What's Wrong With The Edmonton Oilers?

*NOTE this was filmed prior to them losing game 4 to Winnipeg
Steve, Jesse and Adam discuss what they believe the issue is in Edmonton and why they can't seem to get it together come playoff time.
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[@Junketsuadidas]

They didn’t just get goalied, the Jets could trust 4 lines & the Oilers were literally playing like 7 players for almost all 3 OT periods

[@Demon__Killer007]

You can't win with 2 players. This isn't the NBA

[@ag6424]

That's why hockey is better

[@drg8687]

@@ag6424 Why NFL is best.

[@drg8687]

@Jeepman89 NFL annual revenue - 16 Billion NHL annual revenue - 5 Billion NBA annual revenue - 8 Billion MLB - 4 billion No chance. LOL.

[@drg8687]

@Jeepman89 You said no chance, clearly you were wrong. Don't change the goalposts now. #1 in Canada isn't really saying much.

[@amitojchahal7337]

@@drg8687 using numbers as an argument doesn’t show which sport is better. Hockey is more exciting and physical than both those sports. Only argument you have is nfl which can be exciting.

[@shylock5151]

McDavid going coast to coast every game is fine for regular season and beer leagues. Doesn't work in the playoffs.

[@Junketsuadidas]

Especially once the Jets stuck Copp & Lowry on him

[@FrostCoyote]

But Mike Smith has been good this season. I can't say bad goaltending has been the story of this series. They didn't score in the first 2 games...

[@84coleR]

Goaltending was also a issue my guy

[@Ivanlwan]

Most Oilers fans knew that this year wasn’t going to be the year. Are we disappointed that they got swept by the Jets? Absolutely even though it was four really close games and essentially all one goal games if you exclude the empty netters, either way, incredibly disappointed and definitely should not have been swept but this summer and the summer after are when all of Chia’s bad contracts come off the books so Holland will actually have cap space to work with. Now what he does with that cap space is a completely different discussion but the window in theory should open up next year. Surround Mcdavid, Draisaitl and Nurse with actual talent and we’ll see where it goes. And to those saying Edmonton goaltending was suspect, Smith played well consistently the whole year. Goaltending was never an issue when he was in net, it’s insane that they take a narrative from the past and apply it to Smith this season when it’s not accurate whatsoever if you watched him play this year. Oilers getting swept was due to depth and coaching, the coach didn’t trust 1/4 of the lineup. Nurse played 60 something minutes in a 100 minute game? That’s depth issues and idiotic coaching.

[@georgedare3046]

Paul Maurice said it best " the regular season doesn't matter"

[@visforvendetta1326]

It matters because it gets you to the playoffs, and it matters because it gets you home ice advantage, apart from that it doesn't matter. But the winnipeg jets shouldn't be talking like the Edmonton Oilers didn't just give their series away. The winnipeg jets didn't beat the Oilers, the Oilers beat the Oilers (just like against Chicago).

[@bryanferrerorgt5974]

@@visforvendetta1326 the Jets have way more depth a better goalie and a better coach, 10 games the regular season is nothing like the aypffs, Tampa in 2018 was the #1 seed in the world with a 80%+ point percentage amd they got swept by Columbus in their first round

[@bryanferrerorgt5974]

@@visforvendetta1326 the Jets have made the playoffs 5/10 years they've been here

[@visforvendetta1326]

@@bryanferrerorgt5974 Not saying the Jets are a bad team or anything, but the Oilers turnovers were directly responsible for the winning goals in games 3 and 4. In game 3 the Oilers turned over the puck 3 times in 3 minutes. Hence you can't say the Jets depth were a factor in those scoring chances.

[@visforvendetta1326]

@@bryanferrerorgt5974 agreed. The Jet's have way more playoff experience than the Oilers. That is a factor for sure. The Oilers in games 1 and 2 looked nervious, and couldn't excute. Again this has nothing to do with depth as much as composer. I feel the better team won the series, but I sitll feel that the Oilers beath themselves rather than the jets beating them.

