That team is nearly at the point of unfixable without a tear down and rebuild. Even their uber picks are evolving into seriously one dimensional players, Edmonton fans crow about Hall and his 80 points and blah blah blah. But the bottom line is its fairly easy to rack up points if you don't do anything else on the ice. I also hear from Hall fans that he's that big effort guy that cares about winning and losing and at this point I don't see that, I see a guy that floats without the puck.
They picked a one dimensional sniper who has a shot annnnnddddd . . . . first overall and hes had one good month in the last two years and they expect that he's going to bounce back.
They have vanilla midgets up front, they have a brutal bottom 6, the worst type of AHL depth on the blue line in the NHL, and a goalie that started strong but became less then inspiring as time moved on. They have a brutal coach assistants that can't be fired because they rock the pajamas.
I will state that the Oilers are beyond broken, they're worse then the Islanders franchise and theres not much hope coming.
Bold moves, Mac-T isn't going to make bold moves because they over value their big 4 and nobody is going to pay that price.
right now in the executive suite, Lowe is telling Mac-T in no uncertain terms to go for McDavid because he'll save the Oilers heading into a new building.
The NHL should really dissolve that smoking crater 3 hours to the north. Preferably with a death star laser.
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