Edmonton is No Good X: Up and Down Like a Toilet Seat

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

Wow I didn’t realize Nuge was on pace for 100pts. With their top 4 scorers over a point per game and 3 guys pacing over 100 (McDavid at 160) and they are still a team that can end the year barely hanging on to the second wildcard spot

Nuge is 73rd in even strength scoring, one ahead of Toffoli. Heck McDavid isn't even leading the league at even strength (although credit due he's close)


their PP is however lethally effective

[Dion]

[browna]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

My Oilers fans buddy was telling me "McDavid has 72 points in 37 games; even a Flames fan has to appreciate that!"
It finally hit me: McDavid is Steve Yzerman, but he never had a Scotty Bowman to sit him down and tell him he needed to put the team ahead of his own stats if he ever wanted to win.

Nah, McLellan and Tippett are well respected coaches that would have that control in any other organization.

The problem is that all the star players through the years in EDM were told from levels higher than the coach to "just play" becuase their talent was deemed to be above any system the coach would restrict them with. Coaches were told the same.

Look at Hall, spraying water at Eakins and all sorts of other insubordination, again, because a guy like Lowe said the same rules didn't apply to him (he gave him his number). Hall goes away, gets in a system where he is accountable again, and wins MVP a year later.

The undermining of the coaches, from levels above, is the reason the top players are more concerned about their own game, and why the team can't convince veterans from outside the team (who may hold players accountable), to join, becuase they too would have been told to let the star players do what they want.

[jonesy]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Kent Nilsson

all world skill, but put personal point totals first. poor defensive commitment & couldn't get it done in POs.

Never pass up a chance to piss in the Flames or one of their players eh?

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

Wow I didn’t realize Nuge was on pace for 100pts. With their top 4 scorers over a point per game and 3 guys pacing over 100 (McDavid at 160) and they are still a team that can end the year barely hanging on to the second wildcard spot

Nuge with 45 points, and a -3... that's wild.

Edit: Collectively, the Oilers' top three scorers so far this season have combined for 174 points and just a +7 rating.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Nuge with 45 points, and a -3... that's wild.

Edit: Collectively, the Oilers' top three scorers so far this season have combined for 174 points and just a +7 rating.

I'd be curious to know how many of those 174 points have been on the PP. I'm betting it's most of them.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by direwolf

I'd be curious to know how many of those 174 points have been on the PP. I'm betting it's most of them.

Just over half: 88 (50.57%).

Boston is the next highest-scoring team. Their top-3 has 50 PP points and 105 total points.

The Flames for comparison have 33 PP points and 90 total points from their top-3.

[direwolf]

Oilers lose. McLotteryball with 0 points. The SN panel must be devastated tonight.

[taxbuster]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Oilers lose. McLotteryball with 0 points. The SN panel must be devastated tonight.

They're happy there is no panel...they wouldn't know what to say. Uh....gee....well....he came close to getting somewhere near the net?

[McG]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Oilers lose. McLotteryball with 0 points. The SN panel must be devastated tonight.

“See what happens when he plays defence!!” And “Mavi shows that he’s not afraid to go pointless to help his team.’

[Tkachukwagon]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1609423349897363458

Oilers are too busy thinking about Cactus Club after the game

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

https://twitter.com/user/status/1609423349897363458

Oilers are too busy thinking about Cactus Club after the game

Osteria.

[McG]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

https://twitter.com/user/status/1609423349897363458

Oilers are too busy thinking about Cactus Club after the game

The monochromatic cactus club with the 8 foot ceiling for the basketball.

The conna wanted to make it BYOB but got hung up on which chips to get and therefore had a crappy game.

[PegCityFlamesFan]

I tried to watch the highlights on sportscentre. Instead it was a package of McDavid not scoring then some plug Cornado talking about how many good chances he had.

[Steve Bozek]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Kent Nilsson

all world skill, but put personal point totals first. poor defensive commitment & couldn't get it done in POs.

Forget where you’re posting? How does this work in E=NG? He helped the NG’s win a cup.
And by the way, his playoff career average was just under a point per game, and he was a net plus player in playoffs.

[dino7c]

Woodcroft is so smug yet the Oilers have the exact same record as last season...you know the record that got Tippet fired lol

[All In Good Time]

They have gone through some decent coaches up there. Tuning them out is a pattern. I hope they decide to stop that cycle and keep Woodcroft on. He’s clueless and conceited. A wonderful combination for them.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by All In Good Time

They have gone through some decent coaches up there. Tuning them out is a pattern. I hope they decide to stop that cycle and keep Woodcroft on. He’s clueless and conceited. A wonderful combination for them.

former coaches there stuck to their ideology/system which was a quick way to losing that locker room. but there was nothing inherently wrong with what those coaches were trying for. the problem was with the players and the guys running the show above them, and the entitled culture that preceded their tenures

woodcock panders to the top players' floating ways and spins it as a "team" effort to the cameras. its like they cooked him up in a lab specifically for that team

he's perfect. lives in delusion, gaslights the few responsible players like Derek Ryan, and acts pompously and throws shade at rival teams which the Edmonton media gobbles up like meat sacs in a pigs pen

he's figuratively and quite possibly literally a puppet for them

[All In Good Time]

How can you not love that.
CCCRider
Clueless Conceited Coattail Rider

[Goriders]

Sucks we lost tonight. But always fun watching the end of an Edmonton Globetrotters loss.