[@thejollyrancher6713]

The oilers haven’t had a good defenceman since Pronger and we all know McDavid and Draisaitl don’t backcheck. Stop blaming the goalies.

[@WheresTheSauce]

Constantly picking on the goaltender is very low hanging fruit. A good hard defensive crunch makes a good goaltender look amazing. Its not that hard to understand.

[@austinpeterson1310]

Nurse has been phenomenal

[@thejollyrancher6713]

@@austinpeterson1310 Nurse had the 5th most total goals on-ice against this year. Only four players in the entire NHL fished more pucks out of their net than Nurse. I know he plays a lot of minutes but that’s still a very telling statistic.

[@Junketsuadidas]

Oilers definitely could’ve used Klefbom

[@OilersFlash]

@@thejollyrancher6713 in all fairness he's only 50% of the problem on the top pair. Leaky 1Bs next to him all season. I have never been a Nurse fan; felt he's irresponsible with taking penalties and leaving the net front, but this year he was often the guy doing the right thing and it was his partner who left him high and dry. Now was he awesome defensively no, but considering his offense, his first pass and his ability to carry the puck he doesn't need to be Adam Foote on defence and he wasn't. He was good to sub-good and for his game that reasonable. I like Barrie, but I always felt Nurse needs a better more defensive pairing that gives him more opportunity to jump into and drive more of the play.

[@cliffordwiebe7853]

If you think they are executing the same game plan in the playoffs they used in regular season you aren't paying attention.

[@nadinenadinepauleus118]

The oilers are gonna be in Steve dang it’s

[@donovangermann022]

Lol. What’s wrong with Toronto. Another exit the first round. And the look on the face of Mathews was he wants out.

[@LudwigBeefoven]

This year's team was still within the shadow of Chiarelli.

[@jerry4249]

Hahahhahahahahahaha eventually you have to let that go bud.

[@wiski6540]

@@jerry4249 after this post season most of the chiarelli era will be gone for us

[@thejollyrancher6713]

Fun fact: Lucic had 4 points in 4 playoff games against the Jets last season. 3 of the 4 games went to OT. If Neal produced a point per game the oilers would be winning this series. Instead Neal is in the press box eating Big Macs.

[@jizzaymz]

The Jets are soooo underrated. They rarely get the credit they deserve but somehow nobody ever notices. I've been a Jets fan for years and I can honestly say that they truly had a bad regular season (in comparison to what they're actually capable of). Had they played their best they could've been top seed in the North. They're depth is insane!!!

[@coryjohn4057]

Lots of really good players never win cups. The demise of many teams have been the big contracts players sign when they win cups. The demise in Edmonton was giving the big contracts out with-out winning. They lost to the Jets. At best with a little more depth they could win a series or two. Teams win when they role 4 lines.

[@mhales9186]

If you look at the Oilers, the only 2 "big" contracts they gave out were to Draisaitl and McDavid. Leon at 8 milliion a year is a bargain and McDavid, though at 12.5 a year is more than manageable. Their problems are Chiarelli left a huge mess when he left and Holland has done nothing to even help clean it up. He said you can't go all in every year, but , until he learns how to massage the salary cap, that team will be mediocre. Say what you want about Kyle Dubas, the Leafs went into game one of the playoffs with a team salary of 86.5 million in a year with a 81.5 cap. Also, getting quality free agents to play in Edmonton is more difficult and you have to overpay. Your mistakes become larger when there's a cap involved. Plus, if your goaltending wasn't good enough last year, why would you run the same two out this year?

[@coryjohn4057]

@@mhales9186 yeh looks reasonable. It probably comes down to McDavid working harder on the defensive side. And he will this is a year that will change the mentality. In a cap world if defense doesnt come first you will never win in April when teams tighten up.

[@billyblazes1135]

Freddy signing with Edmonton might make sense

[@stevegoodale6161]

Agreed, I think that's where he's headed

[@wiski6540]

Waste of money he’s not as good as he was before and he’s gonna ask for 6 million till he’s like 38 years old ffs

[@Junketsuadidas]

I hope this happens, they’ll be stuck with another bad goalie for 5 years

[@richarnold1224]

Dude seriously you guys have been blaming goaltending since Dubnyk. You should fix your team defense problem first

[@mcdaviddeservesbetter8]

Trust me, Adam. We share your frustrations.

