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Originally Posted by crapshoot
If this last resort of playing Hitchcock-trap hockey fails, which it will, you have to think Chiarelli will be shown the door. That would indeed be a sad day for us as Flames fans.
Right now is really the best of times in a way. The Oilers are playing incredibly sad and boring .500 hockey while effectively shutting down the aspirations of getting McDavid to the top of the scoring race. All of that while noone is doing a single progressive thing to deal with the multitude of issues that is holding the organization firmly rooted at rock bottom. The team is currently suspended in a no man's land where they are neither good enough nor bad enough to really do anything, so everybody are just waiting, and what more could we really wish for? It's the epitome of no good really.
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I've resigned myself to this a long time ago. It really doesnt matter.
There is no miracle worker GM in the League who could fix this team. They could hire Ken Holland or Steve Yzerman and it wouldnt matter.
Why?
Because the last Miracle Worker they hired in Ol' Petey there screwed things up 7 ways from Sunday.
They are in Cap Hell with a terrible, terrible team.
They are supposedly shopping Talbot, which doesnt really matter because whatever cash he was expecting they've just handed all leverage to Koskinen, the cap is only supposed to go up ~$3.5M, and they have way too much cash tied into too many crappy players.
The more likely scenario is that if/when Petey gets canned they're going to hire some lame-duck GM whose job it is to slash and burn what he can out of the roster and then be fired as soon as there are some assets and flexibility.
Then they'll hire a GM to take over from there.
Like they did with Tambellini and then...oh...they've already done this and yet here they are still.
I am telling you, I cant wait until next year when they get the 'Band Back Together.'
GM: Kevin Lowe
HC: Craig MacTavish
Are there any other Oilers collecting their Canada Pension that want to supplement their income by standing behind the Oilers bench dispensing 30+ year old hockey wisdom?