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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yep same thing every summer. The deck chairs are shuffled, fans and media get excited, but at the end of the day the team still stinks. Guys the issue with the Oilers isn't the support players it's the core players and coaching. Perron had a fantastic season last year and the team was worse so improving the supporting cast is irrelevant. That didn't change so I fail to see where they will make substantial improvement. This could be the year the core players finally buy into a coach but it hasn't happened yet and we shouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt until it actually happens.
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Exactly, problem with the core.
Eakins is as bad of a coach as we have seen in NHL in sometime.
No benefit of the doubt whatsoever.
I will give credit to MacT, he has taken some steps trying to improve the team, Oilers in the past few years made no effort to do so.