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

[FlamingHomer]

Originally Posted by drewtastic

Here’s the link:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...-to-be-a-team/

Is anybody checking on Spector lately?!? Seems to have taken a huge dose of truth serum—so much so, he’s backdating it…

Surely, it’s off to the Gulag soon enough, no?

Today I learned that the Oiler's big two would gladly trade their scoring titles for Stanley Cups.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by FlamingHomer

Today I learned that the Oiler's big two would gladly trade their scoring titles for Stanley Cups.

Their actions on the ice prove otherwise as they are all about cheating on the ice to accumulate points.

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Their actions on the ice prove otherwise as they are all about cheating on the ice to accumulate points.

Maybe they think that if they gather up enough of each trophy, they can hit the NHL cash shop and trade them like actual currency and nobody's told them that it isn't a video game?

[Sofa GM]

Originally Posted by FlamingHomer

Today I learned that the Oiler's big two would gladly trade their scoring titles for Stanley Cups.

Bahahahaha, the fan base and media just don’t get it. Neither of them could give two rips about team accomplishments, it’s all about personal achievements and for Draisaitl his next contract. Neither of these players have led their teams anywhere in the past, will not happen in Edmonton.

[taxbuster]

LOL - love the myth in there about the Weegar "kneeing"....neither called on the ice nor by DOP(e)S.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Who challenges Warren Foegele on why he won’t stand over a fallen goalie once in a while, or intimidate a smaller opponent?

Why doesn’t somebody — anybody — drop everything and go after MacKenzie Weegar when he sticks a knee out on Connor McDavid in a game at Calgary, no less?

wtf lol

standing over fallen goalies and intimidating smaller players sounds like d-bag advice. isn't the old schoolyard quote "pick on someone your own size"?

wouldn't good team oriented advice be hit some players in your weight class and defend your fallen goalie?

and that second part is just plain myth, and I had to wrack my brain just to recall that little uproar they stirred months back about a knee that never happened

I'm just laughing to myself at how par for the course this is for January in no good land

you can track down almost to the week when each repeating issue will come to a head up there

when the players meeting fails next it will be the coach, just like it was in jan-feb last year with Tippett. book it

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by taxbuster

LOL - love the myth in there about the Weegar "kneeing"....neither called on the ice nor by DOP(e)S.

but it was called by the DOOS - department of Oilers safety

[Macindoc]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

but it was called by the DOOS - department of Oilers safety

Don't you mean the DOICFM (Dept of Invented Calls for McDavid)?

[Eric Vail]

I found it interesting in Spector's article that there was nothing said about missing leadership from McDavid. As an 8 year veteran and captain, shouldn't he be the voice that brings the team together?

He mentions that the same problems that have dogged every coach are back, and yet McDavid as the captain is the common point for all those teams that unraveled.

[kevman]

https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/stat...20170632437760

Bottom six wasn't as clear. Didn't do any line rushes.
Foegele-McLeod-Puljujarvi
Janmark-Holloway-Ryan
Did do some drills together. But not a lock.

Not only do they not play their bottom 6, they don't even bother making them practice.

Love that.

[sonq]

Originally Posted by kevman

https://twitter.com/JasonGregor/stat...20170632437760



Not only do they not play their bottom 6, they don't even bother making them practice.

Love that.

Wow, took quite some time for Woodcroft to demote JP from the first line and replace him with Kostin

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

But what if Pissy ask for a trade as well?

Like the Oilers think that far ahead.

[Coach]

Lol the bottom 6 doesn’t even practice the same practice?

Team.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Eric Vail

I found it interesting in Spector's article that there was nothing said about missing leadership from McDavid. As an 8 year veteran and captain, shouldn't he be the voice that brings the team together?

He mentions that the same problems that have dogged every coach are back, and yet McDavid as the captain is the common point for all those teams that unraveled.

it's a core part of the problem. McDavid is untouchable in their media because they want to make Edmonton feel as cushy as possible to entice him to re-sign. they're so deathly afraid of losing this player that they never should've been awarded that they'll skirt the myriad of issues that he brings to the team, and convince themselves that they don't exist, because look! points and pretty goals

they'll only jokingly touch on/suggest things he can improve when he's on the mic, and word it as a "group" issue to keep from poking the bear or making him feel personally targeted

at the same time, enabling his and leon's half-game approach and lack of leadership every year is a contributing part of what has led to the repeating pattern of the same ****, different year

their spineless glorified bloggers/pom pom wavers can pat themselves on the back for rolling over in favour of the country club culture that is now being maligned

it's all rather hilarious when you think about it

[All In Good Time]

Originally Posted by Shazam

I think it's absolutely certain McDoofus will ask for a trade sooner than later. That's why they won't trade Drai.

I think this is a certainty also. In fact I think I have a good idea where he will end up ha ha
Gotta think that Toronto would be a desired destination for him, if there was an inkling of a "back channel expression" of that, the Leafs would be more than happy to let Matthews walk.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

what's even funnier is Spector thinks he is making a stand, in an obvious attempt to be lauded by the local faithful for speaking up on "team" issues, yet STILL fails to highlight the actual problem. he, like his numbnut colleagues, again resorts to picking on the depth guys that play 10-12 minutes a night, claiming that THEIR soft play or disinterest is the issue. Lol!

meanwhile the two players on for 28 minutes a night have 12000 combined points and are a +3 and +4 on the season

golly gee, I wonder why that is

some kind of toxic environment that you can be a depth grinder that gets benched for mcdavid's double shifts then gets thrown under the bus by the local scribes because the two guys running the country club's defensive games are non existent

[McG]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

I'm confused, is the meeting for players on top 2 lines only?

Really, it was so that Draisatl and Mavi could play some Fortnite without being interrupted.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by SaskyFlamesFan

The other two have to sit in the hallway and can listen through the door.

There's a "Downfall" meme waiting to be made.

[GioforPM]

Does anyone whine about “kneeing” more? It seems like everyone knees poor old Connor. Maybe, just maybe, he skates right into people who are bracing for a hit and he tries to evade at the last second. His leg always seems just as stuck out as the other guy’s.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Does anyone whine about “kneeing” more? It seems like everyone knees poor old Connor. Maybe, just maybe, he skates right into people who are bracing for a hit and he tries to evade at the last second. His leg always seems just as stuck out as the other guy’s.

This is exactly what happens