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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Draisaitl and McDavid were shockingly bad tonight. Nurse being bad doesn’t surprise me, he’s always been highly overrated, but I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen those two play so poorly. Especially Draisaitl. I thought Nurse and Draisaitl were the two worst players on the ice for either team, and that’s saying something. McDavid looked completely disinterested. He looked like a beer league player going for a 10:30pm skate at Jack Setters.
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They've been not good since about December, they've had moments where they've had good games. But for the most part, they've really fallen off from the first quarter of the season.
The last three games, they're back to playing like they did when they bailed on yet another coach.
Woodcroft is going to have a short and painful stint as an NHL coach. There has been something rotten in the Oilers dressing room for a while. They're a team with very little energy most nights, they quit on themselves really easily, and they want to play the game their way and not how the coach wants them to play.
The Hilarity is that other teams will know Holland is desparate and clearly not good at his job so they'll take advantage. If the Oilers fail to make the playoffs, I doubt they'll have an easy time with free agent signings.
The Oilers are on the verge of imploding. I can feel it and all of you can feel it and its glorious.
The only way to fix it to be honest is to gas Holland and the rest of the old boys club, bring in a GM and give him complete free reign to do another 3 to 5 year rebuild and trade what gets them the most young assets and high picks.