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Originally Posted by ah123
I think the Oilers have the pieces in place to quickly upgrade their team, so they could be good really fast. The question is, do they have the management team to make the right moves? As a Flames fan, I hope not  |
They could if they hit on about 3 trades/FA signings but the holes are so big that they really need to make 0 mistakes to do so which seems unlikely for many teams and especially this management group.
The other issue as pointed out many times is the ELC contracts are coming up so they start to have issues with fitting everyone into the line-up especially if the bottom level guys aren't working out and you need to spend money on them.
And as always with average to bad goaltending with Dubnyk they don't get the benefit of that helping to mask issues on the team.
I think they can be a 6-10th place team quickly but need a lot of help and right moves to get into the top of the conference race consistently.