If the Oilers get the first overall pick again the NHL needs to bring in a rule change that makes it impossible for one team to get that pick multiple years in a row. They're taking all these super promising prospects and just ruining them, they need to stop giving Edmonton #1 overall for the good of the game
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As embarrassing as that goal is for Bernier, it never would have happened if not for his defencemen being lazy. Thanks to hybrid icing, all either of them needed to do was take two extra strides and it is a dead play. Instead, the Canes' forward beat them while they were listlessly gliding back, and it was waived off.
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The Oilers schtick of sucking has gone on for so long that even Reggie Dunlop has become sick of saying The Edmonton Oilers are not very good at playing hockey
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The Oilers schtick of sucking has gone on for so long that even Reggie Dunlop has become sick of saying The Edmonton Oilers are not very good at playing hockey
At this point they would need to show considerable improvement to move up to 'not very good'.
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Bob Stauffer @Bob_Stauffer5m Oilers got nothing from Perron-RNH-Yakupov 5v5 tonight. Patience! Once took Elias-Arnott-Sykora half a season to gel en route to 2000 Cup
Is he being sarcastic to troll Oilers fans or is he actually serious?
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Is he being sarcastic to troll Oilers fans or is he actually serious?
Well seriously the Oilers are only a Broduer + Stevens + Niedermayer + Rafalski + Alex Mogilny + Claude Lemieux + a bunch of the best defensive forwards in the NHL from being right there for the cup!
Seriously, so close.
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Well seriously the Oilers are only a Broduer + Stevens + Niedermayer + Rafalski + Alex Mogilny + Claude Lemieux + a bunch of the best defensive forwards in the NHL from being right there for the cup!
Seriously, so close.
Don't forget Jacques Lemaire, Larry Robinson, and a compitent management team! Oh and Joe Nieuwendyk, Bobby Holik, Scott Gomez, Brian Rafalski, Jason Arnott, John Madden, Jamie Langenbrunner, and all the other great players that were on the Devils during their three Cup runs. But of course they can easily be replaced by random Oiler plugs and all-star in the making Boyd Gordon.
I really see no solution to the oilers problems... The way RNH, yakupov, Schultz, Hemsky, he'll, and dubnyk are playing... It's not like they are in a slump. They are playing the way they always play and we have all said it for years. All of these guys will pull off the odd dazzler but for every single toe drag or spinnerama... They have 5 or 6 turn overs or missed coverages.
It's not that they aren't skilled... It's that they either have a low hockey IQ or they still play the game like its junior hockey. Sometimes it's both (yakupov).
People can try to defend yakupov with his hot streak that got him a tie for the rookie scoring lead last year but he has demonstrated time and again to have a bad attitude problem. And I'm not just talking about the comments last week even though they were shocking to come from a "pro" hockey player... It's the flamboyant goal celebrations everyone warned about before he was drafted. It's the refusal to do interviews when he was having a bad world juniors even though you couldn't keep him away from the cameras 6 months earlier during the build up to the draft and everyone had only nice things to say about him. I even remember him dropping in on interviews with gregorenko and get galvhenyuk when TSN was doing interviews on that boat in New Jersey. He wants all the attention in the world when he scores a goal or is about to be drafted #1 overall... But when things are bad, he doesn't want to talk and he doesn't want to change his game.
You talk about his skill all you want... Their are plenty of skilled players whose teams were hurt by what they do to the team's character. Look at guys like radulov, Kostietsen, and Yashin... Highly talented but they ended up doing more harm than good to their teams. That's what I see in yakupov... If he isn't traded now, he will be within 5 years and the whole of Edmonton will cheer to see him go.
A streaky Russian sniper/puck hog with a bad attitude who refuses to play hard without the puck?! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is heading.
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the issue with yakupov is that he been exposed a bit. His value as a first overall is only dropping. There are starting to be to many red flags and is on the verge of being a reclamation project.
real highlight here is that horrible Avs announcer talking about how Kronwall got a taste of his own medicine here and lamenting that McLeod got kicked out. Ridiculous.
Here is the call on the Kronwall hit.
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Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
