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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Out:
Ceci, Broberg, Desharnais
In:
Emberson, Brown, Klingberg
Stecher has been given a bigger role because they have no other options.
Bouchard has deteriorated defensively (which is saying something)
Suggesting they are the same team defensively as last year or the year before is a pretty hot take. Suggesting they are worse isn't a fallacy, it's a pretty straight-forward argument, based on the evidence above.
They also moved out some key defensive forwards in McLeod, Foegele and Holloway and replaced them with guys like Skinner.
It isn't the same team, and many of us have been saying so since July.
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The Oilers depth is also getting old.
Nuge: 31
Hyman: 32
Ekholm: 34
Perry: 39
Arvidsson: 31
Henrique: 35
Ryan: too old to play.
This was always a top heavy team, but this year things are extreme. Beyond Draisaitl and McDavid, the only forwards above .5 PPG are Nuge and Hyman, and they are both having way below average seasons, with Nuge on pace for 53 points and Hyman on pace for 51 points. The team looks visibly slower and less able to defend.