As much as I love the Oilers, I think they’re still missing something

@cindyrussell1581

3 ай бұрын

Goalies, defence and a new GM.

@ronryan7398

3 ай бұрын

Everyone is missing something…until they’re not. Would I love to have Makar instead of Nurse? Of course, but they don’t. Every team has holes, every team.

@jeniasmackay7931

3 ай бұрын

For 30 some years now they are missing

@cindyrussell1581

3 ай бұрын

@@jeniasmackay7931 you know nothing, they have won 5 cups, so they had something

@jeniasmackay7931

3 ай бұрын

@@cindyrussell1581 not for 30 years

They lost to the cup champs last two seasons and they’re considerably better this year than previous ones. Holland has built a cup contender and this definitely should be the year.

3 ай бұрын

They lost to the cup champs last two seasons and they’re considerably worse this year than previous ones. Holland has built a cup pretender and this definitely should be another dreadful year.

@cdnbroncolife1889

3 ай бұрын

Kudos .. truth rings nicely lol 😂

@reckingball

2 ай бұрын

The stats say they’re one of the best teams this year. 145% special teams in the post season is unbelievably good. They took out the Kings in 5 games rather than 6 and 7 the two playoffs before. We’ve never seen the exceptional defense we are seeing this season under Knoblauch. This is the best Oilers team we have ever witnessed in decades

They got the talent, the question is how bad do they want it. Playing games inconstistently wont cut it. But they are capable.

The oilers problem is their start player’s mentality, when they go against other top teams, they look like they do not win the game. The most recent example is the OT loss to the Avalanche.

Many people underestimate the Oilers because of their current position in the standings. Although the terrible start of the season was/is unrepresentative of the current team, it still casts a deceptive shadow, and it's easy to overlook the fact that since the coaching change the Oilers have achieved the highest points percentage in the league. Knoblauch's Oilers are 38-12-3 (.745 P%). This may be shocking to some, but the Oilers are now *evidently* producing the best results in the NHL.

Yes, but so can 6 other teams.

You failed to mention the brilliant development of Viny D. He’s taken a huge step forward in his game and he's helping oilers defence so much. Secondly their grittiness. Evander Kane and Corey Perry are both the perfect middle 6 forwards to have in a playoff run. Get in guys heads, draw penalties and score greasy goals.

@dana102083

3 ай бұрын

And carrick has been demonstratinf that as well, and henrique ..maybe It was made.a while.ago but agree the depth has shifted and its a good.team. I love.vinny ❤

Self destruct in 2nd round Everyone needs to get over the idea that Skinner is at all able to take any team the distance

@petermurdoch3001

3 ай бұрын

Skinner is a back-up goaltender, he was Campbell's back-up until Campbell shit the bed

@ganesalingamparamasivam3524

3 ай бұрын

1st round in 2024

The Oilers feel a lot like the 2015-16 penguins when they won the first of their 2 cups. That team also fired their HC in December and went on to win with a star studded roster

Life time Oiler fan and nothing would make me happier I still believe their not good enough in the back end And biggest part I don’t believe they have that killer instinct You can’t play one great period of hockey in the playoffs

Saying bouch has been good defensively is crazy, you need to watch some oil games my brother

@Nova-xg5xj

3 ай бұрын

Fr, EK14 is the defence Bouchard is not. But they make an absolutely excellent duo

Depends on who gets injured, on this team and on other teams. They are deeper this year and if they had traded Broberg, it would have screwed up everything. The only players worth going after this year were Jake G ,Tanev and Henrique and they got one.

@dana102083

3 ай бұрын

Agreed!! I would have been sad if Broberg was given away, he is our future and we need to start considering that more carefully!!

We’re missing reliable defense and depth scoring. So inconsistent

Bettman will never allow a Canadian team to ever win the cup. He lets them go to the finals but has the referees decide the series in America's favour. ALWAYS!!

The Oilers have 2 legit goalies. Stu is still young but showed great potential to be the greatest goalie the Oilers will have.

Any team that makes the playoffs can win the cup, just look how well the panthers did last year.

Nurse deserves like 4.5

How is Leon a dual threat? I mean I guess he’s a threat to both goaltenders on the ice.

@dana102083

3 ай бұрын

Ha ha i dont get how bouchard has more impactful D than ekholms addition.. offensively sure.. But yes drai having good defence is a stretch lol he is official puck watcher for a good portion of the game!

I don't know that they're missing something per say, it's just that the pieces they have need to click at the right time. Personally I peg Colorado as the favourites to win the cup... That being said, the Oilers need the team to be playing their A game and their goalies dialed in and they have a great chance to make a run. Only reason they lost to Vegas last year is because Skinner got our-played by Hill. It was a close series.