[@bobert4108]

Name checks out

[@Jay-sj3io]

Hahahahaha lol love to know you oilers fans are in pain

[@ducksfan_1149]

@@Jay-sj3io geez dude have some empathy

[@ag6424]

@@ducksfan_1149 one of those commenters who gets more pleasure from other teams loses than their own team's victories. What an inane way to follow a sport. 😁

[@Jay-sj3io]

@@ag6424 no I love my jets more but love the pain also

[@sizzle.13]

Steve swearing hits different... I don't know why...

[@Junketsuadidas]

Because he’s a dad now

[@AlergicToSnow]

Winnipeg has great offense. Everyone forgets they gave that up in favor of shutting down the Edmonton offense until they had no choice but to open up. Consider this going forward...Winnipeg has now won games in two completely different ways. What other team has done that? That’s huge going deeper into the playoffs.

[@TheArcher143]

It's a two man team. Shut down those two and the team falls of drastically. Solidify the top six by giving your two superstars some support. Then, fill up your bottom six with solid depth guys that know how to be defensively responsible. You shouldn't have to rely on two guys playing almost 30 minutes a night just to have a chance at winning. The d-core is decent I guess, not really an emergency. Focus on the rest and come back to this if you have some remaining cap space. Solidify the goal tending so that you don't have to over rely on a 40 year old to save you every night. At this point in his career, Smith should be the perfect back-up to another goal tender. Instead, he's the guy the Oilers have to put in net or else they'll get blown out. Their success depends on two guys, they need team depth and they also need to support those two guys. TL;DR; Built an actual NHL caliber team around your two superstars.

[@EngineerLume]

Nurse is a good Defensemen and Bear can... do what he did in Game 4

[@MP-zv6fm]

I always believed that if there was a team out there that everyone is sleeping on, its the JETS. You cannot sleep on this team. I thought they would be at the top 3 this season, and it came true.

[@jizzaymz]

The Jets are ridiculously underrated... honestly one of the best teams (if not the best team) in Canada but they rarely get the credit they deserve.

[@JACKAL747]

@@jizzaymz 😂😂😂😂😂 this didn't age well

[@kwaty]

Shame they fell asleep on the Habs and on themselves in round two. Guh 👋.

[@howardt1317]

Hey adam 1984 called the ladies from the 20 minute work out want their head band back bahaha

[@janihaavisto79]

Hi Steve! Liked your vid, eventhough i watched this vid that was the 1hr 30mins long. I will be impressed if Avs win Vegas just like ST.Louis. Then they would become my favorites. But i am Avs and Toronto fan. Toronto fan because of you and how good they played this regular season.

[@jessejamesainger3263]

They didn't like hockey, Didn't like being a Jet and they didn't like each other? Sounds like the Babcock Leafs to me. My hate for Babs grows stronger every day. Every time Keefe tries something new and it works, my first thought is that Babs would never have tried that.

[@mst3k54]

Jets have plenty of time to cool off and get rusty before playing the Leafs

[@Troyjanwarrior1]

This comment aged well.

[@sracher1584]

Not to mention the Jets defence was actually really good

[@Noah-ip8ms]

I knew they wouldn’t go far but I thought they could win a round... at least but hey gotta move on and get some pieces this offseason

[@JamieMac323]

To late the Oilers can’t come back to win lol. Can’t wait to see how the Jets keep playing

[@butcherpete2286]

*"the oilers are going to be a good team next year"* -something I've heard for the last 3 years.

[@briankozak2511]

Thought I was on the wrong channel. You guys praising the Jets?

