If anyone is looking for a good laugh and prime examples of oiler fans arrogance and complete over confidence in what they thought they had for a team and how much better they were then the flames, have a read through the comments from that specter article posted earlier.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...attle-alberta/
Anyone who was getting tired of this thread and piling on the Oilers should rethink that notion after reading these comments. This fan base honestly deserves no mercy.
Here are a few of many many gems.
@Oil Spilly a season long slump?......do you think that has anything to do with the fact that Hartley coached a style of play that had no structure and gulu is a coach that implemented structure as the majority of coaches do. Now that gaudreau has responsibilities that go beyond skating around like he has bees' chasing him, he is lost. This is the beginning of what johnny really is...a 45 50 point scorer that is perennial minus player.......lol.....
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@Hanson Brother In Linus Omarks 1st yr with the Oil he had 27 pts in 51 games and was -16.
Goo has 29 pts in 39 games and is -15 with 59 giveaways.
Sure glad the Oil didnt throw $6.75M per for 6 yrs at Linus like CAL did with Goo.
1 year ago
To all the Oilers critics
That's for pointing all out the benefit's of winning all those draft picks. The down side is having folks like you kicking us when we were down for such a long time. Sorry buddy, we aren't in that position anymore.
Flames are a mess, from president down to coaching.
I wonder when Eric Francis will be writing an article stating were still waiting for the High end talent to round into form because 1/2 of the season was not a long enough time frame for that talented core.
BM
Big M27
1 year ago
Treviling has put together the most overrated over paid defence in the NHL. This is going to be a cap management nightmare.
Tkachuks face after Klefbombs goal......lool! 2nd in league with an astounding 90 mins of PIMS.....a total liability to his team. And this is 1st line material?
Any more questions about what Lucic brings to the team?
The big difference between Chris Neil and Lucic is that Neil hasn't scored more than 16 goals in an entire season over a 1000+ game career. Lucic is a regular contributor in scoring, a net front presence of and he is 15th in the league in hits.
@blobbo - Flames goaltending is terrible. But Monahan isn't a first line center, and the defense isn't great after Gio either.
Ha ha....the Flames are history for the next many years...the Oilers are going to make mince meat out of these over rated clowns....well done Oil!!