosh2.0 on Thu, 05 January 2023 14:10
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Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: K.McC#24 on Wed, 04 January 2023 10:15
Re: Review: Seattle @ Edmonton (Game #39)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 04 January 2023 10:24
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