[CaptainCrunch]

The terrifying keep him up moments for Holland


- Draisaitl is not only awful without the puck, but he's a 50/50 proposition between making something happen offensively or providing the worst give aways at the worst moment. He's still not really an offensive driver but he's a complimentary player. He's probably the best trade chip but in the really scary world of the post covid cap crunch are teams going to give 8 mil of their cap to a deeply flawed player.
- Connor was great offensively, but he no showed quite a bit, he definitely no showed defensively. His biggest contribution is his work on the PP which was silent in an elimination game.

- RNH put up points, but was horrible defensively and when Chicago ramped up the physical game he was no where to be found.
- The secondary guys, Yamamoto, Neal and Chiasson were nowhere to be found period. They mentally checked out in game one and were rarely seen again. The bigger concern frankly was that they played like they didn't care without the puck
- Zach Kassian is suppossed to be a leader and emotional heartbeat, that's why he got a shiny long term big contract. He's been MIA since the MT episode.

- That Blueline turned out to be what everyone thought it was, terrible and on top of that not much offensive help came from it. Future top pairing guy Darnell Nurse has sank into mediocrity over the last two years and is nothing more then a Dennis Gauthier type of D man but not as smart. Bear was game but wasn't great. For all the hype the blueline looks rickity
- Goaltending - Though I'm loathe to blame Smith and Koskinen bcause they were literally abandoned in this series its not a good goal tending duo
- They're in a crunch with 10 million in cap and 17 players under contract.
- Despite what Staples says they don't have a wealth of prospects in the pipeline that are going to energize this team


What keeps Tippett up at night


- You have to coach McDavid, first of all, he's not evolving his game. second I'm sure he's under a make the game plan that Connor wants orders.

- There's no leadership on this team, They couldn't find the energy to play in this series and looked like a collection of beer leaders that don't give a frack
- This is a team that's incapable of playing any system or adapting. That's a coaches nightmare
- The blame is coming to Tippett and its not as much his fault as the lineup, and the leadership. Tippett is going to end up taking a lot of heat for coaching a team that wasn't built correctly in the first place. Has no depth, no big future prospects, not a lot of cap space, and a heart and leadership question.

What a smart GM would do


- Time to trigger a rebuild, this team was a patchwork mess in the first place and its construction reflects that. The smart move to solve a lot of issues including the leadership issue is to trade Draisaitl for a combination of nows and future and spread out the talent.



What a rational person would do



- This is a cap constrained world, I would expect that teams are not going to be trading for expensive underperforming assets in the whole he needs new scenery move. I would expect that there won't be a big market for a lot of Oilers underachieving or never will be junk that's cluttering their lineup. Be patient and sell the fans on a mini rebuild that could take a few years.


What a fatalist would do


- Look at the teams performance this year and realize it was a illusion a team with pathetic 5v5 play that frankly had a historic power play that's unsustainable and a pp that over achieved, and was driven by two players. Then pay up your skype subscription and hope that call comes through from Lowe.


What I would do


- Burn it to the ground, do the whole "We're taking the dog to live on the farm" thing that we all heard as a kid with the players. Collect the insurance money and change your name to Mr Mojo Risen and go drive a cap in Mexico.