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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It's blasphemy to say it, but it's still early for the oilers. If they can bring in some good character and decent d, they could learn to turn it around. The big 4 are pretty young, and have a few years before ufa
They aren't showing anything to suggest that is going to happen, mind you.
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That's the thinking that's gotten the Oilers into trouble. That they have the right blueprint it just needs tweeking.
And teams covet decent defensemen, to get them you're going to have to overpay especially for a top three defensemen.
The big 4 play a pretty selfish type of game and that's a problem as well. They play a third of the ice.
On top of that it seems to be easy to say lets bring in leadership but tough to do. Ocktober was supposed to be that guy, but he's way past his best before label and he's made little to no difference because he can't lead on the ice, or worse yet nobody is listening to him.
If you break it down. Their center depth is terrible, their bottom 6 is mismatched junk. They don't have a top pairing defensemen, not a good option for second pairing. Petry who is their best option is looking bottom pairing.
Bryz is not a long term goalie solution, he's playing for new contract elsewhere, they don't have goaltending depth.
Outside of Nurse and Klefbom and maybe Roy their prospect pool looks pretty poor due to bad drafting past the first round.
They hired a coach that got overrated due to his work with a veteran laden AHL team, who seems to be completely lost in terms of line matching, and on ice symptoms.
for the most part the Oilers are losing because of a lack of willingness on the ice.
The turn around isn't simple anymore, my gut tells me that they're going to have to pull the whole rotten thing up by the roots and plant new seeds.
With Lowe there with his love for youtube sensation players that's not going to happen, because you know that Mac-T is a big time Keven Lowe guy.