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

[Ashasx]

Originally Posted by 3rd liner

Can't get over watching what sore losers the oilers look like in the handshake line. The supposed 'leaders' Mcdiver and Pissy barely saying a word to anybody on the knights, including Vegas captains and coaches. Derek Ryan looked like the most classy oiler, not surprising.
Oilers apologists will say they were upset.... yep so is every team that lost a playoff series. The professional NHL players still take a minute to acknowledge who they lost to. Not Mcdiver and Pissy..

A completely unlikeable team.

No idea how a team that employs Evander Kane got such praise in the media.

[Macho0978]

Originally Posted by GGG

Only 3 years to go. Maybe only 2

Not maybe 2 it’s def 2 whether Leon stays or goes

[Rejean31]

Oh and Edmonton:

[JBR]

Originally Posted by jlh2640

Edmonton is No Good X: F around and find out.

Edmonton is No Good X: F'd around and found out.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by 3rd liner

Can't get over watching what sore losers the oilers look like in the handshake line. The supposed 'leaders' Mcdiver and Pissy barely saying a word to anybody on the knights, including Vegas captains and coaches. Derek Ryan looked like the most classy oiler, not surprising.
Oilers apologists will say they were upset.... yep so is every team that lost a playoff series. The professional NHL players still take a minute to acknowledge who they lost to. Not Mcdiver and Pissy..

I noticed Ryan when watching that last night too; good for him.

It infuriates me that media completely ignore things like this for this team.
It's not just us rival fans who are seeing things. You could do an unbiased case study on the handshake lines of all series and its objectively clear how unsportsmanlike these guys are.
No one ever calls them out on it.

[flamingred89]

The Oilers cap situation really is the cherry on all of this. They have 6 million to sign 6 players including their beloved Bouch bum. So Bouch bum is going to get that 6 million easily. Possibly more. So that puts them up against the cap already with 5 roster spots to fill. All their LTIR guys are gone so nothing to leverage there. They don't have any candidates for mysterious career ending injuries or "front office jobs". So what does that leave them with? They can't trade Kane as he's a known pariah. RNH has way too many years and a NMC. Hyman is a possibility but he was arguably their best depth player. Yamamadingdong is only 3 million and wont free up enough space on his own. I guess they could buyout Ceci and free up a couple million. Maybe trade Kulak as he has a reasonable cap hit. Those two moves would net you about 3.5 million in space after you factor in league minimum replacements. Still not nearly enough if they want to keep someone like Kostin who will get about 3. Or Macleod. The only other option I can think of is if they completely empty the cupboard of picks to bring on LTIR contracts. But Arizona has a monopoly on that so not likely lol. It really does seem like their window is closing rapidly.

[Puppet Guy]

This might've been posted already. If so, it's worth a re-run:

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Woke up this morning and it seemed like the air was a little fresher, the birds were singing a happier tune, the sun was shining bright, and the universe just felt like everything had been corrected. Evil has been vanquished and the world is a better place today.

Thank you, Golden Knights!

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Haha, I didn’t see your post until just now. Great minds think alike.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Nugget-Hopkins should have his 100 point season stripped embarrassing.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by 3rd liner

Can't get over watching what sore losers the oilers look like in the handshake line. The supposed 'leaders' Mcdiver and Pissy barely saying a word to anybody on the knights, including Vegas captains and coaches. Derek Ryan looked like the most classy oiler, not surprising.
Oilers apologists will say they were upset.... yep so is every team that lost a playoff series. The professional NHL players still take a minute to acknowledge who they lost to. Not Mcdiver and Pissy..

The whole team but Ryan couldn't get out of there fast enough and Ryan showing some class was actually holding up the line. Just such a disrespectful bunch of clowns who feel entitled to win.

[CaptainCrunch]

I debated putting this in the series thread, or in the post game thread, but this is so much fun.

The Oilers are out, done, finished. They accomplished less this year then last, and were exposed by Vegas.

Was McDavid good in this series? Sure on the PP he was exceptional throughout the playoffs. But if you look at his time even strenght, in 12 games he had 3 goals 8 assists and was a -1. So he really didn't do "Great" work at even strength. McDavid was better last year in the playoffs.


Draisiatl was pretty fabulous. In fact I would argue that he dragged the Oilers through two rounds. But like last year against Colorado, whether he wore out. Or maybe looked around the dressing room and said F it and shut it down, Draisiatl was a non factor in the last 3 games of the series.

Bouchard even strength 2 points and a -4. Sure again he's good on the pp, but he can't be trusted with mid or top pairing minutes, and his skating is still terrible. But he's up for da big money.

RNH even strength 1 goal 2 points, -6 in 12 games. Oh Edmonton, you got the dud RNH in the playoffs.

The most delicious. Evander Kane. 6 points in 12 games and a -1. All he did was take stupid penalties, and he took a lot with 42 minutes in 12 games. He actually hurt the Oilers.

Their bottom 6 was dire. look at Yamamoto, his slide continues.

Nurse for 9 million they got nothing, 4 assists and a -1 in 12 games.

But we know its not the Oilyaz power forwards fault, not McSavior who was ordinary except on the man advantage (really expensive pp specialist remember) or Draisiatl, who threw his hands up and vanished in the last 3 games.

It had to be the goaltending right? Ryght? Skinner was awful throughout the playoffs he had a near 4 gaa in the final round and was yanked 3 times. But coach Puglsy Adams went back to him again and again as if he was determined to destroy a rookie goalie for the memes. But lets be honest, the Oilers didn't help the kid at all with their run around in their own end like the chicken man in Kids in the hall skits. He could have gone with Campbell who was good in spurts. But Campbell is a basket case and can't be trusted.

Pugsly got badly outcoached, he kept rolling out the Yamamoto Draisaitl line against Eichel, even though it was clear that it wasn't a good line match. He didn't pull the trigger on a goaltending change when it was clear that Skinner wasn't up for it, and the team needed the shock of a change.

But this is a hiccup right, according to Sportsnet, vroom vroom the Oilyaz are on the way. According to McDavid you have to lose to win right?

The Oilers have 17 players under contract with about 6 million in cap space. Mcledo and Kostin are up for new deals that could eat at least a couple of mil off of their budget contracts. PP specialist Bouchard is up for a new deal and it ain't gonna be cheap. As one dimensional as he is. His agent will clear his throat and tap his pencil on the regular season stat line.

The Oilers need to trade Yamamoto and Campbell badly, but is anyone going to take them, and you still need to replace that cap. Do they have anyone coming up that can replace them on cheap entry levels. Who knows shrug.

BTW next year has to be the year that they go all in. Why? because the year after that is Draisaitl's last year, and he isn't giving discounts.

Also this core isn't getting younger. But older. Draisaitl I think will be 28 next year, Draisaitl 27 RNH 31, Kane 32, Nurse 29.

They need to move Nurse, I don't know how, but he's an anchor, he was underwhelming in the playoffs, often out of position, and he just didn't do anything. Teams can't afford to have a 9 million dollar basically second pairing blueliner.

I've also said that they should trade Draisaitl to deepen their roster. But maybe I'm wrong on it, maybe they should trade a 12.5 million dollar power play specialist and really bring in a haul.

Its going to be a long off season of cap crunches, trades and Bobby burgers.

Delicious.


Oh PS


The excuses of officiating and league bias by Oiler fans are ridiculous. When they're putting up videos of every single missed infraction against the Oilers, while not putting up every single missed infractions against the Knights, it comes across as childish and whiny. Hey its the playoffs, the barrier is higher for penalties. Deal with it. If you can't play 5v5 in the playoffs, you're lucky to get to the second round.


The latest. Look at those cap cheating knights, wah, we were cheated. Coming from the team that had a mystery career ending injury for a goalie that they ironically really could have used is hilarious. Add on a large contract suddenly retiring for a probably really highly paid job as a janitor who never shows up is a rich justification for loss.


In confusion you're honor. The Oilers are guilty of being the worst team in the playoffs, a fluke team that got a battered Kings team in the first round and barely survived and then got punched in the face hard in the second round. A team your honor that made the playoffs on a hot streak where everything went right. A terribly built hockey team with a hot powerplay. They are the Star Trek Discovery of the NHL.

[Tkachukwagon]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1657996074009911298

Time isn’t on your side Oilers

[troutman]

‘But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.’

[Enoch Root]

I posted this in the playoff thread, but it should probably go here...

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

They will have a tough time icing a team that is equal to this year's. Here is their cap situation (including only one of Desharnais or Niemelainen):

8 forwards..... $43,525,000
6 defensemen $22,875,833
2 goalies......... $7,600,000
dead space...... $2,766,667

Total:............ $76,767,500
Space:............ $6,732,500

They need to sign one d-man (Bouchard) and 5 or 6 forwards. Kostin and McLeod are RFAs, so you assume they are signing them.

Even if you assume league minimum for the 5 forwards (I can't see Kostin signing for that), that leaves $2.9M for Bouchard. No way in hell he signs for that. If you assume something like $4M for Bouchard (still conservative), that leaves them able to sign 3 guys at league minimum, and still be 3 bodies short.

So no Janmark, no Ryan, no Bjugstad - all replaced with league minimum guys. And they STILL need to find about $3M, so they'll need to move Yamamoto (and replace with league minimum).

Next year (24/25) is exactly the same. Then Draisaitl becomes UFA. Yes, this was their window.

[Tkachukwagon]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1657975884710551552

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

https://twitter.com/user/status/1657996074009911298

Time isn’t on your side Oilers

Mrs. Doubtfire dropping truth bombs from heaven.

[TheIronMaiden]

Gotta love that the oilers don't pick until 57 at the draft.

[WhiteTiger]

Edmonton is No Good XI: Not Even With 'Generational' 'Talent'

[Manhattanboy]

Edmonton is No Good XI: We don't win as a team.