[@leithschroeder7050]

To be fair, our entire regular season wasn’t terrible. We had the best start to a season in franchise history. That and take into account losing ehlers for the last 10 games of the regular season

[@MontyQueues]

let’s go jets ! BRING IT ON LEAFS NATION WOOOOOOOOO GO LEAFS GO

[@colinlata6224]

Depth wins Stanley Cups. The Oilers have some of the worst depth in the NHL. And to even think that 39 year old Mike Smith or Koskinen would be able to help carry this team deep into the playoffs was ridiculous.

[@ryans413]

Oh leaf nation so funny to hear them speak and the comments in this video. It’s going to happen to Toronto too if they move on cause the Jets are playing pretty good defensively big surprise by everyone so I can’t wait or Toronto fans to freak out as well

[@timmymaher7562]

Flyers were down 3 zip in game 7 vs the Bruins too in 2010..

[@ITRNIKSHER]

Paul Maurice rly said “the regular season doesn’t matter”

[@untexan]

Dave Tippett career regular season win percentage: .568 Dave Tippett career playoff win percentage: .415 His teams have flopped in the playoffs so many times you need both hands to count them.

[@ianzang2178]

Edmonton has a good top 6. Thats about it. No forward depth and Adam Larsson is not impressive on the blue line. Barrie is good but thats just one D man. Stop putting McDavid and Draisaitl together, it decreases the forward and RNH is not a center

[@fewerbeansplease]

Wow!! The Oilers are going to be a real contender next year! I'm going into suspended animation - and suspended disbelief - so I can wake up next year for the triumph.

[@tylerdurden6901]

the NHL should be promoting McDavid like michael jordan and I never hear his name

[@dylanr8481]

Hey look! It's Steve Dangle and he's not prancing around like a 12 year old in his basement while his family is upstairs...

[@freddabunnyadventures6637]

The oilers need to add playoff experienced players to lines 3-4. We have depth on top 2 but no consistency or experience back half.

[@xCestLaVie1]

Jets were tanking towards the end of the season to match up with the Leafs in the playoffs.

[@BudzzableRides]

When most of the team never leaves the bench, except for warm ups. What can you really expect, go find a coach that has faith in his WHOLE team!

[@andrewwillis9501]

We as sports fans need to look at Connor Mcdavid. To be clear, am a life long Oilers fan. Our captain is arguably the greatest offensive player to ever put skates on, but his defence… he is so bad defensively that in the box score and when it comes to out scoring the other team, he is not much better than a strong two-way 50 point scorer. He, and to be fare Leon too, float in the neutral zone in transition on defence I can only assume hoping for a turnover and an odd main rush the other way. Then skate with one hand on their stick seemingly not trying like they have no motivation to play the defensive side of the puck. And it would be nice if Mcdavid got at least serviceable at the face off dot. The team is putting far too mush money in these guys pockets to not at least get okay defence from them.

[@shiron1158]

If I’m Oilers GM I’m seriously thinking about trading McDavid and Drai… I’m not gonna pretend to try and spell that name, Leon. The amount of cap they eat up puts the in the same situation as Toronto. You can’t really rely on free agent signings and trade because you don’t have the cap for it, or at least it’s very difficult to do so. The best way to supplement players of that sort of cap hit is through the farm system where you can get players on cheap entry level deals. The big question is, do the Oilers have a good enough development system to do that? If the answer is no, those superstars probably need to go. You’ll get multiple good players and 1st round picks from them, and if you draft well you can easily build the team around them.

[@dominiquerichard1342]

@@shiron1158 lost me after being stupid and saying they should trade them. you dont trade 2 players like that. you build around them which no one has done yet

[@kabirchohan335881462]

My buddy till this day won't say that McDavid is better than Matthews because of how bad McDavid is defensively, and to be honest McDavid is an amazing player obviously. But in a playoff series especially with the way Edmonton's roster is currently so top heavy and reliant on 2 superstars, I'd take someone who's good 2 ways like Matthews over McDavid.

[@TheArcher143]

Honestly, McDavid's lack of defense wouldn't be as much of an issue if the GM actually build a team around him.

[@shiron1158]

Well Dimitri, people always say the Gretzky deal was bad for Edmonton because they gave up the best player in the world, but using the pieces they got from it, they did win another Stanley Cup. The Kings did not, because even the great one couldn’t do it all himself. Call it crazy, but sometimes it’s the right thing to do.

