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

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by looooob

hmm. am worried I wasn't clear


Spector is (apparently) an Expos fan


it was stated maybe he wasn't all bad


I am an absurdly loyal Expos fan. am now despairing in my commonality with Mr Spector

It's nice - he likes to cheer for former major league sports franchises.

[FireGilbert]

How can you be a fan of a team that doesn't exist?

What do the Oilers, the Expos moving to DC, and spoilt milk have in common? The are all NO GOOD!

[looooob]

what ? they moved?



go Expos!

[ThisIsAnOutrage]

Originally Posted by Hangman

Denial has reached even academic levels.

Opinion: The numbers show fixing the Oilers is simple

...And you'll see here that in games where the Oilers score three or more goals, and the opposition scores two or fewer goals, the Oilers have a perfect record. Therein lies the formula for success.



Pffft.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by Hangman

Denial has reached even academic levels.

Opinion: The numbers show fixing the Oilers is simple

Not even William Hanson can save the Oilers.

No one can.

No one.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Not even William Hanson can save the Oilers.

No one can.

No one.

William Hanson is associate professor in the department of educational psychology, University of Alberta. He specializes in assessment and evaluation, process-outcome research, and health psychology. He competed in three NCAA golf championships and has, since the mid-80s, obsessed about sports analytics and performance/player development. He can be reached at whanson@ualberta.ca.

email him and let him know your thoughts.

[FlamingHomer]

Well apparently they win a Stanley Cup every 8 years on average so this year must be a slam dunk for one.

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[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Holy hell, that article is stupefyingly delusional:


The Oilers are the 24th-highest scoring team in the League. Their top-four goal-scorers have accounted for 97 goals. The entire rest of the roster has scored 59. The Oilers are manifestly flawed and require significant improvement at every position, but their most glaring weakness is easily their possession of the worst collection of forwards in the NHL.

This sounds terrible but I needed some context to be sure...

Flames' top 4 scorers: 104 goals
Rest of the team.......: 98 goals (more than the McTop4 even!)

Yup, as suspected... no good!

[browna]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Spector is so dumb. Mikko Koskinen is Finnish.

He's talking about Tretiak, who is the next recruit by Wayne for Katz's collection.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Hangman

Denial has reached even academic levels.

Opinion: The numbers show fixing the Oilers is simple

That article is a loaded gun of dumb.

What kind of academic psychologist assesses the Oilers without using the term Groupthink?

Groupthink perfectly sums up and explains the Koskinen signing.

"illusion of invulnerability" (an inflated certainty that the right decision has been made).

NSFW!

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.

Groupthink requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is loss of individual creativity, uniqueness and independent thinking. The dysfunctional group dynamics of the "ingroup" produces an "illusion of invulnerability" (an inflated certainty that the right decision has been made). Thus the "ingroup" significantly overrates its own abilities in decision-making and significantly underrates the abilities of its opponents (the "outgroup"). Furthermore, groupthink can produce dehumanizing actions against the "outgroup".

Antecedent factors such as group cohesiveness, faulty group structure, and situational context (e.g., community panic) play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

email him and let him know your thoughts.

Just make sure to tell him that his assessment was right on the button! We don’t actually want them to fix their groupthink.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Lack of depth scoring versus lack of top D men? How about both you jackass?
Funny how the headline indicates the fix is "simple" and that one needs to look deeper into the numbers and yet the author provided no meaningful numbers or actual ideas that would simply rectify the deficiencies.

The simplest explanation is easily E=NG.

[dash_pinched]

Mark Spector gives it five stars out of five
Terry Jones says Chiarelli's directorial debut is the work of a genius
Gene Siskel Principe awards two thumbs way way up

https://twitter.com/user/status/1095695631971160064

[getbak]

Is it a sequel to Sudden Death (also produced by Baldwin)?

[Otto-matic]

16. With Ken Hitchcock watching practice from the seats one day and then blasting the Oilers’ effort following Saturday’s 5–2 loss to San Jose, that there were rumours he’d had enough and would step down. That obviously didn’t happen, but it underlines how tense things are in Edmonton.

Giving Cam Talbot three straight starts made it look like he was being showcased to clear cap room, but the Oilers are having difficulty opening space for Andrej Sekera when he is ready to go.

Even Hitch can only stomach a short time with the oilers.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...eadline-nears/

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

Even Hitch can only stomach a short time with the oilers.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...eadline-nears/

this was also brought up in the same article:

When Edmonton gets down to GM interviews, the favourites are Kelly McCrimmon and Mark Hunter. But, there are expected to be other conversations. Interim GM Keith Gretzky has history with current Bruins executive director of player personnel John Ferguson, so it would not be a surprise to see him involved.

Wouldn't that be lovely?!

[Coach]

Honestly, as extensive as his resume is, it'd be pretty hard to be told about effort by someone who doesn't even hit the ice for practice.

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by Coach

Honestly, as extensive as his resume is, it'd be pretty hard to be told about effort by someone who doesn't even hit the ice for practice.

He couldn't even tie his skates if he could fit his feet in a pair

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by looooob

what ? they moved?

go Expos!

I bet you were wondering why attendance was so poor.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Coach

Honestly, as extensive as his resume is, it'd be pretty hard to be told about effort by someone who doesn't even hit the ice for practice.

Why? His job is to get the best out of his roster, not be on the ice.

I thought his sit-out of practice was a very intentional call-out to the players.

"If you're not going to put in effort then F-it. Neither am I. Bunch of losers. I came out of retirement for this?"