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 bigEfromGP
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Registered: July 2006
Location: GP, AB
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| cpcos wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 14:33 |
I want to agree with you… believe me i do! But we are talking about 12 goals…. in 2 games! In playoffs! I am not talking about losing 2 games…. I am looking at the score…. you think first game was close!? God it wasn’t…. McDavid used up his last breath to pull off an incredible and almost impossible comeback…. that one should be 6-1…. 6-2 perhaps… so i talk about 12-4 for the Kings…. in playoffs and Oilers praised to win it all this year…
Let that sink in a bit…. Don’t talk about winning game 3….. how could we win!??? Perhaps only if we remove our net from the ice…. and keep only Kings net…. Otherwise… our net would fill in with pucks faster than a cup of soda at McDonalds….
Do you really fantasize Oilers can compete now with anyone!?
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Keep in mind, in last year's finals Game#1 went 3-0 for Florida and Game#2 went 4-1 for Florida, and many of us were quite concerned that Florida had solved the Oilers scoring threat. Oilers dropped Game#3 4-3, and then beat Florida 8-1 in Game#4, and well we all know how close the series ended.
| CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:17 |
| CrudeRemarks wrote on Fri, 09 October 2020 13:00 |
The president thinks he has the ideal male body.
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It's hard to disagree that he has the ideal male body.
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cpcos
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Registered: March 2013
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Also, last year, we had young players in; went on a tear at the end of the season; had chemistry and players ready to play; this year? we are trash almost after 4 nations…. no chemistry at all… they are blown by Ducks…. and many other teams at the end of regular season…. 3 months that is; they don’t play a close game…. they are fragile and don’t have solutions;
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Adam
Messages: 7352
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| cpcos wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 15:37 |
Also, last year, we had young players in; went on a tear at the end of the season; had chemistry and players ready to play; this year? we are trash almost after 4 nations…. no chemistry at all… they are blown by Ducks…. and many other teams at the end of regular season…. 3 months that is; they don’t play a close game…. they are fragile and don’t have solutions;
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Except that while they were contributors, the young players weren't huge parts of our success last year:
Foegele - 22 GP 3-5-8
Holloway - 25 GP 5-2-7
McLeod - 24 GP 4-0-4
Broberg - 10 GP 1-2-3
McLeod & Foegele were also -7, eaten alive by the other teams throughout the post-season.
I think our depth could be better, and I think that the Oilers are over-enamoured with old, gritty vets rather than using younger more skilled players to fill out the ranks. But last year the team won because our top players were phenomenal. And if they play to those heights here, then they're going to roll over the Kings just like they did last year.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 8000
Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 15:48 |
| cpcos wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 15:37 |
Also, last year, we had young players in; went on a tear at the end of the season; had chemistry and players ready to play; this year? we are trash almost after 4 nations…. no chemistry at all… they are blown by Ducks…. and many other teams at the end of regular season…. 3 months that is; they don’t play a close game…. they are fragile and don’t have solutions;
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Except that while they were contributors, the young players weren't huge parts of our success last year:
Foegele - 22 GP 3-5-8
Holloway - 25 GP 5-2-7
McLeod - 24 GP 4-0-4
Broberg - 10 GP 1-2-3
McLeod & Foegele were also -7, eaten alive by the other teams throughout the post-season.
I think our depth could be better, and I think that the Oilers are over-enamoured with old, gritty vets rather than using younger more skilled players to fill out the ranks. But last year the team won because our top players were phenomenal. And if they play to those heights here, then they're going to roll over the Kings just like they did last year.
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I think there are two possible reasons the Oilers depth has failed for the last 10 years:
the Oilers as an organization act in a fatally and fundamentally flawed manner that constantly puts everyone in a position to fail
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the top heavy build of the Oilers roster doesn't generate enough opportunity for anyone bit McDavid and Draisaitl so the rest just stagnate and decline. Rarely superior players can, in the short run, create for themselves that opportunity (Nuge's 100 point year, Hymen last year, Kane's one good year, Bouchard last year) but in the long term stagnation and decline always takes hold.
I'm open to other possibilities.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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nullterm
Messages: 1090
Registered: July 2007
Location: Port Moody, BC
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 17:54 |
| Adam wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 15:48 |
| cpcos wrote on Thu, 24 April 2025 15:37 |
Also, last year, we had young players in; went on a tear at the end of the season; had chemistry and players ready to play; this year? we are trash almost after 4 nations…. no chemistry at all… they are blown by Ducks…. and many other teams at the end of regular season…. 3 months that is; they don’t play a close game…. they are fragile and don’t have solutions;
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Except that while they were contributors, the young players weren't huge parts of our success last year:
Foegele - 22 GP 3-5-8
Holloway - 25 GP 5-2-7
McLeod - 24 GP 4-0-4
Broberg - 10 GP 1-2-3
McLeod & Foegele were also -7, eaten alive by the other teams throughout the post-season.
I think our depth could be better, and I think that the Oilers are over-enamoured with old, gritty vets rather than using younger more skilled players to fill out the ranks. But last year the team won because our top players were phenomenal. And if they play to those heights here, then they're going to roll over the Kings just like they did last year.
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I think there are two possible reasons the Oilers depth has failed for the last 10 years:
the Oilers as an organization act in a fatally and fundamentally flawed manner that constantly puts everyone in a position to fail
or
the top heavy build of the Oilers roster doesn't generate enough opportunity for anyone bit McDavid and Draisaitl so the rest just stagnate and decline. Rarely superior players can, in the short run, create for themselves that opportunity (Nuge's 100 point year, Hymen last year, Kane's one good year, Bouchard last year) but in the long term stagnation and decline always takes hold.
I'm open to other possibilities.
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They were content to be who they were on the Oilers, and then suddenly the team said one way or another “we don’t need you.” Then they get to the next team and have a burr in their saddle from the rejection, along with wider opportunities, and want to prove the Oilers were wrong for not keeping them. Opportunity. Motivation.
They could have been those players here, but the organization doesn’t draw that out of people.
Illegitimi non carborundum.
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