[@bhenderson2725]

Patrik Laine was in the Bud Light Seltzer can

[@tobiasfrost86]

mcdavid needs to show up in the playoffs like he does in the regular season

[@janihaavisto79]

I feel bad u Canadians. This worldcup that is going on now, they have lost every game. 2 goals done ,23 goals done to their net.

[@giovannibotticella7183]

It’s ok, that’s not a best on best tournament. When it comes down to real international games, Canada has a superstar at literally every roster spot.

[@Jacob-df5hr]

Don't, nobody in Canada cares, we've won enough medals in that tournament to use them as beer coasters. Personally I'm rooting for Latvia.

[@zjean3417]

Canada has like 5% of its max talent at that tournament. Nothing to worry about.

[@janihaavisto79]

@@Jacob-df5hr what? Canada doesn't care about World championships? U must be kidding. So are you guys the same about Olympics as well?

[@Jacob-df5hr]

@@janihaavisto79 bud I hate to break it to you but that tournament is closer to the Spengler Cup than the FIFA World Cup. Hockey fans in Canada care about two tournaments: IIHF U20 World Juniors and the Olympics. Both of those tournaments have the best players from our country. The World Championship doesn't. Most of our best players are still playing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and even the ones that aren't routinely turn down places on the team because it's such a nothing tourney.

[@gkarenko9593]

And now- What's wrong with the Leafs?

[@TheCokee47]

I'm so pumped for a Leafs Vs. Jets series in the second round

[@gambl0r]

🤣😂

[@TheCokee47]

@@gambl0r didnt age well did it? 🤣

[@m.c.doublestudios]

Mike Smith Wasn't The Problem Honestly. Sure game 3 wasn't great but it's not like he has a great defense in front of him and the first 2 games the oilers could of had if anyone decided to score a bit.

[@brettviddal1593]

Playing your #1 and #2 center on the same line and then complain about a lack of depth? Dumbest thing ever. The problem in Edmonton is IT'S ALL ABOUT McDavid and his point totals. There is no other reason to throw away their center depth the way they do besides feeding McDavid's ego. Remind me what happened when they split up McDavid and Draisaitl last season? Oh right they finished 2nd in the Pacific while Draisaitl outperformed McDavid and won the Art Ross. Guaranteed McDavid was very unhappy with that and demanded Draisaitl play on his line this season.

[@itbemike248]

I think McDavid needs to go to a real team.....LIKE MY BUFFFFFALLLOOOO SAAAABRESSS

[@tysonseafoot7834]

LOL

[@brenzyc8703]

They have 3 Forwards 1 Defenseman and no Goaltender. Idk how anyone thought they would win a round with Mike Smith in net.

[@LucasSChiefsLightning]

Mike Smith was really good this year, what are you talking about?

[@jeremy9717]

2 , Ryan Nugent Hopkins wasn’t crap, before 2 years and he still isn’t great. Very disappointing hes what a waste of a first overall pick

[@Ivanlwan]

Real stupid take considering Smith was amazing all year. If you’re going to rag on the Oilers, at least educate yourself. Jesus christ

[@brenzyc8703]

@@Ivanlwan Smith was trash all year. His sv% being high was one of the most amazing statistical anomalies sports have ever seen. He was constantly out of position by losing his angles and let in terrible goals all season (his glove may as well be nonexistent), the saves he did make we almost all out of desperation and luck. His terrible play cost the Oilers the series; Edmonton deserves better than a Goaltender who would barely make an AHL team.

[@Ivanlwan]

@@brenzyc8703 you talk as if the Oilers got blown out every game. It was one goal games, he played fine. The garbage depth and coaching decisions cost this team. Could he have made the extra save here or there? Sure but to put the losses on him makes no sense.

