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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| Rocksteady wrote on Tue, 25 June 2024 12:11 |
I'm reading a lot of emotion in some of these posts, lots of anger on what could have been, lots of anger over reasons why the team couldn't push the last 20. I've seen remarks about blame and major fixes, mostly just trying to mend a broken heart, that's all of us.
It is 2006, 18 years ago, my first run to the cup as an actual Oilers fan watching the team, being in the building, and enjoying the fans. 2024, 18 years later the hurt is the same because the ride felt the same, the Oilers behind in the count they battle back just to make us believe and cannot get the job done.
Gut - PUNCH.
The Oilers will have several new things and I think Jeff Jackson is decisive enough to hire the right GM. He found Knoblauch out of seemingly thin air who made a few crucial calls that swung the series and even the trail to the finals. I bet his next hire may be the same. Well I hope.
It's going to be tough to get back to the show, hopefully it won't take another 18 years.
I'm getting too old for this stuff.
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The GM hire is everything, absolutely.
I think the big dif between 2006 and now is that every single player, coach and management honestly did deserve that cup. Lowe made some huge acquisitions and did some good work in the no cap era to set that team up. The coaches got the absolute most out of those players, fully embracing the underdog mentality. The players all brought it all playoffs, and we absolutely would have won if Roli didn't get injured. That ending hurt a lot. The hockey gods kicked that team in the sack and honestly robbed the ending of an amazing story.
Slightly different this year. The players, so many injuries to key guys, they played their butts off. Honestly think almost every player did the best they could do. Some guys the play doesn't match the salary, but whatever, I can't question the effort, these guys all wanted it badly.
Coaches, amazing, exceeded all expectations. Great adjustments all playoffs, insane PKing that no one expected. Powerplay great until Drai could no longer skate or shoot and Hyman was not at all himself around the net either after the 2nd round. Still all these guys working hard, the coaches doing everything you hope they could.
Management, garbage. Holland really deserved nothing. 1 good trade, 1 good UFA signing in 5 years. Couldn't even bring himself to do what Tampa and Vegas did with Kane and get us another 5M player, plus get Kane healed. Needed Jackson to save his last year with a forced coach change.
We got the best playoff performance by a forward in 3 decades and just a little cherry on top, the best offensive performance by a D for 3 decades too, and it wasn't enough. 2 weak D pairs handicapped us through the entire playoffs. Top 6 winger juggling all playoffs making everything harder than it needed to be. Big issues were ignored for years, shortsighted cap decisions kept the team constantly constrained.
We came SO CLOSE to overcoming bad management with some generational performances, but it still got us in the end. That hurts, but at least it's a lot more fair that we did it to ourselves than the crazy bad luck of Roli's injury.
[Updated on: Tue, 25 June 2024 12:35]
"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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