Its painfully obvious even to the most ardent Oil fan that it isnt the coach. It never was the coach. Not renney, not Krueger, not Eakins.
Its the players...and thats why they are so hooped.
MacT has only a couple options to try and change the culture there. They wont deal Nugent-Hopkins, nor should they, they wont trade Hall either...so that leaves Eberle and Yakupov. They are not going to get what they need by dealing just one of them, so that would require dealing both...almost assuredly in seperate deals.
With what they have shown of late...the value is not going to be there like they need, so they will have to "add" to complete the trades for the pieces needed....in others words "overpay" and then hope like hell there is an improvement on the ice AND they have chemistry with the young guys who are very transparently...running that room.
It truly is an NHL version of a trainwreck.
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