[@Bambrough]

It’s not hard to take advantage of oilers weakness, Shoot the puck on net

[@danteangotti5786]

It’s probably gonna be Toronto, famous last words

[@bhenderson2725]

No Heinola, Harkins, or even Niku, the oilers didn't even see what the Best the Jets had to offer

[@wpgwalk1729]

Go JETS GO

[@king_rich0088]

It's very simple. 1 the team just isn't that good obviously. There getting carried by 2 unreal players in the regular season. When the postseason comes around those 2 players don't show up. Which leads to number 2, where was McDavid? Where was drisiatl? McDavid had as many points as Mackinnon had goals. Mackinnon dominates during the postseason regardless if the team around is amazing or not. He shows up. McDavid is supposed to do the same and he hasn't done that yet

[@TheEDFLegacy]

I hope you bring up the Oilers again on Wednesday. :D

[@dynamoproductions5]

It's a guarantee they will

[@waynedavis6760]

2014 was painful af watching Jones in net last 4 yrs oh man make it stoo

[@TheCokee47]

Edmonton was great against Ottawa this season....

[@BoboMcBooboy]

“Its probably gonna be Toronto.” 😂

[@kelseywalker2342]

" I put the lose totally on mike smith"........" and the team defense"........."and a great shot by ehlers" lol

[@agent00puffball]

Simple. You'll never win a Cup with only two players. McDavid and Draisaitl cover up a ton of problems the Oilers have and they have for years now. People continually call the Oilers a contender despite them never fixing their problems, and I don't understand why. They have the same problems they always had. Why has no one clued in that they aren't fixed.

[@bustindyfuglien]

Paul Maurice is a great coach. In my leafs fan days we fired this guy to bring in Ron Wilson😂😂😂

[@hurtlocker6611]

Free Agent Goalie Frederick Andersen signs with the OILERS this off season, you heard it here first.

[@janihaavisto79]

And when they go in overtime it's not 3 vs 3. So even if they would be, those 2 can't play all of the overtime.

[@demoor69]

That would not surprise me at all. Not sure what options are going to be out there?

[@Zjlkjljfd]

Ahhh pretty sure Adam said that months ago lol

[@janihaavisto79]

@Matthew Lightle I guess so too

[@demoor69]

Although it wouldn't surprise me if Florida would let Goalie Bob go for a bag of practice pucks to get out of that contract.

[@thedankswordsmantm]

Proof you can't win in the playoffs with 2 players. No blueline depth, no scoring depth, shaky goaltending.

[@PrettycoolRYEGUY]

Ya know edmonton sucks when even gretzky leaves them.

[@opticalecho119]

They built a team with an idiot strategy. Simple.

[@mikehynes6506]

the jets are going to be a hard out for the leafs

[@DrScottzy]

Super happy for the Jets and their fans. But as Leafs fan I'd rather play an Oilers team that beat the Jets than play the Jets. I feel like a lot of Habs fans possibly feel the same.

[@red3here]

Why do say that?

[@mikehynes6506]

@@DrScottzy i agree. i have been saying the leafs could have been hand a easy 2 rounds with the habs and then oilers. the jets will not be fun if they play like that vs the leafs

[@mikehynes6506]

@@red3here leafs lost like twice vs the oilers but the jets were tough vs the leafs

[@red3here]

@@mikehynes6506 it’s playoffs anything can happen.

[@lukejaffray2518]

The jets have 1 play style they score more than hellebuck let’s in.... if they had goalie struggles like Edmonton I bet this series would have gone different and that’s all that’s needed to say

[@k-rod2453]

The canadian division is weak. See how the jets do against the avs. Good luck.

[@ethanandrejack8279]

Love Jessie Pulock

[@LucasSChiefsLightning]

They're not in a "terrible" cap situation next year. They currently have $22.16M in cap space next year. If they dump at least 1 of Koskinen or Neal, they can get to at least $26.66M. RNH will be no more than $8M on the open market, so that leaves with like $18.66M with 7 roster spots to fill. Trade for Khudobin and they have $15.33M in space. Larsson/Barrie will cost $10M, at the most, that gets them $5.33M with 4 spots to fill. Then sign guys like Barclay Goodrow and/or Blake Coleman to fill out the Bottom 6 and sign Yamamoto to a bridge deal. Dumping Neal as well will give them enough space to add another Middle 6 guy.

