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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
6 Cups
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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
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.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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