Edmonton is No Good XII: "I Dunno.. it's Just Not Good."

[Goriders]

So is it 5 straight now for the Perry curse?

[EVERLAST]

Originally Posted by Goriders

So is it 5 straight now for the Perry curse?

Worse luck than touching a certain Trophy!!!

Perfect Bad luck charm for the classiest of organizations ENG winner of Nothingness!!!

[Macho0978]

If you can't win with Leon and Bouchard making $12.4 combined, how will they win when they are making $25 mil?

McDavid has to look at this team and think there is no way they win moving forward.

[Scroopy Noopers]

“We didn’t win. Nobody cares” is a good early favourite title. Thanks DrySaddle.

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by AC

[Scrambler]

One more year gone of the current oiler window, so incredibly satisfying. Even more than last year. That team is not going to go for a 3rd SCF in a row, so next year should have less stress (before relief which seems inevitable with that trashy group, but I digress).

Now we only have to worry that they suck so bad next year they have a faint hope of lottery balling McKenna.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Oilers have only $14M cap space and no 1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th this year, and no first next year already.

That's with 9 forwards, 6 dmen and 2 goalies on the roster

Skinner, Perry, Brown, Klingberg, Kapanen, and Frederic are UFAs.

Bouchard is a RFA.

Bouchard likely gets $10M. Which means they have $4M to fill 4 forward roster spots and no real assets to trade to improve the team.

The following year you have McDavid, Kane, Arvidsson, Henrique, Ekholm, Walman, Kulak, and Stecher as UFAs.

They also have no real prospects beyond Savoie, O'Reilly and Akey. So not like they can promote from within to fill gaps either.

These last two seasons were the Oilers best shot at a cup, and they still have a shot next year just because 97 and 29 are that good, but I don't see a way they can ice a better roster than this season.

Trading Mcleod and Mismanaging Holloway and Broberg really should have been unforgivable for this franchise. Needed to prioritize those two.

Losing Holloway and Broberg will likely be the nail in their coffin. Their future looks incredibly bleak as we have already seen that this is as far as McDavid and Draisaitl can take them with this roster and it's not going to get any better going forward.

[GioforPM]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1932554352075452833

[Saqe]

Originally Posted by Macho0978

If you can't win with Leon and Bouchard making $12.4 combined, how will they win when they are making $25 mil?

McDavid has to look at this team and think there is no way they win moving forward.

They have 12.6 million in cap space and after re-signing Bouchard they'll maybe be able to squeeze in a league minimum player. Their depth is going to be even worse next year.

[Erick Estrada]

Even the ladies fighting. What the hell is wrong with Oilers fans?

[CFO]

So many stereotypical comments about the certain people in that video. But will remain quiet.

[direwolf]

Just in case anyone missed it in the series thread. Courtesy of bc-chris.

[CFO]

If Oilers were to try and push out their window they would look to trade Bouchard versus sign him.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by CFO

If Oilers were to try and push out their window they would look to trade Bouchard versus sign him.

And get rid of the "Bouch Bomb"? There's no way they trade him, especially with how many points he racks up on the McPP.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Even the ladies fighting. What the hell is wrong with Oilers fans?

They live in Edmonton, so I imagine there's a lot of pent up frustration and misery.

[taxbuster]

So the Greasers piled up points in OT wins during the regular season making them look like “contendas” … once again a good lesson that one (or two) players do not a winner make.

FLA under Maurice has proven that a group of (mostly) decent players EACH raising their level is a far better plan.

I’m all for Edmonton staying the course LOL, as long as the Flames imitate the Panthers.

E=NG and we’re glad of that.

[Hockey-and_stuff]

Originally Posted by Goriders

So is it 5 straight now for the Perry curse?

5 in 6 years
2020 - Loss with Dallas
2021 - Loss with Montreal
2022 - Loss with Tampa
2023 - Lost in first round with Tampa
2024 - Loss with Edmonton
2025 - Loss with Edmonton

Couldn't happen to a worse person. Absolutely phenomenal.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Good morning to everyone except for Edmonton and those that cheered for cAnAdA’s tEaM

[devo22]

wonder what's next for them. Bouchard's contract will instantly rival Nurse's in terms of ugliness, and then McDinkleberg's contract is up next year. Here's hoping they re-sign both to fat contracts, forcing them to ice a group of spare parts for the next decade.

[agubuan]

McDavid to the Predators (E5).