[@bretski999]

Why would they sign RNH, he isnt worth 8M, not even close.

[@opticalecho119]

They still won’t build a good team though. The Oilers have proven they can’t.

[@boltinabottle6307]

We're really missing Goodrow right now. He plays really well on the Gourde line.

[@LucasSChiefsLightning]

@@bretski999 $8M was an overestimate for the sake of simplicity. I think his ceiling is like $7M on a 4/5 year deal

[@bretski999]

@@LucasSChiefsLightning Fair enough but let someone else pay it lol

[@DadBooom]

Depth. If you don't have it, you're not going anywhere. Wpg has nobody close to McDavid or Draistaitl's talent level, but here we are. Lock down McDavid and yer good.

[@mikesmith4987]

Toronto is in tough in the second round

[@PrettycoolRYEGUY]

What golf hole you on when ya typed that???

[@mikesmith4987]

@@PrettycoolRYEGUY I just think the jets are going to give the leafs more trouble than the oilers could, they can roll 4 lines and there defence is underrated then there's hellebuyck as for Toronto you have Campbell in net you might be golfing before me

[@trendkill7781]

who has played 16 seasons and played a total of TWENTY-NINE career playoff games and has advanced past the first round 1x EVER .. WAY back in 2012 .... if you said mike smith .. reward yourself with some low hanging fruit

[@DDWyss]

Ken Holland needs to contact Montreal to trade for Edmonson.

[@onkyolive8399]

Very bad coaching...period. This team should beat the Jets with eased. Playoffs is the time laid it all out there.. not skating, not checking, not force plays and back off way too much. Easy to see..

[@richcerasale8909]

Oilers needs better defencemen and an elite nhl goaltender

[@majorpaul2009]

People talk about EDMs 22M next year. They have 14 FAs to figure out. Let's talk Nuge. He's a 6M player. They sign him at the same price, suddenly that 22M goes to 16M and the 14 FAs go down to 13. It's not at all an enviable position and I don't think Ken Holland has the managerial chops or group around him to figure it out.

[@LigerZeroShnider]

Wanna update this chat 🤷‍♂️

[@TheJosephoenix]

Answer: not as much whem compared to the Leafs

[@rock4935]

There's something off about Jesse.. can't put my finger on it.

[@tylerdurden6901]

two best players in hockey and they play like they got lead shoes on boring ass hockey comeon Oilers

[@bretski999]

Stop developing Nugent hopkins, enough already. Then need added toughness and skill up front, period. Smith is enough to get any decent team through the 1st round.

[@jeremy9717]

He’s still developing? He’s in his later 20’s

[@redber16]

Hes past the half way mark in his career.

[@warlocks.r.underrated8887]

Gonner Mcdavid

[@sahananavara]

Lmfao

[@ag6424]

Are you saying that Conner Is gone as in traded? Or just gone for the season?

[@Melted-Kuchi-kopi]

@@ag6424 in thinking he may ask for a trade

[@ag6424]

@@Melted-Kuchi-kopi If the team doesn't make some changes, as in getting a #1 goalie etc., you're probably right.

[@Melted-Kuchi-kopi]

@@ag6424 it's either going to be him or draisaitl and losing either one will suck for them and pretty much crumble the geam

[@sdc363]

So much cringe... It turns out, it was NOT the leafs they would play.

[@howardt1317]

Play 2 guys 25 minutes each all others out of the flow..#$^^%$$ the oilers..Adam take a chill pill the oilers stink..stick to selling ball cream lol

[@rbrucerye]

Look at that draft history especially outside the first round in the last 15 years. Far too much failure there. Mike Smith kept them in that game. Give the Jets credit, they understood the importance of drafting well, they rebuilt their scouting and development departments the right way and that playoff series showed the hockey world how important it is to be able to draft and develop well.

[@ccgear4367]

Nothing?

[@rogerszmodis]

Does anyone want to live in Edmonton though?