Edmonton is No Good VI: Chia•den•freu•de

[djsFlames]

Ah Ken,

they want it, they just suck.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

It goes further then that. Giving McDavid 25 minutes a night sends a message to the rest of the bench that all of you guys are trash that can't be trusted.

McDavid and his flybys and lazy defensive retreats never getting called out makes him appear to be above the system

Spending half the season last year with operation get Connor the puck will resonate through any locker room, I've seen it as a coach. Players will check out.

Whilst I am loathe to agree with 'Oilers Management' as it were, the rest of the roster is genuinely trash and under no circumstances can be trusted.

I mean, they're right on that score. Its 1120% their own fault, but its still the truth.

[Robbob]

12-15-1 at home this year. Most home losses in the league. So much for home cooking.

[crapshoot]

If the Blues pull off the win against Nashville, the Oilers will be 6 points out. Since both the Blues and the Wild are set to play another game each before the Oilers play next, it's possible the they are 8 points out before facing the Penguins on the road. Also, the Kings are likely to move past the Oilers very soon. This is devastating to the desperate-buyers-at-the-deadline scenario. But who are we kidding anymore? The Oilers are gonna end up in 31st, aren't they? Incredible.

[djsFlames]

Leon and McGiggles are really shooting up the scoring standings though.

Team garbage time points is in full throttle.

[oldschoolcalgary]

remember when hitch let Drai, McDavid and Nuge out of practice early and continued to have the rest of the team to extra work?

seemed like a bad idea at the time... not sure if this has anything to do with it, but i am sure it probably turned some players against Hitchcock

[trackercowe]

lol my mom has been to seven home games this year, they have lost all seven games. 0-7. I'm thinking I should get her season's tickets for Mother' Day!

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

lol my mom has been to seven home games this year, they have lost all seven games. 0-7. I'm thinking I should get her season's tickets for Mother' Day!

You must not like your mother very much.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

You must not like your mother very much.

Maybe his Mom is a Flames fan who takes great pleasure out of Oiler failure.

[schteve_d]

I would have to assume that Hitch won’t be there next year. I would think that the players would assume the same so really, what is the point of “buying in” in a lost season? Tune him out and as a group they’ll try again next year.

Hopefully Hitch keeps spouting the truth in his stint here and his legacy can be having turned the fanbase against McDavid and Drai, thereby leaving the franchise in worse shape, in the only way possible that he could have in his time there.

[CedarMeter]

St. Louis wins today. The Oilers would have to go on a 5 to 6 game win streak to even get close to getting back into the wild card race. They're done.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by crapshoot

If the Blues pull off the win against Nashville, the Oilers will be 6 points out. Since both the Blues and the Wild are set to play another game each before the Oilers play next, it's possible the they are 8 points out before facing the Penguins on the road. Also, the Kings are likely to move past the Oilers very soon. This is devastating to the desperate-buyers-at-the-deadline scenario. But who are we kidding anymore? The Oilers are gonna end up in 31st, aren't they? Incredible.

7 points, ROW

[CedarMeter]

They would have to go 20 and 7 to reach 93 points. It's over boys.

[DazzlinDino]

Originally Posted by crapshoot

If the Blues pull off the win against Nashville, the Oilers will be 6 points out. Since both the Blues and the Wild are set to play another game each before the Oilers play next, it's possible the they are 8 points out before facing the Penguins on the road. Also, the Kings are likely to move past the Oilers very soon. This is devastating to the desperate-buyers-at-the-deadline scenario. But who are we kidding anymore? The Oilers are gonna end up in 31st, aren't they? Incredible.

They desperately need the pick. I doubt we see them win against teams below them for the rest of the season,.

[browna]

If by some method the Oilers could announce they are tanking and their first overall pick is available, would that make any difference to getting a trade done? I would doubt it.

As has been said ad nausem, any impact players the Oilers would want in return for a top player or a top pick, have NMCs.

Other GMs would be at the mercy of their good players and agents and families, who won’t waive to go to a team with so many documented (and still to be fully uncovered) undocumented internal problems with the way the executive have operated that franchise and the ego involved, for so long.

When Larsson was the best nmc-free option for Hall, and Hall was the only guy that had even that value on the team, it tells you all you need to know about the Oilers standing...and it hasn’t improved since then either, probably worse now that the GMand coach are gone and the new coach is being so public with the failings.

[Kidder]

Originally Posted by DazzlinDino

They desperately need the pick. I doubt we see them win against teams below them for the rest of the season,.

There are teams below them in the standings??

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

remember when hitch let Drai, McDavid and Nuge out of practice early and continued to have the rest of the team to extra work?

seemed like a bad idea at the time... not sure if this has anything to do with it, but i am sure it probably turned some players against Hitchcock

Yup - said at the time that it was a move that could (and likely would) worsen things in the room (was going to say 'destroy', but they were already bad).

Since then, the Oilers have not only been abysmal, but their give-a-crap meter has been setting new lows.

Hitchcock may not have created the two-tiered bench, but he perpetuated it. And now he has lost the room.

[crapshoot]

Originally Posted by Kidder

There are teams below them in the standings??

By the time they get back from their upcoming road trip it's doubtful.

[oldschoolcalgary]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Yup - said at the time that it was a move that could (and likely would) worsen things in the room (was going to say 'destroy', but they were already bad).

Since then, the Oilers have not only been abysmal, but their give-a-crap meter has been setting new lows.

Hitchcock may not have created the two-tiered bench, but he perpetuated it. And now he has lost the room.

agreed...

its funny cause Hitchcock did seem to get "buy in" when the Oilers went on that run when he was first hired.... you would have thought that that taste of success would be positive reinforcement to continue playing that way...instead, at the first sign of adversity they've crumbled.

it was always said that Hitchcock was a demanding taskmaster of a coach who can wear out a room...

Playing favorites like that, with the Oilers culture being as bad as it is, accelerated Hitchcock's half life with the oilers...

[midniteowl]

Never mind new coach, never mind new GM, what they really need is a new owner. Katz is like that kid who standing at the store windows fantasied one day owning all those action figures, and now he finally has the money and has bought all those figures, he's not going to let them go.