Nailed it with the bad contracts!! Bouchard is not a great defender though. He pairs well with Ekholm who is a beast on the ice

@OldWolf1933

3 ай бұрын

True, Ekholm is a beast, and Bouchard is often asleep.

@williamwolff509

3 ай бұрын

Bouchard is a terrible defensemen.

Although skinner's stats may be not that great, after knoblauch took over, he has been a very good goalie

All the best to them. Got the talent but no grit to their game which takes you place in the post season. They should have made a move on the goalie front while they had the chance, big miss there. Might get to the second round no further. Unfortunate for Canadian hockey fans. Winnipeg will go deeper into the post season this year.

They have to at least make finals or I think a lot of people will be upset.

Not a chance. Goaltending and defense are too inconsistent. You can't win playoff games when you let in the first 3 of 5 shots

Can’t be stopped from scoring, hard to score against? Isn’t that the description of the perfect team?

Any team who can make playoffs can win, that’s the exciting part of NHL playoffs.

Just goaltending is a thing I think about but they both have played good and with a way stronger defense and unreal offence if they can keep goals against low they have a better team then last run they made so if defense plays great like Paul Coffee has them going your right they will make a stronger run this year Vegas has always been a thorn for oilers but oil have the better team this year Vegas should make playoffs but maybe not they sure slid down doesn't matter playoffs are a total different game who ever is hot and stays hot will win the cup and oilers have themselves in a great spot and can still move up

Really good regular season team.

I'm crossing my fingers that Knob keeps Nurse-Stecher as a pair, and sends Ceci to the pressbox. Nurse-Stecher look legit by eye test after the past few games.

When they play their best 100% a cup contending team the problem is consistency.

on paper yes, they arent really missing any piece, even in net skinner has still been better than like georgiev and the avs are still considered contenders. They have a high power offence, two superstars, strong bottom 6, their defence is working and is one of the better cores in the league, but still........ its hockey.

I don't think so but I will say that Canadian teams haven't been this strong since the 90's

Lets win a conference final before we think about winning a cup

Are they Campbell Bowl contenders?

Bouchard is brutal defensively! Ekholm covers defensively. Just look back to OT against Colorado a few days ago. That is the most recent example of oh so many…

They won’t win unless there is a full team commit to defence especially from the forwards and stop coughing up the puck, Bouchard and Draistal in particular. Players like Kane have to start playing better. He doesn’t hit, doesn’t fight and hasn’t scored since I don’t know when.

@dana102083

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I keep saying it's Kanes turn..hes cranked it upmthe past few games so its.coming! Fully.agree about bouch and drai, too much puck watching and bouchards turnovers are obvious and as bad as ceci it seems. The last few games in particular have resulted in goals against. The team.as a whole seems invested and if they can be more consistent and avoid turnovers and keep passing clean and away from boards ..i anticipate having no nails or cuticles fornthe rest of the season and post season....so many in the mix im bringing my.popcorn!

I really don't think they're a cup winning team. Still have sloppy defense and their goaltending isn't top notch. Holland will probably live to regret not acquiring a legit and experienced goalie imo.

The answer is No. Losses to basement dwellers. Overtime games that should be blowouts for them. Etc. (I'm an Oilers fan)

If any GM was capable of making nothing but retrospectively good decisions and had nothing from past GMs to deal with, they'd be unstoppable. The complaining about management is stupid. There are 20 levels of extra complexity and nuances that you don't even know the existence of.

Oil country or the avalanche, McDavid or MacKinnon, that's for me the question. One of them will lift the cupid this year, both are outstanding hockey players.... But there is a third one in on their level, and that's Draisaitl! With his already shown performance in playoff games the Oilers are favorites! If their defense works...

@seanhartel5362

3 ай бұрын

Leon has to stop playing lazy and play both ways until the buzzer. Dude takes way too much time off.

@michaelscore6763

3 ай бұрын

@@seanhartel5362 Leon is playing lazy? Are you you sure we are talking about the same player?

@seanhartel5362

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelscore6763 yeah, did you watch OT against the Avs? He fell asleep guarding Lehkonen, thinking it was over. Dude doesn’t play defense.

@michaelscore6763

3 ай бұрын

@@seanhartel5362 did you ever watch last season the McDavid record goal against LA? First Leon plays the unbelievable pass, then after McDavid is missing the goal draisaitl is forcing the defenseman and battling against two at the bench, catching and protecting the puck and playing a outstanding pass auf again to McDavid who finally scores in the second attempt.. That's Leon, he is the one fighter! Bur he defending already in the offense zone... Watch the Oilers 8n playoffs! Who is the fighting man? Who made the overtime winner against the hubs?

