After a hat trick for Marchessault, Connor McDavid, and the Edmonton Oilers are screwed. They are eliminated from the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They are now tight against the cap and have limited options to improve this team. What would you guys do to help this team win a cup? Could the Oilers make a trade to help them?
What is next for the Edmonton Oilers?
Connor Mcdavid Highlights
The Edmonton Oilers are out of the NHL Playoffs
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Oilers have about 8 players that are just too old, over 30. They have to replace these 8 players. Not only that, but after all these years they don't understand why a team like VGN could win. The reason is because Oilers don't care about +/-, whereas if you look at the +/- of the players on Vegas, you can see they all have great +/- numbers. The mistake they made also against VGN was the players were exhausted. Oilers needed abour 4 or 5 guys that can take off the load for a game. That's what VGN did. Also it's possible Oilers might have won without Skinner. Skinner did not save us a single game. He was less than average. Not horrible, just less than average.
Nurse is built for season play, not playoffs.
I’m coming around to the realization that a top heavy payroll just can’t win a Cup. Crosby, and Ovi won with less than 9 mill cap hit. Don’t think anyone has won a Cup with a 10 mill dollar player.
One of the best lol, he’s the best by a country mile
R.I.P. OIL
Technically the oil has 2 years of mcdavid contract to win the cup. Because after those 2 years, you are facing another Tkachuk situation where you have to trade him before he goes into his UFA walk year. Or risk losing him for nothing
Easy fix to get cap space, trade campbell plus a first rounder and or Holloway no salary retention to get rid of him. Trade Yama no salary retention for a 3rd rounder. Trade giveaway terrible Nurse 9 million for a bag of rocks no salary retention and sign a d man that can do his job better Klingberg for 6 million, getting a net cap space of 3 million.
Skinner won the starting spot by coming in a bailing out Campbell in the regular season, the playoffs are a totally different animal, game six should’ve been Campbell starting and if he lets in two weak goals, Skinner comes in and becomes the hero, coach screwed up as usual in tight situations.
imagine if mcmuffin went to LA lmao
Actually they are more screwed than that Dri's contract comes up the year before McD. Good chance they loose both for nothing,
Leafs move Matthews and Oilers have a serious talk with McDavid
Edmonton Oilers need a goalie plain and simple. Skinner is a decent goalie but he is not going to get Edmonton to the cup
The Oilers are going to be just fine, there's just small changes that need to be made to the edges, but nothing major at all.
Trade him too the kings
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Did you seriously say, “safe space to talk hockey”. Pussy.
He will be in Tampa or Pittsburgh in two years! Edmonton is a dead end !!
Plus, if he isn't going to resign, you've got to get rid of him a year early. (Or lose him for nothing) So you have 2 years left.
It's time to flush the Soup down the toilet
Ffs…do you think he’s guaranteed a cup if he goes elsewhere?…🤦🏻♂️
When McDavid will learn to play a 200 foot game, he will win a stanley cup, Crosby is a 200 foot player and he won it.
Why isn't anyone talking about the coach? Everyone talks about goaltending, and new defencemen, but never the coach who had NO ANSWER to the VGK and Bruce Cassidy?
Oh, is it because he beat a senile old prick in Darryl Sutter? A man who seemingly did everything he could to sabotage the Flames' chances of advancing past the oil??
Jay Woodcroft is at best, a middle of the pack coach whose only solution for when another team won't allow McDrai to do whatever the hell they want is to shorten the bench and double shift those guys. He does particularly well against old farts like Todd Mclellan and Darryl Sutter because those guys have allowed the modern game to pass them by. You seen what happened against VGK and last year's Avs team. You don't win games against the oilers by turtling in your zone and letting the oilers have all the space to break out against you. You make THEM defend against you, they're weak on defence and only one team can have the puck at once. Be that team and then they can't score on you.
Todd mclellan should have been fired last year. Darryl Sutter as well, it only took losing their two superstars & a significant portion of their roster threatening to quit this summer for Flames mgmt. to do the right thing.
As long as Todd mclellan remains behind LA's bench, I fully expect another LA vs. EDM matchup next year, with similar (or worse) results for the Kings. Who knows, maybe the oilers will sweep the Kings when they inevitably hide out in their own zone doing that dreaded 1 – 3 – 1. Maybe then they might get rid of Todd ¯_(ツ)_/¯