Edmonton is No Good VIII: There's Still Something in the Water!

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I am in fact pulling for the Oilers to win the lottery. It will only subject them to more ridicule.

I thought about this, and worried a bit. Then thought a bit more on their options.

Keep the pick and draft this hot shot kid. They have a 3 year ELC to make it work. Given cap structure and expected reduction of cap they have to move out lots of bodies to make room.

Trade the pick. Now this seems smart, but for what? More picks? Players. Lets talk about stud D-men or Forwards that produces now AND will move to Edmonton for a oh so lock on a cup. Remember at the no trades out there.

So if this comes to pass they are totally taking the player. Which maybe great but again their against the cap, the cap isn’t going up and they have 3 years total to make this work.

So even the best outcome isn’t really that great due to bad management.

[Enoch Root]

The only way you can move Neal is if you take at least as much contract back. And if they do, they haven't solved their problem.

[flylock shox]

When was the last time a player from a non-playoff team won the Hart trophy?


Asking for a friend.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by nik-

McDavid wanted his insane money and term. So, ####ing taste it Connor.

Don't feel bad for that guy for a second.

Here's my hate fuel.

NSFW!

[nik-]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Here's my hate fuel.

NSFW!

Haha I still can't get over this. Imagine not only painting this, but then actually showing it to people.

[Enoch Root]

and someone paid money for it

[CaptainCrunch]

At the end of the day, the Oilers were an awful team with un sustainable special teams. Where Connor has to carry the load in scoring.


So what happened in game 7, the PP failed 0/5. Connor didn't score, the team was awful again 5v5 until late in the game.


They are what we said they are. I have my doubts that they will have the luck that they had this year next year. They'll be back in the basment where they belong.


Oh 1 out of 5 years in the playoffs. Connor should be getting, great player total loser label.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

The moment that you realize you risked a season-ending injury by rehabbing all summer... only to miss the playoffs anyways.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

and someone paid money for it

And he autographed it.

[868904]

The best part about this and the Flames win is that there is hockey justice for the bull#### narratives that the Edmonton and Winnipeg media have tried to push this year about Tkachuk and the Flames.

You can't lie and try and twist the truth like that and expect good things to happen to you.

[TheChief]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

CHED:

"... Draisaitl, RNH and Yamamoto... the best line in hockey"

LOL

...and then...you have McDavid




This brings a tear to my eye listening to Ched and watching Spector on post game.

[Reggie Dunlop]

[ThisIsAnOutrage]

Chicago 3, Edmonton 2, Reality 1, Oilers 0!

The Edmonton Oilers’ countdown to the playoffs is over, and it was a thriller to the end! Connor McDavid, Edmonton’s hot-handed hub-city hero, "heads" home head held high, with 9 points (5g, 4a, 9pts, +1) in just four qualifier games. Sadly though, for fans of the Edmonton Oilers, all the numbers in the world won’t add up to a shot at the Stanley Cup, as the Chicago Blackhawks took the series with a 3-2 win in game 4.

The series’ outcome left the Oilers brass perturbed at the prospect of watching the rest of the Western Conference playoffs play out in their own arena without any Oilers’ representation whatsoever. Unable to sleep following the game, Oilers Head Coach, Dave Tippett; General Manager and Director of Hockey Operations, Ken Holland; Director of Salary Cap Management, Bill Scott; and alternate governors for Oiler Entertainment Group, Wayne Gretzky, and Kevin Lowe convened a four-hour meeting to dissect the corpse of the 2019-2020 season, and vivisect their lingering hopes for obtaining play-off berth through some sort of lawsuit. In a bid to reassure their fans that everything would be okay, the Oilers released a transcript of the meeting, unedited, unredacted and reproduced below, in full:

00:00:00 - - 03:56:58 All: …

03:56:59: Holland: “F*** it. Soooo…Blame it on Covid and same thing next year? All in favour?”

03:57:03: All: “Aye!”

03:59:01: Tippett: “Wait. Shouldn’t we address the fact that the team with the leagues’ two highest scoring forwards finished 12th in points percentage and only fifth in its own conference?”

03:59:58: Gretzky and Lowe: “Scott?”

03:59:59: Scott: “Wrong attitude, Tippett. Wrong attitude. Quinn, Renney, Krueger, Eakins, Nelson, McLellan, and Hitchcock say ‘Hi.’”

04:00:00: Holland: “You guys want to go check out that drive-in beer garden? I hear the Bevilacqua sisters are good to go!”

While the Oilers’ decision to stay the course and ride the horse that got them here seems to have convinced their fans that doing nothing new is the sure fire way to turn things around, Vegas odds makers were less optimistic. Going into next season, and every season, Reality is expected to continue to dominate the Oilers playoff hopes, weighing in as the hefty 1000 – 0 favourite. Said “Smooth” Edward Armes, “Sometimes the Oilers are just bad; sometimes a pandemic results in a post-season where the fifth place team can be eliminated by the twelfth place team. One day maybe the Oilers will play well but global warming melts all of the ice. Doesn’t matter. The Oilers just don’t make the playoffs.”

Despite dealing with their personal grief, the McDavid faithful took a moment to express gratitude and concern for their valiant captain. Said McDavid Superfan, Monica Ashante, “He should walk with his head held high! He has six years left on his eight-year deal and he needs to know we love him here. It breaks my heart to think that right now, he must be burying his head in his hands.”

Less sympathetic was Blackhawk’s forward Dominik Kubalik who scored the series-winning goal. “That eight-year deal is all on him. He deserves every minute of it. After all, the only way you can hold your head high and bury it in your hands is with a double face-palm.”

The Oilers are next inaction.

[CedarMeter]

McDavid will be entering his 6th year with the Oilers next year. And he hasn't gotten even close to a sniff to the Stanley Cup. I got to wonder if he'll be packing it in soon. There's only so much a man can take.

[Reggie Dunlop]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1291949984976261121

[Julio]

https://twitter.com/EdmOilersThots


Gold!

[dirk diggler]

Is RNH's contract up at the end of the year? he needs to be resigned. 8x8 will work just fine

[getbak]

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Is RNH's contract up at the end of the year? he needs to be resigned. 8x8 will work just fine

One more season. Although, I believe he can sign an extension now.

[Samonadreau]

The tenderness will have lots of leverage being one of the only not useless players on the team.

[1Nite]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

When your just not good enough to play against the Flames!