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Originally Posted by stemit14
Keep it rolling for us Carolina. We’ll give you a discount on a goalie if you embarrass the oilers tomorrow night.
I wonder at what point the Canadian sports media (both TSN and sportsnet) will give up on the oilers this season? Despite all they have seen… most of them seem to act like it’s only a matter of time before they break out and win 12 games in a row… all they need to do is trade for a goalie.
If they lose these next two games (Carolina and Washington) before American Thanksgiving, they will be at the very least 8 points back of a wild card position. Would be very funny to see Oilers management double-down on this team at that point by trading away their first round pick for a goalie. And I think there is no way to trade for a goalie without including their first round pick simply because such a trade will require sending Campbell back as a salary dump. Forgetting anything else in the trade… that alone requires at least a first round pick from Edmonton. And any goalie they get will be behind that oilers defensive structure (or lack there of) so it would, in all likelyhood, be one of the biggest waists of a season, a first round pick, and two franchise players in NHL history. Especially since this outcome likely leads to Draisaitl and McDavid leaving the franchise.
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I think this is why this is particularly enjoyable.
The Oilers have sucked for Decades, yet SN and various writers and 'Journalists' constantly pick them as 'the team to beat' despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.
They have sucked hard and drafted high for years and years and yet every year is 'their year.'
It defies belief but its been happening since forever and now...even with the NHL's top 2 goal scorers on their roster, they are once again one of the worst teams in the League, the paper-mache covering over all the cracks is starting to wear away and all of the reporters who have hitched themselves to this wagon are starting to panic.
Its rats off a sinking ship.
But in conjunction with all of that...all the fellatio comments they've been heaping upon the powerhouse 'Cup Contender' Oilers is now finally being thrown back in their faces and eroding whatever shreds of credibility they had left.
Its like the music stopped and its 'The Purge' to try and get one of the few chairs left.
You love to see it.