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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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| smyth260 wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 08:18 |
That’s my reflection as well.
We can talk about 1 shot away or 1 goal away all we want. But it’s a lot easier to control your destiny in 4 straight series if you got home ice along the way. We’ve seen a lot of great teams have home ice, win it in 4-5-6. If you leave it to game 7s, you are leaving it to a potential coin flip. We lost the coin flip last night. We lost it in 2006.
We need to start winning the conference in-season. Never really been close to that in the McDavid era. Never won a division.
The media will spin it as Holland got the team to 1 game away from a Stanley Cup, just like Kevin Lowe, but the Oilers could have had a lot more to control their destiny over his 5 year run as GM. We have had a hand tied behind our back. There are lessons to be learned here. Not from the players, who took us as far as they could, but management could have made it easier, could have had this opportunity sooner, and could have made these opportunities easier.
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This is why it's so important to get a real GM now. The timing of Holland leaving is as good as we could hope for.
No doubt Holland would see this playoffs like last year. Thinking that the experiences gained just means automatic win next playoffs, with the extra excuse that Kane was hurt, so he could just sit on his hands again and maybe add a 7th D or bottom 6 grinder and he could head off to relax the rest of the summer.
We need real fixes to this roster. We have to make a team that can win the division, ideally the conference and be close or win a presidents trophy. We need to have the luxury in the season to get key players healthy if we need to sit them out for a while. We can't be lazy and not use LTIR to get more upgrades at the deadline if the opportunity presents itself again, like we had on a silver platter this year. We simply need a competent GM with a real plan aside from just hoping McDavid and Drai will get better every season.
Holland got the most he could ever hope to out of McDavid this year, and Bouch could have been a Smythe candidate in many past seasons. This is as far as we could lazily ride this core. It's probably unlikely that McDavid reproduces this playoffs again, and we need to be ready for that. To get the production he got with 1 useless 5v5 player (Nuge) on his wing almost every game was absolutely insane. He needs more help. Drai too. The D failed us in the finals as well with some absolutely horrid plays in the first 3 games. The same holes we've all been talking about caught up in the finals, in the canucks series that turned it into a 7 game injury fest, in the regular season to cost us the chance at home ice.
We absolutely need major fixes to this lineup still. Not a GM that thinks a Connor Brown will fix everything, and then pats himself on the back when the player finally does something starting in the 2nd round, where the team only was because someone else swooped in and fixed the coaching for him.
[Updated on: Tue, 25 June 2024 08:41]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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