11-06-2023, 03:03 PM
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#8581
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Fair question. But if you're rebuilding (or retooling, or whatever), you're taking gambles on prospects everywhere
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The retention makes it extra gross.
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11-06-2023, 03:07 PM
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#8582
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All I can get
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Holloway would need extensive counselling to deal with Post Edmonton Trauma Disorder.
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11-06-2023, 03:30 PM
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#8583
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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11-06-2023, 04:07 PM
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#8584
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Bay Area
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So do we want them to fire Woodchuck or no?
Desperate moves by them like a coach firing usually result in hilarity. But Woodchuck is also hilariously bad.
I'm torn.
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11-06-2023, 04:19 PM
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#8585
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dustygoon
So do we want them to fire Woodchuck or no?
Desperate moves by them like a coach firing usually result in hilarity. But Woodchuck is also hilariously bad.
I'm torn.
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I agree, if he stays great but i would like them to put Glen G in charge. now he is a great coach. we saw that first hand here
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11-06-2023, 04:40 PM
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#8586
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dustygoon
So do we want them to fire Woodchuck or no?
Desperate moves by them like a coach firing usually result in hilarity. But Woodchuck is also hilariously bad.
I'm torn.
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It depends who they get.
Quenneville? That would be bad on so many levels. He doesn't deserve a job, but he's a great coach and he'd make them better.
Sutter? Also a great coach, but he might actually break them.
Babcock would actually be pretty funny.
No one else that I can think of would make a difference.
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11-06-2023, 04:43 PM
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Why are people always afraid of the Oilers making changes and becoming successful? They’ve basically run a decade+ long clinic on ineptitude in the face of great fortune and yet still people think “oh well this could be the thing that puts them over the top!”
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11-06-2023, 05:19 PM
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#8588
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jul 2023
Location: The Wranglers game, heckling Kevin
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Why are people always afraid of the Oilers making changes and becoming successful? They’ve basically run a decade+ long clinic on ineptitude in the face of great fortune and yet still people think “oh well this could be the thing that puts them over the top!”
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McDrai still drives ticket sales. Ownership hit the fools gold mine and wont do anything until theyre gone
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11-06-2023, 05:24 PM
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#8589
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All I can get
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Messier has been making backhanded comments in the media regarding the Oilers. It's no secret he's coveted the job in the past. That would be hilarious if he was handed the reigns.
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11-06-2023, 05:25 PM
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#8590
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
It depends who they get.
Quenneville? That would be bad on so many levels. He doesn't deserve a job, but he's a great coach and he'd make them better.
Sutter? Also a great coach, but he might actually break them.
Babcock would actually be pretty funny.
No one else that I can think of would make a difference.
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Fire Woodcroft, Gulutzan as a interim coach, hire Boudreau at the holiday break, do good enough to just miss the playoffs, making them think they're good again. Then they fire Boudreau by US Thanksgiving 2025. It'd be a beautiful thing.
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11-06-2023, 05:25 PM
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#8591
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Why are people always afraid of the Oilers making changes and becoming successful? They’ve basically run a decade+ long clinic on ineptitude in the face of great fortune and yet still people think “oh well this could be the thing that puts them over the top!”
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Yup
They need like 6 or 7 things in order to get "over the top"
There's a myriad of problems there. Franchise center and winger is the only thing they have figured out/in place.
They're not resolving all the other #### in less than 2 seasons while cap constrained before the mcdrai window is up.
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11-06-2023, 05:35 PM
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#8592
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Why are people always afraid of the Oilers making changes and becoming successful? They’ve basically run a decade+ long clinic on ineptitude in the face of great fortune and yet still people think “oh well this could be the thing that puts them over the top!”
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I think the fear is eventually Fan Boy Pharma dude will realise all those older Oilers players from the 80's are just shinning him on for a paycheck and actually know nothing about hockey management, that at some point hanging out with Lowe and McTavish will seem less cool than having a non laughingstock hockey team and he will fire them and bring in decent management
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11-06-2023, 05:38 PM
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#8593
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
Yup
They need like 6 or 7 things in order to get "over the top"
There's a myriad of problems there. Franchise center and winger is the only thing they have figured out/in place.
They're not resolving all the other #### in less than 2 seasons while cap constrained before the mcdrai window is up.
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I don't call getting a nos 1 draft pick and then picking the most obviously good player in a decade 'figuring it out', you pick Mc Sweatpants at 4 or 5 you can brag, anyone can pick him first
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11-06-2023, 06:02 PM
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#8594
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Originally Posted by Dion
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As McDavid and Draisaitl near the middle of their second 8 year contracts, disgusted with Edmonton but unable to get a trade to New York, they moved the Edmonton sign to Brooklyn?
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11-06-2023, 06:17 PM
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#8595
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GOAT!
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Hey, you never know. Maybe a new coach while finally be able to get more offensive production out of their goaltenders.
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11-06-2023, 06:17 PM
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#8596
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Messier has been making backhanded comments in the media regarding the Oilers. It's no secret he's coveted the job in the past. That would be hilarious if he was handed the reigns.
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Messier as President & GM and he brings in Keenan as head coach.
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11-06-2023, 06:37 PM
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#8597
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FanIn80
Hey, you never know. Maybe a new coach while finally be able to get more offensive production out of their goaltenders.
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Maybe they need to bring Smitty in as goalie coach to teach Skinner how to move the puck up to McDrai faster. More goalie assists is the cure.
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11-06-2023, 07:27 PM
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#8598
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Scoring Winger
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11-06-2023, 07:42 PM
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#8599
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Walmart Seth MacFarlane has no idea what he's doing. We should hope that he doesn't get fired. At least until they're in too big a hole to make playoffs.
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11-06-2023, 07:51 PM
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#8600
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlameFan21
Walmart Seth MacFarlane has no idea what he's doing. We should hope that he doesn't get fired. At least until they're in too big a hole to make playoffs.
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Another 2-7-1 run over their next ten games will make that happen.
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