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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
You know, a guy loves to rag on the Oilers but it's because it's so easy.
For some reason I found that the only hockey on tv was the Habs / Oil game, so I started to watch it. I think part of me was curious how in the hell these idiots drafted 3 top overall picks, have 4 extremely gifted young forwards and yet still struggle so badly. It's pretty amazing they are still bad. And they are!
The main thing I noticed is no puck support. Like, at all. If an Oiler gets the puck, it's him vs. the world. The other players are like not even on screen! I don't even know where they go, they look like they just skate away.
God, what an awful, awful, terrible team. It's really quite something. And hilarious.
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Not only that, but their good young players like playing on the perimeter, and try to fire long passes through the middle of the offensive zone.
I mean they do a lot of things that look right pretty, but they really don't threaten that much.
Their defensive play is on a whole other level of bad.
Eakins is already going grey, I think its going to be a long year for him.
I mean in 4 games after training camp, they can't seem to grasp a system. Either they're a team with a collective iq of 6 or they just aren't listening to their coach.