@michaelscore6763

3 ай бұрын

@@seanhartel5362 okay, i watched the OT against the avalanche. And i saw a tea strong draisaitl who was involved in nearly every dang situation created by the Oil. If Nugent would have made the goal, draisaitl would have been the hero for his outstanding play.... But at the end there got the avalanche to much room in the corner and so they played a pass an scored... Giving Leon the catched goal is cheap and not fair.

Knobloch for the jack Adams

@janbogumil

3 ай бұрын

👎 🐢

@williamwolff509

3 ай бұрын

Goaltending is making forward advances but defence wins cups and Edmontons is still suspect. We still need 2 big strong mobile defensemen 0:06 .

Not even close

It’s such a crap shoot this year in my opinion there are like 10 teams that you could argue have a real good shot at it. I think the oilers are one of them.

The only thing standing in the Oilers way are teams like Vancouver and Winnipeg and whatever team comes out of the Eastern conference . ONCE the playoff teams are decided , then we will see what any teams real chances are .

You're full of it 😂 your not considering that the contracts given at the time were actually below or just above market value when signed

I looked at my season ticket playoff price... absolutely disgusting how much money they want. double what is was last year, and no, I dont believe that this is our year..

Not with Skinner/Pickard.

They can't beat Brad Marchand, so how they gonna beat Nathan Mackinnon. Time for the cup to go home again. NOVA SCOTIA...

If the Oikers can play like Florida. One for all , all for one. Mess with on facevthexwrath of the entire line. They don't unfortunately

This video seems like a contradiction. The Oilers come back after firing Woodcroft as one of the best teams, if not the best but you’re still complaining. It’s like slapping your wife after she cleans the house for missing a spot on the counter.

No. The Aves or Stars will win the west this year.

no

short answer no

@SaturatedCadet

3 ай бұрын

one way to find out

Let's hope not.

Oilers can beat any team in the East but I do not know if they can get out of the west. I believe they can beat Florida and Carolina (please don't say the Ranger its not happening)

@OldWolf1933

3 ай бұрын

They have serious troubles with Florida and have a tough go with Boston. Both are solid teams though. And hopefully they show up for Colorado, Vegas and Vancouver in their final games this season.

@KevinWood44

3 ай бұрын

@@OldWolf1933 Ehh Boston doesn't scare me like they did the last few years. Pasta is top 5 goal scorer in the league and they are deep...but I dunno...just not scary. And last yr they lost round 1 I think they caught that Toronto jinx (or hope so, I hate Boston lol) Yep, Vegas, Av's, Canucks, Dallas, and even the Jets are all super tough. The west is wide open...the east it's Florida's to lose.

@seanhartel5362

3 ай бұрын

I think they could beat Florida once in a seven game series.

@KevinWood44

3 ай бұрын

@@seanhartel5362 Oilers won 16 games in a row. When that team heats up they are lights out.

@OldWolf1933

3 ай бұрын

@@KevinWood44 Boston only lost last year because of a series of unfortunate circumstances, they're going to turn it up, this time around and have a deep playoff run, potentially make the finals. Their only real competition is Florida. Last year the Bruins had to contend with a surprisingly fast and determined Florida team, true enough. But also, major injuries and the adjustments required impacts most team's chemistry. Anyway, hoping the Oilers go all the way, and win it. They are due.

I don't think Colorado or Vegas are scared of them. Dallas probably is...since their goaltending has been a sieve.

NO!!!

No

Hard no.

doubtful they can beat Vagas

@dana102083

3 ай бұрын

LA is above vegas eight now..theyve downgraded from last.year.

No 😅😊

well get ready for failure then

😂😂😂NO NO LUCKY TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS I HOPE THEY LOSE THE NEXT 8 GAME

BS

They probably won’t t get past the first round

@garrettgarrett59

Ай бұрын

This didn’t age well…

@garrettgarrett59

Ай бұрын

4-1’d the kings

@caperboy1169

Ай бұрын

@@garrettgarrett59imagine had they played the Stars or Vegas 😂

@garrettgarrett59

Ай бұрын

@caperboy1169 they win 4-2 or 4-3

Go Kings GO screw Edmonton

@hermit_tk5871

3 ай бұрын

😂

@cindyrussell1581

3 ай бұрын

Ahead of you, and the Oilers have taken the king's out before.

@samuraibeastwarrior2886

3 ай бұрын

@@cindyrussell1581 who cars

@cindyrussell1581

3 ай бұрын

@@samuraibeastwarrior2886 ok kings fan, learn to spell

@samuraibeastwarrior2886

3 ай бұрын

@@cindyrussell1581 i know how to spell

They are going all the way babyyyyyy as a habs fan GO OILERS 💪🏻🔵🟠🔵🟠🔵🟠

McDavid will keep winning Hart Trophies. Nate MacKinnon will keep wining Cups.

Bahaha!!

No