Edmonton is No Good VIII: There's Still Something in the Water!

[Julio]

Oil Change is even more humorous to watch now than it was when first broadcast.

I particularly enjoy having hockeydb at the ready: "This guy will be our new enforcer" (Played 32 games, then out of the organization). "Love to have him @ 31! (in the draft)" (Played 58 games in Edmonton, now an NHL regular in another organization.)

[Southside]

Seems the no goods ruined the 50/50 for all.

Flames have suspended their 50/50 draws.

[handgroen]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Of course he's a #1 defenseman - look at the other 5 guys

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

I was just looking at Hockey Reference for team ages. I like the way they do it, weighting it by TOI, because a team could have a 40 year old, or a 20 year old sitting on the bench getting 3 minutes a game - either way it is irrelevant. Weighting it by TOI considers who the important players are.

Going by wtd avg age, the Oilers are right on league avg at 28.0 (and rank 16th or 17th, I forget which).

The Flames, BTW, are a little below avg at 27.7 (tied with the Lightning and Pens)

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The Oilers were a young team, just starting re-build 2.0, and drafted Taylor Hall 1st overall. That was 10 years ago. TEN!

Using that excuse - even if it were true, which it isn't - doesn't provide any leverage to the team, it is simply an indictment of management.

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Since 2010, the Oilers have had the following lottery picks:

#1
#1
#1
#1
#3
#4
#7
#8
#10

(think about that for a minute).

Meanwhile, the Flames have had:

#4
#6
#6

and yet the Flames are younger and better. (going by the TOI-std stats)

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

and since the year that you get your picks matters, for the 3 years that the Flames did have a lottery pick, the Oilers had the following (Flames - Oilers):

#6 - #7
#4 - #3
#6 - #4

So for the 3 years that the Flames had lottery picks, the Oilers had identical lottery picks (slightly better actually). And on top of that, they also had:

4 #1s, a #8 and a #10

and yet they suck.

Quintuple post score!

[McG]

Originally Posted by Southside

Seems the no goods ruined the 50/50 for all.

Flames have suspended their 50/50 draws.

I don’t understand why the oilers didn’t move to infinitely scalable cloud immediately to save this debacle of monumental proportions.

And who gets hurt by this? Charities.

That’s truly no good.

[Roughneck]

My favorite Oil Change moment was them talking about the Belanger signing, and him wanting a third year showed how much players believed 'in what they were building.'


A 34 year old journeyman bottom 6 forward was able to get over $800K more from the Oilers (would have been more without the compliance buyout) because he played to their egos. Well done Eric and agent.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

Oh man, watched 5 minutes. Katz with the ######y sunglasses on inside the hotel at the beginning. Then when he says "It's nice to pick first, not that we would want to do this every year". What irony.

That whole video was hilarious from start to finish. I am glad I didn't watch it when it first came out, but with hindsight, everything in it is gold. From the cheesy guitar music that plays when they are showing the Hollywood sign, to all the ass kissing that goes on. Just look at how people were fake laughing and over-enthusiastically nodding in approval any time someone said something. It reminded me of the time I got roped into going to a pyramid scheme presentation without realizing what it was at first.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by McG

I don’t understand why the oilers didn’t move to infinitely scalable cloud immediately to save this debacle of monumental proportions.

And who gets hurt by this? Charities.

That’s truly no good.

Even their Doing Good is No Good.

[FlamesAddiction]

Pretty classless for them to imply that Souray was the root of the culture problem in Edmonton as well. It's down right libelous actually.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Pretty classless for them to imply that Souray was the root of the culture problem in Edmonton as well. It's down right libelous actually.

The root of the culture problem is in his $120 million Malibu home.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

That whole video was hilarious from start to finish. I am glad I didn't watch it when it first came out, but with hindsight, everything in it is gold. From the cheesy guitar music that plays when they are showing the Hollywood sign, to all the ass kissing that goes on. Just look at how people were fake laughing and over-enthusiastically nodding in approval any time someone said something. It reminded me of the time I got roped into going to a pyramid scheme presentation without realizing what it was at first.

The whole thing is reminiscent of someone trying to sell time-shares in Florida.

[FlamesAddiction]

The only thing that really gives me distress about the Oilers these days is trying to figure out which laugh to go with. I am leaning towards the BigT or Mic the Microphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp9Ra5CTifw

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Even their Doing Good is No Good.

This post deserves more thanks.

[Monahammer]

If anyone is looking for a nice little salt pile there's a couple of good tidbits in the Neal thread on HF Oil. Some of these jabrones are advocating keeping him around and stapling him to McDavid for more time next season (LOL)

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

If anyone is looking for a nice little salt pile there's a couple of good tidbits in the Neal thread on HF Oil. Some of these jabrones are advocating keeping him around and stapling him to McDavid for more time next season (LOL)

Thats what McDavid really needs on top of a completely useless supporting cast....to be tied to a boat-anchor.

[FlamesAreOne]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

If anyone is looking for a nice little salt pile there's a couple of good tidbits in the Neal thread on HF Oil. Some of these jabrones are advocating keeping him around and stapling him to McDavid for more time next season (LOL)

Took a gander over there after seeing this and came across a trade thread. Wow some of their trade requests were hilarious to see. Give one team a ton of garbage for one elite player. Genius!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by FlamesAreOne

Took a gander over there after seeing this and came across a trade thread. Wow some of their trade requests were hilarious to see. Give one team a ton of garbage for one elite player. Genius!

Thats the wonder of the Edmonton Oilers and why fixing that team will be painful.

They have no assets. They've got some expensive elite players and a whole bunch of expensive garbage.

Mackinnon for Khaira? Pull the trigger!

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Locke

Thats what McDavid really needs on top of a completely useless supporting cast....to be tied to a boat-anchor.

I honestly can't think of a better result for the flames lol. I guarantee that McDavid would be asking for a trade 20 games into the season.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

If anyone is looking for a nice little salt pile there's a couple of good tidbits in the Neal thread on HF Oil. Some of these jabrones are advocating keeping him around and stapling him to McDavid for more time next season (LOL)

Updates, there are even jucier bits about McDavid making demands in the tippett thread.

Yum yum yum. No wonder I am banned on HF. I can't help but like some of these posts when I read them lol.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Pretty classless for them to imply that Souray was the root of the culture problem in Edmonton as well. It's down right libelous actually.

"Blame Comrie."

"Blame Toby."

Some things never change.

[stazzy33]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1293296418170511369

Did Spector hit his head getting out of bed this morning and finally come to his senses? Says the Oilers can't win until McDrai start playing a 200 ft game. No s***. Of course, Oilers fans blame it on everyone but 97 and 29.