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

[dino7c]

TBH I didn't think they would be last place but I did think they were substantially worse than last season. Posters that no longer post on CP for some reason had heated arguments with me about it not long ago.

Pat Steinberg is the only media member I know of that didn't tow the company line and had the gull to say they might be worse.

Where did these supposed experts see the improvement??

[cral12]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

The Oilers should abandon that zone defense strategy. Their defensemen just aren't smart enough or coordinated enough to handle it. If you get them moving around just a little bit, they get so confused and scattered, and they all lose position.

I get why they are trying it though. They just don't have good enough individual defensemen to play man-to-man, but at this point, it couldn't possibly be worse.

No, no. Please do continue...

[Cappy]

Oilers Reddit has some hilarious memes right now

I would post them but I don’t want anyone to misconstrue my intent

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

1) McDavid could be playing hurt, we know he had an injury that caused him to miss games. It would be sheer lunacy by the Oilers to be making him play through an injury that has made him look this bad. That alone should get someone fired.

I don't think anyone ever makes McHobo do anything. If he is playing, it is because he wants to play. The coaches and the training staff are powerless to keep him out of the lineup.

2) McDavid is banged up, but not "Injured", but the years of over playing him have added to a degradation of things that have made him special. His speed and ability to change direction. In the NHL these skills aren't a huge difference between stars and superstars. So a small degradation of speed or other skills will make him more ordinary.

I think it is clear that McDavid is not playing at 100% right now, but what is unclear is just how "injured" he may or may not be, and whether or not this is just temporary, or just the way he is moving forward. I tend to think that whatever is wrong with him, it must be extremely minor. After all, since returning to face the Flames after having missed two games McLoser's ATOI has increased by a whopping 18%—he has been playing an additional 3:35 per game!

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by stemit14

I wonder if oilers management is so hesitant to make a move because of McDavid’s injury. I’m starting to think he is not only injured but requires either surgery or some kind of long-term recovery period. They may have activated him under the understanding that he won’t 100% until he gets properly treated but likely won’t get worse. So the oilers wanted to see if their season could be saved with McDavid at say 70%.

Everyone thinks they’ll make a move for a goalie/defenceman but if they don’t win at least 5 of their next 6 games, the season is effectively over for them. They could make a trade now but it could likely involves their first round pick since teams know how desperate they are. If they make that trade and still struggle for the next week or so, it’s the worst case scenario for them - horrible season and no first round pick along with also likely losing Draisaitl to a trade demand. Followed shortly after by McDavid.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So injured he played 25 mins last night??

[Yeah_Baby]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/coaching-chan...lers-1.2033898

Rishaug expects Woodcroft to be behind the bench for Saturday's game against the Seattle Kraken as the Oilers complete their current three-game road trip. He adds "all things will be evaluated after" Saturday's game as the team returns home.

Somehow this makes the dead man walking thing even funnier

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Did you just call Flames fans “toads”?

One word buddy: look out

I mean, Dissentowner says "hi".

[Reggie Dunlop]

How bad is it when the Comms Dept. has to issue a "Nobody is getting fired today" press release?

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

The Oilers should abandon that zone defense strategy. Their defensemen just aren't smart enough or coordinated enough to handle it. If you get them moving around just a little bit, they get so confused and scattered, and they all lose position.

I get why they are trying it though. They just don't have good enough individual defensemen to play man-to-man, but at this point, it couldn't possibly be worse.

Same if they switch to man coverage.

[Textcritic]

Something missed in all the McEntitled injury cover is the impact this has had on the other Wondertwin. While one can posit that this has caused the substantial decline in the production of the "Best Player in the World," it also carries major implications for what's happening with the "Second-Best Player in the World."

Dry-heaves has declined from 9 pts in 5GP (1.8 pts/GP) to 6 pts in 7GP (0.86) since the Winnipeg game. That is a 53% drop(!) in production—more than half. I think this is showing with abundant clarity that the German Gretzky is rather nothing more than a very good first-line player. I might be worried that this is going to affect his next contract, but because it is the never-ending Oilers hype-machine at work he is still on track to be a hilariously overpaid $14.0 m player for the next seven or eight years after 2024.

[BloodFetish]

From YouTube comments on a video

"Drai is dry
Mcdavid Mcdoesn’t
Kane needs a cane
Nurse needs nursing
Oilers need an oil change"

I love "McDavid McDoesn't", LOL.

[Barnet Flame]

I’m beginning to sense there may be an outside chance the Oilers don’t win the Cup.

[direwolf]

This article may have been posted already, as it's two days old. But McLoser definitely has some sort of nagging injury, and the Oilers are playing him anyway out of desperation to try and salvage their dismal season.

The guy hasn't been noticeable at all outside of a few PPs and the losses keep piling up. They also have some tougher games coming up over this next stretch when they head out on an Eastern road trip, so it's not going to get any better for them.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...8tgOwNvTutU6AM

Whatever the injury was that cost him two games earlier this season, it lingers. And in this world of utter secrecy when it comes to sports injuries, we can only assume that he is not inflicting further damage by playing, even if — to our eye — the annual Hart Trophy candidate was operating at somewhere around 70 per cent Monday night in Vancouver.

“I feel healthy enough to be out there, and I've got to be better,” the Edmonton Oilers star said in an exclusive interview after his team’s 6-2 loss to the Canucks on Monday.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by BloodFetish

From YouTube comments on a video

"Drai is dry
Mcdavid Mcdoesn’t
Kane needs a cane
Nurse needs nursing
Oilers need an oil change"

I love "McDavid McDoesn't", LOL.

I’m lovin it

[Paulie Walnuts]

Well I guess the issue for the Oilers is that playing zone or man to man defence is going to be difficult when the whole point of the system is to defend and you have no player who can defend.

[cral12]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

I’m lovin it

McLovin' it.

[Reggie Dunlop]

This is an epic and unprecedented fail for a team many picked to win the Stanley Cup. If Gerard Gallant, or more likely assistant Glen Gulutzan, is not behind the bench Saturday night in Seattle, then you’ll know that Holland has given up on the season.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...aching-change/

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by cral12

McLovin' it.

You mean like this?

[GFG#1]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I don't think anyone ever makes McHobo do anything. If he is playing, it is because he wants to play. The coaches and the training staff are powerless to keep him out of the lineup.


I think it is clear that McDavid is not playing at 100% right now, but what is unclear is just how "injured" he may or may not be, and whether or not this is just temporary, or just the way he is moving forward. I tend to think that whatever is wrong with him, it must be extremely minor. After all, since returning to face the Flames after having missed two games McLoser's ATOI has increased by a whopping 18%—he has been playing an additional 3:35 per game!

I actually think he might have the same injury with his hip that Monahan had. McDavid's faceoff percentage is way down as well. Similar to how Monahan's dropped, and I remember hearing Johnny say something along the lines of his hip would lock up when he would bend down to take a faceoff. His shot was affected, his passing was affected and his mobility. All things that appear to be wrong with McDavid currently.

This is purely speculation I have no inside information.

[cral12]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

You mean like this?

No, like this: