Edmonton is No Good VI: Chia•den•freu•de

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Incogneto

I hate the oilers, but I would take that bet. McDavid is a stud, and is a near lock to get 100+ pts (assuming no injuries).

I kind of agree with you because I think the Oilers are going to fail hard and fail early and its going to be a season of Marshmallow points for Ol' Connor.

Pad the stats man.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Incogneto

I hate the oilers, but I would take that bet. McDavid is a stud, and is a near lock to get 100+ pts (assuming no injuries).

Teams are going to know that the first line is all Edmonton has, and the prevailing strategy is going to be to not let McDavid easy zone entrances. I think its going to be tougher slogging for young Mr McDavid.


I think he's going to have a miserable season that will still be good vs normal human beings.

[Eric Vail]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Teams are going to know that the first line is all Edmonton has, and the prevailing strategy is going to be to not let McDavid easy zone entrances. I think its going to be tougher slogging for young Mr McDavid.


I think he's going to have a miserable season that will still be good vs normal human beings.

Isnt that the same as last year?

[Huntingwhale]

I hate to say this, especially in this thread. But if the league didn't learn to stop him after his 1st Art Ross season, they sure aren't going to magically learn after his 2nd. If anything, he's been the one who has adapted and learned how to avoid them. But that's all moot since luckily we aren't relying on McDavid having a down season for the Oilers to falter. It's the leftovers outside of McD, Draisatl and possibly RNH who will complete the season of failure. I would love nothing more then to see McD have a subpar season in the 1st season of his new contract. But it's pure homerism to suggest he's going to struggle since teams are going to lock in on him, when it fact the opposite is true. Most teams have no way to stop him, Flames included.

But no harm no foul. It's been proven that even he cannot carry the team all season long even with an MVP calibre season. The train wreck is too heavy of a load for him to carry. I actually find it more satisfying that the Oilers have an elite superstar player who wins awards every season, and it's STILL not enough to lift them out of the basement.

[Incogneto]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Teams are going to know that the first line is all Edmonton has, and the prevailing strategy is going to be to not let McDavid easy zone entrances. I think its going to be tougher slogging for young Mr McDavid.


I think he's going to have a miserable season that will still be good vs normal human beings.

Don't forget that the dude is going to play 28 mins a game, so teams better have two good shutdown lines.

[kman35ca]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

The point here is that pre-season scoring is almost entirely completely irrelevant. We should as fans treat it with the appropriate level of response—cool, but meaningless. The wrong response is precisely that embodied by the Oilers and their fans: "pre-season" game results are treated like a barometer of regular season success—it's why the Oilers are the only NHL team to regularly and consistently keep running statistical totals and compiles standings for the preseason. It is why at present they have Ty Rattie, Kailer Yamamoto, and Connor McDavid emblazoned in bold typeface atop their list of "2018 NHL Pre-Season League Leaders." It is why they have gone to the trouble of calculating points and compiling a "2018 NHL Pre -Season Standings with teams slotted according to Division.

It's pathetic. It's consummately typical behaviour from any Oilers fan with a massive inferiority complex. It's no good, and it is unbecoming of any self-respecting fanbase in the NHL.

I thought you were jking till I clicked the link. LOL Wow, keeping track of preseason point leaders with the 3 Oiler's in highlights up top is so Oilerish. Haha

Sure I'd brag a bit if say Dube was leading all players preseason, but I would also keep in mind that, it's preseason.
Man, they just can't let go of that dream of becoming the 80's Oilers again!
Pretty pathetic, but oh so much fun to watch.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Incogneto

I hate the oilers, but I would take that bet. McDavid is a stud, and is a near lock to get 100+ pts (assuming no injuries).

Yeah, I don't know about that. Through the first five months of the season last year McBaby was scoring at barely over a point/gp pace. It took an insane run through the final two months when the Oilers were completely out of the playoffs and with the entire team on an obvious mission to elevate his own production to get him over the 100-point mark last year. I am sceptical that he can keep doing that year in and year out.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Yeah, I don't know about that. Through the first five months of the season last year McBaby was scoring at barely over a point/gp pace. It took an insane run through the final two months when the Oilers were completely out of the playoffs and with the entire team on an obvious mission to elevate his own production to get him over the 100-point mark last year. I am sceptical that he can keep doing that year in and year out.

Why? You've just described every Oilers season since like 1993.

Out of it early, pad the stats.

If they're any good at anything its that and they are remarkably consistent at it outside of a couple years ago.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Locke

Why? You've just described every Oilers season since like 1993.

Out of it early, pad the stats.

If they're any good at anything its that and they are remarkably consistent at it outside of a couple years ago.

I guess I tend to think they may present more of a fighting chance this year than a limp noodle by by Halloween? The Oilers are not remotely a playoff team, but I think they may be competent enough to still be relevant by the All Star break.

[The Boy Wonder]

THe oilers will go as cam talbot goes...

and with that defense in front of him it can't really be expected that he "bounces back" to his well above career average numbers from two years ago.

Looking bleak already

[Incogneto]

Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder

THe oilers will go as cam talbot goes...

and with that defense in front of him it can't really be expected that he "bounces back" to his well above career average numbers from two years ago.

Looking bleak already

I don't know if we will go back to where he was 2 years ago, but I expect a bounce back. You never know what is happening in guys life on a daily basis...Heard through the grapevine that Talbot was 'dealing with s$%*#' last year - whatever that means. He is back to his 'old focused self this year'.

Also, 2 years ago was pretty much career average: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p...php?pid=100197

[SuperMatt18]

The Oilers and their fanbase never stop providing great humour.

Today's fake outrage: Being upset at Eliotte Friedman because he shared the link to Auston Matthews GQ article, but didn't share the link to Connor McDavid's article yesterday.

Biased Toronto media always hating on McDavid and never giving him enough credit.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Yeah, I don't know about that. Through the first five months of the season last year McBaby was scoring at barely over a point/gp pace. It took an insane run through the final two months when the Oilers were completely out of the playoffs and with the entire team on an obvious mission to elevate his own production to get him over the 100-point mark last year. I am sceptical that he can keep doing that year in and year out.

McDavid started off the season much slower than his final pace - and around the time the Oilers were effectively eliminated from the playoffs, he still wasn’t in the top 10 scoring leaders.

Oilers fans tend to forget that in the part of the season that really mattered for the Oilers’ playoff chances, McDavid wasn’t anywhere near the best player in the NHL - he was merely a good player.

[Hemmer]

Don't forget that McDavid was super ill early last season and lost 10 lbs.

[ThisIsAnOutrage]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Hopefully ThisIsAnOutrage is still around.

Can't express how much I appreciate this post!


Bottom is that last season I got a double-promotion at work which ate up a lot of my time, and the rate at which the Oilers lost simply overtook my ability to think of ways to write about it.


I may post the odd write-up here or there this year, but just don't have the jam to write up every loss. That said, it was really fun while it lasted.

[Ashasx]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

The Oilers and their fanbase never stop providing great humour.

Today's fake outrage: Being upset at Eliotte Friedman because he shared the link to Auston Matthews GQ article, but didn't share the link to Connor McDavid's article yesterday.

Biased Toronto media always hating on McDavid and never giving him enough credit.

The fan base that should be upset here is Toronto. These photos are pure cringe.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I guess I tend to think they may present more of a fighting chance this year than a limp noodle by by Halloween? The Oilers are not remotely a playoff team, but I think they may be competent enough to still be relevant by the All Star break.

Again, why? Their overall team quality is worse.

Their defence is terrible, their forward group is thin, it goes from high top-end in McDavid, RNH and Draisaitl and then.....not a whole lot.

I cannot see them being relevant past Christmas. Maybe past Halloween, but nowhere near the All-Star Break.

[kukkudo]

Originally Posted by Hemmer

Don't forget that McDavid was super ill early last season and lost 10 lbs.

If that dude was so ill he wouldn't of played a full 82 games.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by kukkudo

If that dude was so ill he wouldn't of played a full 82 games.

Not to mention that most of his diseases that would slay a lesser man and most marginally-ill bears were just symptoms and he was 'sick' for 2 months.

They make it sound like he was Leo DiCaprio in The Revenant.

Further, if the team is so paper thin that McDavid having the sniffles for a few weeks sinks their playoff hopes then 'hopes' were more like 'dreams.'

[the2bears]

Originally Posted by Hemmer

Don't forget that McDavid was super ill early last season and lost 10 lbs.

So ill, in fact, that a thesaurus was used to describe his illness in multiple ways.